Decomposition was greater on the pine barrens than the small block transect and greater at 4 cm depth than at the surface for both landscapes.
In the case of the smaller run up transects, the maximum thickness is usually closer to the shoreline, and then the deposits generally become thinner landward (transects 3 and 4 in Fig. 3, and transect 10 in Fig. 4).
At the smaller scale of transects, the same pattern emerged, except thinned forests had slightly higher evenness than exurban areas (Figure S3).
However, this approach can be very time consuming and often only a small number of transects can be measured in this way, which may not be adequate to characterize the spatial variability of SR across the landscape.
To check that our results were independent of spatial scale (Hamer & Hill, 2000), each of our species and functional diversity measures were calculated and compared at a large scale (the overall habitat) and a small scale (individual transects).
The small bowel is transected at 2.8 3.2 m from the ileocecal valve, and its distal end is anastomosed to the remaining stomach.
The small bowel is transected 2.5 m from the ileocecal valve, and its distal end is anastomosed to the remaining stomach.
The small bowel is transected at 2.5 m from the ileocecal valve, and its distal end is anastomosed to the remaining stomach.
Therefore, we assume the potential problem of the D3-marker to give too conservative estimates of species diversity to be rather small for surveys conducted on a local level, e.g. on the level of transects in a small study area like the Kakamega Forest.
In order to assess the effects of land use and landscape position on soil nutrients consisting of soil organic matter (SOM), total N (TN), total P (TP), available N (AN) and available P (AP), soil samples were collected in August and October 1998 and July 1999 from three transects in a small catchment on the loess plateau, China.
