Relationship between earthworm abundance, ecological diversity and soil function in pastures

Soil Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Schon ◽  
P. M. Fraser ◽  
A. D. Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Soil Function

scholarly journals Monograph of Carex section Schiedeanae (Cyperaceae): unexpected taxonomic and ecological diversity in a Mexican sedge clade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton A. Reznicek ◽  
M. Socorro González‐Elizondo ◽  
Marlene Hahn ◽  
Mira Garner ◽  
Andrew L. Hipp
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Diversity

scholarly journals Black spicules from a new interstitial opheliid polychaete Thoracophelia minuta sp. nov. (Annelida: Opheliidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Jimi ◽  
Shinta Fujimoto ◽  
Mami Takehara ◽  
Satoshi Imura
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Evolutionary Significance ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Coelomic Cavity ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

AbstractThe phylum Annelida exhibits high morphological diversity coupled with its extensive ecological diversity, and the process of its evolution has been an attractive research subject for many researchers. Its representatives are also extensively studied in fields of ecology and developmental biology and important in many other biology related disciplines. The study of biomineralisation is one of them. Some annelid groups are well known to form calcified tubes but other forms of biomineralisation are also known. Herein, we report a new interstitial annelid species with black spicules, Thoracophelia minuta sp. nov., from Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. Spicules are minute calcium carbonate inclusions found across the body and in this new species, numerous black rod-like inclusions of calcium-rich composition are distributed in the coelomic cavity. The new species can be distinguished from other known species of the genus by these conspicuous spicules, shape of branchiae and body formula. Further, the new species’ body size is apparently smaller than its congeners. Based on our molecular phylogenetic analysis using 18S and 28S sequences, we discuss the evolutionary significance of the new species’ spicules and also the species' progenetic origin.

scholarly journals Using soil function evaluation in multi-criteria decision analysis for sustainability appraisal of remediation alternatives

2014 ◽  
Vol 485-486 ◽  
pp. 785-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevheniya Volchko ◽  
Jenny Norrman ◽  
Lars Rosén ◽  
Magnus Bergknut ◽  
Sarah Josefsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Function Evaluation ◽  
Soil Function ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Sustainability Appraisal

Ecological diversity of Pliocene to Pleistocene Palaearctic cercopithecids (Primates, Mammalia)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Χρήστος-Αλέξανδρος Πλαστήρας
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Diversity

Ο σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση της οικολογίας των κερκοπιθήκων του Πλειοκαίνου και Πλειστοκαίνου του Ευρωπαϊκού χώρου, αναλύοντας την διατροφική τους οικολογία, η οποία θα συμβάλει στη γνώηση της εξέλιξης των Cercopithecidae στην περιοχή της Ευρώπης κατά την χρονική περίοδο μελέτης. Αυτό επιτεύχθηκε με τη συνδυαστική χρήση δύο μεθοδολογιών: οδοντική τοπογραφία - ανάλυση πάχους αδαμαντίνης και ανάλυση υφής μικροτριβής (DMTA). Η μελέτη επικεντρώνεταί σε απολιθωμένο οδοντικό υλικό που βρίσκεται σε διάφορες συλλογές μουσείων και πανεπιστημιών της Ευρώπης, από το Mesopithecus monspessulanus που ανήκει στο απολιθωμένο γένος Mesopithecus, και απολιθωμένους αντιπροσώπους των γενών Dolichopithecus, Paradolichopithecus και Macaca. Τα αποτελέσματα της εν λόγω εργασίας αναμένεται να αυξήσουν την πληθώρα πληροφοριών όσων αφορά το οικολογικό υπόβαθρο των απολιθωμένων αντιπρόσωπων της οικογένειας Cercopithecidae του Ευρωπαϊκού χώρου. Επιπλέον, συμβάλλουν περαιτέρω στην καλύτερη κατανόηση του τρόπου με τον οποίο οικολογικές διαδικασίες, όπως ο ανταγωνισμός για χώρο και διατροφικούς πόρους, έχουν επηρεάσει την εξέλιξη αυτής της οικογένειας πρωτευόντων στην εν λόγω γεωγραφική περιοχή την χρονική περίοδο μελέτης. Όλα τα παραπάνω αναμένεται να τροφοδοτήσουν περισσότερους ερευνητές στο μέλλον να διερευνήσουν πιθανές επιπτώσεις αυτών των οικολογικών αλληλεπιδράσεων σε κοινωνίες πρωτευόντων σήμερα αλλά και στο παρελθόν.

A link between ecological diversity indices and measures of biodiversity

2000 ◽  
Vol 130 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
János Izsák ◽  
László Papp
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Indices ◽  
Ecological Diversity

Problems Relating to the Neothermal Climatic Sequence

1964 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Lyle Bryan ◽  
Ruth Gruhn
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Temperature Curve ◽  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Independent Evidence ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
Historic Development ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Variable Radio

AbstractThe sequence of three phases (Anathermal, Altithermal, Medithermal) of the Postglacial or Neothermal temperature curve, although demonstrably a reality, has been used improperly to determine absolute dates and past climatic conditions from archaeological deposits. A review of the historic development of the concept of the three sequent Neothermal temperature phases reveals the assumptions on which absolute dating of these phases has been based. Analysis of the variable radio-carbon dates now available for deposits attributed to these phases in a number of different localities in North America indicates that these phases cannot be considered as universal time periods bracketed by definite absolute dates; and consideration of the ecological diversity within North America at any particular time, especially in the West, indicates that climatic conditions inferred for a given span of Neothermal time in one area cannot be projected into another area without direct independent evidence of the actual climatic conditions which existed in the second area at that time. It is suggested that Anathermal, Altithermal, and Medithermal be used not as time periods with fixed absolute dates or climatic periods with defined characteristics, but rather be considered as phases of the Neothermal temperature curve which in different ecological areas resulted in locally varying climatic conditions which must be determined by direct evidence, dated by independent means, and designated by local terms.

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