'Species richness' presentation slideshows

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Turtles: a cause for wonder, a cause for concern

Turtles: a cause for wonder, a cause for concern. Thomas Akre Longwood University Farmville, VA. The Tortoise and the Hare. Turtles: a cause for wonder.

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Populations & Communities

Populations & Communities. Population Ecology Density Factors affecting density Community Ecology Trophic Relationships Trophic pyramid Food web Structure & Local Species Assemblages Species Interactions. Population Ecology.

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MOFEP Ground Flora Study: Effects of Forest Management Practices on Woodland Plant Communities

MOFEP Ground Flora Study: Effects of Forest Management Practices on Woodland Plant Communities. Susan Farrington Plant Community Ecologist Missouri Department of Conservation Forest Systems Field Station West Plains, MO. SAMPLING DESIGN AND PROTOCOL:.

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An exploration of the relationship between productivity and diversity in British Grasslands

An exploration of the relationship between productivity and diversity in British Grasslands. Adam Butler & Jan Heffernan, Lancaster University Department of Mathematics & Statistics Simon Smart, CEH Monkswood. Introduction. Context: Productivity-diversity relationships

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T SEC-BIOSYS: Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crops in the UK www.tsec-biosys.ac.uk Rebecca Rowe M. Hanley, D. Gouls

T SEC-BIOSYS: Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crops in the UK www.tsec-biosys.ac.uk Rebecca Rowe M. Hanley, D. Goulson, G. Taylor University of Southampton. Biomass role in the UK energy futures The Royal Society, London: 28 th & 29 th July 2009. Overview. Introduction

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Fragmentation and the Role of the M atrix in Species Richness

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Clean-up of Boston Harbor

BENTHIC COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND BIODIVERSITY FOLLOWING SEWAGE ABATEMENT PROGRAMS IN BOSTON HARBOR By James A. Blake, Nancy J. Maciolek ENSR Marine & Coastal Center, Woods Hole, MA & Kenneth Keay Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Boston, MA. Clean-up of Boston Harbor.

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Ch 55 Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology Human activities threaten Earth's biodiversity

Ch 55 Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology Human activities threaten Earth's biodiversity Population conservation focuses on population size, genetic diversity, and critical habitat Landscape and regional conservation aim to sustain entire biotas

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Coral Reef Communities

Coral Reef Communities. Patrick Smith, Michelle Franklin, Max Woerfel , Nick Patricca. Introduction. Coral Reefs are one of the most productive places on the Earth Only cover .1% of the world but support a quarter of all marine species Made up of calcium carbonate structures Highly diverse

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Population Dynamics

Population Dynamics. Chapter 15. Learning Objectives. Identify techniques for estimating various populations ( quadrats , transects, mark-recapture)

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Alex Cavacas, Brandon Chatfield, Kevin Chen, and Steven Meigs

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Community Ecology

Community Ecology . What is a Community . A community is any assemblage of populations in an area or habitat. Communities differ dramatically in their species richness and relative abundance. - species richness : number of species contained

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Communities and Ecosystems

Communities and Ecosystems. ESC 556 week 7. Community. Collection of species populations Members from most kingdoms Linked in a web Mainly predator/prey Environment & habitat / Dominant species Lake/grassland Sizes. Habitats and Niches. Habitat: A collection of niches Habitat

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Small mammal monitoring Kolomela Mine Nico Avenant 1, 2

Small mammal monitoring Kolomela Mine Nico Avenant 1, 2 1 Department of Mammalogy, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa 2 Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein , South Africa.

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Wave Exposure and its Effects on the Diversity of a Shoreline

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Community and gradient analysis: Matrix approaches in macroecology

Community and gradient analysis: Matrix approaches in macroecology. The world comes in fragments. Statistical inference means to compare your hypothesis H 1 with an appropriate null hypothesis H 0 . Type I error. Type II error. But what about more complex patterns:

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The role of resource economics in the control of invasive alien plants in South Africa

Resource Economics and invasive plants. The role of resource economics in the control of invasive alien plants in South Africa. Author: Jane Turpie. Turpie, J. (2004).The role of resource economics in the control of invasive alien plants in South Africa. S. Afr. Sci. 100, 87-93.

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Patterns in time

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ltered environmental conditions associated with climate

Combining Forest Tree Demography and Evolutionary History to Detect Potential Climate Change Effects on Regional Biodiversity. Kevin M. Potter 1 and Christopher W. Woodall 2.

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