Tropical dry forest
Sources and sinks of diversification and conservation priorities for the Mexican tropical dry forest.
... Mexican tropical dry forest that have been important centres of diversification (sources) and areas where species are maintained but where diversification is less likely to occur (diversity ...the ...
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Recovering more than tree cover: herbivores and herbivory in a restored tropical dry forest.
... Intense and chronic disturbance may arrest natural succession, reduce environmental quality and lead to ecological interaction losses. Where natural succession does not occur, ecologi- cal restoration aims to accelerate ...
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DOES THE EDGE EFFECT INFLUENCE PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN A TROPICAL DRY FOREST?1
... Brazilian tropical dry forest known as Caatinga but this issue remains ...the forest edges and 12 plots were inside the ...and Forest of Araucaria, which indicate abrupt differences ...
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Prospection on Yeasts from Stingless Bees Honey in Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest (Caatinga)
... environments or microhabitats may occur through the action of insects like Drosophila spp. which maintain a mutualistic association with yeasts serving as source of nutrients for these insects and, in addition, to ...
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Diameter distribution in a Brazilian tropical dry forest domain: predictions for the stand and species
... for dry tropical ...brazilian tropical dry forest and to select suitable continuous distributions by means of statistic tools for the stand and the main ...the dry ...
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Relating flight initiation distance in birds to tropical dry forest restoration
... Animals respond to approaching humans similarly to ter- restrial predators (Frid and Dill 2002). Therefore, a standardized walking approach to focal individuals mimics the effect of an approaching predator and allows the ...
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Synanthropy and ecological aspects of Muscidae (Diptera) in a tropical dry forest ecosystem in Colombia
... a tropical dry forest ecosystem in ...and forest) using van Someren-Rydon traps baited with human faeces, chicken viscera and decomposing fish and ...of dry forests in ...
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Richness of gall-inducing insects in the tropical dry forest (caatinga) of Pernambuco
... (tropical dry forest), char- acterized by a deciduous forest, shrub to tree vegetation of extreme drought, which plants undergo severe water short- age during a large portion of the year that ...
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Assessing the effects of multiple stressors on the recruitment of fruit harvested trees in a tropical dry forest, Western Ghats, India.
... non-timber forest products (NTFPs), together with other sources of anthropo- genic disturbance, impact plant populations ...three tropical dry forest fruit tree ...specifically forest ...
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Carbon stocks in a tropical dry forest in Brazil
... the dry period was shorter, this response was less ...a tropical dry forest, one not depending on seasonality and the other inconsistent, and dependent on that same ...
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Predicting of biomass in Brazilian tropical dry forest: a statistical evaluation of generic equations
... Dry tropical forests are a key component in the global carbon cycle and their biomass estimates depend almost exclusively of fitted equations for multi-species or individual species ...with dry ...
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Reproductive behavior of crossbred dairy cows grazing an intensive silvopastoral system under tropical dry forest conditions
... in tropical pastures is 180g/kg DM (NRC, ...on tropical pastures is around 616g/kg DM for (NRC, 2001) and in this study, cows consumed 508 and 512g/kg ...
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Mapping soil carbon, particle-size fractions, and water retention in tropical dry forest in Brazil
... dry and the other from the wet season, that is, from August 2012 and May 2013, respectively. The original five bands were radiometrically and atmospherically corrected to surface reflectance, resampled to 10 m by ...
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Quantitative analysis of rumen microbial populations by qPCR in heifers fed on Leucaena leucocephala in the Colombian Tropical Dry Forest
... Rumen fermentation is a major source of greenhouse gases and represents energy losses of 2 to 12% of gross feed energy (Johnson & Johnson, 1995). Rumen methanogenesis, a feed fermentation process associated with ...
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Landscape genetics of leaf-toed geckos in the tropical dry forest of northern Mexico.
... in tropical regions that are experiencing elevated rates of habitat ...than tropical rain forests, tropical dry forests (TDF) contain an enormous diversity of species and continue to be ...
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Gall inducing arthropods from a seasonally dry tropical forest in Serra do Cipó, Brazil
... rain forest (Julião et al. 2005), Subtropical Seasonal Forest (Dalbem & Mendonça (2006); Restinga (Maia 2001, 2005; Maia et ...Seasonally Tropical Dry Forest ...2007). Dry ...
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Myracrodruon urundeuva in a Brazilian dry tropical forest and their
... the tropical dry forest (Caatinga forest) and in high altitude areas that comprise fragments of the Atlantic Forest in the middle of a semiarid ...
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POTENTIAL OF THE SEEDLING COMMUNITY OF A FOREST FRAGMENT FOR TROPICAL FOREST RESTORATION
... many tropical shrub and tree species possess supra-annual reproduc- tive characteristics, with production of large cohorts at intervals greater than one year (De Steven, ...
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A study of the dry forest communities in the Dominican Republic
... Chamaesyce adenoptera and Portulaca rubricaulis are other taxa considered as charac- teristic species of the association in the only two relevés provided by Cano et al. (2010a, Table V). Chamaesyce adenoptera is regarded ...
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The ArboreAl ComponenT of A Dry foresT in norTheAsTern brAzil
... montane dry forests that are more related with humid forest near the Atlantic coast, from others that are more closely associated with seasonal plant formations characteristic of the Caatinga biome, is the ...
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