rain forest
Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon
... Campos et al Virology Journal 2014, 11 95 http //www virologyj com/content/11/1/95 RESEARCH Open Access Samba virus a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon Rafael K Campos1, P[.] ...
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Phosphorus limits Eucalyptus grandis seedling growth in an unburnt rain forest soil
... nitrogen by killing microbes (Chambers and Attiwell, 1994), in spite of the potential for volatilization loss of nitrogen. Burn- ing established vegetation and litter also potentially increases the number of safe sites ...
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Changes in small mammal assemblage structure across a rain forest/open forest ecotone
... from rain forest to wet sclerophyll forest and these data could be taken as support for the theory of habitat heterogeneity as a major affect on ...the rain for- ests of the Australian Wet ...
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Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees
... of rain forest trees [18] within the diverse pan-tropical family ...tropical rain forests and thus provide an ideal model family to test hypotheses on the evolution of rain ...African ...
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Plant diversity after rain-forest fires in Borneo
... burnt rain forests in East ...burnt forest reserves most of the original species richness was conserved in unburnt remnant forest networks and tall remnant trees that survived the ...unburnt ...
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Phosphorus nutrition of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal tree seedlings from a lowland tropical rain forest in Korup National Park, Cameroon
... might be expected to play an important role in P nutrition. However, recent findings show that P does not always limit the growth of tropical rain forest seedlings (Burslem et al. 1995, Raaimackers & ...
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Assessment of human activities on the vegetation of tropical rain forest in Kakamega County, Kenya
... equatorial rain forest ecosystem national and international by utilizing their resources hence loss of biological diversity and ecosystem services (Myers, ...the forest on daily bases depend on its ...
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Detection of hantavirus in bats from remaining rain forest in São Paulo, Brazil
... The present work analyzed ninety-one animals (64 rodents, 19 opossums, and 8 bats) from a region of the Atlantic rain forest in Biritiba Mirin City (23°34’28´´ S - 46°02’18´´W), Sao Paulo State, Brazil. ...
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Tree holes in a mixed broad-leaf–podocarp rain forest, New Zealand
... This is the first systematic survey of the distribution of tree-hole microhabitats for a range of Nothofagus and podocarp tree species in New Zealand. All tree species surveyed in Orikaka Ecological Area provided tree ...
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Xylosides as artificial primers of glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis from Peruvian Rain Forest Plants
... Amazon rain forest yielded five plants that stimulated glycosaminoglycan assembly in both wild-type cells and a mutant cell line defective in xylosyltransferase (the first committed enzyme involved in ...
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One year delayed effect of fog on malaria transmission: a time series analysis in the rain forest area of Mengla County, south west China
... The lead time from fog events and malaria is seven months at the time scale of months, and one-year at the time scale of years. The delayed effect is mainly driven by the association between fog events in October and ...
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Metrosideros Dieback in Hawaii—a Comparison of Adjacent Dieback and Non-Dieback Rain-Forest Stands
... montane rain forest on the windward side of the island of Hawai'i experienced death or large- scale defoliation of the tall, canopy-forming individ- uals belonging to the dominant tree species M e t r o - ...
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Seasonal Variation In Litterfall In An Age Series Gmelina Arborea Plantation In A Nigerian Rain Forest
... In this regression analysis, stand two gives the best estimate in this study as shown in Table 6. The table show regression constant as well as coefficients of determination expressed as a percentage of R 2 for total ...
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Sawah First! The Cultural Ecology of Alang-Alang in a Rain Forest Margin Community
... the forest canopy which offer suitable conditions for “light loving” weed-grasses of which Imperata cylindrica (called “alang-alang ” in Indonesia) is the most ...
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Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of a Gas Turbine in an Equatorial Rain Forest Environment
... The variation of operating conditions ambient temperature, compressor discharge temperature, turbine inlet temperature, exhaust temperature and fuel mass flow rate on the performance of [r] ...
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Are giant eucalypt forests rain forest?
... We measured functional traits of 128 trees and shrubs across tropical and temperate rainforest- open vegetation transitions in Australia, with giant eucalypt forests situated between the[r] ...
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Forest edge disturbance increases rattan abundance in tropical rain forest fragments
... Rattan measures. Over the period March 2012 to February 2014, rattan abundance was recorded at five 20 × 20 m plots in 10 forest sites (Fig. 2b) five in forest fragment sites and five in intact ...
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Litterfall, nutrient concentrations and decomposability of litter in a New Zealand temperate montane rain forest
... established between soil nutrient availability, leaf chemistry and structure, and the decomposability of leaves (e.g. Cornwell et al. 2008; Ordoñez et al. 2009). Further, some studies have focused on how forest ...
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First the forest: conservation, 'community' and 'participation' in South West Cameroon
... Over the last few years, partly perhaps in response to local suspicion, but more likely in response to concern in their 'home' countries and changing development fads, rain-forest[r] ...
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Long distance dispersal, overland migration and extinction in the shaping of tropical African floras
... lowland rain forest, where 30 of them are characteristic of seasonally inundated forest, especially várzea forest of the Amazon ...swamp forest Licanias are eaten by fishes ...
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