Plant species richness
Effects of wild boar disturbance on vegetation and soil properties in the Monte Desert, Argentina
... exotic species present in the study area is Salsola kali but it is restricted in areas where we did not find any rooting ...that richness and diversity index decreased immediately after disturb- ance, but a ...
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Plant diversity and galling arthropod diversity searching for taxonomic patterns in an animal-plant interaction in the Neotropics - Sociedad Argentina de Botánica
... This taxonomic pattern alone raises questions on how host plants influence the evolution of galling arthropods. Such wide questions can only be tackled on different grounds. An important way of addressing questions at ...
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... Although few sites were inventoried, this study showed that dung beetle assemblage are sensitive to small scale variations of environ- mental conditions into primary forest. Abiotic factors were likely involved but ...
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Small-scale variation of vegetation in a mixed forest understorey is partly controlled by the effect of overstory composition on litter accumulation
... In a relatively closed mixed hardwood stand, the variation of plant species richness in the understory was related to the extent of litter accumulation on the floor, which, in turn, w[r] ...
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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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Predicting effects of ecosystem engineering on species richness along primary productivity gradients
... cushion species have been reported to modulate both temperature and soil moisture, but the magnitude of such environmental changes seems to depend on the environmental ...cushion species have also been ...
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Remote sensing improves prediction of tropical montane speciesdiversity but performance differs among taxa
... predict species richness and species turnover of six taxa (trees, pyraloid moths, geometrid moths, arctiinae moths, ants, and birds) in a megadiverse Andean mountain rainforest ...of species ...
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Effect of ant hills on the floristic richness of plant communities of a large depression in the Great Chaco
... floristic richness between such pond com munities like ...floristic richness are not easy to explain, and may be correlated to species growth fonns or phenology, but· the problem needs further ...
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Changing lenses to assess biodiversity: patterns of species richness in sub Antarctic plants and implications for global conservation
... the species richness of this group is likely to grow, as several additions to the bryophyte flora of Cape Horn Archipelago await formal description, includ- ing three new species of Schistidium ...
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Facilitation by nurse plants regulates community invasibility in harsh environments
... invader species decreases with increased species ...besides species richness, to assess the shape of these rela- tionships ...and species domi- ...on species assemblages plus ...
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Agricultura andina tradicional y procesos de cambio en la cuenca del río Zenta, Salta, noroeste de Argentina
... of species, for a particular element of the landscape, and the percentage of this ...detected species proportion of that unit regarding to the original community which is assigned ...which species ...
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Biodiversity and structure of parasite communities in Boops boops (Teleostei: Sparidae) from the Western Mediterranean and off the North East Atlantic coasts of Spain.
... no species from the 2001 samples was missing in the post-spill ...parasite species lists of the post-spill samples were more than twice as large and included 18 new host records and, of the 19 common ...
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Urban mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) of dengue endemic communities in the Greater Puntarenas area, Costa Rica
... mosquito species richness in the urban area of Greater Puntarenas in Costa ...common species followed by ...culicid species in some ...other species of Culex could be considered ...
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Draft Guidelines for methods, including indicators, for monitoring and the rapid assessment of wetland biodiversity
... 74. In considering the type of sites to be selected, one possible question is whether sites should be chosen by virtue of being characteristic or distinct. Characteristic sites are representative of the typical habitat ...
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Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness
... more species in the second-growth forest? Not even an approximate answer can be given to this question without re-scaling the x-axis to number of individuals (based on the average number of individuals per ...
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A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data
... rare species (Wolda 1981; Colwell & Coddington 1994; Plotkin & Muller-Landau 2002), because the sample data are (usually wrongly) assumed to be true and complete representations of assemblage ...rare ...
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Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool
... in species poor sites, and thus its contribution to calculating generalized species richness was ...other species decreased in ...shrub species, mainly in calcareous sites (see ...this ...
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Butterflies of the family Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the Frio river basin, northeastern Andes of Santander, Colombia
... 22 species (Table 1, Appendix ...11 species, as this is the most diverse group of Pieridae in the world; the subfamily Dismorphiinae only had 5 species, because this is considered less diverse, rarer ...
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A comparison of temporal turnover of species from benthic cnidarian assemblages in tropical and subtropical harbours
... before species interactions become a significant source of mortality (Navarrete 2007; Palardy & Wit- man ...of species is one important component of beta diversity that characterizes all natural ...
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