[PDF] Top 20 Effects of ecological scaling on biodiversity patterns

... driver of variability in SAD ...scales. On one hand, METE predicts a scale invariant logseries SAD, in clear contrast with the strong support for multimodality, and also for the lognormal distribution, in ... See full document

... number of cross-factorial studies showing the deleterious interacting effects of ocean warming and acidification on the development and physiology of marine invertebrates (Portner, ... See full document

... combination of impacts, including damage by hurricanes, diseases, bleaching, pollution, sediment runoff, overfishing, climate change, as well as more directly through boat anchoring, setting of fish traps, ... See full document

... limits of their environmental ...spite of defor- estation) because these areas become climatically hospitable for a larger number of species that are currently found only in other ...type of ... See full document

... Countries of studies included within temperate Europe were defined as no countries south of France, Switzerland Austria, Hungary and Romania and all countries west of ...elements of increased ... See full document

... negative effects on biodiversity ...diversity patterns of macro-moth communities in habitats on an ecological succession gradient, from extensively managed meadows to ... See full document

... rejection of a true null hypothesis (a “false ...chance of overestimating the degrees of nestedness in ecological networks ...interaction patterns, we tested the nestedness of ... See full document

... or on detailed work on a few intensively studied research sites, which captures only a tiny fraction of the variability in environmental and land-use gradients that drive much social and ... See full document

... knowledge of the ecosystem structure, and similarly trophic level-based indicators are only effective if one has good diet ...dependent on the data and model formulation as well as on reliable ... See full document

... domain-box of unit length) is truncated in the range ½d,1 where d is interpreted as the minimum distance separating neighboring ...prey. On the other hand, the maximum distance separating consecutively ... See full document

... biology of kissing-bugs (Triatominae: Redu- viidae), which are vectors of Chagas disease, has been relatively well ...amount of knowl- edge is scarce when compared with other vectors, such as ticks ... See full document

... coefficient of variation (CV − standard deviation/mean × 100) of total annual rainfall, relative frequency of dryer and wetter years, mean cumulative rainfall surplus and deficit, CV of mean ... See full document

... based on personal expertise of the authors and using the information listed in the Appendix of ...list of noxious species is provided in Table ...relative ecological indicator values ... See full document

... distribution of taxa is an important prerequisite for the preservation of biodiversity, and can provide a baseline against which to measure the impacts of climate ...analyse patterns ... See full document

... relevance of comparative analyses of extinction risk for conservation planning have recently been questioned, but these has been because the link between the conclusions derived from such studies and ... See full document

... abundance of conceptions and mathematical expressions to define b-diversity, the link between local (a) and regional-scale (c) richness, in order to characterize patterns of biodiversity along ... See full document

... One of the following disposition codes was attributed to numbers after each call: (a) completed interview; (b) partial interview, when the interview did not reach the end; (c) refusal, when the mobile phone user ... See full document

... area of Dumai has been completed in September untill Desember 2003. The aim of this research was to collect basic data of mangrove ecosystem which covered inventory of biodiversity and ... See full document

... availability of basic required resources as well as bottlenecks were ...terms of management, replication has always been a major ...replicability of the concept was assessed by distinguishing ... See full document

... groups of AMF species, according to their presence and abundance in the host ...rhizospheres of all three host plants, although the number of spores differed for each ...one of them, found ... See full document