Floods control the influence of environmental gradients on the diversity of zooplankton communities in a neotropical floodplain

NR Simoes, JD Dias, CM Leal… - Aquatic Sciences, 2013‏ - Springer
Floodplains show a high biodiversity due to their spatial heterogeneity and temporal
variability, which are governed by environmental dynamics resulting from the flood pulse …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of fire disturbance on alpha and beta diversity and on beta diversity components of soil seed banks and aboveground vegetation

M Heydari, R Omidipour, M Abedi… - Plant Ecology and …, 2017‏ - researchgate.net
Background and aims–Although an understanding of the effects of fire severity on diversity
components of the soil seed bank (SSB) and aboveground vegetation (AGV) is important to …

Variation of plant diversity components in different scales in relation to grazing and climatic conditions

R Erfanzadeh, R Omidipour… - Plant Ecology & …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background: Understanding the role of livestock grazing on plant diversity can be improved
by an accurate measurement of diversity at all hierarchical scales due to the changeability of …

Patterns of seed bank and vegetation diversity along a tidal freshwater river

T Elsey‐Quirk, MA Leck - American Journal of Botany, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Species richness and diversity may increase with spatial scale
related to increased area and heterogeneity of habitat. Yet, in bidirectional hydrologically …

How does conversion of natural tropical rainforest ecosystems affect soil bacterial and fungal communities in the Nile river watershed of Uganda?

PO Alele, D Sheil, Y Surget-Groba, S Lingling… - PLoS …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Uganda's forests are globally important for their conservation values but are under pressure
from increasing human population and consumption. In this study, we examine how …

Fish larvae diversity in a conservation area of a neotropical floodplain: influence of temporal and spatial scales

CB Silva, JD Dias, A Bialetzki - Hydrobiologia, 2017‏ - Springer
The diversity of fish larvae in floodplain environments exhibits spatial and temporal
variations since fish have different ontogenetic requirements, and is influenced by their …

Species–genetic diversity correlations depend on ecological similarity between multiple moorland plant species

NI Ishii, SK Hirota, A Matsuo, MP Sato, T Sasaki… - Oikos, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species diversity (SD) and genetic diversity (GD) are fundamental aspects of biodiversity
and are dependent because they are sympatrically affected by biotic and abiotic factors …

Seasonal change in light partitioning among coexisting species of different functional groups along elevation gradient in subalpine moorlands

C Kamiyama, S Oikawa, K Hikosaka - New Phytologist, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Species niches are expected to differ between different functional groups and between
species with different functional traits. However, it is still unclear how functional traits …

Leaf-trait responses to environmental gradients in moorland communities: contribution of intraspecific variation, species replacement and functional group …

C Kamiyama, M Katabuchi, T Sasaki, M Shimazaki… - Ecological …, 2014‏ - Springer
The values of many important traits of plants in a community change along environmental
gradients. Such changes may involve intraspecific variation and replacement by species that …