The generation of plant diversity involves complex interactions between geography, environment and organismal traits. Many macroevolutionary processes and emergent patterns have been identified in different plant groups through the study of spatial data, but rarely in the context of a large radiation of tropical herbaceous angiosperms. A powerful system for testing interrelated biogeographical ...

Urban development can produce great impacts on local hydrology reducing infiltration and evapotranspiration, and increasing direct runoff volumes. Runoff control practices are implemented at local scales to control flow discharges and preserve the hydrological cycle. These techniques usually have green infrastructure therefore the application in semiarid and Mediterranean regions requires accou...

abstract nowadays, measuring water quality is very important for comprehensive management of water resources. suspended sediment is one of the most important water quality factors which greatly affects environment health. however, its measurement needs too much time and money. it was therefore tried in the present study to assess the applicability of modelling relationship between suspended sed...

This paper asks a simple question: if humans and their actions co-evolve with hydrological systems (Sivapalan et al., 2012), what is the role of hydrological scientists, who are also humans, within this system? To put it more directly, as traditionally there is a supposed separation of scientists and society, can we maintain this separation as sociohydrologists studying a socio-hydrological wor...

We explored healthcare-related experiences of women drug court participants through combining context from the socio-ecological model with motivation needs for health behavior as indicated by self-determination theory. Five focus groups with 8 women drug court participants, 8 court staff, and 9 community service providers were examined using qualitative framework analysis. Themes emerged across...

AMerIcAN MeteOrOLOGIcAL SOcIetY | 1357 AffiliAtions: Hazeleger, SeverijnS, Wang, Bintanja, van den Hurk, van noije, Selten, and Sterl—Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands; Semmler and mcgratH—Met Éireann, Dublin, Ireland; Ştefănescu—European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom; Yang, cHriStenSen, and ScHmitH—Danish Meteorological In...

several studies suggest that invertebrate abundance and richness are disrupted and reset at confluences. thus, junctions contribute disproportionately to the overall aquatic biodiversity of the river. in general terms, authors have reported high abundance and diversity due to the major physical heterogeneity at junctions. however, data are still scarce and uncertainties are plentiful.the impact...

environmental degradation model is one of the environmental impact assessment (eia) methods in which ecological cumulative effects of human activities on his surrounding nature could be evaluated and quantified. as a special trait of landscape ecological metrics is the ability of rapid assess and recognize of human activities in the shortest time. thus in this study, we used a landscape degrada...

Introduction This account provides a brief overview of alien plant invasions in South Africa, with special emphasis on what is known about their consequences, including those affecting the delivery of ecosystem goods and services. We draw on published and unpublished sources, and highlight some important research challenges in invasion ecology that need to be met if we are to address critical g...