Biodiversity of Ant: A case study of Madagascar
Insects constitute 85% of the world’s animal biodiversity and deserve increased attention in regions of the world, such as Madagascar(Graoomridge 1992)(Fisher and Robertson, 2002), where species-rich habitats are under threat. Although invertebrates and plants make up the vast majority of species in forest habitats land scape level patterns [...]
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Go to the original post at wukai's blogMonday, August 3rd, 2009
[ESSAY]Soil Microbial Diversity
Go to the original post at liuyongjie's blogMonday, August 3rd, 2009
Reading material: Darkness visiable, reflections on the underground ecology
Diversity is a critical environmental topic that concerned people from all walks of life are rallying around(Kennedy & Smith 1995).
Soil probably harbours most of our planet’s undiscovered biodiversity. Recent results from both, culturing and nucleic acidbased approaches indicate soil microbial diversity is even higher than previously imagined(Tiedje [...]
Falsifying Neutral Theory by Partitioning Beta Diversity
Go to the original post at navendu's blogMonday, August 3rd, 2009
Falsifying Neutral Theory by Partitioning Beta Diversity
Ecologists have long debated over the mechanisms that govern biodiversity at local and regional scales (Ricklefs & Schluter 1994). There are two contrasting group of thoughts that are commonly cited to explain the nature of organization of ecological communities. Niche based theory states that communities are structured by interacting species [...]
something about air pollution
Go to the original post at wendeng's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
Sorry for delaying, I already have try my best, it just like a sort of bird langrage
Essay on ‘Urban aerosols harbor diverse and dynamic
bacterial populations’
This article is focus on the diversity and dynamic bacterial populations in the air. Finally, they demonstrate that temporal and meteorological influences are stronger than location in shaping the [...]
[ESSAY] My Understanding on Seed Dispersal
Go to the original post at chensichong's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
ESSAY—- My Understanding on Seed Dispersal
Chen Sichong
Success of most plants is greatly dependent on effective seed dispersal. On the other hand, evidence from plant demography research is revealing that seed dispersal might have an important role in determining patterns of tree diversity and distribution. The limited mobility of plants makes them to develop a variety [...]
Basic understanding on squid-bacteria symbiosis
Go to the original post at Jer Pin's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
On July 10, Dr. Douglas Yu gave an excellent lecture on ‘Mutualism’. PowerPoint of that presentation can be found in Afec-X website under the ‘Lecture’ section. Dr. Yu’s lecture can be divided into three components: Mutualism, Partner Choice, and using economic theory to explain mutualism. I found the lecture very interesting, especially that some of [...]
Community Phylogenetic Diversity and Species Coexistence
Go to the original post at yizhuangfang's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
Title: Community Phylogenetic Diversity and Species Coexistence
I am not a biological people (but ecological) going to give myself a challenge so I choose the totally new topic (for me)— phylogenetics just because it’s so cool and so first-cutting for me.
Human has been studying their environment for a long time, for the community, which might know [...]
Predicting the Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest species in a data Vacuum
Go to the original post at Bhakta Bahadur Karki's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
Predicting the Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest species in a data Vacuum
Tropical regions are rich in biological flora and fauna. Many researches have been done in the field of tropical forest ecosystem. People are presenting their views on degrading situation of tropical forest based on their findings. However, no-one has come across or predict [...]
Land use changes and its affect to biodiversity
Go to the original post at zhaideli's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
Land use changes and its affect to biodiversity
Why LUC is so important to biodivesity?.
Land-use and land-cover Changes were considered the key factors for global environmental change (Turner et al. 1995), affect the global biosphere and climate（William E.R.1994）. For terrestrial ecosystems, land-use change probably will have the largest effect to the biodiversity (Osvaldo E.S et al, [...]
Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests
Go to the original post at nayana's blogSunday, August 2nd, 2009
Carbon a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent. It is one of the least abundant elements in the Earth’s crust, but the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Carbon is present in all known life forms, and it is the [...]