نتایج جستجو برای: plant diversity

تعداد نتایج: 563074  

Journal: :Ecology 2011
Susan C Cook-Patton Scott H McArt Amy L Parachnowitsch Jennifer S Thaler Anurag A Agrawal

Biodiversity loss is proceeding at an unprecedented rate, yet we lack a thorough understanding of the consequences of losing diversity at different scales. While species diversity is known to impact community and ecosystem processes, genotypic diversity is assumed to have relatively smaller effects. Nonetheless, a few recent studies suggest that genotypic diversity may have quantitatively simil...

Biodiversity is one of the important aspects of natursal systems which supports ecosystem functions. Therefore, the preservation of biodiversity is necessary for human well-being. The curreny study aimed to investigate changes of alpha and beta diversity and its components along the elevation gradient of five classes and to evaluate the effects of physical and chemical characteristics of soil o...

Journal: :Global change biology 2016
Jane M Cowles Peter D Wragg Alexandra J Wright Jennifer S Powers David Tilman

Ecosystems worldwide are increasingly impacted by multiple drivers of environmental change, including climate warming and loss of biodiversity. We show, using a long-term factorial experiment, that plant diversity loss alters the effects of warming on productivity. Aboveground primary productivity was increased by both high plant diversity and warming, and, in concert, warming (≈1.5 °C average ...

Journal: :Ecology 2008
Jennifer A Lau Joachim Strengbom Laurie R Stone Peter B Reich Peter Tiffin

Resource abundance and plant diversity are two predominant factors hypothesized to influence the amount of damage plants receive from natural enemies. Many impacts of these environmental variables on plant damage are likely indirect and result because both resource availability and diversity can influence plant traits associated with attractiveness to herbivores or susceptibility to pathogens. ...

1997
David Tilman Johannes Knops David Wedin Peter Reich Mark Ritchie Evan Siemann

Humans are modifying both the identities and numbers of species in ecosystems, but the impacts of such changes on ecosystem processes are controversial. Plant species diversity, functional diversity, and functional composition were experimentally varied in grassland plots. Each factor by itself had significant effects on many ecosystem processes, but functional composition and functional divers...

Determination of factors affecting on species distribution and diversity, especially in desert areas is the most important factor in rangeland ecosystems management for encountering biological stress. In order to evaluate the effect of physiographic factors on plant biodiversity in natural ecosystems of Kakhk Gonabad, this research was conducted in spring 2014. First, by overlaying four maps of...

Journal: :Biology letters 2013
Xoaquín Moreira Kailen A Mooney

While the ecological consequences of plant diversity have received much attention, the mechanisms by which intraspecific diversity affects associated communities remains understudied. We report on a field experiment documenting the effects of patch diversity in the plant Baccharis salicifolia (genotypic monocultures versus polycultures of four genotypes), ants (presence versus absence) and thei...

2009
ABDULAZIZ M. ASSAEED

Rangelands in Saudi Arabia extend over more than 175 m.ha. (about 75% of country land area) while woodland forests occupy only 2.7 m.ha. and are limited to the south western highlands. The diversity in landscape has been reflected in terrestrial plant species diversity. Range vegetation as well as forest understory vegetation has long history of grazing by livestock and wildlife herbivores. In ...

Journal: :پژوهش های حبوبات ایران 0
شاهین واعظی رقیه چراغ افروز احمد عباسی مقدم

genetic diversity in bean collection can be used in breeding program for selection of genotype with desirable agronomic traits. fifty two accessions of common bean (phaseolus vulgaris) has been evaluated for genetic diversity of agronomic traits, grain quality and determination of association between grain yield and some morphological traits at research farm of national plant gene bank of iran,...

Journal: :Ecology 2013
Alexandru Milcu Eric Allan Christiane Roscher Tania Jenkins Sebastian T Meyer Dan Flynn Holger Bessler François Buscot Christof Engels Marlén Gubsch Stephan König Annett Lipowsky Jessy Loranger Carsten Renker Christoph Scherber Bernhard Schmid Elisa Thébault Tesfaye Wubet Wolfgang W Weisser Stefan Scheu Nico Eisenhauer

Recent studies assessing the role of biological diversity for ecosystem functioning indicate that the diversity of functional traits and the evolutionary history of species in a community, not the number of taxonomic units, ultimately drives the biodiversity--ecosystem-function relationship. Here, we simultaneously assessed the importance of plant functional trait and phylogenetic diversity as ...

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