The management of multi-functional landscapes warrants better knowledge of environment-richness associations at varying disturbance levels and habitat gradients.
Once we had identified the independent effect of environment on taxon richness, we explored if environment could explain common spatial variations between taxa, as was proposed, or if this covariation should be accounted by additional factors.
As in other environments, the species richness increases with the size of the wasteland.
"I think what Gale has shown us so far is that Mars is truly a good place to explore," says Prof Sanjeev Gupta, a Curiosity mission scientist from Imperial College London, UK. "We've seen this diverse pattern of ancient environments, a tremendous richness - lakes lapping up on shorelines and rivers sloshing into these lakes.
Tropical rainforests are extremely threatened environments with high richness and diversity of species (Gómez-Pompa et al. 1972; Murray-Smith et al. 2009).
"He pulls in signals — the crisis, AIDS, the environment, misogyny, Twitter, false richness — from his Brussels control tower".
Its biological vision also seems borrowed from the films of Bruno Dumont ("La Vie de Jsus" and "Humanit"), whose portrayals of people as beasts roaming dazedly through a teeming natural environment have a textural richness and passion that this movie lacks.
Our principal aim was to achieve a plausible causal structure connecting latitude, environment, birds and mammal richness and the correlation between them.
The heterogeneous distribution of riparian plants is consistent with that of modern, disturbance-dominated fluvial environments, although Pennsylvanian species richness was much lower.
