therefore, mangrove loss disproportionately affects the inhabitants of these nations compared to high-income countries21. Depletion of mangrove forests will directly impact local economies, livelihoods and food security as mangroves contribute considerably to near-shore fisheries such as bivalve, shrimp and ...
The relationship between plant productivity and species richness is one of the most debated and important issues in ecology. Ecologists have found numerous forms of this relationship and its underlying processes. However, theories and proposed drivers ha
Conclusions The high importance of soil and topographic variables indicates that the species have a relatively narrow niche driven by such factors, suggesting that conservation strategies should not be generalized for NNFEFs. In addition, dispersal barriers do not seem to have prevented floristic ...
Trait Values, Not Trait Plasticity, Best Explain Invasive Species' Performance in a Changing Environment Virginia Matzek* Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States of America Abstract The question of why some int...
Surface water and groundwater (also known as aquifers) are the two sources where water is found. Learn how the loss of surface and groundwater negatively affects the water supply and how irrigation leads to the soil being salinized. Related...
explain the differences in infection among taxa, including habitat, climate, host density, the presence of vectors, life history and immune defence. Feeding behaviour can also be relevant both through increased exposure to vectors and consumption of secondary metabolites with preventative or therapeutic ...
Where this more ‘open-ended’ approach to restoration is adopted, surveillance methods that can track developing wetland habitats need to be established. Water regime and soil structure are known to influence the distribution and composition of developing wetland vegetation, and may be quantified ...
(2012). Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. ISME Journal, 6(2), 343–351. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Baselga, A., & Orme, C. D. L. (2012). betapart: An R package for the study of beta diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution...
However, unidirectional benefits could be widespread if extreme trait values confer advantages at one end of an environmental gradient, whereas a wide range of trait values are equally beneficial at the other end. Here, we show that root traits explain species occurrences along broad gradients of ...
macro-class occurrence with respect to any other macro-class (i.e., when the prevalence is always above 50%; see “Methods”). Figure 1 Magnitude and frequency for co-occurring lower-than-normal both moisture and yield. SPEI duration-timing matrix of mergedp-values measuring the overall ...