In this paper, we study combinatorial and structural properties of a new class of finite and infinite words that are ‘rich’ in palindromes in the utmost sense. A characteristic property of so-called rich words is that all complete returns to any palindromic factor are themselves palindromes. These words encompass the well-known episturmian words, originally introduced by the second author toget...

Diversity represents a key concept in ecology, and there are various methods of assessing it. The multitude of diversity indices are quite puzzling and sometimes difficult to compute for a large volume of data. This paper promotes a computational tool used to assess the diversity of different entities. The BIODIV software is a user-friendly tool, developed using Microsoft Visual Basic. It is ca...

Impacts of human land use pose an increasing threat to global biodiversity. Resource managers must respond rapidly to this threat by assessing existing natural areas and prioritizing conservation actions across multiple spatial scales. Plant species richness is a useful measure of biodiversity but typically can only be evaluated on small portions of a given landscape. Modeling relationships bet...

Darwin proposed two contradictory hypotheses to explain the influence of congeners on the outcomes of invasion: the naturalization hypothesis, which predicts a negative relationship between the presence of congeners and invasion success, and the pre-adaptation hypothesis, which predicts a positive relationship between the presence of congeners and invasion success. Studies testing these hypothe...

NÚRIA BONADA* , MARIA RIERADEVALL* , HELEN DALLAS , JENNY DAVIS , JENNY DAY , RICARDO FIGUEROA § , VINCENT H. RESH AND NARCÍS PRAT* *Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Aquatic Ecosystems Research Group, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia Aquatic Systems Research Unit, Environmental ...

Purpose. Biodiversity assessment and clarification of the trend towards homogenization dendroflora Shevchenko Park (Dnipro, Ukraine). Methods. Floristic methods research are applied - elucidation taxonomic composition selection adventitious fraction dendroflora, species richness (according to Menkhinik index Margalef index), determination floristic commonality Jaccard index) homogeneity Koch bi...