tropical rain forest
ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITIES OF HONEY FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST BELT OF NIGERIA, ON SELECTED BACTERIAL ISOLATES
... the tropical Rain Forest Belt of Nigeria have excep- tional efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus as all four honey samples inhibited the growth of this ...
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Phosphorus nutrition of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal tree seedlings from a lowland tropical rain forest in Korup National Park, Cameroon
... of tropical rain forest seedlings (Burslem et ...the tropical areas. Some tropical tree taxa might have evolved the ability to associate with EM as a response to habitat specialisation, ...
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Growth Traits and the Trade Offs for Tree Species with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Tropical Rain Forest Edge at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
... the rain forest-pasture edge has not received much ...a tropical rain forest in eastern Mexico, the seedlings of light demanding (Ficus insipida), nonsecondary light demanding ...
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A New Flavivirus and a New Vector: Characterization of a Novel Flavivirus Isolated from Uranotaenia Mosquitoes from a Tropical Rain Forest
... A novel flavivirus was isolated from Uranotaenia mashonaensis, a mosquito genus not previously known to harbor flaviviruses. Mosquitoes were caught in the primary rain forest of the Taı¨ National Park, Co ...
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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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Effect of forest stand density on the estimation of above ground biomass/carbon stock using airborne and terrestrial LIDAR derived tree parameters in tropical rain forest, Malaysia
... carbon stocks to meet the requirements of UN-REDD program (Prasad et al. 2016). However, so far accu- rate estimation of the forest above ground biomass remains a challenge. Above ground biomass can be estimated ...
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Assessment of human activities on the vegetation of tropical rain forest in Kakamega County, Kenya
... this forest would lead to various environmental problems that would affect the livelihood of the population in the ecosystem, hydrological cycle and acquatic ecosystems, soil erosion, poor vegetation cover, loss ...
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Ecosystems Services of the Tropical Rain Forest Environment: Lessons from the Cross River National Park, Nigeria
... This paper essayed to examine ecosystem functions with a case study of the tropical rainforest environment of the Cross River National Park, Nigeria. The paper highlighted the important functions of the ecosystems ...
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Tropical forest light regimes in a human-modified landscape
... systems. Forest light regimes are complex, with the vertical pattern of light within canopies influenced by forest ...in tropical forests impact forest structure and hence may influence the ...
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Functional perspectives on tropical tree demography and forest dynamics
... long-term forest monitoring where tree demo- graphic rates are tracked in ...future forest states, but individual level studies should first be conducted to remove this possibility or at least to provide ...
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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
... non-timber forest products, and fires. To a lesser extent, trends in forest cover, human populations, road expansion and automobile traffic inside reserves also mirror those occurring outside reserves ...
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Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest
... this forest have all increased over this same period (Wright et ...in tropical forests, which can severely limit the capacity of tropical forests to accumulate ...reduce forest-level biomass ...
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Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of Rain Rate and Rain Attenuation on Ku Band Satellite Systems in a Tropical Region: A Synthetic Storm Techniques Approach
... time-varying rain characterization and diurnal variation in the Ku-band satellite systems simulated with synthetic storm techniques (SST) over a tropical location in Nigeria have been ...years’ rain ...
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Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome
... in the Udzungwa Mountains (Tanzania) was obtained from the Leverhulme Trust under the Valuing the Arc project. We thank the ANPN (Gabon), WCS-Congo and WCS-DR Congo, Marien Ngouabi University and the University of ...
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Natural abundance of 15 N of a spruce forest ecosystem under acid rain and manipulated clean rain field conditions
... “clean rain”, starting with a fast and strong reduction of the sul- phate, nitrate and aluminium concentration in the soil solution of the upper soil horizons (Bredemeier et ...clean rain plot (Corre, ...
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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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Estimating Tropical Forest Structure Using a Terrestrial Lidar
... La Selva. We conducted our research at the La Selva Biological Station (10° 26’ N, 83° 59’ W), operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies and located in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica [46]. We ...
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Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions
... of forest and peatland areas, and because the appropriateness of any such definitions would vary depending on the particular circumstances and goals of each individual project, which in turn will be determined by ...
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Management of the Ghana tropical high forests : evaluation of forest management in the Ghana tropical high forests
... 5.3 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE MANAGEMENT GF T-E GTHF Soil erosion, water turbidity, forest clearing and general environmental pollution adversely affect the biological stability of the GTHF as already ...
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Ecological exploration of Kuwana forest: A tropical moist deciduous forest of eastern Terai, India
... the forest of the study area can be congregated into three forests communities (Figure ...Lowland Forest (SLF), Shorea Miscellaneous Forest (SMF) and Mallotus Miscellaneous Forest ...
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