Breeding Habitat Survey of Blackthroat (Luscinia obscura) in Foping Nature Reserve of Qinling Mountains

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 279-282
Author(s):  
Hongfeng Zhao ◽  
Ning Han ◽  
Lei Luo ◽  
Leigang Zhao ◽  
Xuebin Gao
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Qinling Mountains

scholarly journals Altitudinal Biodiversity Gradient and Ecological Drivers for Different Lifeforms in the Baotianman Nature Reserve of the Eastern Qinling Mountains

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Zhao ◽  
Wang ◽  
Yu ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Dispersal Limitation ◽  
Central China ◽  
Qinling Mountains ◽  
Dissimilarity Index ◽  
Β Diversity ◽  
Species Overlap ◽  
Predominant Process ◽  
Community Clustering ◽  
The Impact

Variation in species composition between two communities is so-called β diversity, or dissimilarity, and can be separated into two components: turnover and nestedness. However, the mechanisms underlying these two components remain ambiguous, particularly for different lifeforms. In this study, we examined the altitudinal gradient of biodiversity in the Baotianman Nature Reserve of the eastern Qinling Mountains in central China and found that turnover is the predominant process accounting for β diversity, that dispersal limitation is the main factor influencing species diversity, and that its effect on trees is greater than on shrubs, with herbs least affected. Nestedness, in contrast, is less prominent and generally affected by the richness deviation between communities, and the impact of richness deviation is stronger on shrubs than on trees, and in turn, stronger than on herbs. We zoned the altitudinal vegetation communities by pairwise dissimilarity index, and found that the peak value of turnover rather than β diversity indicates the existence of transitional zones; the higher the turnover index, the greater the diversity between communities. Comparatively, nestedness indicates species overlap between communities. The highest nestedness index usually occurs in the interior of vegetation zones. The result of community clustering by pairwise dissimilarity shows that understory species could have been mostly replaced upwards, while the dominant tree species may keep stable, indicating that dispersal limitation works differently for different lifeforms.

scholarly journals Breeding Habitat Selection of Reeves's Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) in Dongzhai National Nature Reserve, Henan Province, China

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Liang XU ◽  
Xiao-Hui ZHANG ◽  
Zheng-Wang ZHANG ◽  
Guang-Mei ZHENG ◽  
Xiang-Feng RUAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
National Nature Reserve ◽  
Syrmaticus Reevesii ◽  
Selection Of

Diversity and activity patterns of sympatric animals among four types of forest habitat in Guanyinshan Nature Reserve in the Qinling Mountains, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (19) ◽  
pp. 16465-16477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuehua Liu ◽  
Pengfeng Wu ◽  
Xiaoming Shao ◽  
Melissa Songer ◽  
Qiong Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Qinling Mountains ◽  
Forest Habitat

Characterising essential breeding habitat for whales informs the development of large-scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific

2016 ◽  
Vol 548 ◽  
pp. 263-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
RE Lindsay ◽  
R Constantine ◽  
J Robbins ◽  
DK Mattila ◽  
A Tagarino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
The South

Fossil diatoms from the Volga Delta Holocene sediments (Damchik region) as indicators of the paleoecological conditions of sedimentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
Yelena I. Shtyrkova ◽  
Yelena I. Polyakova
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Diatom Analysis ◽  
Volga Delta ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
Holocene Sediments ◽  
Fossil Diatoms

The results of fossil diatoms investigation from the deltaic sediments are presented. Samples were obtained from the core DM-1 and two Holocene outcrops from the Damchik region of the Astrakhan Nature Reserve. In the core samples eight periods of sedimentation based on diatom analysis were identified: the sediments formed in shallow freshwater basins and deltaic channels. The samples from the outcrops were investigated in much greater detail.

Carlisle Museum's Natural History Record Bureau, 1902–1912: Britain's first local environmental records centre

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Robin M. Sellers ◽  
Stephen Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Falco Peregrinus ◽  
Corvus Corax ◽  
Buteo Buteo ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
History Record ◽  
Economic Ornithology ◽  
The Impact

Carlisle Museum's Natural History Record Bureau, Britain's first local environmental records centre, collected and collated records, mainly of birds but including also mammals and fishes, from amateur naturalists. It initially covered an area of 80 kilometres around Carlisle, and later from Cumberland, Westmorland and the detached portion of Lancashire north of Morecambe Bay: in effect the modern-day county of Cumbria. At the end of each year, those records which had been accepted were logged in a special “Record Book”, and a summary published. For the first eight years of its ten-year existence (1902–1912), these were printed in the local newspaper, The Carlisle Journal, but from 1908 they also appeared in The Zoologist. Alongside the Record Bureau, the Museum undertook a number of other activities, including a short-lived attempt to establish a bird-ringing project, an investigation into the impact of black-headed gulls ( Chroicocephalus ridibundus) on farming and fisheries interests (an early example of economic ornithology), the setting up of Kingmoor Nature Reserve and the protection of nesting peregrines ( Falco peregrinus), buzzards ( Buteo buteo) and ravens ( Corvus corax). The effectiveness of the Natural History Record Bureau and the reasons for its demise are briefly discussed.

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