The ecological composition of the neighborhood may be diverse, but it is also extremely unstable.
Henry, L. A. & Roberts, J. M. Biodiversity and ecological composition of macrobenthos on cold-water coral mounds and adjacent off-mound habitat in the bathyal Porcupine Seabight, NEAtlantic.
It is not entirely clear how the scale and physical heterogeneity of surrounding catchment, its ecological composition, and larger landscape gradients work together to sustain littoral communities.
We identified a group of 'rare city parks', dissimilar in ecological composition that hosted more complex and species rich plant communities compared to 'common city parks'.
We offer scores for a comprehensive set of community-level attributes, from beetle abundance to taxonomic and ecological composition (i.e. species body size), including a list of indicator species of different forest habitats and adjacent matrix.
In this study, four P. australis wetlands which were restored at different times were selected and discussed their plant ecological characteristics, composition structure, species diversity and community similarity to determine how plant ecological characteristics and species composition changes over time.
In fact, a growing number of studies has shown that genetic diversity within species can have large effects on ecological community composition (e.g., Crutsinger et al., 2006; Johnson et al., 2006; Cook-Patton et al., 2011).
The biodiversity of ecological communities, including composition and variability of traits of plants and soil organisms, can alter this balance in several ways.
Changes in physical properties translated into marked spatial variations in macrofaunal diversity, abundance and species composition: ecological effects were strongest within 15 m of the groyne wall.
The taxonomic composition, ecological parameters (number of species, abundance and biomass) and biomass spectra of the assemblages, as well as the length frequency distribution of the main species, were compared for different seasons and bathymetric ranges.
