Increased Floral Divergence in Sympatric Monkeyflowers
... Angert pers. comm.; Table S1) were measured from an average of 20 herbarium specimens per species (±SE = 0.79, range: 3–40) for 64 species. Raw data are included in supporting information. This represents all possible sister species pairs that appear in one or more trees in the Bayesian posterior di ...
... Angert pers. comm.; Table S1) were measured from an average of 20 herbarium specimens per species (±SE = 0.79, range: 3–40) for 64 species. Raw data are included in supporting information. This represents all possible sister species pairs that appear in one or more trees in the Bayesian posterior di ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... with the particular characteristics of the local environments in which such systems exist. Instead, ...
... with the particular characteristics of the local environments in which such systems exist. Instead, ...
Coevolution between native and invasive plant competitors
... Invasive species may establish in communities because they are better competitors than natives, but in order to remain community dominants, the competitive advantage of invasive species must be persistent. Native species that are not extirpated when highly invasive species are introduced are likely ...
... Invasive species may establish in communities because they are better competitors than natives, but in order to remain community dominants, the competitive advantage of invasive species must be persistent. Native species that are not extirpated when highly invasive species are introduced are likely ...
Forty years of experiments on aquatic invasive species
... (e.g. Anosim) and on univariate biodiversity metrics including taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness. Second, we evaluated study characteristics related to the attributes of the non-native species, that is whether the non-native species was a plant or animal, pre-dominantly occupied the pelagic ...
... (e.g. Anosim) and on univariate biodiversity metrics including taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness. Second, we evaluated study characteristics related to the attributes of the non-native species, that is whether the non-native species was a plant or animal, pre-dominantly occupied the pelagic ...
Existence and construction of large stable food webs
... feed on two prey species, the constraint will typically be violated, and if the product of β’s along different paths differs by a large ...
... feed on two prey species, the constraint will typically be violated, and if the product of β’s along different paths differs by a large ...
Forty years of experiments on aquatic invasive species
... (e.g. Anosim) and on univariate biodiversity metrics including taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness. Second, we evaluated study characteristics related to the attributes of the non-native species, that is whether the non-native species was a plant or animal, pre-dominantly occupied the pelagic ...
... (e.g. Anosim) and on univariate biodiversity metrics including taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness. Second, we evaluated study characteristics related to the attributes of the non-native species, that is whether the non-native species was a plant or animal, pre-dominantly occupied the pelagic ...
V C F
... exploring various restoration strategies for Atlantic salmon in Vermont. By using a population modeling approach we are exploring at which life stages restoration efforts would be most useful. Thus far, we have developed a model to simulate downstream movement of smolts in the Connecticut River. The ...
... exploring various restoration strategies for Atlantic salmon in Vermont. By using a population modeling approach we are exploring at which life stages restoration efforts would be most useful. Thus far, we have developed a model to simulate downstream movement of smolts in the Connecticut River. The ...
Diversity Increases Indirect Interactions
... 960 m). Growing seasons in western Montana are variable but tend to be 6 months long for native perennials such as those we used in this experiment. Plots were established in an area with homogeneous soil and solar exposure and were subjected to the same water regimes. The site was fenced and thus f ...
... 960 m). Growing seasons in western Montana are variable but tend to be 6 months long for native perennials such as those we used in this experiment. Plots were established in an area with homogeneous soil and solar exposure and were subjected to the same water regimes. The site was fenced and thus f ...
Climate Change Risk Assessment Comment
... ‘Greater recurrence’: How often? Over what area? New system of organisation or simply released? More natural? Change T/O/N from ‘amber’ to ‘red/amber/green’ Ecosystem change ...? For: ‘Warming – changes in ‘climate space’: Climate space is about much more than just temperature – moisture a ...
... ‘Greater recurrence’: How often? Over what area? New system of organisation or simply released? More natural? Change T/O/N from ‘amber’ to ‘red/amber/green’ Ecosystem change ...? For: ‘Warming – changes in ‘climate space’: Climate space is about much more than just temperature – moisture a ...
Increasing deterministic control of primary succession on Mount St
... from 0.597 to 0.774, while only 2008 had an RDA-2 correlation over 0.650 (Table 3). Explained variation increased consistently as useful explanatory variables shifted from spatial to local factors (Table 4). The inter-set correlations of RDA-1 with elevation (and its correlate, Northing), soil textu ...
... from 0.597 to 0.774, while only 2008 had an RDA-2 correlation over 0.650 (Table 3). Explained variation increased consistently as useful explanatory variables shifted from spatial to local factors (Table 4). The inter-set correlations of RDA-1 with elevation (and its correlate, Northing), soil textu ...
Introductory Ecology Laboratory Manual - Your Space
... process to which all active scientists submit. In this case the peer group reviewing your paper will be your classmates. The process will be broken three parts, submitting a paper and reviewing papers and revision of your paper. Writing a Scientific Paper A well-written scientific paper explains the ...
... process to which all active scientists submit. In this case the peer group reviewing your paper will be your classmates. The process will be broken three parts, submitting a paper and reviewing papers and revision of your paper. Writing a Scientific Paper A well-written scientific paper explains the ...
The links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well
... that are essential for our daily lives, such as food, wood, wool and medicines. Although the other types of benefit we get from ecosystems are easily overlooked, they can, for example, also play an important role in regulating the environments in which we live. They can help ensure the flow of clean ...
... that are essential for our daily lives, such as food, wood, wool and medicines. Although the other types of benefit we get from ecosystems are easily overlooked, they can, for example, also play an important role in regulating the environments in which we live. They can help ensure the flow of clean ...
World Ocean Assessment
... Because of the great diversity of marine mammal species and their habitats, it is difficult to characterize their conservation status and population trends in the aggregate or at a global scale. Many of the marine species suffered major declines over the past several hundred years as a result of com ...
... Because of the great diversity of marine mammal species and their habitats, it is difficult to characterize their conservation status and population trends in the aggregate or at a global scale. Many of the marine species suffered major declines over the past several hundred years as a result of com ...
Publishers_version
... harvesting dynamics using information about fishing ground preferences and experienced vessel-specific catch rates. The assessment computes the daily decision-making of the fishing vessels and the individual or overall economic and stock status indicators together with the size-based spatial distrib ...
... harvesting dynamics using information about fishing ground preferences and experienced vessel-specific catch rates. The assessment computes the daily decision-making of the fishing vessels and the individual or overall economic and stock status indicators together with the size-based spatial distrib ...
Food Habits of Four Armadillo Species in the Cerrado Area, Mato
... Teresa Cristina da Silveira Anacleto (2007) Food habits of four armadillo species in the Cerrado area, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Zoological Studies 46(4): 529-537. Studies based on scatology can substantially improve our knowledge of armadillo ecology. This study describes the food habits of armadillo sp ...
... Teresa Cristina da Silveira Anacleto (2007) Food habits of four armadillo species in the Cerrado area, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Zoological Studies 46(4): 529-537. Studies based on scatology can substantially improve our knowledge of armadillo ecology. This study describes the food habits of armadillo sp ...
Competition and the Structure of Granivore
... Fig. 1 . Seed-eating ants and rodents inhabiting the Chiricahua Bajada study site near Portal, Arizona. Within each group note the obvious body size differences among coexist ing species. From left to right, the ants are (top row): Aphaenogaster (Novomessor) cocfcerelli (I = individual forager); Po ...
... Fig. 1 . Seed-eating ants and rodents inhabiting the Chiricahua Bajada study site near Portal, Arizona. Within each group note the obvious body size differences among coexist ing species. From left to right, the ants are (top row): Aphaenogaster (Novomessor) cocfcerelli (I = individual forager); Po ...
Weighting and indirect effects identify keystone species in food webs
... that the full range of indirect effects is not covered and foodweb robustness is often overestimated (Curtsdotter et al. 2011). We chose the dynamical approach here and we simulated natural communities using parameter values derived from empirical data, which should provide more realistic outcomes t ...
... that the full range of indirect effects is not covered and foodweb robustness is often overestimated (Curtsdotter et al. 2011). We chose the dynamical approach here and we simulated natural communities using parameter values derived from empirical data, which should provide more realistic outcomes t ...
IUCN Guidelines for the Prevention of
... Sometimes the information that could alert management agencies to the potential dangers of new introductions is not known. Frequently, however, useful information is not widely shared or available in an appropriate format for many countries to take prompt action, assuming they have the resources, ne ...
... Sometimes the information that could alert management agencies to the potential dangers of new introductions is not known. Frequently, however, useful information is not widely shared or available in an appropriate format for many countries to take prompt action, assuming they have the resources, ne ...
Nitrogen enrichment and plant communities
... either increase the access of an organism to limiting nutrients (e.g., N fixation, phosphatase production) or decrease the demand for particular limiting nutrients: marine phytoplankton recently have been found that use nonphosphorus membrane lipids in P-limiting environments.25 Thus, because differ ...
... either increase the access of an organism to limiting nutrients (e.g., N fixation, phosphatase production) or decrease the demand for particular limiting nutrients: marine phytoplankton recently have been found that use nonphosphorus membrane lipids in P-limiting environments.25 Thus, because differ ...
A roadmap for landowners in South Africa
... Because gum trees have a value in society for their timber, as a bee foraging resource, and their ability to provide shade and wind protection, the new regulations only require the removal of gum trees where they are invasive or have a negative environmental impact. ...
... Because gum trees have a value in society for their timber, as a bee foraging resource, and their ability to provide shade and wind protection, the new regulations only require the removal of gum trees where they are invasive or have a negative environmental impact. ...
Laurance 2008 - Reed F. Noss Lab at the University of Central
... and Thompson, 1978). The presumed importance of areadependent extinctions has given rise to evocative terms such as ‘supersaturation’, ‘species relaxation’, ‘faunal collapse’ and ‘ecosystem decay’ that have collectively helped to cement the importance of vastness in the scientific and popular imagin ...
... and Thompson, 1978). The presumed importance of areadependent extinctions has given rise to evocative terms such as ‘supersaturation’, ‘species relaxation’, ‘faunal collapse’ and ‘ecosystem decay’ that have collectively helped to cement the importance of vastness in the scientific and popular imagin ...
Reprint
... new alien species from entering an area/country, for which purpose border control risk assessments have been developed (e.g., Pheloung et al. 1999, Bomford 2008, see Hulme 2012 and Leung et al. 2012 for reviews). Secondly, alien species that escape border controls (Bacon et al. 2012) or have never b ...
... new alien species from entering an area/country, for which purpose border control risk assessments have been developed (e.g., Pheloung et al. 1999, Bomford 2008, see Hulme 2012 and Leung et al. 2012 for reviews). Secondly, alien species that escape border controls (Bacon et al. 2012) or have never b ...
Patterns of species diversity and phylogenetic structure of vascular
... much influenced by human activities. Furthermore, in recent global studies on mapping diversity for vascular plants, the data quality and suitability in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau remain “poor” (Kier et al. 2005; Kreft and Jetz 2007); knowledge on the patterns and causes of species richness on this ...
... much influenced by human activities. Furthermore, in recent global studies on mapping diversity for vascular plants, the data quality and suitability in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau remain “poor” (Kier et al. 2005; Kreft and Jetz 2007); knowledge on the patterns and causes of species richness on this ...
iucn guidelines for the prevention of biodiversity loss
... deliberately. Customs and quarantine practices, developed in an earlier time to guard against human and economic diseases and pests, are often inadequate safeguards against species that threaten native biodiversity. Thus the inadvertent ending of millions of years of biological isolation has created ...
... deliberately. Customs and quarantine practices, developed in an earlier time to guard against human and economic diseases and pests, are often inadequate safeguards against species that threaten native biodiversity. Thus the inadvertent ending of millions of years of biological isolation has created ...
A weed risk assessment system for new conservation weeds in New
... of the species’ potential weediness. This factor is seldom considered as a risk component of systems designed for detecting weeds from a group of naturalised species (Tucker & Richardson 1995). There is potential, however, to incorporate information on the weediness of a species’ relatives in intern ...
... of the species’ potential weediness. This factor is seldom considered as a risk component of systems designed for detecting weeds from a group of naturalised species (Tucker & Richardson 1995). There is potential, however, to incorporate information on the weediness of a species’ relatives in intern ...
Biodiversity action plan
This article is about a conservation biology topic. For other uses of BAP, see BAP (disambiguation).A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives from the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As of 2009, 191 countries have ratified the CBD, but only a fraction of these have developed substantive BAP documents.The principal elements of a BAP typically include: (a) preparing inventories of biological information for selected species or habitats; (b) assessing the conservation status of species within specified ecosystems; (c) creation of targets for conservation and restoration; and (d) establishing budgets, timelines and institutional partnerships for implementing the BAP.