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Habitat Use by White-tailed Deer in a Tropical Forest
... critical dry season. This greater selectivity in the diet could be associated with an increase in the foraging area, as greater distances are covered and the home-range is increased. In the dry period, low water and food availability is coupled with a decrease in cover to protect against climate and ...
... critical dry season. This greater selectivity in the diet could be associated with an increase in the foraging area, as greater distances are covered and the home-range is increased. In the dry period, low water and food availability is coupled with a decrease in cover to protect against climate and ...
The influence of biodiversity on invasibility of terrestrial plant
... direction of the river. This trend seems to point to the importance of propagule pressure on both diversity and invasion. The fact that diverse areas are often heavily invaded has posed a conundrum to researchers. In a study of biomes in the USA, Stohlgren et al. (1999) found a positive correlation ...
... direction of the river. This trend seems to point to the importance of propagule pressure on both diversity and invasion. The fact that diverse areas are often heavily invaded has posed a conundrum to researchers. In a study of biomes in the USA, Stohlgren et al. (1999) found a positive correlation ...
Biological Diversity - Punjab Biodiversity Board
... such as taste or flavour, can be perceived by other senses; and some are invisible, such as susceptibility to disease. ...
... such as taste or flavour, can be perceived by other senses; and some are invisible, such as susceptibility to disease. ...
Effect of Elevation and Type of Habitat on the Abundance and
... selection of species and variations of diversity in the assemblages according to habitat type and elevation were quantified. Both abundance and diversity were positively correlated with elevation, and habitat type was also relevant in structuring the assemblage. Similarities among assemblages in dif ...
... selection of species and variations of diversity in the assemblages according to habitat type and elevation were quantified. Both abundance and diversity were positively correlated with elevation, and habitat type was also relevant in structuring the assemblage. Similarities among assemblages in dif ...
Novon
... IUCN Red List category. Ceratozamia decumbens is native only to one karstic sierra in central Veracruz, Mexico. Specific locality information has purposely been omitted in order to discourage illegal commercial collecting of this critically endangered species. The removal of the herbaceous layer and ...
... IUCN Red List category. Ceratozamia decumbens is native only to one karstic sierra in central Veracruz, Mexico. Specific locality information has purposely been omitted in order to discourage illegal commercial collecting of this critically endangered species. The removal of the herbaceous layer and ...
december 5, 2016 - Every Living Thing
... to document species of fish, insects, plants, fungi, reptiles, mammals and amphibians at a site in the middle of New Brunswick. Coinciding with the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020, the filmmakers followed scientists associated with the New Brunswick Museum’s BiotaNB program, a 20year ...
... to document species of fish, insects, plants, fungi, reptiles, mammals and amphibians at a site in the middle of New Brunswick. Coinciding with the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020, the filmmakers followed scientists associated with the New Brunswick Museum’s BiotaNB program, a 20year ...
Biodiversity Investigation
... Q1 What does Biodiversity mean? Definition 1 – Total number of species in the world How many species are there? Scientists are still not sure but more than 100 million Definition 2 – What does genetic diversity mean? The variety of characteristics within species Definition 3 Ecosystem diversity - Wh ...
... Q1 What does Biodiversity mean? Definition 1 – Total number of species in the world How many species are there? Scientists are still not sure but more than 100 million Definition 2 – What does genetic diversity mean? The variety of characteristics within species Definition 3 Ecosystem diversity - Wh ...
COMMENTARY On the Diversity of Nature and the Nature of Diversity
... ment and environmental agencies and programs; the reauthorization and strengthening of the Endangered Species Act of 1973; the 191 million acres in our system of national parks and grasslands; the 90 million acres in the Fish and Wildlife Service refuge system; the 3.5 million acres preserved by the ...
... ment and environmental agencies and programs; the reauthorization and strengthening of the Endangered Species Act of 1973; the 191 million acres in our system of national parks and grasslands; the 90 million acres in the Fish and Wildlife Service refuge system; the 3.5 million acres preserved by the ...
Biodiversity and conservation in cities: critical
... • The need for a far more socially-informed research agenda (especially the tension between social needs and conservation demands) • The need to take on more creative methodological approaches with system-thinking and pushing for greater in-city experimentation • Ecological theory and knowledge has ...
... • The need for a far more socially-informed research agenda (especially the tension between social needs and conservation demands) • The need to take on more creative methodological approaches with system-thinking and pushing for greater in-city experimentation • Ecological theory and knowledge has ...
C. E. Timothy Paine – Curriculum Vitae
... 1. Most experimental evidence on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning comes from ecosystems with fast-growing plants, such as grasslands. Although forests provide essential ecological services, they have been less well investigated. 2. We used dendrochronology to compare t ...
... 1. Most experimental evidence on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning comes from ecosystems with fast-growing plants, such as grasslands. Although forests provide essential ecological services, they have been less well investigated. 2. We used dendrochronology to compare t ...
City Biodiversity index and its linkage to Real estate pricing
... significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level’. Since 1992, ten meetings of the COP to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) have been held. COP-11 provided a unique platform to display, promote, interact, learn and network from eac ...
... significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level’. Since 1992, ten meetings of the COP to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) have been held. COP-11 provided a unique platform to display, promote, interact, learn and network from eac ...
Influence of Wetland Restoration on Native Pollinator Communities
... Importance of Pollinators • Economic value • Many crops require direct pollinator services • Indirect pollinator services such as forage material for livestock • Global value estimated at $122-200 billion/year o $15.12 billion in the United States alone ...
... Importance of Pollinators • Economic value • Many crops require direct pollinator services • Indirect pollinator services such as forage material for livestock • Global value estimated at $122-200 billion/year o $15.12 billion in the United States alone ...
Biodiversity
... history of biological evolution. • It, and the resulting loss of biodiversity, is also a major consequence of human domination of the Earth. ...
... history of biological evolution. • It, and the resulting loss of biodiversity, is also a major consequence of human domination of the Earth. ...
Dan Cogălniceanu • Biodiversity
... only to environmentalists and to parts of the scientific community, it rose to a high publicity issue. So what does biodiversity mean? Most people, especially biologists, are inclined to agree that it is, in one sense, everything. But since ‘everything’ is a bit too abstract, difficult to measure and ...
... only to environmentalists and to parts of the scientific community, it rose to a high publicity issue. So what does biodiversity mean? Most people, especially biologists, are inclined to agree that it is, in one sense, everything. But since ‘everything’ is a bit too abstract, difficult to measure and ...
Why Marine Islands Are Farther Apart in the Tropics.
... differentiation and specialized adaptation to local conditions as Janzen proposed. But it also has the consequence of inhibiting colonization of distant sites, resulting in small geographic ranges and high endemism. Proposition 7. A low frequency of long-distance dispersal leads to high rates of spe ...
... differentiation and specialized adaptation to local conditions as Janzen proposed. But it also has the consequence of inhibiting colonization of distant sites, resulting in small geographic ranges and high endemism. Proposition 7. A low frequency of long-distance dispersal leads to high rates of spe ...
biodiversity-based propositions of conservation areas in baa atoll
... (AEC) focused on Baa Atoll, we identified high priority conservation areas using a unique biodiversity dataset (macrophytes, coral, fish, hydrozoans and other select macro-invertebrates census) and detailed habitat maps derived from Landsat and Quickbird satellite imagery. Species richness and distr ...
... (AEC) focused on Baa Atoll, we identified high priority conservation areas using a unique biodiversity dataset (macrophytes, coral, fish, hydrozoans and other select macro-invertebrates census) and detailed habitat maps derived from Landsat and Quickbird satellite imagery. Species richness and distr ...
Habitat suitability, threats and conservation strategies of Hump
... the cashew (Anacardium occidentale) plantations within and adjoining these PAs. The study sites lie at an average altitude of 20 to 800 m (from south to north). Intensive surveys on foot were carried out in the Western Ghats region, from June 2005 to January 2009, in the five sanctuaries mentioned a ...
... the cashew (Anacardium occidentale) plantations within and adjoining these PAs. The study sites lie at an average altitude of 20 to 800 m (from south to north). Intensive surveys on foot were carried out in the Western Ghats region, from June 2005 to January 2009, in the five sanctuaries mentioned a ...
Alpine plant biodiversity. Part 2: Functions and threats
... Greenland, and Glacier National Park, Montana. Long-term future for high alpines is not good if they continue to decline, even on the highest mountains in the Alps or Scandinavia. If global change and global warming continue to the extent predicted by climatologists, the Alpine World will be a very ...
... Greenland, and Glacier National Park, Montana. Long-term future for high alpines is not good if they continue to decline, even on the highest mountains in the Alps or Scandinavia. If global change and global warming continue to the extent predicted by climatologists, the Alpine World will be a very ...
hau_vivian_tbio_brief1
... humans are destroying biodiversity, but what usually is not discussed is that biodiversity can also benefit humans. There may be plants in the wild that could contribute economically in the future, they may not have been discovered or used as a resource just yet (Hudson et al.). Many of the medicine ...
... humans are destroying biodiversity, but what usually is not discussed is that biodiversity can also benefit humans. There may be plants in the wild that could contribute economically in the future, they may not have been discovered or used as a resource just yet (Hudson et al.). Many of the medicine ...
Ecological Gap Analysis
... protected areas, while significant and improving, still left a number of threatened vertebrate species unprotected or without adequate protection: 14 of the close to 200 terrestrial species analysed are not included at all in existing or proposed protected areas – this number climbed to over 40 spec ...
... protected areas, while significant and improving, still left a number of threatened vertebrate species unprotected or without adequate protection: 14 of the close to 200 terrestrial species analysed are not included at all in existing or proposed protected areas – this number climbed to over 40 spec ...
Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems
... Oligochaeta were not identified further than order. In the original data sets, either distance from the glacier terminus or percentage of GCC was used as the measure of glacial influence at specific stream sites. To allow the inclusion of the temporal data set from Alaska we chose the latter for our ...
... Oligochaeta were not identified further than order. In the original data sets, either distance from the glacier terminus or percentage of GCC was used as the measure of glacial influence at specific stream sites. To allow the inclusion of the temporal data set from Alaska we chose the latter for our ...
CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
... • This goal has not been met as there if still an indication of continued decline in biodiversity in all three of its main components » Genes » Species » Ecoystems • This includes • The loss of forests • Continued decline in crop and livestock genetic diversity • Habitat change, overexploitation , p ...
... • This goal has not been met as there if still an indication of continued decline in biodiversity in all three of its main components » Genes » Species » Ecoystems • This includes • The loss of forests • Continued decline in crop and livestock genetic diversity • Habitat change, overexploitation , p ...
Genetic engineering, breeding and biodiversity
... diversity of licensed and cropped varieties, at the species level on the number of species cropped and at the level of eco-systems on the proportion of each cropped species and the cropping rotation. At the level of an individual farm or of a region – depending on the framework conditions – the sele ...
... diversity of licensed and cropped varieties, at the species level on the number of species cropped and at the level of eco-systems on the proportion of each cropped species and the cropping rotation. At the level of an individual farm or of a region – depending on the framework conditions – the sele ...
Appendix S1 Justification for studying lineage compositions of
... ʻSubmerged stonewort swardsʼ, ʻStonecrop communities of weathered calcareous rocksʼ, and ʻBroadleaved woodlands on lime-rich and neutral mull soilsʼ, respectively. Correspondingly, habitat types of submerged stonewort swards in the Netherlands contain a large fraction of angiosperm species with rang ...
... ʻSubmerged stonewort swardsʼ, ʻStonecrop communities of weathered calcareous rocksʼ, and ʻBroadleaved woodlands on lime-rich and neutral mull soilsʼ, respectively. Correspondingly, habitat types of submerged stonewort swards in the Netherlands contain a large fraction of angiosperm species with rang ...
EDITORIAL Asian Agamid lizards - The Journal of Asian Biodiversity
... the fragmentation of Gondwana into separate tectonic plates. Such interpretations are based on the integration of morphological (Moody, 1980) and molecular data (Macey et al., 2000). Six groups of agamids correspond to 6 subfamilies: (1) Uromastycinae Theobald, 1868 with the genera Uromastyx and Saa ...
... the fragmentation of Gondwana into separate tectonic plates. Such interpretations are based on the integration of morphological (Moody, 1980) and molecular data (Macey et al., 2000). Six groups of agamids correspond to 6 subfamilies: (1) Uromastycinae Theobald, 1868 with the genera Uromastyx and Saa ...
Tropical Andes
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The Tropical Andes is a subregion of the Andes spanning all of the Andes except the southern mediterranean and temperate zones. The Tropical Andes area spans 1,542,644 km2.