Macrophytes play important functional roles in river ecosystems, providing habitat and food, as well as influencing flow, water chemistry, and sediment dynamics. They also represent an important component of river biodiversity.
Peter E. Jones +4 more
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Dispersal syndromes in the largest protection area of the Atlantic Forest in the state of Paraiba, Brazil [PDF]
The diaspore dispersal process is crucial for plant reproduction, since the diaspores must reach a suitable site to germinate. This paper aimed to study morphological aspects of diaspores and determine the dispersal syndromes of species occurring in the ...
Camila Ângelo Jerônimo Domingues +2 more
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Anatomy, Morphology, and Cladistic Analysis of Monsonia L. (Geraniaceae).
Phylogenetip relationships among the 25 species of the old-world genus Monsonia are explored by means of a cladistic analysis. After a detailed revision, 20 morphological and anatomical characters were selected, including some new ones from nectaries ...
Juan Jose Aldasoro +3 more
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Bird Population Changes Following the Establishment of a Diverse Stand of Woody Plants in a Former Crop Field in North Dakota, 1975– 2015 [PDF]
Changes in the coverage of trees and shrubs on the North Dakota landscape since Euro- American settlement have likely had a pronounced impact on bird species that favor woody vegetation.
Igl, Lawrence D. +2 more
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Community assembly and coexistence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi [PDF]
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are asexual, obligately symbiotic fungi with unique morphology and genomic structure, which occupy a dual niche, that is, the soil and the host root.
Hempel, Stefan +3 more
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Analysis of the irrigated crop flora from the South West of Castilla y León
A study of the flora of irrigated crops in two Spanish provinces (Salamanca and Zamora, SW Castilla y León) has been carried out. After careful analysis of a catalogue comprising more than 344 taxa, we have found that 237 of them (68,9 %) belong to 8 ...
Juan Manuel Velasco Sánchez +1 more
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Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services [PDF]
Forests are critical habitats for biodiversity and they are also essential for the provision of a wide range of ecosystem services that are important to human well-being.
A Anzures-Dadda +217 more
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Modelling forest–savanna mosaic dynamics in man-influenced environments: effects of fire, climate and soil heterogeneity [PDF]
Forests and savannas are the major ecotypes in humid tropical regions. Under present climatic conditions, forest is in a phase of natural expansion over savanna, but traditional human activities, especially fires, have strongly influenced the succession.
Aline Fabing C +4 more
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The presence of the rotifer species Brachionus rotundiformis from the B. plicatilis species complex in Lake Arcturo, a saline lake in the Genovesa Island of the Galápagos Islands, is here reported.
Carlos López +6 more
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The ImageCLEF 2013 Plant Identification Task [PDF]
International audienceThe ImageCLEF's plant identification task provides a testbed for a system-oriented evaluation of plant identification about 250 species trees and herbaceous plants based on detailed views of leaves, flowers, fruits, stems and bark ...
Bakić, Vera +6 more
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