Plant Community
Plant community responses to simultaneous changes in temperature, nitrogen availability, and invasion.
... native plant community in ...native plant com- munity through changes in soil moisture (Fig 1B), instead of through changes in soil pH (ΔCFI = ...
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Using Plant Functional Traits and Phylogenies to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Assembly in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in Lao PDR.
... that plant associations at PKK may be determined by deeper phylogenetically conserved traits that we did not measure, and that the functional traits we focused on may be responding to finer scale ecological ...
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Plant community diversity influences allocation to direct chemical defence in Plantago lanceolata.
... [20,21]. Plant-plant- and plant-herbivore-interactions are both important biotic factors well known to modify plant chemical ...increasing plant diversity and with plant species ...
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Pollination syndromes in a Caatinga plant community in northeastern Brazil: seasonal availability of floral resources in different plant growth habits
... A total of 46 different species were examined, including trees (36.9% of the total number of species), shrubs (32.6%), herbs (13%) and vines (17.4%). These plants belong to 22 plant families and 40 genera (Table 1 ...
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DOES THE EDGE EFFECT INFLUENCE PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN A TROPICAL DRY FOREST?1
... The results presented in this study contradict several studies made in tropical rain forests (LAURANCE et al., 1998; LIMA-RIBEIRO, 2008; NASCIMENTO; LAURANCE, 2006; PACIENCIA; PRADO, 2004). Those authors have found lower ...
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Aquatic plant community in porto primavera reservoir
... found. Plant community assessments concentrated in shallower regions near the shoreline of the water body, where further development of populations of aquatic macrophytes ...
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Phylogenetic community structure reveals diff erences in plant community assembly of an oligotrophic white-sand ecosystem from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
... The occurrence of different physiognomies and patterns of species richness in Mussununga vegetation is correlated with soil properties and landscape relief (Saporetti-Junior et al. 2012). Mussununga means “soft and wet ...
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Much beyond Mantel: bringing Procrustes association metric to the plant and soil ecologist's toolbox.
... microbial community, either directly in the case of symbionts, for example, or indirectly via changes in soil chemistry ...microbial community and to determine if plant community and soil ...
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Communities of larger fungi of ombrotrophic bogs in West Siberia
... Seven taxa were collected outside the study plots using the random walk method. These were Clavaria sphagnicola, Hypholoma capnoides, Laccaria proxima, Lactarius sp. 1, Pseudoplectania sphagnophila, Russula paludosa, and ...
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Variation in plant-animal interactions along an elevational gradient of moist forest in a semiarid area of Brazil
... the plant community (association between dispersal and pollination syndromes), we used the number of species per pollination syndrome as the response variable and dispersal syndrome as the explanatory ...
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Forest spatial heterogeneity and palm richness, abundance and community composition in Terra Firme forest, Central Amazon
... describe plant community distribution in a type of habitat and to compare it among different habitats (Kahn & Castro 1985, Kahn & Mejia ...of plant community succession (Losos 1995), ...
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After fire regenerative successions in larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) forests of the Central Khangai in Mongolia
... preire plant species composition and the cover percentage of the species are completed during a period of 50 to 90 ...the plant community after low intensity ire takes 50– 60 years (Lytkina, ...
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Aboveground insect herbivory increases plant competitive asymmetry, while belowground herbivory mitigates the effect
... a plant community, but the mechanism underlying such shifts remains largely ...influence plant competitive interactions. In our experimental plant community, aboveground insect ...
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Genetic recolonization of mangrove: Genetic diversity still increasing in the Mekong delta 30 years after Agent Orange
... the plant community por- trayed by records immediately following the war (Hong & San 1993, Hong 1996), recolonization is mostly driven by the reproduction of local individuals that survived the event, ...
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Plant Reproductive Phenology and Dispersal Patterns After Natural Regeneration in a Limestone Mining Spoil Banks
... a plant community developed naturally after limestone mining operations, in accumulated materials of wastes (spoil ...of plant reproductive in a degraded environment; to analyze the community ...
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Short-term abandonment of human disturbances in Zagros Oak forest ecosystems: Effects on secondary succession of soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation
... The restoration of degraded lands is a topic that is receiving considerable attention in many parts of the world (Montagnini 2001). The soil seed bank can contribute to plant community dynamics following ...
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Patterns and relationships of plant traits, community structural attributes, and eco-hydrological functions during a subtropical secondary succession in central Yunnan, Southwest China
... in plant community composition and structure which have strong effects on eco-hydrological processes and ...the community that influenced eco-hydrological functions by altering eco-hydrological ...
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Effects of water and nitrogen addition on species turnover in temperate grasslands in northern China.
... of plant community dynamics, and water condition also inuenced community sensitivity to N, and vice versa ...on plant community are strongly mediated by water availability in the ...
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Host preference of the hemiparasite Struthanthus flexicaulis (Loranthaceae) in ironstone outcrop plant communities, southeast Brazil
... the plant community, taking into account the abundance and foliage cover of the ...the community and the mortality caused by the parasite were assessed based on a quantitative survey in 10 strips ...
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Plant communities as a tool in temporary ponds conservation in SW Portugal
... Untested variables not quantified in our study, such as hydroperiod have been shown by others (Rhazi et al., 2001; Grillas et al., 2004; Pyke, 2004; Serrano & Zunzunegui, 2008; Stamati et al., 2008; Waterkeyn et al., ...
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