Facilitation displaces hotspots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments

Indirect facilitation as a structuring mechanism of submersed aquatic plants : a buffering role under biotic and abiotic constraints

Direct facilitation among plants has recently been included into the humped-back diversitybiomass relationship along environmental severity gradients. However, recent evidence stresses the occurrence of indirect facilitation due to biotic disturbance under a wide range of environmental severity, and including indirect facilitation will thus bring these conceptual frameworks up to date. We propo...

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

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...