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...

recognizing the herbaceous plant species diversity could use as an importantindicator applied for the rangeland and forests management. considering the presence ofvegetation and animal husbandry in zagros region, iran, being aware of the diversity andrichness of plant species is necessary to management or the destructed vegetationrestoration. in order to study the effect of aspect and elevation...

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 ...

Food web structure and species richness are both subject to biotic (e.g. predation pressure and resource limitation) and abiotic stress (e.g. environmental change). We investigated the combined effects of both types of stress on richness and connectance, and on their relationship, in a predator-prey system. To this end, we developed a mathematical two trophic level food-web model to investigate...

evaluation diversity of agricultural plants and effectiveness of management factors in non-hunting of gharaviz abstract biodiversity is the basis of agriculture. sustainable agriculture both promotes and is enhanced by biodiversity. during present study, agrobiodiversity and management factors were investigated in three villages of gharaviz area and four villages in surroundings area, in sarpol...