Plant Ecology
On community matrix theory in experimental plant ecology
... Since many years, theoretical ecologists have been aware of indirect effects in multi-species communities (Levine 1976, Pomerantz 1981, Worthen and Moore 1991, Billick and Case 1994, Wootton 1994, Beckerman et al. 1997). ...
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The plant ecology of the farm Groothoek, Thabazimbi District. I. Ordination
... The plant ecology of the farm Groothoek in the Thabazimbi District was studied in order to supply data on the Sour Bushveld (Acocks, 1975), for the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries resource ...
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An Investigation of the Plant Ecology of the Hawaan Forest, Natal, using an Ordination Technique
... Certain more refined statements concerning the plant ecology have been possible with the ordination technique than were possible with the previous study by Moll (1968a). A good example o f this is that the ...
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The plant ecology of the farm Groothoek, Thabazimbi District. III. An annotated checklist
... The plant ecology of the farm Groothoek, which covers 4 000 ha in the Thabazimbi District, was stu died in order to supply data on the Sour Bushveld (Acocks 1975) for the natural resource inventory of the ...
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Spatial modelling in plant ecology
... In chapter 1 the importance of space was discussed from an ecological perspective and some of the implications of incorporating spatial dimension into theoretical ecology were investigated. The vital role played ...
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Community concepts in plant ecology: from Humboldtian plant geography to the superorganism and beyond
... tian plant geography had been developed in a variety of ways in di ff erent parts of ...which plant communities were to be ...the plant community and the phys- ical environment, which could be ...
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ARTICLE IN PRESS. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
... Species distribution data of vascular plants were obtained from the Atlas Florae Europaeae database (AFE) maintained by the Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki, at a resolution of 50 km 50 km. Species traits were ...
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The plant ecology of the dune system on Kaitorete Spit
... Ooeting 1945 sampled soil at 5 stations from fore dunes to rear dunes including a dune slack and found no significant difference in water availability - presumably the rainfall in North [r] ...
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Pattern formation and persistence in spatial plant ecology
... Ecology produces a wealth of spatial patterns, including regular [Rietkerk and Van de Koppel, 2008] and scale-free [Pascual and Guichard, 2005]. Perhaps surpris- ingly a wide-range of environmental and underlying ...
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“Towards establishing ecology as a science instead of an art”: the work of John T. Curtis on the plant community continuum
... Upon his return to Wisconsin, Curtis wrote to Cooper to say that he no longer intended to pursue his project on the Lake Forest. “I find myself with markedly different views concerning the general field of plant ...
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The functional ecology of plant silicon: geoscience to genes
... of plant ecology is ...understanding plant Si accumulation strategies (Cooke & Leishman 2012; Carey & Fulweiler ...diverse plant Si concentrations by Hodson et al (2005) highly cited ...
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The functional ecology of plant silicon: geoscience to genes
... towards ecology in the 1980s, with the pioneering work of McNaughton and Tarrants demonstrating the inducibility of Si defences in response to herbivory (McNaughton 1985; McNaughton et ...in plant ...
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Technology and ecology
... of ecology”), and further into the past within medieval and Renaissance cosmologies, with their images of the world that were holistic, organic, ecological, and ...
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Conservation outcomes arising from research into the population genetics, taxonomy and reproductive ecology of the endangered plant Zieria prostrata
... Abstract. An increasing number of genetic studies of rare plants are motivated by the potential contribution they can make to the conservation of the species concerned. However, while these studies frequently identify ...
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Ecology and eScience
... Albeit some ecologists seem not to be fully aware of the enhancements of online scholarly communication, open access is really beginning to spread. Still, only one-fourth of the contributions published between 2003 and ...
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Graphic design and ecology
... Table Contents of Thesis Project Definition I Research 2 Precedents: 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance RPA Des Moines Metropolitan Solid Waste The Agency Body Shop Prairiefish Suggested [r] ...
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Human Ecology
... diverse the animal ways world photographic between humans interrelationship the a humans narrative and simulate, by animals fabricate the about and exploring include culture." into their[r] ...
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Ant Ecology
... In their need for food and shelter, they are like any other organism on the planet. But as eusocial organisms, ants have evolved to partition reproduc- tion and resource acquisition among different indi- viduals. This ...
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Ecology good, aut-ecology better; Improving the sustainability of designed plantings
... Standardised planting concepts: a prairie mixture as roadside vegetation 63 64 Ecology as process deals with understanding of systems and the associated ecological processes 65 and has g[r] ...
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Geography and Ecology
... 1. MMNR is managed as a protective area, with no extractive uses permitted. However, some of the surrounding communities face dire economic conditions as a result of limited grazing land. Many pastoralists are therefore ...
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