Forest fragments
Tropical forest fragments contribute to species richness in adjacent oil palm plantations
... natural forest patches within plantations, but there is little evidence for the effectiveness of this ...spanning forest- plantation ecotones of 10 forest fragments (area 5 ha – 500 ha) and ...
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Edge Effects in Small Forest Fragments: Why More Is Better?
... in forest fragments can influence the species composition and community structure as a result of variations in microenvironment and edaphic ...montane forest (locally known as shola)-grassland edge ...
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Snacks in the city: the diet of hedgehogs in Auckland urban forest fragments
... urban forest fragments by carrying out stomach content ...and forest (Brockie 1959; Campbell 1973; Berry 1999), but not in urban forest ...Zealand forest ecosystems (Berry 1999; Hendra ...
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Predator control improves nesting success in Waikato forest fragments
... lowland forest fragments are two omnivorous introduced mammals, the ship rat (Rattus rattus) and the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula; hereafter referred to as ...in forest blocks with and ...
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Beetle assemblages of kahikatea forest fragments in a pasture- dominated landscape
... Abstract: Fragments of kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) forest provide a major opportunity for conservation of indigenous biodiversity in the heavily deforested landscape of the Waikato Basin, New ...
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Habitat features of urban forest fragments supporting native lizards in the presence of introduced mammals : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... Introduced species are responsible for declines and extinctions of native biota around the world, particularly on islands where native species are often more vulnerable to the effects of invaders due to a lack of shared ...
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Resilience of New Zealand indigenous forest fragments to impacts of livestock and pest mammals
... lowland forest fragments surrounded by intensively grazed ...lowland forest fragments in the Waikato Region to explore the relevance of two common resilience paradigms – engineering resilience ...
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Climate forcing of tree growth in dry Afromontane forest fragments of Northern Ethiopia: evidence from multi-species responses
... This study found anatomically distinct annual growth rings and statistically validated cross-dating. The study species were generally responsive to the seasonal rainfall availability, particularly to the moisture during ...
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Vegetation recovery in rural kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) forest fragments in the Waikato region, New Zealand, following retirement from grazing
... of forest fragments from grazing is becoming increasingly common in rural New Zealand, as elsewhere ...occur. Forest fragments dominated by the indigenous tree species kahikatea (Dacrycarpus ...
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Edge disturbance drives liana abundance increase and alteration of liana–host tree interactions in tropical forest fragments
... better forest management and improves species- conservation ...of forest succession, and a substantial decline in forest carbon ...to forest interior) on the liana community and liana–host ...
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Biodiversity of leaf-litter ants in fragmented tropical rainforests of Borneo: the value of publically and privately managed forest fragments
... of forest disturbance and management compared with other forest fragments, and more information is required on the biodiversity value of these privately-managed sites, particularly in oil -palm ...
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Effect of grazing on ship rat density in forest fragments of lowland Waikato, New Zealand
... We gratefully acknowledge the landowners and managers who generously gave us free access to their forest fragments: Yvonne and Alec Adams, Lyndon Bergerson, Shane Blair, Paul and Jo Bodle, Mr R.A. Boyte, ...
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Forest edge disturbance increases rattan abundance in tropical rain forest fragments
... of forest fragmentation on total rattan community abundance and demographic structure at both a landscape level (comparing fragmented versus intact forests) and local level (within frag- ments), in a long-term ...
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The extent of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in forest fragments of the central highlands of Ethiopia
... of forest cover is an important aspect in climate change mitigation as the loss of carbon and nitrogen to the at- mosphere through soil disturbances can cause an enor- mous addition of the elements to the ...
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Occupancy Pattern Of A Forest Dependent Bird Among Coastal Forest Fragments In Northeast Tanzania
... of forest fragments, coding of levels of habitat disturbance based on counting number of freshly cut tree stumps along transects (which were then summed-up at the end of the ...disturbed forest; 1 to ...
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Genetic structure and diversity of Senefeldera verticillata (Euphorbiaceae) in semideciduous seasonal forest fragments
... genetically dissimilar individuals in the two localities, so that the existing variability is preserved. Six groups were identified by the unweighted arithmetic means clustering method, in which 30 matrices of both ...
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Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s l ) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments
... Macroclimate did not explain considerable variation in B. burgdorferi prevalence (Fig. 5). Neither latitude, longi- tude or widely used mean temperatures of the season, provided any explanatory power for cross-regional ...
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Effects of food availability and predation on reproductive success and behaviour of Petroica longipes in a fragmented landscape : submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology, Massey University
... in forest fragments, the role habitat fragmentation plays in these population extinctions/decl i nes remains ...l fragments suffer addi tional costs for l iving in a fragmented envi ...
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The ecological response of lianas to habitat fragmentation of a tropical rainforest
... tropical forest plant diversity (Gentry and Dodson 1987) and contribute to total diversity as habitat and resources for a diverse community of resident species (Ellwood et ...
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Spatiotemporal analysis and environmental risk factors of visceral leishmaniasis in an urban setting in São Paulo State, Brazil
... near forest fragments, water drainage and irregular disposal of solid waste present within a radius of 1200 m in areas 1 and 4, located on the outskirts of Presidente Prudente ...
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