The Ecological Basis of Conservation
Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity
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The Mediterranean landscape is characterized by a heterogeneous structure: a mosaic of woody plants (trees or shrubs) with scattered patches of herbaceous vegetation. Although the herbaceous and woody patches ...
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The impact of herbivores on herbaceous plant communities is usually attributed to direct consumption of plants. We hypothesized that goats affect herbaceous plants both directly (consumption by foraging) and i...
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This chapter introduces the problems with which the book deals and lays out the structure of the analysis. We introduce the needs, both scientific and practical, for develo** a new theory of conservation. Su...
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Snail grazing and feces production have been shown to be major components of the nitrogen (N) budget of Negev Desert ecosystems. However, the movement of N from feces into soil N cycling processes has not been...
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This chapter presents the results of a discussion among physical, ecological and social scientists, to evaluate how and why forested regions should be the subject of integrated regional models (IRM). We presen...
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Three strip transects, each ca 100 contiguous 0.5 × 1 m2 quadrats, were sampled during the spring bloom of March 1981 across four surface structural units of a Negev Desert research watershed at Sede Boqer, Israe...
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Three strip transects, each ca 100 contiguous 0.5×1 m2 quadrats, were sampled during the spring bloom of March 1981 across four surface structural units of a Negev Desert research watershed at Sede Boqer, Israel....
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Little attention has been directed to the study of soil flow and the complex relationships among energy water and soil flow in terrestrial ecosystems. Soil plays an important role in arid ecosystems. After wat...
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The phenology and activity of the isopod H. reaumuri has been studied since 1972, in the Negev desert; five distinct phenophases were identified in the annual life cycle of the isopod. From the relationship betwe...
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The desert woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri is one of the most abundant macroscopic invertebrates in North Africa, the Arabian steppes, semi-desert and desert, and the Negev desert Israel.