Sentence examples for diversity responses from inspiring English sources

Cortois, R. et al. Possible mechanisms underlying abundance and diversity responses of nematode communities to plant diversity.

We examined plant diversity responses in a California annual grassland to manipulations of four global environmental changes, singly and in combination: elevated CO2, warming, precipitation, and nitrogen deposition.

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.

Diversity responses to both single and combined global change treatments were driven overwhelmingly by gains and losses of forb species, which make up most of the native plant diversity in California grasslands.

Diversity responses across treatments also showed no consistent relationship to net primary production responses, illustrating that the diversity effects of these environmental changes could not be explained simply by changes in productivity.

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.

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.

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.

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

Following this prediction the patches affected by I. confusus will likely have a different diversity response than those only affected by drought, affecting future community integrity and function, even biodiversity creation processes.