Keystone species
Effects of temperature and dietary sterol availability on growth and cholesterol allocation of the aquatic keystone species Daphnia
... Enhanced water temperatures promote the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms, which may be detrimental to aquatic herbivores. Especially, the often-dominant crustaceans could be negatively affected because cyanobacteria ...
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Discrepancies in Growth Measurement Methods of Mosses: An Example from Two Keystone Species Grown under Increased CO2 and N Supply in a Restored Peatland
... Bryophytes play an important functional role in both natural and regenerating cutover peatlands of the temperate and boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere. Growing peatlands represent a globally significant long-term ...
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Integrating traditional ecological knowledge and fisheries management in the Torres Strait, Australia: the catalytic role of turtles and dugong as cultural keystone species
... The question presents itself as to why cultural values, comanagement, and power-sharing status explain the pattern of TEK application in the Torres Strait better than stock collapses, limited SMK, and community ownership ...
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Mind the gut: genomic insights to population divergence and gut microbial composition of two marine keystone species
... host species factors on gut micro- biome ...host species identity was a key explanatory variable for gut micro- biome composition (Permanova P < ...among species and sampling sites (Additional ...
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Growth and reproduction of the north-eastern Atlantic keystone species Patella aspera (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda)
... this species growth has a negative allometric nature supported by high values of correlation indicating an ele- vated predictability between shell length and weight for this ...marine species, which lies ...
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Factors affecting community dynamics of scleractinian corals: competition, succession, keystone species and history
... This is the first time that the effect of competition on the fitness of scleractinian corals has been examined, and is also the first detailed investigation of succession, keystone speci[r] ...
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Factors affecting community dynamics of scleractinian corals: competition, succession, keystone species and history
... Outcomes of Competition 32 Mortality 32 Growth 33 Reproduction 33 Transition Matrices 34 Model Analysis 34 Discussion 35 Acknowledgments 39 Tables 40 Figures 45 Competition between scler[r] ...
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Predictability of the impact of multiple stressors on the keystone species Daphnia
... Hence, the common garden experiment (CGE3) validated the hypothesis of antagonistic efect of tempera- ture and insecticide for low concentration of the insecticide. hese results suggest that the adverse efect of some ...
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Fishers and groupers (Epinephelus marginatus and E. morio) in the coast of Brazil: integrating information for conservation
... cultural keystone species has role in the maintenance of the complexity of the social-ecological system: their example of cassava (Mani- hot esculenta) shows the central role of this cultivar within the ...
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To Forbear or not to Forbear? A Behavioral Perspective of Multimarket Competition
... ―The Keystone Species‖ uses the honeycomb pattern to represent the breaking down of this microcosmic system, which affects the larger natural order. Towards the center of the painting fleshy wounds spread ...
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Lignocellulose degradation at the holobiont level: teamwork in a keystone soil invertebrate
... Terrestrial isopods are recognized as keystone species in terrestrial ecosystems due to their important role in the decomposition of organic matter [32]. They contribute directly to litter decomposition and ...
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Ecology
... • A keystone species has a large effect its environment, despite its limited population size. – If a keystone species disappears, other species become more common, rare, or even disapp[r] ...
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Movement patterns of a keystone waterbird species are highly predictable from landscape configuration
... of species- specific population management schemes and protection plans ...invasive species [5, 6] and path- ogens, most notably avian influenza viruses (AIV [7, ...of keystone species and ...
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Rescue and Rehabilitation of a Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk: A Case Study
... this species is not threatened, the conservation of red-tailed hawks is vital because they are classified as a keystone species in certain areas of North America (LSA Associates ...defines ...
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Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia : indigenous classifications and perspectives
... tree species (aguaje, shebón, and chonta); the tree species cumala, which could be understood as “cultural keystone species” (Garibaldi and Turner 2004; see Interpreting indigenous ...
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Keystone Projects: Service-Learning Practica in Watershed Stewardship
... Through follow-up site visits, meetings and conference calls with sponsors, CWS faculty developed a short list of five leading candidates using an unweighted rating scale of 1-10 for the above criteria. The students who ...
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The Keystone Connection: Developing the School Library as a Cultural Institution
... Looking for ways to create a dynamic school library program that does not place boundaries on the learning lives of students, this paper explores the role of the school librarian as an[r] ...
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EXTRUSION A POTENTIAL KEYSTONE SOLUTION FOR PREPARATION OF CHRONOPHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS
... Table 3 Composition of tablets prepared from pellets via three-stage extrusion Е1-3 Е2-3 Е3-3 Pellets from Е1-2 Pellets from Е2-2 Pellets from Е3-2 CMC Na 50-200 cP HPMC 4000 cP HPMC 80-[r] ...
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The doctor-patient relationship: toward a conceptual re-examination
... The nature of the doctor-patient relationship as a keystone of care necessitates philosophical, psychological and sociological considerations. The present study investigates concepts related to these three ...
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Non-Destructive Determination of Magnetic Audio Tape Degradation for Various Tape Chemistries Using Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
... Bioaccumulation is an important property for the regulation and understanding fundamental mechanisms of ENP behavior and toxicity (Pettitt and Lead 2013). Recently, there has been a focus on nanohybrids (two or more ...
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