Dependent Plant Communities
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Dependent Plant Communities
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Author : J. J. Barkman
language : de
Publisher: Balogh Scientific Books
Release Date : 1988
Dependent Plant Communities written by J. J. Barkman and has been published by Balogh Scientific Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Science categories.
Positive Interactions And Interdependence In Plant Communities
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Author : Ragan M. Callaway
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-28
Positive Interactions And Interdependence In Plant Communities written by Ragan M. Callaway and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-28 with Science categories.
This book marshals ecological literature from the last century on facilitation to make the case against the widely accepted individualistic notion of community organization. It examines the idea that positive interactions are more prevalent in physically stressful conditions. Coverage also includes species specificity in facilitative interactions, indirect facilitative interactions, and potential evolutionary aspects of positive interactions.
The Nature Of Plant Communities
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Author : J. Bastow Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-21
The Nature Of Plant Communities written by J. Bastow Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Nature categories.
Provides a comprehensive review of the role of species interactions in the process of plant community assembly.
Plant Communities
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Author : Rexford F. Daubenmire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Plant Communities written by Rexford F. Daubenmire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Science categories.
The nature of plant communities; Analysis and description of plant communities; Plant succession; Vegetation and ecosystem classification; Vegetation as an objective of study.
Hydrology Shaped Plant Communities
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Author : Alenka Gaberščik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Hydrology Shaped Plant Communities written by Alenka Gaberščik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Aquatic ecosystems and the water they hold have attracted people over the centuries. With the technological development and increasing needs of human society, the attitude to water and aquatic ecosystems has changed. Consequently, biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems has declined dramatically and it is still decreasing. Anthropogenic exploitation of these ecosystems and alterations of their hydrology has largely influenced hydrology-shaped plant communities. This Special Issue, “Hydrology-Shaped Plant Communities: Diversity and Ecological Function” brings new outcomes about the interactions between hydrological factors and wide spectrum of plant communities. In ecosystems, where human activities directly or indirectly affected the hydrological factors, dependent plant communities have also changed or even disappeared. These plant communities have multiple ecological functions, and one of the most important are the maintenance of water quality and enhancement of local and regional diversity of other biotic communities like diatoms, invertebrates or fish. Thus, detailed knowledge and suitable management of hydrology-shaped plant communities is a prerequisite for their unconstrained ecological functions and high diversity of aquatic ecosystems in the widest sense. The Special Issue consists of ten peer-reviewed papers on plant communities in a variety of ecosystems - from the small kettle-holes in the lowlands of northern Germany to the river Danube - the largest river within the European Union, and from different wetland types in Central Europe to the Donggting Lake - fourth largest lake in China.
The Study Of Plant Communities
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Author : Henry John Oosting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Study Of Plant Communities written by Henry John Oosting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Botany categories.
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Fire And Plants
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Author : William J. Bond
language : en
Publisher: Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers
Release Date : 1996
Fire And Plants written by William J. Bond and has been published by Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Nature categories.
Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However, despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of research on plant population biology in relation to fire, until now there have only been limited attempts at a coherent conceptual synthesis of the field for use by students or researchers.
Land Use History And Fire Management Drive Context Dependent Plant Herbivore Interactions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Land Use History And Fire Management Drive Context Dependent Plant Herbivore Interactions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Land-use legacies often interact with other factors such as fire suppression to generate persistent changes in soil conditions and plant communities in many ecosystems. However, little is known about how these habitat modifications affect higher trophic levels or interactions between plants and herbivores. Working in longleaf pine woodlands, I found that agricultural land-use history altered grasshopper community composition and decoupled positive relationships between plant cover and grasshopper abundance. Herbivory on a palatable plant species was also affected by the interaction between land-use history and fire frequency, and exhibited a hump-shaped response to neighboring plant cover, but herbivore density did not affect herbivory rates. In an experiment that manipulated neighborhood (10m2) plant density and frequency within post-agricultural and non-agricultural habitats, I found that the frequency of neighboring plants determined the amount of herbivore damage received by focal plants. These patterns were driven by herbivore foraging decisions made at the neighborhood scale, highlighting that behavioral decisions are important for generating associational effects. Collectively, these results suggest that the effect of historic agricultural land use extends beyond plants and soils to leave a strong legacy on present-day plant-herbivore interactions. Using a landscape-scale experiment, I showed that the effect of excluding herbivores on plant growth can be contingent upon canopy structure, historical land-use, and the spatial arrangement of these two factors. Land-use history and canopy structure also affected the degree to which herbivores limit seedling establishment across a suite of plant species. Furthermore, we found strong negative effects of herbivores on the performance of some demographic stages of all four herbaceous plant species we tested, particularly juvenile plant survival, but only in habitats with intact overstory canopies. The exception was the slowest growing plant species, which also suffered reduced juvenile survival due to herbivory in some thinned treatments. Overstory tree thinning substantially increased adult flowering and size for all four species and the effect of thinning on adult performance was often greater in non-agricultural habitats. Collectively, this work experimentally separates the habitat-induced effects from the herbivore-induced effects on plant performance and highlights that context-dependent plant-herbivore interactions depend on plant demographic stages and species traits.
Ecology Of Fire Dependent Ecosystems
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Author : Devan Allen McGranahan
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2020-12-29
Ecology Of Fire Dependent Ecosystems written by Devan Allen McGranahan and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-29 with Nature categories.
Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth. Moreover, the book places itself as a communication between students, fire scientists, and fire fighters, and each of these groups will find some familiar ground, and some challenging aspects in this text: something which ultimately will help to bring us closer together and enrich our different approaches to understanding and managing our changing planet. -- Sally Archibald, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Most textbooks are as dry as kindling and about as much fun to sink your teeth into. This is not that kind of textbook. Devan Allen McGranahan and Carissa L. Wonkka have taken a complex topic and somehow managed to synthesize it into a comprehensive, yet digestible form. This is a book you can read cover to cover – I know, I did it. As a result, I took an enlightening journey through the history and fundamentals of fire and its role in the natural and human world, ending with a thoughtful review of the evolving relationship between humans and wildland fire. -- Chris Helzer, Nebraska Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy, and author of The Prairie Ecologist blog Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems: Wildland Fire Science, Policy, and Management is intended for use in upper-level courses in fire ecology and wildland fire management and as a reference for researchers, managers, and other professionals involved with wildland fire science, practice, and policy. The book helps guide students and scientists to design and conduct robust wildland fire research projects and critically interpret and apply fire science in any management, education, or policy situation. It emphasizes variability in wildland fire as an ecological regime and provides tools for students, researchers, and managers to assess and connect fire environment and fire behaviour to fire effects. Fire has not only shaped social and ecological communities but pushed ecosystems beyond previous boundaries, yet understanding the nature and effects of fire as an ecological disturbance has been slow, hampered by the complexity of the dynamic interactions between vegetation and climate and the fear of the destruction fire can bring. This book will help those who study, manage, and use wildland fire to develop new answers and novel solutions, based on an understanding of how fire functions in natural and social environments. It reviews literature, synthesizes concepts, and identifies research gaps and policy needs. The text also explores the interaction of fire and human culture, demonstrating how fire policy can be made adaptable to cultural and socio-ecological objectives.
Effects Of Prescribed Fire On Upland Plant Biodiversity And Abundance In Northeast Florida
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Author : Peter Donovan Maholland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Effects Of Prescribed Fire On Upland Plant Biodiversity And Abundance In Northeast Florida written by Peter Donovan Maholland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Plant diversity -- Effect of fires on -- Southern States categories.
Terrestrial ecosystems in the southeastern United States have evolved with fire as a common disturbance and as a result many natural communities require the presence of fire to persist over time. Human development precludes natural fires from occurring within these communities; however, prescribed fire is considered to be a critical tool in the effort to restore fire-dependent ecosystems after decades of fire exclusion. Direct effects of fire on individual floral and faunal species as well as benefits to biodiversity at the landscape (gamma diversity) level have largely been supported in previous research. However, information on the effects of natural and prescribed fire on plant diversity at the local level (alpha diversity) is limited, particularly for southeastern forests. The applicability of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH), which suggests that the highest levels of biodiversity are found at intermediate levels of disturbance, is also untested for North Florida upland plant communities. This study compared the effects of fire on local scale mean plant species diversity by examining burned and unburned portions of three fire-dependent communities to determine if there is an effect of prescribed fire on in alpha biodiversity. Alpha biodiversity was not significantly different (p=0.433) between burned and unburned fire-dependent plant communities in northern Florida, suggesting that prescribed fire does not affect plant species diversity in these communities and/or the IDH for plant communities is not supported at the time scale tested. However, the application of prescribed fire did result in changes in abundance of species, particularly with species such as Dicanthelium acuminatum, Quercus myrtifolia, and Vaccinium myrsinites, that respond positively to fire, which may have implications for associated faunal diversity.