[PDF] Top 20 Effects of Fishing and Regional Species Pool on the Functional Diversity of Fish Communities

... assess the effects of diversity on ecosystem functioning, our results provide stronger evidence for the importance of species richness than many small-scale ... See full document

... question of whether the functional structure of communi- ties ...absolute and relative abundances of macroalgae, herbivores, ...addressed, and rarely with a systematic ... See full document

... natural and, also, restored ecosystems, in this thesis I was particularly interested in the soil nutrient dynamics ...availability and retention or accumulation) in order to evaluate native ... See full document

... depends on the ocean for vital resources (Holmlund and Hammer ...fact, fishing activities provide over 54.8 million jobs and are deeply rooted in the culture of many ... See full document

... From the differences in the diversity and fishes abundance among the Paraguay sub-basins, higher richness and evenness seemed to be associated with the dispersal capacity ... See full document

... variations, diversity indices were sensitive to spatial differences within the Mondego ...estuary. The five sampled areas of the Mondego estuary represent a longitudinal salinity ... See full document

... gamma diversity of macro-moths, since they allow open-biotope specialists to occur, even though their alpha diversity is much lower than the alpha diversity of the closed ... See full document

... for diversity effects on the func- tioning of terrestrial ecosystems is mainly available for ...in the flow of energy within ecosystems ...70% of plant ... See full document

... Soil and fire are the major determinants of plant com- munity structure and composition in neotropical savan- nas (Silva 1996; Bond et ...as the concentration of available ... See full document

... Despite the increasing ubiquity of biological invasions worldwide, little is known about the scale-dependent effects of nonnative species on real-world ecological dynam- ... See full document

... ecosystems, the availability and quality of food are considered to be crucial biotic constraints on the life history and survival of zooplankton, especially small ... See full document

... environment. The strongly defined aquatic and terres- trial phases produce several patterns of behavioral, morphological, anatomical, and physiological adap- tations in organisms inhabiting ... See full document

... (Papatryphon and Soares ...in fish, as reported for coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch (Castro et ...2000) and gibel carp Carassius auratus (Xue and Cui, 2001); it has also been mixed with other ... See full document

... 2013). The lower species richness recorded in those works com- pared to the present study, may be related to the area sampled, which was much bigger in this work covering six latitudinal ... See full document

... management and soil cover influence vineyards and its levels of ...erosion and limit the action of plagues, promoting refugee for auxiliary ...accumulation of organic ... See full document

... in The Netherlands in 2014, the experimental design was adjusted to monitor the disease progress over a longer period of ...Therefore, the salmon eggs were ‘younger’ than those in ... See full document

... way of assessing the similarity of parasite community structures in fish and the ecological factors relating to them is to examine the effects of the ... See full document

... rhombeus and Harengula clupeola were the most abundant species, both along the entire east-west axis of the PEC and within each of the sectors ...was ... See full document

... invasive species can have cascading consequences on the ecosystems services they provide ...Invasive and native ant species may preferentially explore different sources of ...ant ... See full document

... studies on toxic metals and their organic compounds are very important, especially so in the investigation of the effects of these compounds on the aquatic ... See full document