[PDF] Top 20 Effect of woodland patch size on rodent seed predation in a fragmented landscape

... favourable in the present small patches? An obvious possibility, the availability of large seed trees and bushes, does not seem to be the ...found in the sur- rounding fields, at least for ... See full document

... Changes in shoot number may be particularly criti- cal demographically (Bruna ...Plants in fragments failed to recuperate fully from initial dry season losses before the onset of subsequent dry ... See full document

... Naturally fragmented forests offer an excellent opportunity for testing the effects of patch size, isolation and other spatial variables on biodiversity because they have been ... See full document

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... dominance of insectivorous birds could be related to the great abundance of arthropods and the relatively regular supply of these ...diet of arthropods may be a safer strategy for the birds ... See full document

... trails, in which I marked with aluminum numbered tags all individuals of ...margin on either sides of the trails, and with a diameter at the base equal or greater than 4 cm (mature ...crop ... See full document

... collected in 13 forest fragments difering in area (within the range of ...composition of forest vegetation (thermophilous oak, mesophilous oak-hornbeam, thermophilous oak-hornbeam, ... See full document

... range of factors that may potentially disrupt seed- coat imposed dormancy under natural conditions have been identified, with differing implications for seed bank dynamics and seedling emergence ... See full document

... between seed size and germination strategies in the previous ...between seed size and dormancy ...with seed size [17]. Some other authors reported that seed ... See full document

... patches of all sizes, both the surface area and total volume of the patch generally increases with time at first due to the high IT concentration inside the ...from in-situ measurements and ... See full document

... certain patch-size range ...scaling in real ridge-slough landscapes was better explained by a quadratic function over the entire size range ... See full document

... technology of fabrication of composite layers in cast steel reinforced with titanium ...carbides. In the process under discussion, the reinforcing TiC phase is formed in situ from the ... See full document

... The fragmented ownership pattern in areas with non-industrial private forest ownership NIPF, in combination with these forestry practices, have created fragmented forests with relatively low ... See full document

... harvested in each case. Following fixation in Carnoy’s fluid (3:1 anhydrous alcohol/glacial acetic acid) for 12–24 h at room temperature, the samples were dehydrated through an ethanol series (30%, 50% and ... See full document

... composition of groups for these ungulate species differed from those explaining group ...differences in predation risk for these species. In Kruger National Park, South Africa, ... See full document

... Abstract In the Northern Elbrus Greater Caucasus submeridional river network dissecting sublatitudinal ridges into separate ...distribution of summer rainfall. For the identify the conditions of ... See full document

... expression of genetic potential of yielding and quality of a certain genotype depends among other factors on seed ...quality. Seed is very important not only for the reproduction ... See full document

... the effect of burial depth and burial duration on seed survival and seed dormancy of ...collected on 23 June 2012 were put into 96 15 cm610 cm nylon mesh bags and buried ... See full document

... Eryngium of the family Apiaceae includes about 250 species distributed throughout Eurasia, North Africa, North and South America and ...genus of Apiaceae (Pimenov & Leonov 1993). Species of ... See full document

... wetting of the surface of the quartz grains (Fig. 3). Changes of contact angle in time are characterised by high values of both the initial contact angle θ 0 (about 45 ... See full document