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Departement Biology: Institute of Environmental Biology: Mission
... to comprehend the effects of global change and their impact on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Therefore the IEB research focus is on Biological Mechanisms and Global Change. Deriving ... scientists guarantees our long-standing position at the forefront of plant biological and ecosystem research. Figure 1. Processes connecting the organization levels of Plants, Populations and Ecosystems. ...
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Departement Biology: Institute of Environmental Biology: Position
... thematic research programs. The focus on effects of climate change and other environmental perturbations on ecosystem functioning, biodiversity and plant performance, and the expert knowledge on biological processes collected in the IEB ...
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Welcome to University of Hawaii at Manoa Botany
... in paradise: invasive plants on tropical islands 29-Sep Jack Ewel Life form diversity and ecosystem functioning 6-Oct Matiu Prebble The paleoethnobotany of Rapa Island ( French Polynesia ) 13-Oct Chuck Chimera ...
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Welcome to University of Hawaii at Manoa Botany
... 96822 Affiliations Botany Dissertation Title: The influence of native and non-native herbivores on ecosystem functioning: how will Palmyra Atoll’s flora respond to the removal of Rattus rattus? ... the rat-crab-plant food-web is integral to the exploration of tropical island ecosystem functioning. In Palmyra’s dynamic environment, it is impossible (and undesirable) to separate the terrestrial ...
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Gargas Lab - index page
... Elizabeth Fallon (Undergraduate) Martha Christensen (Prof. Emerita) www.moldsforyou.org/martha.html Soil Fungi and Ecosystem Functioning emeritus researchers Frank Landis Glomales mycorrhizae and prairie/savanah restoration mycorrhizae and plant phylogeny Dirk ...
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History & Background
... Threats Possible threats include a change in species composition in infested forests and therefore, in ecosystem functioning; loss of food sources for wildlife; a change in fire frequency or intensity; and decreased ...
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Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering - La Trobe University
... aims to understand the impacts of human-induced change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and applies this understanding to the conservation and restoration of terrestrial plant communities ... (PhD, 2005): Effects of invasion by English Broom on subalpine vegetation: floristics and ecosystem responses Nathan Wong (Honours, 2004): Successional processes in native grasslands after cultivation ...
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BiodiversityOverview
... ants are valid indicators of environmental change, while unseen fungi are essential for ecosystem functioning. Forest biological diversity at the genetic level (which is of particular interest to ... community development; physical position within the ecosystem from the soil to the crown of individual trees; and geographic scale (global, regional, national, ecosystem, habitat or patch). Whatever the ...
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Faculty Profile: Dr. Hafiz Maherali, Department of Botany, University of Guelph
... ecosystem functions such as energy flow and the cycling of matter. These studies motivated me to initiate work on the evolution of plant physiological diversity and its consequences for ecosystem functioning as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. I am continuing research in physiological, evolutionary and ecosystem ecology in the ...
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Faculty Profile: Dr. Hafiz Maherali, Research, Department of Botany, University of Guelph
... environments, the evolution of these traits, and how physiological diversity influences ecoystem functioning. A related goal is to understand how plants and ecosystems respond to ... ecosystem water, carbon and nutrient cycling. Understanding photosynthetic and stomatal responses to aspects of global climate change (moisture, temperature and CO2) and scaling these responses to ecosystem functioning ...
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