We found that plant trait relationships among tundra species were consistent with global patterns (Fig. 2b, d), despite a limited range of trait values and lower species richness in the tundra biome. The two dimensions of global trait space (plant size and resource economics) aligned with trait...
others have been disastrous. Tree species have been moved freely around the world, sometimes with remarkable effectiveness. The Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), for instance, is a diminutive and unproductivetreeon the coast of California, but it has become a major timber tree as a result of rapid...
The Arbor Day Foundation's partnership with Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership is focused on reversing the destruction of forest habitat that is home to critically endangered lemurs and other wildlife species found nowhere else on Earth. ...
Importantly, species mixture increased the C:N, C:P, N:P ratios of plants and soils when background soil C:N, C:P, and N:P were low, but decreased them when the respective background ratios were high. Our results demonstrate that plant mixtures can balance terrestrial plant and soil C...
I’ll be sure to update you. Until then, I present to you the life cycle of a sunflower stem weevil, which is still quite interesting, even if it’s not the species I found inside my sunflower stalks. And to be clear, the sunflower I observed wasHelianthus annuus; however, the we...
Significant differences between the 160 µm and 77 µm mesh sizes was only found in species richness (p<0.05) and abundance (p<0.05), while evenness and Shannon−Wiener indices were similar (p>0.05) (Table 4). Figure 4. Size frequency distribution of zooplankton in three different ...
species that are not found in any of the markets (because it has a much higher total number of species than other markets), the HNB shows most similarity in species composition with markets situated in the north of Brazil and least similarity with the markets located in the central west. Th...
species. The seasonal progression of observation probability at a few selected locations indicates that this scattering results from double peaks in observation probability: on the Swiss plateau observation probability peaked twice, once around the end of April and once in August. This phenology was ...
There is still limited consensus on the evolutionary history of species-rich temperate alpine floras due to a lack of comparable and high-quality phylogenetic data covering multiple plant lineages. Here we reconstructed when and how European alpine plant
The 396 species belonged to 298 genus and 93 families. We found that woody plant diversity, tree size attributes (DBH, height, canopy breadth), and total plant taxa increased significantly with increased urbanization while herb plant diversity decreased significantly. However, the GSA has no ...