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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"species-rich community"”.
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An investigation of the influence of drought and other soil factors on the structure of a calcareous grassland.
… history and physiology to the maintenance of species-richness in the vegetation at the site. Three complementary methods of investigation were adopted; (1) analysis of spatial patterns by grid sampling of the field site. (2) comparative study of 17 component species in standardized …
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Recovery and Resilience of Appalachian Herbs
The herbaceous layer of rich cove forests in the Southern Appalachians represent one of the highest biodiversity habitats in North America. These forests, however, have undergone large-scale logging disturbance that has altered 99% of the original forested landscape, leaving few old growth forests. …
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Ecological assembly of high-diversity plant communities: dispersal, competition, and environmental filtering in longleaf pine savannas
Ecological mechanisms proposed to explain community assembly and the maintenance of biodiversity are hypothesized to fall along a theoretical continuum bounded at one extreme by deterministic processes (“niche assembly”) and at the other extreme by stochastic processes (“dispersal assembly”). In …