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Recovery of invertebrate diversity in a rehabilitated city landscape mosaic in the heart of a biodiversity hotspot
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This paper investigated the invertebrate response to alien pine plantations, their removal in comparison with natural vegetation, recovering indigenous forests and a botanical garden around Cape Town, South Africa, within a biodiversity hotspot.About:
This article is published in Landscape and Urban Planning.The article was published on 2009-10-30. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Botanical garden & Species richness.read more
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Development and Future of Insect Conservation in South Africa
TL;DR: The contribution of the insect fauna to the country's biodiversity, in terms of both richness and functioning, is less well known among the public, decision makers and even some conservation scientists as mentioned in this paper.
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The “resort effect”: Can tourist islands act as refuges for coral reef species?
Charlotte Moritz,Frédéric Ducarme,Michael Sweet,Michael D. Fox,Brian J. Zgliczynski,Nizam Ibrahim,Ahmed Basheer,Kathryn A. Furby,Zachary R. Caldwell,Chiara Pisapia,Chiara Pisapia,Gabriel Grimsditch,Ameer Abdulla,Ameer Abdulla +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the environment and three human management regimes (tourist resorts, uninhabited and local community islands) on the abundance and diversity of echinoderms and commercially important fish species, the per cent cover of reef benthic organisms (corals, calcareous coralline algae, turf and macroalgae) and the proportion of coral disease were investigated.
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Biological Control of Salvinia molesta (D.S. Mitchell) Drives Aquatic Ecosystem Recovery
TL;DR: This study measured the response of epilithic algae and aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in a S. molesta-dominated state and subsequently where the weed had been cleared by biological control, as a proxy for ecosystem recovery in a before–after control–impact mesocosm experiment.
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The rehabilitation value of a small culturally significant island based on the arthropod natural capital
Francois Roets,James S. Pryke +1 more
TL;DR: Robben Island could still hold conservation value if the natural habitats are rehabilitated and the Eucalyptus plantations removed, and arthropods found in the remaining natural vegetation showed remarkable tolerance of long-term grazing pressures from introduced alien mammals.
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Ecological Diversity and its Measurement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define definitions of diversity and apply them to the problem of measuring species diversity, choosing an index and interpreting diversity measures, and applying them to structural and structural diversity.
CANOCO Reference Manual and CanoDraw for Windows User's Guide: Software for Canonical Community Ordination (version 4.5)
C.J.F. ter Braak,Petr Šmilauer +1 more
TL;DR: Canoco as discussed by the authors is a software package for multivariate data analysis, with an emphasis on dimesional reduction (ordination), regression analysis, and the combination of the two, constrained ordination.
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Estimating Terrestrial Biodiversity through Extrapolation
TL;DR: The importance of using 'reference' sites to assess the true richness and composition of species assemblages, to measure ecologically significant ratios between unrelated taxa, toMeasure taxon/sub-taxon (hierarchical) ratios, and to 'calibrate' standardized sampling methods is discussed.
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Experiments in Ecology: Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how to design ecological experiments from a statistical basis using analysis of variance, so that we can draw reliable conclusions, and explain the logical procedures that lead to a need for experiments.
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The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Ladislav Mucina,M.C. Rutherford +1 more
TL;DR: The logo of the South African National Biodiversity Institute is based on the striking inflorescence of Strelitzia reginae, a native of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal that has become a garden favourite worldwide as mentioned in this paper.