Parthenium hysterophorus is an alien invasive weed infesting grasslands in many countries around the world, including Australia. Previous studies have identified several native and introduced fodder species that can suppress biomass production of parthenium weed. In the present study, a total of 11 ...
In an inspection of imported materials contained in 349 ships from 30 countries between 1986 and 1990, about 200 species of alien weeds have been found. Weeds and poisonous grass species have outspread at the cost of high-quality grass species over as around 90% of China’s grasslands (Diamon...
Grassland, area in which the vegetation is dominated by a nearly continuous cover of grasses. Grasslands occur in environments conducive to the growth of this plant cover but not to that of taller plants, particularly trees and shrubs. The factors preven
followed by long dry period. Australia, because of its remote location, has evolved a number of plants that are found only on the Australian continent. In some cases, however, the plants are grown commercially in other parts of the world...
Resources for the study of Palaeolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology including Ice Age Animals, Plants, People and Geology
H.?punctigera larvae were found in each of six habitats, being, in order of mean numbers per sample: sandy deserts?>?floodplains?>?mulga, grasslands and saltbush?>?stony downs. Host status was determined for both species by plotting relative incidence against relative abundance, and the good...
Functional similarities are also expected for the assembly of animals living in stressful environments (Mouchet et al.2010). We found that the taxonomic diversity of mammals did not change by land management type, but functional diversity increased in grazed woodlands. This may be showing that the...
Understanding the variability of extinction risk and its potential drivers across different spatial extents is crucial to revealing the underlying processes of biodiversity loss and sustainability. However, in countries with high climatic and topographic
Exotics were found to predominantly occupy the low elevations, while natives were predominantly limited to the mid-elevations in the study area both in terms of species richness and phylogenetic diversity Full size image Fig. 4 Relationship between species richness and phylogenetic diversity of exotic ...
Plants are often the dominant physical and structural component of habitats where they occur. Many of the Earth's biomes are named for the type of vegetation because plants are the dominant organisms in those biomes, such as grasslands and forests. ...