Ants play an important role in Sudanese biodiversity and environmental impact assessments, Although baiting is easy cheap to implement, several considerations, such as the spacing among bait, can affect estimation of abundance richness ants species. In this study, we evaluated effects bait on number ant We also demonstrate which distance between baits showed best relationship costs species samp...

SUMMARY 1) The use of presence/absence data is a valid method for comparing communities from hard shore marine environments where the biota is relatively sessile. It is an extensively used method in botanical surveys and its use should be extended into the marine environment. 2) Blackhead had the highest species richness and the widest range of species diversity, suggesting a diversity of habit...

Critical transition zones, such as aquatic–terrestrial interfaces, have been recognized as important features in landscape ecology. Yet changes in the community structure of soil and sediment biota across aquatic–terrestrial boundaries remain relatively unstudied. We investigated the community structure of the dominant fauna, namely nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades, across lake sediment–soil...

in order to evaluate the effects of forest road on regeneration and vegetation composition in district no. 2 shafaroud, a road was selected with the length of 400 m that the altitude, aspect, slope variations and species composition were similar. five transects in right and 5 transects in left side of road, were established as perpendicular. in each transect 5, 15, 25 and 35 m distances were de...

A first characterization of the distribution and composition benthic demersal macro- megafauna was derived based on video records sampled along five pre-determined transects up slope western, northern eastern sides Saya de Malha Bank Mascarene Plateau, starting at a maximum depth 1000 m. Abundance highest in upper parts locations, primarily reflecting relatively higher abundance black corals (A...

Assessment and monitoring of rangeland in different grazing managements seems necessary to manage rangelands. The plant functional groups can be used as appropriate responders for rangelands condition and management. Therefore, this study was performed and aimed to determine the most important traits that are influenced by rangeland variation and management. In order to this, three areas along ...