Plant communities of Italy: The Vegetation Prodrome

Plant Communities: Native Vegetation of Nebraska

Vegetation composition and structure of woody plant communities along urban

Urban forests adjacent to interstate corridors are understudied ecosystems across cities. Despite their small area, these forests may be strategically located to provide large ecosystem services due to their ability to act as a barrier against air pollutants and noise as well as to provide flood control. The woody vegetation composition and structure of forests adjacent to urban interstates is ...

Evaluating changes in the plant communities after overgrazing in the Golbahar plain, northeast of Iran

Overgrazing affects plant communities, and is a significant disturbance factor in arid and semi-arid regions. The immediate changes of plant communities after overgrazing in the disturbed arid ecosystems of Iran have been poorly studied. We recorded data from 100 random samples before and after overgrazing in the Golbahar plain located in the northeastern Iran to determine the changes in the pl...

Vegetation–site relationships of roadside plant communities in West Virginia, USA

J. S. RENTCH,* R. H. FORTNEY,† S. L. STEPHENSON,‡ H. S. ADAMS,§ W. N. GRAFTON* and J. T. ANDERSON* * Division of Forestry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; † Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; ‡ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA; and § Dabney S. Lancaster...

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Vegetation Properties among Four Tundra Plant Communities at Ivotuk, Alaska, U.S.A

Intraseasonal patterns of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), leaf area index (LAI), and phytomass were compared for four tundra vegetation types at Ivotuk, Alaska, during summer 1999. The vegetation types included moist acidic tundra (MAT), moist nonacidic tundra (MNT), mossy tussock tundra, and shrub tundra. The seasonal curves of NDVI were similar among the vegetation types but wi...