[PDF] Top 20 Effects of land use on wild bee functional diversity

... intensive land use and modification (Bartomeus et ...on wild bee diversity (Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014b; Grab et ...measuring wild bee communities are relative abundance and ... See full document

... one land use to another, and it can be regarded as an indication of the degree of soil organic carbon deterioration or ...different land use management on soil organic matter fractions in ... See full document

... biological diversity along with Sri Lank a. Land use changes in the Western Ghats caused by agricultural expansion and other anthropogenic activities have resulted in loss of forests and is a major ... See full document

... their land use system aimed at improving the soil structure to reduce the incident of soil erosion by water which is common in the ...the effects of some exotic tree plantations on the soil proper- ... See full document

... long-term effects of two land uses of forest and tea garden on soil aggregate stability as an indicator of soil quality were investigated at three landscapes in Lahijan, North ...two land uses by the ... See full document

... Predicting bee community responses to land use changes Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 6 31153 | DOI 10 1038/srep31153 www nature com/scfientfiffficreports 1 Predfictfi[.] ... See full document

... survey to quantify bumblebee nest densities and found the highest nest densities in gardens. The present study was not specifically designed to examine the impacts of urban areas; the highest proportion of habitat classed ... See full document

... Surface stained area and contribution of large pores indicate a greater matrix flow in tilled soil than orchard soil that influenced leaching in a different way depending on type and nat[r] ... See full document

... separated by at least 1–1.5 km from each other. Fruit-baited traps were placed along the transects, starting at the 0 km marker, separated by 100 m, and ending at the 1 km marker, for a total of 11 traps per transect. ... See full document

... miles of channel in named creeks and branches. I n addition, there are over 968 rafl.es of mapped channel in ffrsc and second order streams which do not show names on any avaflable [r] ... See full document

... structural aggregates, which in consequence has a reverse effect. After ceasing of cultivation (the soil profiles of formations II and III) an increase of the amount of large pores (dia >0.2 µm) follows, especially of ... See full document

... Furthermore land use planning offers a way of tackling some of the causes (rather than the effects) of transport demand. Land use planning policies are robust under a variety of futures [r] ... See full document

... on land use and land values in Nigerian urban ...industrial land in major urban areas of ...of land use reflecting the views of land economists in ...of land ... See full document

... that land use can be vulnerable to land degradation due to the differential effects of decreasing the natural growth rate consumption of land use and the initial ...mitigate ... See full document

... plant use suggest that a number of plant species have been used for treating various ail- ments such as stomach disorder, colds and cough, wounds and cut, skin diseases, fever/headache, nausea and vomiting, worms ... See full document

... The functional diversity of the microbial communities in the two soils sampled in February was examined using Biolog plates, which allow the rate of utilization of 95 separate carbon sources to be ... See full document

... Dramatic changes in agricultural practices over the last several decades are driving forces for land degradation and desertification in the area. The results show that overgrazing in rangelands is a major cause ... See full document

... social bee pathogens, such as Paenibacillus, might thus be to maintain latent populations in solitary bees that share similar flower resources for pollen collection with social bees ...honey bee colony ... See full document

... as well as the G. max parent. Seed were surface sterilized by submerging in 200-proof ethanol (Fisher Scientific, Hampton, NH) for 60 seconds. Twenty seed from each G. soja parent were obtained from the USDA-ARS Soybean ... See full document

... for functional beta diversity (functional ␤ -diversity), we predicted a process of functional homogenization, in which the basins would become more functionally similar (Clavel et ...in ... See full document