Author: Zehao ShenPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889710807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Temporal Patterns and Mechanisms of Biodiversity Across Scales in East Asia
Author: Zehao ShenPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889710807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
PRAIRIEMAP, a GIS Database for Prairie Grassland Management in Western North America
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Category : Geographic information systems
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The PRAIRIEMAP web site (http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov) contains links to partners, documentation of the data, and a directory of GIS data that can be downloaded.
Species Diversity and Community Structure
Author: Teiji SotaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431542612
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This book introduces recent progress in the study of species diversity and community structures in terrestrial organisms conducted by three groups at Kyoto University. First, it explains species diversity and the functioning of fungi in Asian regions as outlined by metagenomic approaches using next-generation sequencing technology. The advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies accelerate the speed of species inventorying, especially for microorganisms. Second, the study of complex interactions between herbivorous insects and plants in the community and ecosystem contexts is presented. Recent studies in community and ecosystem genetics shed light on these complex interactions with novel approaches incorporating genetic perspectives including genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity in plant defenses against herbivores. Finally, recent studies on speciation processes in insects are described, processes that are related to the evolution of particular life history strategies. Included is an examination of two hypotheses that may be important in understanding diversification of insect species in heterogeneous environments in space and time. This book is a valuable resource especially for ecologists who are interested in species diversity and community structure.
Conserving Biodiversity on Native Rangelands
Author: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Author: Michel LoreauPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198515715
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This work provides comprehensive coverage of empirical and theoretical research.
Grasslands and Climate Change
Author: David J. GibsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107195268
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.
Special Reference Briefs
Author: Plant-induced soil changes: Processes and feedbacks
Author: N. van BreemenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792352167
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book by soil scientists and ecologists reviews how and why plants influence soils. Topics include effects on mineral weathering, soil structure, and soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics, case studies of soil-plant interactions in specific biomes and of secondary chemicals influencing nutrient cycling, the rhizosphere, and potential evolutionary consequences of plant-induced soil changes. This is the first volume that specifically highlights the effects of plants on soils and their feedbacks to plants. By contrast, other texts on soil-plant relationships emphasize effects of soil fertility on plants, following the strongly agronomic character of most research in this area. The aspects discussed in this volume are crucial for understanding terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemistry and soil genesis. The book is directed to terrestrial ecologists, foresters, soil scientists, environmental scientists and biogeochemists, and to students following specialist courses in these fields.
Proceedings RMRS.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Proceedings
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Category : Range management
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The 26 papers in these proceedings are divided into five sections. The first two sections are an introduction and a plenary session that introduce the principles and role the shrub life-form in the High Plains, including the changing dynamics of shrublands and grasslands during the last four plus centuries. The remaining three sections are devoted to: fire, both prescribed fire and wildfire, in shrublands and grassland-shrubland interfaces; water and ecophysiology shrubland ecosystems; and the ecology and population biology of several shrub species.