Sentences with phrase «liana communities»

«We were surprised that [they] appeared to be remarkably robust to the negative impacts of landscape - scale habitat fragmentation caused by reservoir creation,» she noted, «and saw no difference in the liana communities on islands compared to the mainland.»

Jones and her team studied tree and liana communities in 77 study plots scattered across 36 of those islands.

But what do thriving liana communities mean for Balbina in the long - term, and for the Amazon in general, as hydropower development rapidly expands across the basin?

For reservoir islands, «a persistent liana community will likely exacerbate the degradation of remnant tree communities,» the scientists warn.

Not exact matches

While previous experimental studies have shown that lianas affect reproduction in single species of trees, this is the first experimental study to demonstrate the effects of lianas on the reproduction of an entire tree community.

Arctic environment, nature and ecology (Arctic plant communities), Behaviour and etology (Modelling, Movement ecology), Ecology (Landscape ecology), Plants, flowers and trees (Lianas, Tropical timber trees), Population biology (Individual - based modelling, Population dynamics)