Monitoring of butterflies is most often only directed towards the grassland fauna. Species associated with other vegetation types, as well as the impact of the surrounding landscape, often become neglected. The aim with this study was, in contrast, to perform a novel landscape-based monitoring method for butterflies in diverse vegetation types and more specifically (i) evaluate the impact of en...

the entire land in the southern iran faces problems arising out of various types of land degradation, of which the vegetation type forms one of the major ones. the payab basin (522,470 ha), which covers the lower reaches of mond river, was chosen for a test risk assessment of this type. the different kinds of data for indicators of vegetation degradation were taken from the records and publishe...

Different vegetation types are distributed in mountains according to altitude, topography and soil. The composition and structure of bird communities in these areas can change in relation to the vegetation gradient, with particular communities occupying each habitat type. In this study we present the changes in composition, species richness and bird abundance over the gradient of forests, savan...

Large-scale coastal reclamation has caused significant changes in Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora) distribution in coastal regions of China. However, few studies have focused on estimation of the wetland vegetation biomass, especially of S. alterniflora, in coastal regions using LiDAR and hyperspectral data. In this study, the applicability of LiDAR and hypersectral data for estimating S...

MULHOUSE, J. M. (University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802), D. DE STEVEN (USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, P.O. Box 227, Stoneville, MS 38776), R. F. LIDE (Northwest Florida Water Management District, 81 Water Management Dr., Havana, FL, 32333), AND R. R. SHARITZ (University of Georgia, Savannah ...

The GRASS system has been used to evaluate avalanche risk. This has been done by combining heterogeneous data. Val di Pejo, located in the north-western Trentino, an Italian alpine region which shows frequent and sometimes huge avalanche phenomena, has been selected as test area. A morphologic risk has been defined in those areas where the slope is between 28° and 55° for a minimum surface of a...

The contribution of understorey vegetation (UVEG) to forest ecosystem biomass and carbon (C) across diverse forest types has, to date, eluded quantification at regional and national scales. Efforts to quantify UVEG C have been limited to field-intensive studies or broad-scale modelling approaches lacking field measurements. Although large-scale inventories of UVEG C are not common, speciesand c...

The Waza-Logone floodplain in the north of Cameroon is both ecologically and economically of exceptional importance. Envisat ASAR Alternating Polarization images are used for studying the flooded grassland vegetation. Backscatter signature of different vegetation types, varying in species composition, height, density, and flooding condition, were analyzed and interpreted. Feature selection base...

Rates in rupees are valid in India & South Asia only / Les tarifs en roupies sont valables en Inde et en Asie du Sud seulement A vegetation map may be considered in different ways, for instance as a physiognomic map showing the present state of the vegetation, or as a land use survey map. A useful purpose of this kind of map is to show the possibilities of improving production. For this we must...