Sentence examples for richness patterns of from inspiring English sources

To address this knowledge gap we tested the contribution of land use related variables to models describing richness patterns of amphibians, reptiles and passerines in the Iberian Peninsula.

We tested the effect of factors related to the individual tree and the surrounding landscape on the occurrence and richness patterns of lichens species.

We analysed the explanatory power of meff for richness patterns of different groups of vascular plant species (all species, and species groups by naturalisation and threat status) in Lower Saxony, Germany, by using a grid of 1386 analysis units.

We conclude that meff is a meaningful tool to explain richness patterns of non-native plant species, if relevant fragmentation geometries are chosen, but not of native and threatened plant species.

We linked the gradient of landscape modification intensity to richness patterns of eight groups of vascular plants that were aggregated using residence and threat status and habitat preferences of the species.

Using the database of a large-scale pond survey, we evaluated the effects of surrounding land use (landscape factors and modern pond management practices), fish abundance, and other environmental variables on total phosphorus concentration and taxonomic richness patterns of six biological indicators associated with changes in the trophic state.

For example, latitudinal distributions and species-richness patterns of Atlantic fishes change from year to year in response to atmospherically influenced changes in ocean temperature [136].

We summarize the present knowledge about species richness patterns (mainly of vascular plants) along abiotic and land use gradients.

We show that the strength of PSRs is dependent on ecoregion size, demonstrating the importance of scaling factors in the determinants of species richness patterns, and the centrality of scale in the long-running debate on the nature of macro-scale PSRs.

We assessed the influence of local habitat and landscape composition on species richness patterns and the effect of prescribed burning and landscape affinity on species composition for all bees and wasps as well as ecological and functional groups.

In a meta-analysis involving 204 elevational transects, Rahbek (2005) found ∼80%% of hump-shaped richness patterns but only a small proportion of monotonic patterns.