tropical rainforest
Functional traits and water transport strategies in lowland tropical rainforest trees
... Our study site is located in a one-hectare permanent plot in lowland tropical rainforest at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Cape Tribulation (16°06 0 20 @ S, 145°26 0 40 @ E) in north-eastern ...
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Climate Change and Soil Conditions in the Tropical Rainforest of Southeastern Nigeria
... the tropical rainforest (Njoku, ...the tropical rainforest, the soils are largely a combination of hydromorphic soils, vertisols and ferrasol (Areola, ...
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Blood and Gastrointestinal Parasites of Chickens and Turkeys Reared in the Tropical Rainforest Zone of Southeastern Nigeria
... poultry farms in Owerri, the tropical rainforest zone of southeastern Nigeria. Blood and faecal samples were taken from each of the birds randomly selected from the wing vein and per rectum respectively and ...
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The vulnerability of flightless ground beetles (Carabidae) to climate change in the Australian tropical rainforest
... 2010). Tropical rainforest communities contain high levels of biodiversity and are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts due to great sensitivity to further environmental changes ...within ...
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Vegetation and floristics of a lowland tropical rainforest in northeast Australia
... lowland rainforest is still well preserved and contiguous with a 17,000 ha forest tract within the Daintree National ...of rainforest in Australia’ (Tracey 1982), underpinning the importance for long-term ...
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The Legal Status Plans For Construction Of Roads In The Heritage Of Sumatra's Tropical Rain Forests (Tropical Rainforest Of Sumatera)
... Muhar et al (2018) states that the Biological natural resources and their ecosystem are the most important part of natural resources which consist of animal nature, plant- based nature or in the form of natural ...
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Maintaining connectivity for tropical rainforest mammals in agricultural landscapes
... lowland tropical rainforest embedded within and abutting an Acacia mangium wood fiber plantation in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia (0°18’-0°24’S, 101°52’-102°0’E) (Figure ...
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Contrasting patterns of litterfall seasonality and seasonal changes in litter decomposability in a tropical rainforest region
... ability in the dry season is driven mostly by decreases in total phenolic contents. Phenolics are strong limiters of lit- ter decay in our region (Parsons et al., 2012), similar to other tropical rainforest ...
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Stem and leaf hydraulic properties are finely coordinated in three tropical rainforest tree species
... to tropical rainforest ...to tropical forests (Lewis 2006, Cook & Vizy 2007, Salazar et ...2012). Rainforest trees are known to exhibit small safety margins between minimum Ψ observed ...
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Understorey bird responses to the edge-interior gradient in an isolated tropical rainforest of Malaysia
... common in disturbed areas (Nordin and Zakaria, 1997; Sliwinski and Koper, 2012). This is an extremely important distinction; species that live primarily in the matrix may only use forest at the edge; they may even be ...
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Relationships between breeding and spatial pattern in some dioecious tropical rainforest trees
... Pollen densities per insect p/i in brackets and total pollen p = p/i x total insect density for 5 male and 10 female experimental trees.. Figures represent polleh per trap per day.[r] ...
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The role of disturbance in community dynamics and structuring of tropical rainforest stream communities
... FIGURE 4.11 169 MEAN ABUNDANCE OF MACROINVERTEBRATES ON STONES FOLLOWING DISTURBANCE COMPARED WITH UNDISTURBED CONTROLS AT TAM CREEK 1993, BIRTHDAY CREEK, TAM CREEK 1994, AND CREEK 115 F[r] ...
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The impact of logging roads on dung beetle assemblages in a tropical rainforest reserve
... In conclusion we suggest that governments and certi fi cation bodies (e.g. the Forest Stewardship Council - FSC) need to highlight more clear- ly the biodiversity and environmental impacts of logging roads. We also ...
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Performance Analysis of an Energy System in the Tropical Rainforest: A Thermo Economic Approach
... 10.4236/jpee.2018.61002 9 Journal of Power and Energy Engineering growth and sustainability. Researchers have investigated several power plants within the tropical zone, and ways of optimizing their performance ...
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Vertical stratification of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) within a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia
... carp rainforest (PF), virgin jungle reserve (VJR) and twice-logged disturbed dipterocarp rainforest (LF) with forest disturbance quantified using on-the-ground forest plots ...twice-logged ...
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An Insect Nidovirus Emerging from a Primary Tropical Rainforest
... ABSTRACT Tropical rainforests show the highest level of terrestrial biodiversity and may be an important contributor to micro- bial ...pristine rainforest with subsequent spread into agriculture and human ...
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The ecological response of lianas to habitat fragmentation of a tropical rainforest
... Donnelly, D. Edwards, F. Edwards, N. Farwig, P. Fashing, P.-M. Forget, M. Foster, G. Gale, D. Harris, R. Harrison, J. Hart, S. Karpanty, W. John Kress, J. Krishnaswamy, W. Logsdon, J. Lovett, W. Magnusson, F. Maisels, A. ...
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Assessing the current fish diversty and abundance of a tropical rainforest lentic freshwater ecosystem, South Eastern Nigeria
... lakes, tropical and subtropical rivers, open and closed estuaries found at high elevations and generally requires C (Fitzsimmons, 2000; Kuton and Kusemiju, ...
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Change Detection: Estimating the Footprint of the Kribi Agro Industrial and Urban Port Complex (Cameroon) from Landsat Imagery
... diverse tropical rainforest) has been dedicated to the development of a large coastal agro-industrial and urban port complex also known as the Kribi Deep-Water Harbor, herein KDWH ...
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Aboveground vs. Belowground Carbon Stocks in African Tropical Lowland Rainforest: Drivers and Implications
... The results demonstrate significant differences in the trends of AGC (17% higher at YOKO compared to YGB) and SOC stocks (50% lower at YOKO compared to YGB) at these two sites with similar species composition and forest ...
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