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Reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation in tropical forests using reduced-impact logging [PDF]

, 2015
Over 20% of the world's tropical forests have been selectively logged, and large expanses are allocated for future timber extraction. Reduced-impact logging (RIL) is being promoted as best practice forestry that increases sustainability and lowers CO2 ...
Azevedo-Ramos, Barlow, Beaudrot, Bicknell, Bicknell, Blaser, Buckland, Castro-Arellano, Clarke, Cramer, Dufrêne, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, FAO, Fimbel, Gardner, Gaveau, Gibson, Gray, Griscom, Haugaasen, Hill, Laufer, Laurance, Lindenmayer, Maas, Mason, McCune, Meijaard, Mello, Miller, Moran, Newbold, Peres, Peters, Phillips, Pinard, Presley, Putz, Putz, R Core Team, Ramage, Stouffer, Struebig, West, Wilson, Wolda, Wunderle, Wunderle   +49 more
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Shaping beta diversity in arid landscape through native plant species contributions: synergy of climate, soil, and species traits

Frontiers in Plant Science
Understanding how species traits, climate aridity, and soil resources interact to influence beta diversity is critical for predicting changes in plant community composition.
Reham Fekry El-Barougy, Reham Fekry El-Barougy, Reham Fekry El-Barougy, Louis-Félix Bersier, Sarah M. Gray, Ali El-Keblawy, Tarek Galal, Fazal Ullah, Ibrahim A. Elgamal, Mohammed A. Dakhil, Mohammed A. Dakhil   +10 more
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Patterns and drivers of species richness and turnover of neo-endemic and palaeo-endemic vascular plants in a Mediterranean hotspot: the case of Crete, Greece

Journal of Biological Research - Thessaloniki, 2019
Background Exploring species richness and turnover patterns and their drivers can provide new insights into underlying mechanisms shaping community assembly, with significant implications for biodiversity conservation.
Maria Lazarina, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Maria Psaralexi, Danai-Eleni Michailidou, Stefanos P. Sgardelis   +5 more
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β-diversity of the herbaceous layer plant communities in natural forests and its influencing factors in Henan Province

Guangxi Zhiwu
Conducting research on β-diversity(beta diversity)and its components, which reflect spatial or temporal variations in species composition among communities, helps to improve the understanding and knowledge of community structure and its maintenance ...
MENG Wei1,2, DU Xiaojun2,3*, JIAO Zhihua4, GAO Xianming2, LIU Longchang1*, WANG Yu1
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Effects of land use pattern on invasive plant diversity in Guinean savanna ecosystems of Togodo protected area, Togo [PDF]

, 2018
Tropical natural ecosystems host a very diverse flora and fauna and are key ecosystems for global climate and biogeochemical regulation. Unfortunately, in West African landscapes, large areas of savanna and forest have been progressively replaced or ...
Akodewou, Amah, Akpagana, Koffi, Akpavi, Sêmihinva, Gazull, Laurent, Gond, Valéry, Oszwald, Johan   +5 more
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Determinants of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in breeding birds within urban remnant woodlots: Implications for conservation

Ecology and Evolution
Examining beta diversity of animal assemblages in fragmented habitats, which measures variation in species composition among different fragments, is important for understanding the impact of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity.
Yu Liu, Yun Zhu, Su Wu, Yan Wang, Jie Xie, Kai Zhang, Yu Xu   +6 more
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Temporal dynamics of aquatic communities and implications for pond conservation [PDF]

, 2012
Conservation through the protection of particular habitats is predicated on the assumption that the conservation value of those habitats is stable. We test this assumption for ponds by investigating temporal variation in macroinvertebrate and macrophyte ...
Andrew Hull, B Davies, B Moss, B Oertli, C Hassall, Christopher Hassall, EM Raebel, GW Fairchild, J Biggs, J Boothby, J Boothby, J Hawkins, James Hollinshead, JM Chase, K Cottenie, LE Barnes, MA Fortuna, MD Eyre, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MJ Jeffries, MP Wanielista, N Indermuehle, N Indermuehle, N Menetrey, NW Moore, P Koleff, P Williams, P Williams, P Williams, PM Wade, R Chadd, R Céréghino, R Development Core Team, RA Briers, S Angélibert, S Angélibert, TN Sherratt, TT Macan   +39 more
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Fine-root turnover rates of European forests revisited: an analysis of data from sequential coring and ingrowth cores [PDF]

, 2018
Background and Aims: Forest trees directly contribute to carbon cycling in forest soils through the turnover of their fine roots. In this study we aimed to calculate root turnover rates of common European forest tree species and to compare them with most
Aranda, X., Bakker, M., Björk, R., Brunner, I., Børja, I., Eldhuset, T., Helmisaari, H., Hirano, Y., Jourdan, C., Konôpka, B., Lukac, M., López, B., Miguel Pérez, C., Ostonen, I., Persson, H.   +14 more
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Disentangling nonrandom structure from random placement when estimating β‐diversity through space or time

Ecosphere
There is considerable interest in understanding patterns of β‐diversity that measure the amount of change in species composition through space or time.
Daniel J. McGlinn, Shane A. Blowes, Maria Dornelas, Thore Engel, Inês S. Martins, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Anne Magurran, Brian J. McGill, Jonathan M. Chase   +9 more
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Impact of Dams on Riparian Frog Communities in the Southern Western Ghats, India

Diversity, 2014
The Western Ghats is a global biodiversity hotspot and home to diverse and unique assemblages of amphibians. Several rivers originate from these mountains and hydropower is being tapped from them.
Rohit Naniwadekar, Karthikeyan Vasudevan
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