نتایج جستجو برای: plant diversity

تعداد نتایج: 563074  

Journal: :Global change biology 2016
Lauren C Ponisio Kate Wilkin Leithen K M'Gonigle Kelly Kulhanek Lindsay Cook Robbin Thorp Terry Griswold Claire Kremen

Fire has a major impact on the structure and function of many ecosystems globally. Pyrodiversity, the diversity of fires within a region (where diversity is based on fire characteristics such as extent, severity, and frequency), has been hypothesized to promote biodiversity, but changing climate and land management practices have eroded pyrodiversity. To assess whether changes in pyrodiversity ...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه رازی - دانشکده علوم 1391

in this work, a novel and fast method for direct analysis of volatile compounds (davc) of medicinal plants has been developed by holding a filament from different parts of a plant in the gc injection port. the extraction and analysis of volatile components of a small amount of plant were carried out in one-step without any sample preparation. after optimization of temperature, extraction time a...

2014
Nicole Wäschke Kristin Hardge Christine Hancock Monika Hilker Elisabeth Obermaier Torsten Meiners

Plant diversity is known to affect success of host location by pest insects, but its effect on olfactory orientation of non-pest insect species has hardly been addressed. First, we tested in laboratory experiments the hypothesis that non-host plants, which increase odour complexity in habitats, affect the host location ability of herbivores and parasitoids. Furthermore, we recorded field data o...

2017
Dylan Craven Madhav P. Thakur Erin K. Cameron Lee E. Frelich Robin Beauséjour Robert B. Blair Bernd Blossey James Burtis Amy Choi Andrea Dávalos Timothy J. Fahey Nicholas A. Fisichelli Kevin Gibson I. Tanya Handa Kristine Hopfensperger Scott R. Loss Victoria Nuzzo John C. Maerz Tara Sackett Bryant C. Scharenbroch Sandy M. Smith Mark Vellend Lauren G. Umek Nico Eisenhauer

Globally, biological invasions can have strong impacts on biodiversity as well as ecosystem functioning. While less conspicuous than introduced aboveground organisms, introduced belowground organisms may have similarly strong effects. Here, we synthesize for the first time the impacts of introduced earthworms on plant diversity and community composition in North American forests. We conducted a...

2012
Olivia Molenda Anya Reid Christopher J. Lortie

Alpine ecosystems are important globally with high levels of endemic and rare species. Given that they will be highly impacted by climate change, understanding biotic factors that maintain diversity is critical. Silene acaulis is a common alpine nurse plant shown to positively influence the diversity and abundance of organisms--predominantly other plant species. The hypothesis that cushion or n...

2007
K. J. Soder A. J. Rook M. A. Sanderson

The importance of plant species diversity on performance of livestock grazing temperate region pastures is summarized in this review. As livestock producers seek less capital-intensive production systems, emphasis is redirected toward low-input pasture systems that rely on complex species mixtures to produce forage. Increased plant species diversity has been linked to improvements in ecosystem ...

2012
A. Yavari

This study carried out for determination and discrimination of intraspecific diversity of Astragalus verus and Astragalus glaucops by Eco-phytosociological method from west of Iran. In this order, application of Endogenous milieu (special station) for data collecting and then their analyzing permit us only determine existence of inter and intraspecific diversity. Then for determinating kind and...

Journal: :The American naturalist 2012
Vojtech Novotny Scott E Miller Jan Hrcek Leontine Baje Yves Basset Owen T Lewis Alan J A Stewart George D Weiblen

Classical niche theory explains the coexistence of species through their exploitation of different resources. Assemblages of herbivores coexisting on a particular plant species are thus expected to be dominated by species from host-specific guilds with narrow, coexistence-facilitating niches rather than by species from generalist guilds. Exactly the opposite pattern is observed for folivores fe...

2014
Anne Ebeling Sebastian T. Meyer Maike Abbas Nico Eisenhauer Helmut Hillebrand Markus Lange Christoph Scherber Anja Vogel Alexandra Weigelt Wolfgang W. Weisser

Loss of plant diversity influences essential ecosystem processes as aboveground productivity, and can have cascading effects on the arthropod communities in adjacent trophic levels. However, few studies have examined how those changes in arthropod communities can have additional impacts on ecosystem processes caused by them (e.g. pollination, bioturbation, predation, decomposition, herbivory). ...

Journal: :Ecology and society : a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability 2016
Isabel Díaz-Reviriego Lara González-Segura Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares Patricia L. Howard José Luis Molina Victoria Reyes-García

Medicinal plants provide indigenous and peasant communities worldwide with means to meet their healthcare needs. Homegardens often act as medicine cabinets, providing easily accessible medicinal plants for household needs. Social structure and social exchanges have been proposed as factors influencing the species diversity that people maintain in their homegardens. Here, we assess the associati...

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