... and functional characteristics in three range grasses {bluebunch wheatgrass [Pseudoroegneria spicata (Pursh) Lo¨ve], crested wheatgrass [Agro- pyron desertorum ...root traits were ...root functional ...
... how functionaltraits related to drought tolerance change across small-scale, pronounced moisture gradients in fragmented forests is important to predict species’ responses to these ...vessel traits ...
... plant functionaltraits, and environmental variables on the magnitude of the fertile island effect in drylands ...plant functionaltraits, such as SLA and height, and (iii) soil microbial ...
... with the fastest growing species having low wood density and high SLA (Fig. 2). Then secondly, some trait values were associated with species having stronger competitive effect, or better tolerance of competition (Fig. ...
... As sessile organisms, plants exhibit a remarkable capacity to adjust their morphology, physiology and reproduction to a particular set of environmental conditions by means of phenotypic plasticity. There is currently ...
... To analyze plasticity patterns and population differences in the introduced range, the mixed ANOVAs were repeated after removing the native population from the dataset. When the Population or Population 6 Treatment terms ...
... The set of woody species studied represent 80 % of plant cover from Western Chaco region forests (Araujoet al., 2008).The percentage of species with High or Very High flammability (63,64%) suggests the Chaco forests ...
... The study of patch size distributions in drylands has increasingly gained attention as they may provide useful information as indicators of desertification. However, little is known about the factors driving changes in ...
... regions, functional aspects of community structur- ing have received greater attention in recent ...animal traits has a long history, dating to J.R. Forster (1729 – 1798). Traits are well-defined, ...
... physiological traits, their lower survival and their marked differences in functionaltraits, as compared to control seedlings, support this latter ...of functionaltraits within ...
... The functional attributes of the populations of the extremes of the gradient (TDF and TVWF) showed similar values, which suggests that precipitation is not the filter with the greatest effect on the process of ...
... morphological traits, tree size, and species identity, and their relative effects on ecosystem biomass productivity in a highly diverse Andean forest in southern ...acquisitive functionaltraits ...
... Traditionally, one of the most important issues for evolutionary ecologists has been to un- derstand whether and how plants are able to cope and adapt to changes in environmental predictability. This is especially ...
... personality traits like greater expressiveness and maturity, better self-esteem, less anxiety and depression, as well as less tendency to alcohol use, increases the probability that adolescents use adaptive co- ...
... One of the main challenges in applying FES therapy is to achieve effective, synergistic muscle activity that results in functional movement, and the generation of useful forces. For this, the appropriate sequence ...
... specialization in the ants they eat. Importantly, G. carolinensis’s diet included the largest ants in the area (in the genus Odontomachus and Camponotus, known for their stings and excess formic acid) although in ...
... azide functional groups in the main chain as parent ...alcohol functional groups (P73-6, P73-3), and the iminophosphorane ligand for forthcoming synthetic processes ...
... the functional indexes are inherently dependent on the traits used to calculate ...2008): traits must relate with plant functions relevant to the aim of the study and they should avoid trivial ...
... Formatting objects are elements in the formatting object tree, whose names are from the XSL names- pace; a formatting object belongs to a class of formatting objects identified by its element name. The for- matting ...