Sentence examples for diversity response from inspiring English sources

This enhances SES resilience by increasing diversity response as well as functional redundancy against adverse events such as drought (Biggs et al. 2012).

A Forest Observational Studies FOSS) network would ensure effective monitoring and analysis of forest ecosystems covering a range of topics, including changes in ecosystem structure and diversity, response to natural disturbances, as well as tree mortality and regeneration.

We used field measurements and easily accessible explanatory variables to model aboveground carbon density, soil carbon density and tree alpha diversity (response variables) over a mostly forested area of northern Borneo.

In the present study, we try to overcome the problems of non-normal distributions of data, by inspecting the maximum value or values of productivity at each level of species number, and we compare this function with the average diversity response.

The focus in the unmanaged series is on a wide range of topics that are of interest to ecologists, such as species-habitat associations; gender-related biomass partitioning; natural ecosystem structure and diversity; response to natural disturbances such as wildfire; seed dispersion and seedling survival.

RCI analysis was overlaid with plant species diversity, response to abiotic community boundaries and endemic plasticity.

Variable diversity responses may result from the adoption of different unmanaged reference systems, ranging from stands with management abandonment in the recent past to true primeval forests.

Therefore, we investigated vegetation structure, coverage, and diversity responses to combinations of prescribed fire and herbicide (imazapyr) treatments within mid-rotation, thinned, intensively managed pine stands within a managed forest matrix in east-central Mississippi, USA during 1999 2008.

Analysing the mechanisms affecting arthropod diversity responses to grazing has revealed why generally arthropod diversity responds negatively to (intensive) grazing and how the variation in these responses can be explained.

Some previous research has indicated the presence of "competitive exclusion" diversity responses to some stresses e.g. copper or cadmium amendment (Degens et al., 2001; Zhang et al., 2009b, 2010).

We observed various responses to the different compounds as well as a diversity of response depending on the aeration conditions used for cell growth.