Plant communities
Effect of ant hills on the floristic richness of plant communities of a large depression in the Great Chaco
... portant plant communities are Elyonurus muti cus savannas, Spartina argentinensis tan grass lands and several hygrophilous communities distributed in this order along a topographic elevation ...
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Analysis of the effects of climate change on plant communities and mammals in México
... that plant communities associate to environmental conditions, nine bioclimatic zones were defined: 1) Coniferous forests, dominated mainly by pine and fir species; 2) Broadleaved forests, composed of oaks ...
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Extreme climatic events change the dynamics and invasibility of semi arid annual plant communities
... Because mesic ecosystems are predicted to be more strongly impacted by extreme droughts than xeric ecosystems (Knapp et al. 2008), direct comparisons with semi-arid annual plant communities should be ...
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Spatial temporal variability of aquatic plant communities in the Venezuelan Llanos [Spanish]
... aquatic plant communities in the Venezuelan ...aquatic plant communities were studied in 14 habitats of the Venezuelan “llanos” (07º35’- 07º55’ N - 68º50’-69°00’ W, Apure) during an annual ...
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Maintaining distances with the engineer: patterns of coexistence in plant communities beyond the patch-bare dichotomy
... that plants establish with their neighbors (Theodose & Bowman, 1997). Vegetation clumps are the result of intrinsic self-organized mechanisms related to the performance of dominant species (Lejeune etal, 1999), where ...
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Using assembly rules to measure the resilience of riparian plant communities to beaver invasion in subantarctic forests
... biotic communities has shown that non-random patterns of species assemblage exist (Weiher and Keddy 1995), and this insight has guided ecologists to search for general principles ...novel communities in ...
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View of Plant communities in soil of semiarid ecosystem and their relationship with mycorrhizal fungi.
... plot, the number of individuals per plant species was registered. The Shannon, Simpson, Pielou and Morisita indexes were used. A total of 500 g subsamples of soil was taken at a depth of 0 to 30 cm at each ...
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Biogenic habitat creation affects biomass diversity relationships in plant communities
... in plant biomass with increasing species richness within cushion ...grassland communities may potentially de- crease species richness and, consequently, the outcome of ecosystem ...simulated ...
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Diversity patterns of ground dwelling spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in five prevailing plant communities of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico
... The spiders were collected in the 5 main vegetation associa- tions of the locality known as Churince: 1) mezquite shrubland (mezquital) where Prosopis glandulosa is dominant, 2) wet grassland where Sporobolus sp. and ...
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Early Dynamics of Plant Communities on Revegetated Motorway Slopes from Southern Spain: Is Hydroseeding Always Needed?
... for most developing herbaceous communities: species richness decreased and plant cover. 10[r] ...
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Hopkins1955The species-area relations of plant communities-Journal of Ecology 43-409-426
... These two communities were chosen because they have respectively, very high and very low values of their index of diversity compared with the total number of species on their sites [r] ...
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Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands
... of plant communities and individuals, together with the abundance and diversity of soil fungal communities, are important drivers of the formation of fertile islands in global ...microbial ...
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Small mammals as indicators of cryptic plant species diversity in the central Chilean plant endemicity hotspot
... Indicator species could help to compensate for a shortfall of knowledge about the diversity and distributions of undersampled and cryptic species. This paper provides background knowledge about the ecological ...
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Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: a meta-analysis
... overall plant performance, whereas biocrusts had a slightly negative effect on plant performance relative to plots where biocrusts were disturbed but not ...by plant growth but was also supported by ...
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Condiciones ecohidrológicas de humedales a lo largo de un gradiente de precipitación en la Patagonia, Argentina
... Plant communities were quantified within each stand using the survey method (Mueller- Dombois & Ellenberg ...vascular plant species were identified in each survey and their canopy cover was ...
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Almacenamiento de carbono en la reserva ecológica de Ternium en Pesquería, Nuevo León
... Among the environmental services provided by ecosystems, forests play a key role in the cycle and capture of carbon (C), since they manage to store large amounts of carbon in biomass and soil, and exchange with the ...
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Reconversion of a conventional thermal power plant into a combined cycle power plant
... power plant of Litoral de Almería consists of two groups, the first one which was commissioned in 1985 and the second one was put into operation twelve years later in ...power plant is proposed in this ...
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Dialogic leadership in learning communities
... Además, se preguntó sobre la toma de decisiones en los centros y las formas en que el liderazgo dialógico ha tenido impacto más allá de la actividad en el centro, considerand[r] ...
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Communities vs Country in Spain
... • La CE 78 plantea las relaciones entre las Comunidades Autónomas (CCAA) y el Estado en términos de complementariedad para la prestación de servicios, de colaboración institucional y de [r] ...
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