The abundance of most functional groups of waterbirds changed in response to broad scale changes in wetland distribution, while local abundance remained highly variable.
We project likely broad scale changes to species richness and abundance within production stands for five taxonomic groups including ground vegetation, tree-living bryophytes, lichens, saproxylic beetles, and birds.
The loss documented here was rapid, occurring hours after settlement, and therefore would be largely undetected by monitoring surveys designed to detect broad scale changes in community composition and relative abundance.
We also took advantage of the Macrostrat database (http://macrostrat.org), which currently does not include Europe, to quantify broad scale changes in the sedimentary cover of North America and to employ an alternative measurement of geographic range (Fig. 1B).
This is suggestive that an inversion caused historic broad scale changes in recombination rate.
If climatic fluctuations caused broad scale changes in vegetation and habitat, leading to population divergence, then the phylogeographical patterns of giraffes should also be found in other species.
Finally, the creation of a light organ-specific spotted microarray using this EST library will pave the way for the study of broad scale changes in host gene expression that underlie the dramatic developmental program of this symbiosis.
The composition of the EST set used in these microarray experiments has previously been considered specifically with respect to the complement of developmental signalling pathway components [ 2, 3], but this paper is the first to examine broad scale changes in gene expression during development for any cnidarian.
The idea was that creating new ways of working would, on a broader scale, change the landscape of employment.
Change detection using pre- and post-disturbance imagery is generally limited to the detection of broad-scale change.
The species redistribution affects ecosystem carbon sequestration, but given the time span modeled of 44 years (2006 to 2050), broad-scale change in vegetation communities may have been unlikely.
