What has always amazed me about climbing into the canopy is that there are such dramatic differences, both in microclimate and biology just 30 meters above the forest floor. To reach my study trees in Monteverde, Costa Rica, I must first walk along the ...
We found evidence that canopy cover impeded foraging movement of B. vosnesenskii but not of B. caliginosus. Roads had neutral or inhibitory effects on B. vosnesenskii movement depending on the landscape but only inhibitory effects on B. caliginosus movement. Colony abundance was not related ...
Canopy Cover and Ground CoverGuide, FieldGlobe, 2005. Canopy Cover and Ground Cover. Field Guide. Land Cover/Biology. Biometry Protocol 9(11): 1-3.
For much of the early development of canopy biology, the nature and limits of forest canopies have been poorly defined. In a functional sense, the forest canopy includes all aboveground plant structures and the interstitial spaces between them, which collectively form the interface between the soil...
A dense canopy cover will let little light reach the ground and will lower temperatures. The canopy protects the ground from the force of rainfall and makes wind force more moderate. Thus, habitat conditions on the ground are shaped by the degree of canopy cover. Subscribe to the CID Bio-Sc...
sometimes 30 or 40 m off the forest floor (Rinker et al. 1995). These access systems now permit researchers to study forests from top to bottom, seeing them as integrated living systems, not as an illustrated series of discrete vegetative strata too often simplified in general biology ...
By design, the collected samples sparsely cover the surface of the Earth, which restricts the resolution of gridded mission products to 1 km cells12. In contrast, satellite missions such as Sentinel-2 or Landsat, which have been designed for a broader range of Earth observation needs, ...
[27] on bryophyte covers. The variability appears to increase under the macroalgal canopy, likely due to the formation of specific microenvironments at the interface with the cryptogamic cover [59,94,112,113,114]. Contrary to bacterial communities, the highest number of unique fungal ASVs was ...
We found successfully breeding pairs in areas with >20% canopy cover, 35% juniper composition, and only 3% oak composition. A logistic model for pairing success retained juniper, oak, and the interaction between these 2 variables, and the model for reproductive success retained juniper, canopy ...
We found positive effects of air temperature, the sun treatment, and reduced canopy cover on operative temperature, and negative direct or indirect effects of these variables on evaporative water loss, consistent with the hypothesized trade-off between thermoregulatory behavior to increase temperature and...