amf ecology and ecosystem functioning

... effects of land use change and forest fragmentation 21 on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the tropical lowlands of Sri Lanka More 22 specifically, the study provides an understanding of ... anthropogenic land 17 use and selective logging by surveying the diversity and community composition of 18 amphibians and butterflies in primary forest and across the chosen land use types I ... island In chapters five and six, I report the diversity and abundance of Scarabaeinae beetles in multiple land use areas over a wide geographic range and twenty forest fragments in the lowland...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:49

... 2120 2 1 0.00 3.52 2.41 0.70 2.11 0.00 Godahenkanda Bandungala Horamadulla Nerugalkanda Dolahena Kandewattagoda Polgahawila Wattahena Paththara Darakulkanda 62.44 72.37 86.65 109.7 120 127.8 170 ... characteristics on standardized dung beetle community parameters (a) Stotal (total species richness) and Sintact (richness of the intact forest species assemblage) vs fragment area (ha), (b) Stotal and Sintact ... cover (CS), canopy cover (CC) and mean diameter at breast height of trees (MDBH) and number of trees with DBH>5cm within the plot Values are given as means with Standard Error (SE) PF= primary...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 06:37

... ambient and ground humidity, canopy cover, ground and shrub cover, palm density, soil temperature, pH and moisture, number of dead trees standing and on the ground, leaf litter depth, tree density and ... in my study, I base my comparisons and conclusions of dung beetle diversity and ecosystem functioning on standardized methods employed throughout the study and across all sites Another drawback ... activities Chapter Species richness and ecosystem functioning of dung beetles* 2.1 Introduction Research on ecosystem processes has largely focused on primary productivity and plant diversity (Chapin...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:34

... Carnivore Ecology and Conservation OUP CORRECTED PROOF FINAL, 6/12/2011, SPi Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series Series Editor: William J Sutherland Bird Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook ... J Sutherland, Ian Newton, and Rhys E Green Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques Susan K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff, and Martha C Monroe Forest Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of ... Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques C Kenneth Dodd, Jr Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... for example, (–)limonene, myrcene, and α- and β-pinene Likewise, phellandrene synthase in Pinus contorta produces α- and β-pinene as well as 3-carene and β-phellandrene (Savage et al 1994) whereas ... Glandular Trichomes 130 Epidermal Cells and Bud Trichomes 135 PART II The Geologic History and Ecology of Resins 141 Chapter Amber: Resins Through Geologic Time 143 How Is Resin Fossilized and ... Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany JEAN H LANGENHEIM Timber Press Portland • Cambridge gum, the gum of the mountain spruce He showed me lumps of the scented stuff Like uncut jewels, dull and rough...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... encompasses about 4,450 (11,000 ac) of wetland and mesic land with predominately pine forest, 18 Ecology and Management of a Forested Landscape bottomland hardwood, and cypress-tupelo swamp habitats Prior ... change in land use Construction of nuclear production facilities and the reforestation of abandoned farmland and cutover forests affected SRS ecosystems in profound ways The construction and operation ... populations (Stahle and Cleaveland 1992; Anderson 1994) When Hernando de Soto passed through the middle Savannah River valley in 1541, he found no Ecology and Management of a Forested Landscape people...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... Carnivore Ecology and Conservation OUP CORRECTED PROOF FINAL, 6/12/2011, SPi Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series Series Editor: William J Sutherland Bird Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook ... J Sutherland, Ian Newton, and Rhys E Green Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques Susan K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff, and Martha C Monroe Forest Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of ... Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques C Kenneth Dodd, Jr Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... Feibelman and others 1994 Largent 1994 Danell and others 1995 Largent and Sime 1995 Hibbett and others 1997 Redhead and others 1997 Bruns and others 1998 Bergemann and Largent 1998, 2000 Pine and others ... Groves [and Redhead] 1979 Kibby 1992 Lincoff 1981 McKenny and others 1987 McKnight and McKnight 1987 Miller 1978 Miller and Miller 1988 Molina and others 1993 Orr and Orr 1979 Persson and Mossberg ... Arora 1991 Bandoni and Szczawinski 1976 Barron 1999 Bessette and Sundberg 1987 Bessette and others 1997 Biek 1984 Castellano and others 1999 Castellano and others 2003 Courtenay and Burdsall...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... (Tawau– Semporna) and Tambisan Island on the east coast, Banggi group of islands and Malawali Island in the north, and Mantanani group of islands and Pulau Tiga group of islands along the west ... compressor and gill nets and are incidental catches in fish corrals, hook and line, and crab pots (Juinio-Meñez and Dantis 1996) The reported catch per unit effort varied widely among gears and localities ... Yimin Ye, C Roland Pitcher and Tim D Skewes CSIRO Marine Research, PO Box 120, Cleveland, Queensland, 4163, Australia tory was established on Thursday Island Torres Strait Islanders fish largely...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:21

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... Calvin Dytham and Dale Taneyhill Finally, thanks to my wife Emese and daughters Alice and Lara, the former for understanding my need to write the book and supporting me in the struggle, and the latter ... understanding of one aids understanding of others For example, we can understand the rates of speciation in cichlids from a knowledge of speciation and extinction mechanisms, and we can understand ... evolutionary and ecological change Fenchel and Finlay (1995) and Willis and McElwain (2002) are useful more specialist sources Padian and Chiappe (1998) give a good introduction to bird origins, Thomas and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... Biodiversity and ecosystem structures, processes and functions: • Surrounding local ecosystem functions, processes and services • Regional and global ecosystem functions, processes and services ... the direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services, both positive and / or negative, associated with: • The use and management of controlled and owned land assets (and access ... activities and biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) To that end, we use dairy farming as a case study and propose general recommendations regarding accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... between energy and immunity and the endometrium, energy and ovarian hormones, estradiol concentrations and rates of pregnancy in ovulatory cycles, and estradiol and endometrial function, and it becomes ... the relationship between ecology and reproductive functioning, and fetal loss and endometrial function, I will elucidate the relationships between lifestyle and fecundity, and more direct endometrial ... glands and cellular stroma compose the endometrium, both of which change morphologically across the menstrual cycle Where increasingly coiled glands and vessels, increased gland complexity, and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... (Eds) 2005 and ecology of Maculinea teleiusthe Ecology and Conservationin&Polandin Europe Studies on and M nausithous of Butterflies Vol 1: General Concepts and Case Studies, pp 9-10 Landscape ... (1996) Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning Harvard, Harvard University Graduate School of design Forman, R T T and M Godron (1986) Landscape Ecology New ... high risk of being abandoned and overgrown by bushes and trees Rivers with riparian strips of trees and meadows are creating suitable landscape structure for the migration and survival of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... Positive C Positive D Positive A and B Positive B and C Positive B and D Positive C and D Negative A Negative B Negative C Negative D Negative B and D Negative C and D Species N (%) 101 286 57 ... lowland mixed dipterocarp forest and kerangas forest The lowland forest at Lambir is the most diverse forest in tree species recorded for the Palaeotropics (Ashton and Hall 1992; Davies and Becker ... inter-bedded sandstone and shale parent materials Sandstone-derived soils are humult ultisols, with a surface horizon of loosely matted and densely rooted raw humus, low nutrient status, and low water...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... United States (Figure 3) and began appearing in large metropolitan areas across their historic and expanded range Figure Natives of the plains and deserts, coyotes have expanded their range eastward ... successful in landscapes dominated by people Our limited understanding of how coyotes succeed in urban landscapes hampers management of this animal Even knowledge of their basic ecology is incomplete, ... deposited by coyotes and other wildlife Coyote scats are ropelike and typically filled with hair and bones, whereas dog scat is soft with dog food Coyotes use scats for communication and so usually...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... Mathematics for Ecology and Environmental Sciences includes a wide variety of stimulating topics in mathematical and theoretical modeling and techniques to analyze the models in ecology and environmental ... and a single discriminating strategy are initially equally frequent, then CO-STANDING and ORSTANDING eliminate defectors whenever b > 3.5, whereas CO-JUDGING and CO-SCORING require b > 4.5, and ... rely on the notion of standing As Nowak and Sigmund (1998b) described it, ‘a player is born with good standing, and keeps it as long as he helps players who are in good standing Such a player can...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation Natural disturbances such as lava flows, landslides and glacial moraines, and human-damaged sites such as pavements, road edges and mine wastes, often ... established that landscape changes (e.g uplift and erosion of landforms) were usually gradual (Lyell, 1850; Davis, 1899), leading to a dynamic view of both landforms and the origin and extinction ... U.S.A.) Landslides (Haigh et al., 1993) and avalanches (De Scally & Gardner, 1994) are major threats to the lives and livelihoods of residents of the Himalaya Mountains and the Andes Landslides...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... processes and phenomena, systems of proof, and verification of hypotheses Up-to-date mathematical models and computers have made it possible for ecology to simulate complicated natural processes and ... to optimize the production of marine sand and shell rock, and to substantiate in economic terms the expediency of developing individual deposits of sand and rock, taking account of relevant environmental ... principles of formation and functioning of different branches of the economy and of interbranch regional and national oceanic economic systems; substantiation of patterns and stages of economic...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... patterns, and forest resources in Amazonia Ecology and Society 13(2): online http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/ art2 3 Education, Ecology and Poverty Reduction 37 Pagiola, S., J Bishop, and ... landholders, we must first break down semantic barriers between ecosystem science and ecosystem management, and between scientific ecological knowledge and local ecological knowledge By understanding ... Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction Fabrice DeClerck, Jane Carter Ingram, and Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio Introduction: Gender, Education and Ecology Fabrice DeClerck and Jane Carter...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 00:08