This article describes a method for detailed mapping of ecological variation in a tropical rainforest based on field inventory of pteridophytes (ferns and lycophytes) and remote sensing using Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) imagery. Previously known soil cation optima of the pterido...
“The key to an indoor garden is getting plants that are super easy and don’t require much care,” says Terry Furuta, owner ofTerry Furuta Floral Designs in Buckhead. “There are some plants that can be tricky, like ferns. Some believe that orchids are difficult, but I love orchids, ...
We documented species composition of pteridophytes (ferns and fern allies) in 635 plots (2100 m) along 8 transects within a continuous rainforest landscape in northeastern Peruvian Amazonia. Considerable floristic variation was found when the data were analyzed using multivariate methods. The ...
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low grasslands with a light shrub load. Rocky areas correspond to areas mainly covered by rocks, but they usually include patches of scattered grasslands and shrubs. Therefore, as a principle of caution, rocky areas were included in fuel model 1. This particular landscape was not identified in ...
We use data from satellite sensors, including MODIS, QSCAT, SRTM, and TRMM, to develop different environmental variables related to vegetation, landscape, and climate. These variables are used in a maximum entropy method (Maxent) to model the geographical distribution of five commercial trees and ...
Tropical peatland surface gradients tend to be small because peat accumulates where decomposition is retarded by waterlogging, filling in topographic lows and creating a surface topography that is smooth at the landscape scale (Cobb et al., 2017). These surface gradients, however small, control the...
While in Hawaii, I couldn’t help but botanize the local native flora. On the island of Oahu, it is sad to see that most of the landscape is covered with invasive plants and birds from across the world. The island’s native forests are at risk of being wiped out thanks to escaped pl...
Connectivity of core habitat in the Northeastern United States: Parks and protected areas in a landscape context The exurbanization process, particularly rural residential development, is reducing the amount of roadless areas and remote habitat across the nation, with... SJ Goetz,P Jantz,CA Jantz...
No wooded landscape we see today has been forest for all time. Plants have minimum requirements of temperature and moisture and, in ages past, virtually every part of Earth's surface has at some time been either too dry or too cold for plants to survive. However, as soon as climatic ...