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Ecology and co-existence of two endemic day gecko (Phelsuma) species in Seychelles native palm forest [PDF]

, 2011
In island ecosystems, reptiles play diverse ecological roles as a result of niche broadening, which increases potential niche overlap between species. Ecological niche partitioning is a means of reducing direct competition between coexisting species and ...
Bassett, Crawford, Edwards, Fleischmann, Gerlach, Hansen, Hansen, Harmon, Kaiser-Bunbury, Kier, Losos, MacArthur, Myers, Olesen, Pianka, Procter, Procter, Proctor, Radtkey, Raxworthy, Rocha, Rodda, Savage, Schoener, Schoener, Thorpe, Vesey-Fitzgerald, Watson, Whitaker, Whittaker, Williams   +30 more
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Linking Plant Functional Traits to Demography in a Fragmented Landscape

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Habitat loss in highly deforested landscapes such as the Brazilian Atlantic Forest has been severely affecting the diversity and survival of palm species.
Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Sara Lucía Colmenares-Trejos, Eduardo Arcoverde de Mattos   +2 more
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Coleoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta) Associados às Copas de Attalea phalerata Mart. (Arecaceae) no Pantanal de Mato Grosso, Brasil

EntomoBrasilis, 2014
As palmeiras correspondem a um importante elemento nos ecossistemas tropicais, servindo como fonte alimentar e habitat para uma grande variedade de organismos invertebrados e vertebrados. Considerando o papel destas plantas como hospedeiras de diferentes
Leandro Battirola, Geane dos Santos, Germano Rosado-Neto, Marinêz Marques   +3 more
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Saltwater intrusion ecophysiological effects on Pseudophoenix sargentii, Roystonea regia, Sabal palmetto “Lisa,” and Thrinax radiata in South Florida

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Climate change will alter natural areas on a global scale within the next century, especially in low-lying coastal areas where sea-level rise is predicted to severely degrade or destroy many ecosystems.
Amir Ali Khoddamzadeh, Jason Flores, M. Patrick Griffith, Bárbara Nogueira Souza Costa   +3 more
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Conserving the Diversity of Ecological Interactions: The Role of Two Threatened Macaw Species as Legitimate Dispersers of “Megafaunal” Fruits

Diversity, 2020
The extinction of ecological functions is increasingly considered a major component of biodiversity loss, given its pervasive effects on ecosystems, and it may precede the disappearance of the species engaged.
José L. Tella, Fernando Hiraldo, Erica Pacífico, José A. Díaz-Luque, Francisco V. Dénes, Fernanda M. Fontoura, Neiva Guedes, Guillermo Blanco   +7 more
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Following basal stem rot in young oil palm plantings [PDF]

, 2005
The PCR primer GanET has previously been shown to be suitable for the specific amplification of DNA from Ganoderma boninense. A DNA extraction and PCR method has been developed that allows for the amplification of the G.
CA Levesque, CA Pilotti, DM Hillis, DS Hibbet, FR Sanderson, FR Sanderson, FR Sanderson, G. Panchal, J-M Moncalvo, J-M Moncalvo, J-M Moncalvo, J-M Moncalvo, OF Cubero, P. D. Bridge, PD Bridge, PD Bridge, PR Mills, TJ White   +17 more
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Characterizing degradation of palm swamp peatlands from space and on the ground: an exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon [PDF]

, 2017
Peru has the fourth largest area of peatlands in the Tropics. Its most representative land cover on peat is a Mauritia flexuosa dominated palm swamp (thereafter called dense PS), which has been under human pressure over decades due to the high demand for
Alvarez, Baccini, Belgiu, Blois, Brady, Breiman, Carlson, Chander, Chave, Crist, Dargie, Draper, Drösler, Englhart, Fernández-Delgado, Gaveau, Goodman, Gutiérrez-Vélez, Hergoualc’h, Hergoualc’h, Honorio Coronado, Horn, Householder, Jaenicke, Janovec, Jensen, Kahn, Kelly, Koh, Kristell Hergoualc'h, Laumonier, Lehner, Louis V. Verchot, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Manuri, Mary Menton, Miettinen, Miettinen, Miettinen, Miettinen, Mokany, Nyoungui, Padoch, Page, Pearson, Penn, R Core Team, Richards, Rodriguez-Galiano, Román-Cuesta, Räsänen, Saatchi, Shao, Shimabukuro, Sierra, van der Werf, Victor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez, Weiskittel, Yu, Yuan, Zianis   +63 more
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The Role of Social Media in Shaping Undergraduate Tourism and Hospitality Students' Fieldtrip Destination Choice

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
This study investigates the impact of social media on the selection of academic field trip destinations by undergraduate students in tourism and hospitality in Ghana.
Francis Junior Quaye, Ebenezer Tetteh, Patience Hagan   +2 more
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The role of seed mass on the caching decision by agoutis, Dasyprocta leporina (Rodentia: Agoutidae)

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2010
It has been shown that the local extinction of large-bodied frugivores may cause cascading consequences for plant recruitment and overall plant diversity.
Mauro Galetti, Camila I. Donatti, Carla Steffler, Julieta Genini, Ricardo S. Bovendorp, Marina Fleury   +5 more
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Plant material booklet 1: palms of Malaysia [PDF]

, 2001
This book is intended as quick reference for landscape architects, architects and urban planners in identifying palms for landscape planning and design of open spaces, recreational areas, residential landscape and street planting.
Abdul Rashid, Shahrulizam, Said, Ismail
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