نتایج جستجو برای: nurse plant palatable species

تعداد نتایج: 901828  

2015
CARLOS IVAN ESPINOSA

Positive plant interactions have strong effects on plant diversity at several spatial scales, expanding species distribution under stressful conditions. We evaluated the joint effect of climate and grazing on the nurse effect of Croton wagneri, by monitoring several community attributes at two spatial scales: microhabitat and plant community. Two very close locations that only differed in grazi...

Journal: :Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics 2014
Santiago Soliveres Fernando T Maestre Matthew A Bowker Rubén Torices José L Quero Miguel García-Gómez Omar Cabrera Alex Cea Daniel Coaguila David J Eldridge Carlos I Espinosa Frank Hemmings Jorge J Monerris Matthew Tighe Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Cristina Escolar Pablo García-Palacios Beatriz Gozalo Victoria Ochoa Julio Blones Mchich Derak Wahida Ghiloufi Julio R Gutiérrez Rosa M Hernández Zouhaier Noumi

Plant-plant interactions are driven by environmental conditions, evolutionary relationships (ER) and the functional traits of the plants involved. However, studies addressing the relative importance of these drivers are rare, but crucial to improve our predictions of the effects of plant-plant interactions on plant communities and of how they respond to differing environmental conditions. To an...

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...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014
Tse-Lynn Loh Joseph R Pawlik

Ecological studies have rarely been performed at the community level across a large biogeographic region. Sponges are now the primary habitat-forming organisms on Caribbean coral reefs. Recent species-level investigations have demonstrated that predatory fishes (angelfishes and some parrotfishes) differentially graze sponges that lack chemical defenses, while co-occurring, palatable species hea...

Journal: :journal of rangeland science 2012
seyyed ali hosseini jamshid khatir namany morteza akbarzadeh

studies on vegetation changes of rangelands under grazed and non-grazedconditions are of great importance in the range management planning programs. to determinethe change process of vegetation, this study was performed in inche shorezar site of golestanprovince for nine years (1997-2005). the vegetation parameters were measured every year inseveral fixed plots inside and adjacent of exclosures...

اقبالی, انیس, ایروانی, مجید, بصیری, مهدی, ترکش اصفهانی, مصطفی, مهاجری, عبدالرضا ,

To assess seed dispersal by domestic herbivores (sheep and goat) in Central Zagros region, 12 different rangeland sites, located 200 km west of Isfahan city, were studied. For each site, a pooled dung sample of 10 freshly pellet groups from domestic herbivores was collected in four different periods (mid June, July, August and September) during grazing season (in total, 48 pooled dung samples)....

Journal: :محیط شناسی 0
محمدحسن جوری عضو هیأت علمی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نور

introduction the complexity of natural ecosystem, as the rangelands, is caused to propose the different approaches toevaluatethe ecosystem on the basis of sustainable and systematic management. study on the interaction connectionsbetween plants and biotic and abiotic factors in the rangeland ecosystem can be achieved by relationsofmanagerial strategies in order to conduct the rangeland health. ...

2013
Jerome J. Howard

The effects of leaf toughness, trichome characteristics, nutrient and water availability, and secondary chemistry on diet selection by the leafcutting ant Atta cephalotes were determined using individuals of 49 woody plant species from a tropical deciduous forest in Costa Rica. The palatability of plants was measured by presenting whole leaves to leafcutting ant foragers on trails and counting ...

2010
Vijayalaxmi Kinhal N. Parthasarathy

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Phoenix pusilla, an endemic shrubby palm, was used as a model nurse plant in degraded tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF) landscapes. This choice was informed by traditional ecological knowledge of the Irula tribe of south India. We tested whether the presence of P. pusilla in water-stressed arid regions improves conditions for other species to establish, resulting in nucle...

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