The regular assessment of faunal diversity near the energy power plant has gained interest many researchers. activity and effluent discharged from have remarkably stressed adjacent assemblage alpha biotic community surrounding plant. Hence, this study aimed to assess fishes benthos in bordering areas Tanjung Kidurong Combined Cycle Power Plant (TKCCP), Bintulu Sarawak. investigation was conduct...

The conservation of biodiversity within tropical forest regions does not lie only in the maintenance of natural forest areas, but on conservation strategies directed toward agricultural land types within which they are embedded. This study investigated variations in bird assemblages of different functional groups of forest-dependent birds in three agricultural land types, relative to distance f...

Anuran breeding call surveys are widely used to document species richness and relative abundance. Call survey protocols used by the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program are five minutes in duration. However, recent studies have suggested that 5-minute call surveys may not be long enough to accurately estimate species richness or relative abundance. Therefore, we tested whether anuran spe...

Models for species-area relationships up to now have focused on the mean richness as a function of area. We present MFp1p2, a self-similar multifractal. It explicitly models both trend and variation in richness as a function of area, and is a generalisation of the model of scaling of mean species richness due to Harte et al. (1999). The construction is based on a cascade of bisections of a rect...

Water-energy dynamics broadly regulate species richness gradients but are being altered by climate change and anthropogenic activities; however, the current methods used to quantify this phenomenon overlook the non-linear dynamics of climatic time-series data. To analyze the gradient of species richness in China using water-energy dynamics, this study used linear regression to examine how speci...

Little work has been done on large-scale patterns of stream insect richness in China. We explored the influence of climatic and catchment-scale factors on stream insect (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera; EPT) richness across mid-latitude China. We assessed the predictive ability of climatic, catchment land cover and physical structure variables on genus richness of EPT, both individually ...