Remote Sensing of Tropical Rainforest Biomass Changes in Hainan Island, China from 2003 to 2018
Remote Sensing, 2021 The largest area of tropical rainforests in China is on Hainan Island, and it is an important part of the world’s tropical rainforests. The structure of the tropical rainforests in Hainan is complex, the biomass density is high, and conducting ground ...
Meizhi Lin +7 more
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Soil nematode community assembly in a primary tropical lowland rainforest
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 More than half of the world's tropical lowland rainforests have been lost due to conversion to agricultural land (such as rubber plantations). Thus, ecological restoration in degraded tropical lowland rainforests is crucial. The first step to restoration
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International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2020 Hainan tropical rainforest is located in the northern edge of the tropics. It is the continental island type of tropical rainforest with the most concentrated distribution, the best preservation and the largest contiguous area in China.
Luping Zong
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Annotated checklist of the birds (Aves) of Cerro Hoya National Park, Azuero Peninsula, Panamá [PDF]
Check List, 2015 Protected only by the extreme ruggedness of its terrain, the montane regions of Cerro Hoya National Park are among the least biologically known regions of Central America.
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Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Ecological theory differentiates rainforest and open vegetation in many regions as functionally divergent alternative stable states with transitional (ecotonal) vegetation between the two forming transient unstable states. This transitional vegetation is
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Tropical rainforests: Diversity begets diversity [PDF]
Current Biology, 1997 Tropical rainforests exhibit an extraordinarily high level of biological diversity. A new study shows that the patterns of seedling survival surrounding parent trees are responsible in large part for this amazing diversity.
Mayer, Audrey L, Pimm, Stuart L
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Impact of discrete wavelet transform on discriminating airborne hyperspectral tropical rainforest tree species [PDF]
, 2014 Discriminating tropical rainforest tree species is still a challenging task due to a variety of species with high spectral similarity and due to very limited studies conducted in this area.
Ashurov, Ravshan +5 more
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Composition and Host-Use Patterns of a Scarab Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Community Inhabiting the Canopy of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Southern Venezuela [PDF]
, 2019 The adult scarab beetle fauna of the canopy in a lowland tropical rainforest in southern Venezuela was observed and collected by means of a 42 m-tall tower crane for a complete year.
Kirmse, Susan, Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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When is an international branch campus? [PDF]
, 2014 For a Nottingham alumnus, driving onto the University of Nottingham’s branch campus in Malaysia is a surreal experience. Surrounded by tropical rainforest, a familiar white silhouette emerges—a clock tower atop the signature Trent Building, overlooking a
Healey, N
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Two new ant species of the genus Leptogenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Hainan, China, with a key to the known Chinese species [PDF]
ZooKeysTwo new species of ponerine ants from Hainan Province, China, Leptogenys hainanensis sp. nov. and L. zhoui sp. nov., are delineated and depicted based on the worker caste. Leptogenys hainanensis sp. nov. belongs to the L.
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