Biodiversity hotspot
Phosphorus nutrition of phosphorus-sensitive Australian native plants: threats to plant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot
... Australia’s biodiversity hotspot have the capacity to establish a mycorrhizal symbiosis (Brundrett, 2009), but mycorrhizal species do not become dominant on the most severely P-impoverished soils (Lambers ...
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Faunal Biodiversity Research in the Republic of Georgia: A Short Review of Trends, Gaps, and Needs in the Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot
... Faunal biodiversity research in the Republic of Georgia: a short review of trends, gaps, and needs in the Caucasus biodiversity ...hotspot. Biodiversity and ...of Biodiversity Studies, ...
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Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot
... In a seminal paper, Gentry (1982) postulated that mountain uplift was a major trigger of Andean mega-diversity, although he posited that this might have occurred indirectly via biotic interac- tions. A pivotal result of ...
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The first endemic West African vertebrate family – a new anuran family highlighting the uniqueness of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot
... major biodiversity hotspots on global scale [53,54]. This hotspot comprises two parts, the “Upper” and “Lower Guinea” ...African biodiversity hotspot [55] comprises only four endemic anuran ...
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Impacts of intensive logging on the trophic organisation of ant communities in a biodiversity hotspot.
... Our study region is the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot in Southeast Asia [38,39], which has experienced some of the highest timber extraction intensities globally [40,41]. We focused on the leaf-litter ant ...
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Impacts of intensive logging on the trophic organisation of ant communities in a biodiversity hotspot
... Our study region is the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot in Southeast Asia [38,39], which has experienced some of the highest timber extraction intensities globally [40,41]. We focused on the leaf-litter ant ...
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Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot
... ABSTRACT. Accelerating environmental change is perhaps the greatest challenge for natural resource management; successful strategies need to be effective for decades to come. Our objective is to identify opportunities ...
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Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic decline and former connectivity in a critically endangered marsupial
... Pacioni, C., Hunt, H., Allentoft, M.E., Vaughan, T.G., Wayne, A.F., Baynes, A., Haouchar, D., Dortch, J. and Bunce, M. (2015) Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic ...
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Morphological and molecular characterization of Theloderma moloch (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot of northeast India
... Specimens of a rare rhacophorid frog of the genus Theloderma were collected from Hmui- fang, Mizoram, India. Based on their morphology and molecular analysis (16S rRNA), the specimens were identified as Theloderma ...
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Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot.
... Table 2 The mean and 95% CI estimates of forest characteristics investigated in this study carbon storage, carbon sequestration, WSG, the intercept from the power law relationship and th[r] ...
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Does logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot?
... In conclusion, we provide new data on the impacts of land-use change on tropical dung beetles. Contrary to our expectations, even repeated timber harvests did not simplify the functional structure of dung beetle ...
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Does logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot?
... In conclusion, we provide new data on the impacts of land-use change on tropical dung beetles. Contrary to our expectations, even repeated timber harvests did not simplify the functional structure of dung beetle ...
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Assessing regional scale variability in deforestation and forest degradation rates in a tropical biodiversity hotspot
... Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world and forms the major portion of one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, characterized by high floral and faunal endemism, as well as threats from deforestation ...
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Factors shaping local people’s perception of ecosystem services in the Atacora Chain of Mountains, a biodiversity hotspot in northern Benin
... The MEA [29] provided a widely adopted definition of ES where ES is simply defined as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. The MEA delineated four categories of ES (Table 2): provisioning services (the products ...
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SCREENING OF MICROORGANISMS FOR ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTY FROM THE LACHHIWALA RESERVE FOREST OF HIMALAYAS – A BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT
... Lachhiwala Reserve Forest, a subtropical deciduous forest of the biodiversity-rich Himalayas in India, is an under-explored forest for microbial diversity studies. This study was undertaken with the objective of ...
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Recreational trampling negatively impacts vegetation structure of an Australian biodiversity hotspot
... Further research in shrub-dominated communities in other biodiversity hotspots to build knowledge regarding the resilience and resistance of these communities to trampling and other i[r] ...
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Invasive Fruit Flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Meet in a Biodiversity Hotspot
... Global biodiversity and by harbouring unique evolutionary lineages and emblematic plants and animals (Grant,1998; Whittaker and Fernández-Palácios, ...present biodiversity crisis is nowhere else more ...
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Faunal Biodiversity Research in the Republic of Georgia: A Short Review of Trends, Gaps, and Needs in the Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot
... faunal biodiversity published after ...animal biodiversity sciences (Scopus query: “(SUBJAREA (agri) AND SUBJAREA (bioc) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY- AUTH (Georgia) AND NOT TITLE-ABS-KEY (USA) AND NOT TITLE-ABS-KEY ...
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Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot
... Table 2 The mean and 95% CI estimates of forest characteristics investigated in this study carbon storage, carbon sequestration, WSG, the intercept from the power law relationship and th[r] ...
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The Geographical Mosaic of Myrmecochory in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot and the Fate of Myrmecochorous Seeds Dispersed by a Keystone Seed Disperser
... region to estimate the number and identity of plant species which were dispersed by the keystone seed dispersing ant species, Rhytidoponera violacea, and we compared these nest excavat[r] ...
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