Adrian Hayes

TL;DR: Examination of how groundwater availability, vegetation canopy, leaf litter and seed availability interacted to determine the species richness of a productive wet grassland community in Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire, UK found plant litter was more important than vegetation canopy at an early stage of vegetation development and at low elevation.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of integrating natural science knowledge gained at the site reach scale with decisions taken at the catchment scale on water allocation priorities is discussed, with a particular focus on the relationships between hydrological and sediment inputs to floodplains and the regeneration response by tree species.

TL;DR: It is suggested that some limited spatial segregation of the sexes does occur in response to soil moisture availability and that river flow management which aims to maintain or increase river corridor biodiversity may need to take this into account.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of changed hydrological regimes on the sex ratios and the spatial segregation of the sexes in the dioecious species Salix myrsinifolia Salisb-phylicifolia L. by studying the free-flowing Vindel River and the regulated Ume River in northern Sweden.