Ecological notes on Carex aquatilis communities

Systematics of the Carex aquatilis and C. lenticularis lineages: Geographically and ecologically divergent sister clades of Carex section Phacocystis (Cyperaceae).

Carex aquatilis is a highly diverse and geographically widespread member of one of the largest genera of flowering plants, Carex, and is ideally suited for the study of the role of hybridization and niche partitioning in ecological speciation. Phylogenetic analyses of nuclear ITS and ETS 1f and chloroplast psbA-trnH DNA sequences support the monophyly of a broadly defined Carex aquatilis-Carex ...

Taxonomic Notes on Carex (Cyperaceae) of Austral South America

The name Carex poeppigii (sect. Echinochlaenae) is validated and a new combination in South American Carex, C. vixdentata (sect. Spirostachyae), is made here. Also, the taxonomic status of C. aueri is discussed, and this name is placed in the synonymy of C. reichei (sect. Arenariae).

Ecological Notes on the Pine Midges Retinodiplosis

On the existence of ecological communities

uncontroversial assumption that living organisms are present – because organisms live, consume, reproduce, and die; nutrients arrive by various means, and nutrients leave by various means. Lindeman therefore defined the ecosystem into existence. Although he certainly believed that some processes regulated ecosystem structure, his ideas of regulation did not impinge upon the definition of ecosys...

Rewilding ecological communities and rewiring ecological networks

Rewilding encompasses management actions such as reintroductions and translocations with the purpose of restoring ecological processes and ecosystem functions that were lost when species were locally extirpated. The success of a species introduction is conditioned by multiple factors, in particular, ecological interactions. To predict the fate of the introduced population and the community-leve...