Habitat complexity
Habitat complexity and community composition: relationships between different ecosystem engineers and the associated macroinvertebrate assemblages
... simplest habitat complexity level in the rocky marshes is generated by carpets (mono-layers less than 1 cm height) formed by barnacles on the rocky bottom (mean density 146 ± 59 ind 100 cm -2 ; Sueiro, ...
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Depletion of Forest Resources and Wildlife Population with Habitat Complexity: A Mathematical Model
... Mathematical modeling is an essential tool in studying a diverse range of such ecological situations. Proposed work deals with the study of mathematical model on the sustainable management of renewable resources in ...
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Habitat complexity and management intensity positively influence fledging success in the endangered hihi (Notiomystis cincta)
... (habitat complexity) are commonly assumed to be indicators of habitat quality for breeding birds, but for many species these relationships are poorly ...populations. Habitat quality was ...
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Habitat complexity influences the structure of food webs in Great Barrier Reef seagrass meadows
... Structural habitat complexity is a fundamental attribute influencing ecological food ...and habitat complexity may be influenced by multiple mechanisms, and untangling these can be ...of ...
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Relative importance of coral cover, habitat complexity and diversity in determining the structure of reef fish communities
... than habitat complexity in explaining species richness in this reef fish community, possibly due to a high level of coral dependence and habitat ...for habitat specialist ...
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Fish Biodiversity, Habitat Complexity, and Soundscape Characteristics of Patch Reefs in a Tropical, Back-Reef Nursery.
... given habitat accurately reflect the complexity of the habitat and biodiversity of its inhabitants? For the seagrass-dominated back-reef habitat examined in this study, there are two general ...
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Testing the power of an experiment to measure predator control and habitat complexity impacts on farmland bird abundance
... (b) habitat structural complexity, and (c) an interaction of ...whether habitat complexity and predation in combination led to added increases in bird ...
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Environmental factors structuring polychaete communities in shallow rocky habitats: role of physical stress versus habitat complexity
... “Habitat complexity” and “physical disturbance” are concepts used along the ...diVerent habitat structural ...as habitat structural ...high habitat complexity and low physical ...
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Habitat complexity and patch choice : spatiotemporal distribution of foraging shorebirds on intertidal sand flats
... Beyond the area-edge ratio or total edge length, characteristics of the margin itself (defined as the “glossy” area along the water edge), such as width and slope, could be important in determining its relative value ...
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The role of epifaunal crustaceans on Sargassum spp. at Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... Geographic scale: predation and habitat complexity are important determinants of community composition and abundance in 'both tropical and temperate regions; phenology of epifauna in any[r] ...
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Tropical coastal fish
... Loss of live coral cover has the greatest effect on those species of fish that rely on live coral for diet, habitat or settlement (Wilson et al. 2006, Pratchett et al. 2008). Declines in population abundance in ...
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Climate change alterations to ecosystem dominance: how might sponge dominated reefs function?
... of habitat complexity and the sponge loop we then added both compo- nents into the core model, resulting in two intermediate models ...the habitat complexity model ...of habitat ...
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Habitat structure is more important than nutrient supply in modifying mussel bed assemblage in an upwelling area of the Peruvian coast
... of habitat complexity within small mussels compared with larger ...ones. Habitat complexity can have strong effects on the local distribu- tions of some intertidal organisms (Beck ...their ...
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Influences of environmental and biological factors on song complexity in songbirds : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
... higher complexity evoked stronger and more aggressive intrasexual responses than simple song as ...that habitat complexity would correlate positively with tui song ...between habitat structure ...
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Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project
... and habitat conditions for ...refuge habitat, though habitat conditions were impaired by high summer temperatures, lack of cover and complexity, migration barriers, and high velocities during ...
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Habitat characteristics as determinants of the local diversity and structure of coral reef fish communities
... though habitat complexity did not appear to be important in structuring the fish community surveyed here when all variables where considered together, a weak but significant positive relationship was found ...
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Effects of shoreline modification on lake littoral macroinvertebrate assemblages
... The results of the most parsimonious habitat complexity-based model showed: 1 the positive relationship between the complexity of the littoral habitats and the number of species with spe[r] ...
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Habitat dynamics, marine reserve status, and the decline and recovery of coral reef fish communities
... and habitat complexity have been followed by declines in fish density and diversity, including within NTRs (Jones et ...structural complexity (Pratchett et ...their habitat (Ruppert et ...
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Habitat Selection by Large Mammals in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
... what habitat it prefers [20]. Equally, results in habitat selection tend to attract varied interpretations because of the type of methodologies and data analyses ...given habitat at the time of ...
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... Besides, habitat types of the park were identified based on the vegetation classification of the country (Yalden & Largen 1992) and five habitat types (Image 1), namely, natural forest, bushland, ...
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