Sentences with phrase «studying plant diversity»

He'd been studying plant diversity, and this flower, curiously emerging from a twisted thicket of vines, seemed to defy all rules.

Not exact matches

Our study shows that plant diversity differs between intact areas and areas in which the monkeys have disappeared as a result of poaching.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

Previous studies have determined that higher affluence is frequently associated with more biological diversity across species of plants, birds, bats, and lizards — a phenomenon coined the «luxury effect.»

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

In the new study, he and his colleagues sought to quantify those costs by mapping each corridor along with the estimated human occupancy and the environmental values, including endangered and endemic vertebrates, plant diversity, critical habitats, carbon storage, and climate - regulation services, inside a 50 - kilometer - wide band overlaid onto each corridor.

«Unprecedented worldwide biodiversity study: Findings indicate both high, low productivity regions have reduced plant species diversity.»

That was the conclusion drawn from a two - year study of 18 cover - crop treatments, ranging in diversity from one to eight plant species.

Sixty - two scientists from 19 countries spanning six continents studied the relationships between plant biomass production and species diversity, culminating in a paper appearing in Science, the world's leading journal for cutting - edge scientific research.

«In this study, we were asking a very simple question: is there a consistent «rule» governing how grassland plant diversity varies with local productivity?

Axel Diederichsen, curator of Plant Gene Resources of Canada in Saskatoon, says the new study's effort to document and map missing wild diversity is valuable.

The humble earthworm may be a threat to plant diversity in natural ecosystems, says a study just published by researchers from Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke.

The angiosperm family Rubiaceae contains the highest diversity of ant plants, and the new study focused on those in the subtribe Hydnophytinae, of which some 100 species are found in southeast Asia and Australasia.

Nicholas Brereton, a research fellow at Université de Montréal's Plant Biology Research Institute and senior author of the study, adds that «our initial mind - set was that bioinformatics and biology could be more profoundly integrated to see the diversity of function within a challenged root system.

All three authors worry about the message laid plain by the study: «What this really suggests is that to save ecological interactions, we may need to conserve much larger areas than for just maintaining e.g. plant diversity.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

Dr. James Beck of Wichita State University and Dr. John Semple, at the University of Waterloo, have collaborated on a new study highlighting the role of herbarium sampling coupled with cutting - edge next - generation sequencing technologies to better understand plant diversity.

A new study, however, has found that more careful tailoring of seed collections to specific species and situations is critical to preserving plant diversity.

Darwin had marveled at the diversity of these plants, and he saw the myriad ways in which the flowers and pollinating insects have adapted to each other as an extended case study in natural selection.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

Dr Shepherd is additionally co-convenor of an extensive pan-African network of crop scientists and virologists that is carrying out the world's largest ongoing plant pathogenic virus diversity studies.

The ubiquity of these markers and the fact that these polymorphisms show variation at such a fine scale (i.e., at the individual level) makes them ideal markers for many applications, such as population - level genetic diversity studies and genetic mapping in plants.

Their study is the first to show that soil biota play an important role in the maintenance of plant diversity in species - rich ecosystems.

This study is the scientific debut for Carnegie's Spectranomics project, a field and laboratory - based effort to determine the relationship between function and biological diversity of plant species in tropical forests.

California is particularly well suited to such a study, as it has high endemic plant diversity and the quality of plant distribution and climate data across the region are excellent.

«But few studies examine how tree diversity - species richness and / or stand composition - affects carbon storage in these plantings.

Niemiera's study concluded that the number - one item buyers look for in landscaping is a sophisticated design, followed by plant size and maturity and diversity of plant life.