Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The relationships and linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes are critical issues in ecology. Manure removal is an ecosystem ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It has been suggested that "regulation" of species diversity occurs through variation in either its richness or evenness component with the ...

Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a new study reminds us that wildfires are also generative ...

A study published in People and Nature finds that both sight and sound influence perception of biodiversity, and participants were slightly more accurate when assessing forest biodiversity through ...

Uniform and intensive forest management approaches threaten European forest biodiversity. There are many different ways to manage forests, but the effects of different combinations of approaches are ...

Prairie dogs are keystone species, the rivets of grassland ecosystems. Their survival shows why biodiversity is vital to ...

Introduction -- Density : mean and variance -- Normal and sampling distributions for fieldwork -- Confidence limits and intervals for density -- How many field samples? -- Spatial distribution : the ...