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Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing
: an ecological and economic perspective
2009, Oxford biology., ISBN 9780199547951, Volume 9780199547951, xiv, 368 p., [4] p. of plates
How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and...
Ecosystem health | Écologie humaine | Écosystèmes | Santé | Biodiversity | Human ecology | Biodiversité | Biology, life sciences | ecology and conservation | Ecological assessment (Biology) | Human beings | Economic aspects | Effect of environment on | Monitoring | Ecosystem functioning | Ecosystem services | Sustainable development | Diversity
Ecosystem health | Écologie humaine | Écosystèmes | Santé | Biodiversity | Human ecology | Biodiversité | Biology, life sciences | ecology and conservation | Ecological assessment (Biology) | Human beings | Economic aspects | Effect of environment on | Monitoring | Ecosystem functioning | Ecosystem services | Sustainable development | Diversity
Book
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 11/2005, Volume 310, Issue 5750, pp. 1029 - 1031
Journal Article
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 12/2010, Volume 91, Issue 12, pp. 3664 - 3674
A trade-off between growth and mortality rates characterizes tree species in closed canopy forests. This trade-off is maintained by inherent differences among...
growth rates | leaf mass per area | maximum height | Barro Colorado Island | Panama | seed mass | seed size | wood density | maximum size | mortality rates | Trees | Average linear density | Mortality | Forest ecology | Plant ecology | Growth traits | Saplings | Plants | Species | Forest trees | Seed mass | Maximum size | Growth rates | Seed size | Leaf mass per area | Wood density | Mortality rates | Maximum height | RECRUITMENT | ALLOMETRY | SHADE TOLERANCE | FOREST | PLANT TRAITS | DIMENSIONS | CONSERVATION | GOOD PREDICTORS | ECOLOGY | LEAF | INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION | Trees - physiology | Seeds - physiology | Tropical Climate | Ecosystem | Biomass | Trees - growth & development | Plant Leaves - physiology | Physiological aspects | Research | Growth | Forests | Growth rate | Wood | Interspecific | Tropical forests | Shade | Trade | Demographics | Canopies | Predictions | Foliage | Variation
growth rates | leaf mass per area | maximum height | Barro Colorado Island | Panama | seed mass | seed size | wood density | maximum size | mortality rates | Trees | Average linear density | Mortality | Forest ecology | Plant ecology | Growth traits | Saplings | Plants | Species | Forest trees | Seed mass | Maximum size | Growth rates | Seed size | Leaf mass per area | Wood density | Mortality rates | Maximum height | RECRUITMENT | ALLOMETRY | SHADE TOLERANCE | FOREST | PLANT TRAITS | DIMENSIONS | CONSERVATION | GOOD PREDICTORS | ECOLOGY | LEAF | INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION | Trees - physiology | Seeds - physiology | Tropical Climate | Ecosystem | Biomass | Trees - growth & development | Plant Leaves - physiology | Physiological aspects | Research | Growth | Forests | Growth rate | Wood | Interspecific | Tropical forests | Shade | Trade | Demographics | Canopies | Predictions | Foliage | Variation
Journal Article
Global Change Biology, ISSN 1354-1013, 09/2011, Volume 17, Issue 9, pp. 2905 - 2935
Plant traits - the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs - determine how primary...
WIDE-RANGE | LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM | plant trait | intraspecific variation | plant attribute | LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATES | OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION | vegetation model | functional diversity | database | global analysis | TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST | SUB-ARCTIC FLORA | environmental gradient | global change | HAWAIIAN METROSIDEROS-POLYMORPHA | FUNCTIONAL TRAITS | RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE | TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE | interspecific variation | comparative ecology | plant functional type | Plant trait | Comparative ecology | Intraspecific variation | Plant attribute | Global analysis | Global change | Database | Interspecific variation | Vegetation model | Plant functional type | Environmental gradient | Functional diversity | ELEVATED CO2 | RAIN-FOREST | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | QUERCUS-ILEX | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | ECOLOGY | LEAF DRY MASS | Phenology | Data bases | Flowers & plants | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences | ORGANS | LIFE CYCLE | AVAILABILITY | REGENERATION | BIOLOGY | PLANTS | 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES | ECOSYSTEMS | FUNCTIONALS | DATA ANALYSIS | RAW MATERIALS | Original | leaf economics spectrum | functional traits | relative growth-rate | terrestrial biosphere | hawaiian metrosideros-polymorpha | tropical rain-forest | old-field succession | sub-arctic flora | litter decomposition rates | wide-range
WIDE-RANGE | LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM | plant trait | intraspecific variation | plant attribute | LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATES | OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION | vegetation model | functional diversity | database | global analysis | TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST | SUB-ARCTIC FLORA | environmental gradient | global change | HAWAIIAN METROSIDEROS-POLYMORPHA | FUNCTIONAL TRAITS | RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE | TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE | interspecific variation | comparative ecology | plant functional type | Plant trait | Comparative ecology | Intraspecific variation | Plant attribute | Global analysis | Global change | Database | Interspecific variation | Vegetation model | Plant functional type | Environmental gradient | Functional diversity | ELEVATED CO2 | RAIN-FOREST | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | QUERCUS-ILEX | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | ECOLOGY | LEAF DRY MASS | Phenology | Data bases | Flowers & plants | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences | ORGANS | LIFE CYCLE | AVAILABILITY | REGENERATION | BIOLOGY | PLANTS | 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES | ECOSYSTEMS | FUNCTIONALS | DATA ANALYSIS | RAW MATERIALS | Original | leaf economics spectrum | functional traits | relative growth-rate | terrestrial biosphere | hawaiian metrosideros-polymorpha | tropical rain-forest | old-field succession | sub-arctic flora | litter decomposition rates | wide-range
Journal Article
ISSN 0012-9658, 2013
Comparative analyses that link information on species' traits, environmental change, and organism response have rarely identified unambiguous trait correlates...
Entomology | Ecology
Entomology | Ecology
Journal Article
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, ISSN 0168-1923, 09/2014, Volume 195-196, pp. 102 - 107
Accurate measurement of canopy structure is fundamental to the fields of ecological modeling and restoration. A large number of methods exist for estimating...
Hemispherical photography | Color channel | Canopy characteristics | Exposure | Canopy closure | Plant canopies | COVER | AGRONOMY | LIGHT | FOREST | AVAILABILITY | GROWTH | FORESTRY | OPENNESS | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | LEAF-AREA INDEX | Photography | Analysis | Forests | Canopies | Images | Estimating | Estimates | Closures | Channels
Hemispherical photography | Color channel | Canopy characteristics | Exposure | Canopy closure | Plant canopies | COVER | AGRONOMY | LIGHT | FOREST | AVAILABILITY | GROWTH | FORESTRY | OPENNESS | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | LEAF-AREA INDEX | Photography | Analysis | Forests | Canopies | Images | Estimating | Estimates | Closures | Channels
Journal Article
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 11/2005, Volume 310, Issue 5750, pp. 1029 - 1031
Tropical forest biodiversity is declining, but the resulting effects on key ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and sequestration, remain unknown. We...
Trees | Extinct species | Species diversity | Species extinction | Reports | Photoperiod | Tropical forests | Forest ecosystems | Species | Carbon sequestration | Functional diversity | BIODIVERSITY | DEFORESTATION | SCENARIOS | ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | GRASSLAND | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | TREE | AMAZONIAN FORESTS | COMMUNITIES | EXTINCTION | PLANT DIVERSITY | Tropical Climate | Wood | Ecosystem | Panama | Forestry | Carbon - analysis | Conservation of Natural Resources | Biomass | Trees - growth & development | Biodiversity | Ecosystems | Research | Rainforests | Carbon | Biological diversity
Trees | Extinct species | Species diversity | Species extinction | Reports | Photoperiod | Tropical forests | Forest ecosystems | Species | Carbon sequestration | Functional diversity | BIODIVERSITY | DEFORESTATION | SCENARIOS | ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | GRASSLAND | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | TREE | AMAZONIAN FORESTS | COMMUNITIES | EXTINCTION | PLANT DIVERSITY | Tropical Climate | Wood | Ecosystem | Panama | Forestry | Carbon - analysis | Conservation of Natural Resources | Biomass | Trees - growth & development | Biodiversity | Ecosystems | Research | Rainforests | Carbon | Biological diversity
Journal Article
Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 03/2017, Volume 105, Issue 2, pp. 298 - 309
Ecological research produces a tremendous amount of data, but the diversity in scales and topics covered and the ways in which studies are carried out result...
Plant Science | ecology | biodiversity | controlled vocabulary | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | plant trait | thesaurus | informatics | semantics | plant characteristics | ontology | plant environmental association | PLANT SCIENCES | ONTOLOGIES | DATABASE | GENE | HANDBOOK | TRAITS | TOOL | Environmental aspects | Environmental associations | Controlled vocabularies | Applications programming | Analysis | Biological diversity | Semantic web | Classification | Plant ecology | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences
Plant Science | ecology | biodiversity | controlled vocabulary | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | plant trait | thesaurus | informatics | semantics | plant characteristics | ontology | plant environmental association | PLANT SCIENCES | ONTOLOGIES | DATABASE | GENE | HANDBOOK | TRAITS | TOOL | Environmental aspects | Environmental associations | Controlled vocabularies | Applications programming | Analysis | Biological diversity | Semantic web | Classification | Plant ecology | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences
Journal Article
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 1/2013, Volume 94, Issue 1, pp. 180 - 189
Comparative analyses that link information on species' traits, environmental change, and organism response have rarely identified unambiguous trait correlates...
extrinsic factors | extinction risk | trait-based approaches | fitness | functional traits | body size | land use change | Scarabaeinae | context-dependency | population response | Conservation biology | Biological taxonomies | Tropical regions | Population characteristics | Dung beetles | Forest habitats | Forest ecology | Agriculture | Tropical forests | Insect ecology | Context-dependency | Extrinsic factors | Body size | Land use change | Functional traits | Population response | Trait-based approaches | Extinction risk |
extrinsic factors | extinction risk | trait-based approaches | fitness | functional traits | body size | land use change | Scarabaeinae | context-dependency | population response | Conservation biology | Biological taxonomies | Tropical regions | Population characteristics | Dung beetles | Forest habitats | Forest ecology | Agriculture | Tropical forests | Insect ecology | Context-dependency | Extrinsic factors | Body size | Land use change | Functional traits | Population response | Trait-based approaches | Extinction risk |