2 Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology, University of Maryland, Frostburg, Maryland. Abstract: This paper explores the tightness of the linkage between stream-dwelling salmonids and riparian vegetation. Comparison of original distributions of salmonid species with that of vegetation types shows that distribution within a given salmonid species is not limited to a specific vegetation type, and...

We assessed the potential for using optical functional types as effective markers to monitor changes in vegetation in floodplain meadows associated with changes in their local environment. Floodplain meadows are challenging ecosystems for monitoring and conservation because of their highly biodiverse nature. Our aim was to understand and explain spectral differences among key members of floodpl...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly adopted feature reduction techniques in remote sensing image analysis. However, it may overlook subtle but useful information if directly applied to the analysis of hyperspectral data, especially for the discrimination among different vegetation types. In order to accurately map an invasive plant species (horse tamarind, Leucaena le...

to achieve the desired level of animal performance providing animal food supplies containing mineral elements is essential. for this purpose, mineral elements of 8 important rangeland species, including ferula ovina, prangus uloptera, medicago sativa, lotus goeblia, trifolium montanum, melilotus officinalis, sanguisorba minor and stachys inflate, were measured at different growth stages in the ...

Relationships between composition of secondary vegetation and environment were studied in central North Island, New Zealand. A classification procedure was used to identify broad compositional groups which included forest, broadleaved scrub, shrub-fernland, sclerophyllous scrub and shrubland, and tussock-shrubland. Generalised additive models (GAMs) were used to examine relationships between sp...

introduction:landscape structure means the pattern of a landscape, which is determined by its type of use, but also by its structure, i.e. the size, shape, arrangement and distribution of individual landscape elements. for the delineation of these landscape elements, or so-called patches, often land use or land cover units are used. in this context, “‘land cover’ refers to the physical surface ...