Final Report - The Rufford Foundation
... Troop was under human habitation and included agricultural fields. The greater presence and activity of people around the village may have reduced the presence of predators. With greater predation risks, it may be expected that allogrooming would decrease. The High-altitude Troop spent less time on ...
... Troop was under human habitation and included agricultural fields. The greater presence and activity of people around the village may have reduced the presence of predators. With greater predation risks, it may be expected that allogrooming would decrease. The High-altitude Troop spent less time on ...
1 The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) is a rodent
... reforestation are not uncommon, sometimes resulting in non-forested conditions lasting for decades (Barnes 1978). Pocket gophers damage and kill large percentages of conifer seedlings in Idaho by feeding on their roots and stems (Graham and Kingery 1990, Ferguson and Adams 1994, Ferguson 1999). Rege ...
... reforestation are not uncommon, sometimes resulting in non-forested conditions lasting for decades (Barnes 1978). Pocket gophers damage and kill large percentages of conifer seedlings in Idaho by feeding on their roots and stems (Graham and Kingery 1990, Ferguson and Adams 1994, Ferguson 1999). Rege ...
A Landowner`s Guide for Restoring and Managing Oregon White
... motivating landowners to take action. An introduction to the ecology of the Oregon white oak is included so the reader can be�er understand how management practices are founded on aspects of the tree’s biology. Later chapters are designed to help landowners develop land management goals and understa ...
... motivating landowners to take action. An introduction to the ecology of the Oregon white oak is included so the reader can be�er understand how management practices are founded on aspects of the tree’s biology. Later chapters are designed to help landowners develop land management goals and understa ...
Clipboard - Indian Academy of Sciences
... Kumar et al. 2008). Such direct benefits are obvious and relatively easy to valuate, even if the role of evolution in generating such benefits may be far from obvious. The second type of evosystem service is constituted by the evolutionary processes themselves, including mutation, selection, genetic ...
... Kumar et al. 2008). Such direct benefits are obvious and relatively easy to valuate, even if the role of evolution in generating such benefits may be far from obvious. The second type of evosystem service is constituted by the evolutionary processes themselves, including mutation, selection, genetic ...
to See an Example of A Best Management Plan for the Tree Octopus
... The Lilliwaup Outdoor Club has decided to do light logging. We’ve chosen light logging because of noise reduction, not as much disturbed octopi, and less logging means less interruption for people’s activities. We’ve also chosen only 1 overpass, because it would save money and some bridge supports ...
... The Lilliwaup Outdoor Club has decided to do light logging. We’ve chosen light logging because of noise reduction, not as much disturbed octopi, and less logging means less interruption for people’s activities. We’ve also chosen only 1 overpass, because it would save money and some bridge supports ...
Rangelands and Pasturelands - Manitoba Forestry Association
... The definitions of rangeland and pastureland are complex. The Montana Envirothon Committee (this year’s host) defines rangeland as “land on which the plant community is comprised of predominately native or indigenous grasses, grass-like plants (e.g. sedges), forbs and/or shrubs. Rangeland includes n ...
... The definitions of rangeland and pastureland are complex. The Montana Envirothon Committee (this year’s host) defines rangeland as “land on which the plant community is comprised of predominately native or indigenous grasses, grass-like plants (e.g. sedges), forbs and/or shrubs. Rangeland includes n ...
John Turner - Ecology rebuttal evidence
... I do not support long-term predator control beyond five years. Both I and Ms Myers agree that there are areas being lost to the Project footprint that have ecological value. This ecological value exists despite there being no predator control at present. Small fragments of bush are very difficult to ...
... I do not support long-term predator control beyond five years. Both I and Ms Myers agree that there are areas being lost to the Project footprint that have ecological value. This ecological value exists despite there being no predator control at present. Small fragments of bush are very difficult to ...
(2008) The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem
... 1999), and changes in such interactions with the introduction of alien species (Memmott and Waser, 2002) in a diversity of ecosystems. However, such analytical approaches need to be applied to agroecosystems (including facilitative interactions between crop cultivars) if this is to be considered a v ...
... 1999), and changes in such interactions with the introduction of alien species (Memmott and Waser, 2002) in a diversity of ecosystems. However, such analytical approaches need to be applied to agroecosystems (including facilitative interactions between crop cultivars) if this is to be considered a v ...
Title Regeneration Processes and Coexistence Mechanisms of Two
... In the first category, many mechanisms maintaining tree species richness have been proposed. I do not review all of them here, but will mention some examples. Ashton (e.g. 1964, 1969, 1976) reponed that species-specific requirements for soil properties are related to tree richness. Connell (1971, 19 ...
... In the first category, many mechanisms maintaining tree species richness have been proposed. I do not review all of them here, but will mention some examples. Ashton (e.g. 1964, 1969, 1976) reponed that species-specific requirements for soil properties are related to tree richness. Connell (1971, 19 ...
Staudinger et al., 2013
... climate change and is projected to respond in the future. Current studies reinforce earlier findings of major climate-change-related impacts on biological systems and document new, more subtle after-effects. For example, many species are shifting their distributions and phenologies at faster rates t ...
... climate change and is projected to respond in the future. Current studies reinforce earlier findings of major climate-change-related impacts on biological systems and document new, more subtle after-effects. For example, many species are shifting their distributions and phenologies at faster rates t ...
Global change and Mediterranean forests
... removal to expand agricultural land and pastures has been the most common land-use conversion during the last centuries. In particular, Mediterranean forests have widely disappeared because of exploitation and substitution by agricultural landscapes and, more recently, by urban development around ci ...
... removal to expand agricultural land and pastures has been the most common land-use conversion during the last centuries. In particular, Mediterranean forests have widely disappeared because of exploitation and substitution by agricultural landscapes and, more recently, by urban development around ci ...
long-term effects of rodent herbivores on tree invasion dynamics
... member of each pair of enclosures to a high-vole-density treatment, and the other to a low-vole-density treatment. Vole density differences between adjacent enclosures were maintained from 1994 until autumn of 1998 by transporting most juvenile or subadult voles captured in enclosures designated as ...
... member of each pair of enclosures to a high-vole-density treatment, and the other to a low-vole-density treatment. Vole density differences between adjacent enclosures were maintained from 1994 until autumn of 1998 by transporting most juvenile or subadult voles captured in enclosures designated as ...
The relative dominance hypothesis explains interaction dynamics in mixed species /
... 1 We used repeated measurements of tree growth and population-level and neighbourhood conditions from three mixed Alnus rubra/Pseudotsuga menziesii forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA to investigate why previous results regarding the importance of neighbourhood competition as a determinant of plan ...
... 1 We used repeated measurements of tree growth and population-level and neighbourhood conditions from three mixed Alnus rubra/Pseudotsuga menziesii forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA to investigate why previous results regarding the importance of neighbourhood competition as a determinant of plan ...
Losing history: how extinctions prune features from the tree of life
... communities [20]. In some cases, the regional combination of projected climate variables have no present-day analogues [21], and we thus have no data on the likely composition or functionality of the communities that might occupy these novel climate regimes [22]. Therefore, if we wish to ensure the ...
... communities [20]. In some cases, the regional combination of projected climate variables have no present-day analogues [21], and we thus have no data on the likely composition or functionality of the communities that might occupy these novel climate regimes [22]. Therefore, if we wish to ensure the ...
Losing history: how extinctions prune features from the tree of life
... communities [20]. In some cases, the regional combination of projected climate variables have no present-day analogues [21], and we thus have no data on the likely composition or functionality of the communities that might occupy these novel climate regimes [22]. Therefore, if we wish to ensure the ...
... communities [20]. In some cases, the regional combination of projected climate variables have no present-day analogues [21], and we thus have no data on the likely composition or functionality of the communities that might occupy these novel climate regimes [22]. Therefore, if we wish to ensure the ...
Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Forests
... impoverished landscapes. To some extent the effects of deforestation and loss in forest quality have been offset through natural regeneration of forest and the establishment of plantations. However, much of the regenerated forest consists of a few species designed to yield one or two products rather ...
... impoverished landscapes. To some extent the effects of deforestation and loss in forest quality have been offset through natural regeneration of forest and the establishment of plantations. However, much of the regenerated forest consists of a few species designed to yield one or two products rather ...
Conserving Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change
... (Dixit and Pindyck, 1994) with such option values providing a bias towards early adoption of policy and for greater policy stringency. Sunk cost effects arise because policies to deal with climate change problems impose sunk costs on society. For example, investing in captive-breeding programs or th ...
... (Dixit and Pindyck, 1994) with such option values providing a bias towards early adoption of policy and for greater policy stringency. Sunk cost effects arise because policies to deal with climate change problems impose sunk costs on society. For example, investing in captive-breeding programs or th ...
Plant responses to livestock grazing frequency in an Australian
... Dorrough, J., Ash, J. and McIntyre, S. 2004. Plant responses to livestock grazing frequency in an Australian temperate grassland. / Ecography 27: 798 /810. Livestock grazing is often thought to enhance native plant species co-existence in remnant grasslands but may also favour exotic invaders. Rec ...
... Dorrough, J., Ash, J. and McIntyre, S. 2004. Plant responses to livestock grazing frequency in an Australian temperate grassland. / Ecography 27: 798 /810. Livestock grazing is often thought to enhance native plant species co-existence in remnant grasslands but may also favour exotic invaders. Rec ...
Cascadia Wildlands
... different. Planting 200 TPAs is like a bait-and-switch trick. We were told we want brush for early-seral species, and then we are given just another fiber farm with artificial reforestation, using nursery stock seedlings. The purpose of this project is: “Implementing regeneration harvests in Matrix ...
... different. Planting 200 TPAs is like a bait-and-switch trick. We were told we want brush for early-seral species, and then we are given just another fiber farm with artificial reforestation, using nursery stock seedlings. The purpose of this project is: “Implementing regeneration harvests in Matrix ...
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... Wild flowers suit a wide range of insects and birds, and are attractive ...
... Wild flowers suit a wide range of insects and birds, and are attractive ...
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... adaptive cycle of each sub-system is synchronized. The whole system is most vulnerable when all sub-systems at a particular scale, say all firms in an economy, are at the same (least resilient) point in their cycle. This is referred to as hypercoherence (Stepp et al., 2003). Two aspects of the proble ...
... adaptive cycle of each sub-system is synchronized. The whole system is most vulnerable when all sub-systems at a particular scale, say all firms in an economy, are at the same (least resilient) point in their cycle. This is referred to as hypercoherence (Stepp et al., 2003). Two aspects of the proble ...
Driving mechanisms of overstorey–understorey
... for most of the total vascular plant species diversity in deciduous forests, leading to an average understorey–overstorey species richness ratio of 5 (Gilliam, 2014). In coniferous stands, this ratio may even be higher, due to lower overstorey richness in general (Gilliam, 2007). Moreover, the under ...
... for most of the total vascular plant species diversity in deciduous forests, leading to an average understorey–overstorey species richness ratio of 5 (Gilliam, 2014). In coniferous stands, this ratio may even be higher, due to lower overstorey richness in general (Gilliam, 2007). Moreover, the under ...
Abstracts - Society For Range Management
... affecting fire intensity on rangelands is the herbaceous fuel load. Alterations in plant community composition and structure in addition to decreased grazing intensities have led to relatively high fuel loads on many western North America caespitose grass rangelands. Increased fuel loads directly in ...
... affecting fire intensity on rangelands is the herbaceous fuel load. Alterations in plant community composition and structure in addition to decreased grazing intensities have led to relatively high fuel loads on many western North America caespitose grass rangelands. Increased fuel loads directly in ...
STM_Eucalyptus porosa woodland eastern flanks final.docx
... Specht (1972) locates the Eucalyptus porosa low rainfall grassy woodland (as Eucalyptus odorata / Eucalyptus porosa) generally on the uphill side of Allocasuarina verticillata woodlands in its southern range, reversed in its northern range and intermixed in other areas. No Lomandra effusa grassland ...
... Specht (1972) locates the Eucalyptus porosa low rainfall grassy woodland (as Eucalyptus odorata / Eucalyptus porosa) generally on the uphill side of Allocasuarina verticillata woodlands in its southern range, reversed in its northern range and intermixed in other areas. No Lomandra effusa grassland ...
Project description of University of Basel
... decidua and Pinus uncinata. While Larix showed a stimulation in shoot growth and ring width over all four growing seasons when exposed to elevated CO2 supporting carbon limitation, Pinus did not. However, when trees were defoliated in spring 2002, this response was reversed in the two species. We co ...
... decidua and Pinus uncinata. While Larix showed a stimulation in shoot growth and ring width over all four growing seasons when exposed to elevated CO2 supporting carbon limitation, Pinus did not. However, when trees were defoliated in spring 2002, this response was reversed in the two species. We co ...