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Rainforest Biogeography
Rainforest Biogeography "Who the heck is this Jonathan Adams, anyway?" This text is a modified and slightly ... of the coldest winter month, with the final (and rather subjective) boundary between equatorial rainforest and temperate rainforest being drawn on maps at around the point where there is a significant probability ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing Tradition
A similar process is now being observed amongst butterflies in fragments of rainforest (Lovejoy et al 1986). Other species have spread from cliffs and gaps to the devastated ... , in that it is propagated by many scientists, is that the Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography (ETIB) is useful in reserve design (Diamond 1975). However, the theory actually contributes nothing to ...
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The Eternal Threat (Do or Die)
Wilson in 1967 in their seminal work "The Theory of Island Biogeography" [1] (which is still used widely today by those responsible for ... (mostly figs) from the Amazon Basin could cause most of the rainforest and its species to ‘collapse’. This is not to say ... Macarthur, R.H and E.O. Wilson, 1967, 'The Theory of Island biogeography'. Princeton University Press. Soule M.E and B.A. Wilcox (eds), ' ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Sahel, sub-Saharan Africa, or the Southern African Development ... distribution of vegetation formations to climatic factors (for more details on these plant biogeography models, see Section 2.3.1.4). However, large uncertainties in GCM ...
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PROJECT SUMMARY
Demonstration of non-applicability of Theory of Island Biogeography to reserve design for amphibians Forest Regeneration Land-use history after forest ... establishment of arboreal species in rainforest clearings. Aldicir Scariot, University of California Ecological and genetic consequences of fragmentation of tropical rainforest on a palm community. Renato ...
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Rainforest Gap Research Challenges Biodiversity Assumptions
Rainforest Gap Research Challenges Biodiversity Assumptions This Site Uses JavaScript Our Web site makes use of ... the idea in an expanded form. The theory, called the unified theory of biodiversity and biogeography, allows scientists to calculate a single number, called the fundamental biodiversity number, that describes a ...
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USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Staff Profile
Systematics, ecology, and behavior of amphibian and reptile species; patterns of diversity of lowland rainforest species of amphibians and reptiles; herpetofaunas of the Guayana Highlands of southern Venezuela ... the genus Centrolene (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from Ecuador with comments on the taxonomy and biogeography of glassfrogs. Zootaxa 1244:1-32. Padial, J.M., S. Riechle, R. McDiarmid, ...
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Sanctuary Asia - Interviews
I am for instance involved with a project dealing with the effects of rainforest fragmentation on the herpetofauna and small mammals of the Western Ghats in southern India. ... of leopards with an emphasis on predation ecology, ranging, habitat use and dispersal. Others involve biogeography and conservation planning in India using birds as the reference taxa; social behaviour and ...
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Indigenous Ecotourism: Río Blanco, Ecuador: Section 1
(Figure 2.1). With the exception of the cloud forest along the province's western edge, Napo is characterized by equatorial rainforest typical of the vast ...
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Books on Endangered Species: Geographic Regions - Endangered Specie.com
African country of Swaziland. California : Vanishing Habitats and Wildlife The Song of the Dodo : Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Can We Save Them? : Endangered Species of North America - ... Or. A Walk in the Rainforest - A Walk in the Rainforest provides a colorful, stimulating way to learn about the exotic animals and plants of the rainforest. Presented in alphabet style format, ...
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