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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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Terrestrial invertebrates as bioindicators: an overview of available taxonomic groups
TL;DR: Although indicator taxa are considered to be generally unreliable as broad indicators of biodiversity, they may serve a useful function in identifying ecological characteristics or monitoring the effects of habitat management.
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Three centuries of managing introduced conifers in South Africa: Benefits, impacts, changing perceptions and conflict resolution.
TL;DR: Different approaches need to be considered, including the systematic phasing out of commercial forestry in zones where it delivers low returns, and the introduction of more effective, focussed and integrated, region-specific approaches to the management of invasive stands of conifers.
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Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in urban ecosystems: A review
TL;DR: The first systematic literature review conducted to evaluate both the quantity and topics of research conducted on odonates in urban ecosystems finds the need for more studies regarding behavioural ecology and life-history traits in response to urbanisation, and a need to investigate the mechanisms behind diversity trends beyond pollution.
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Provision of ecosystem services by large scale corridors and ecological networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of alien plantation trees on functional biodiversity is investigated in a large-scale landscape transformation and contingent habitat loss in South Africa, and the authors conclude that the adverse effect from the alien trees into the margin of the remnant ecological networks (ENs) is significant for biodiversity conservation and for providing ecosystem services.
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Evidence, perceptions, and trade-offs associated with invasive alien plant control in the Table Mountain National Park, South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the legal obligations to deal with invasive alien plants, the history of control operations and the scientific rationale for their implementation, and the concerns that have been raised about the operations.
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Randomization and Monte Carlo methods in biology
TL;DR: This book discusses the construction of tests in non-standard situations testing for randomness of species co-occurences on islands examining time change in niche ovelap probing multivariate data with random skewers other examples.
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Human population in the biodiversity hotspots.
TL;DR: Estimates of key demographic variables for each hotspot and for three extensive tropical forest areas that are less immediately threatened suggest that substantial human-induced environmental changes are likely to continue in the hotspots and that demographic change remains an important factor in global biodiversity conservation.
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Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: sensitivity to sample grain size.
TL;DR: It is concluded that most species richness estimators may be useful in biodiversity studies and a decision framework is proposed to assess which estimator should be used to compare species richness scores of different sites, depending on the grain size of the original data, and of the kind of data available.
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Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons
Vojtech Novotný,Yves Basset +1 more
TL;DR: The host specificity, taxonomic composition and feeding guild of rare species were studied in communities of herbivorous insects in New Guinea, finding that a species was rare on a particular host whilst more common on other, often related, host species, or relatively rare on numerous other host plants, so that its aggregate population was high.