We used Malaise traps to examine the aerial arthropod community in riparian habitats dominated by native willow, exotic saltcedar, or a mixture of these two tree species in central Arizona, USA. Over the course of three sampling periods per year in 2003 and 2004, native habitats had significantly greater diversity (Shannon–Wiener) and supported different arthropod communities compared to exotic...

in a faunistic survey conducted on auchenorrhyncha in sugar beet fields of mashhad and chenaran regions during 2008-2010, a total of 2741specimens belonging to 5 families were collected. as a result, 10 species were added to the fauna of the study area including: family cicadellidae: rhytidodus decimusquartus (schrank 1776), viridicerus malicola (dubovxdy 1966); handianus procerus (herrich-scha...

Aim of study: The main purpose the study is to determine site factors affecting bird diversity. 
 Area This was performed in Çandır District, Isparta which located inner part Western Mediterranean region.
 Material and methods: In present study, Observations were conducted regularly a total 43 sample sites throughout each month 2016. Also, observed using point-counting techniques from...

Ledokombo hillocks are small hills located in Jember, East Java that have natural resources and face habitat alteration such as plantation mining. However, a study of the diversity butterflies has not been carried out this area. We analysed using Shannon-Wiener index (H’) Pielou evenness (E). identified 514 individuals from 34 species demonstrated moderate (H'= 1.907) Our results could be used ...

Species diversity includes two aspects, the number of species (species richness) and the proportional abundances of the species (heterogeneity diversity). Species richness and heterogeneity diversity can be measured over different scales; a single point, samples, large scales, biogeographical provinces and in assemblages and habitats. In the literature, the terminology of these scales is confus...

The stocks and characteristics of coarse woody debris (CWD) are expected to reflect forest stand features. However, despite their importance, there have been no reports of CWD stocks and characteristics in the Qinling Mountains. We measured the CWD stocks in different CWD types, decay classes and diameter classes of the five forest types in the Qinling Mountains. The highest biomass of CWD was ...

Studies using molecular techniques have demonstrated that a culture-based approach can severely underestimate the bacterial diversity in most environments. One of the molecular techniques that has been applied in microbial ecology is denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the microbiota of plaque, using a number of analysis te...

Batu Hampar Recreational Forest (BHRF) is a lowland dipterocarp forest located in the northwestern region of Peninsular Malaysia and has not been surveyed for its herpetofauna until now. A preliminary survey herpetofaunal diversity BHRF was conducted from September 2018 to February 2019 resulting 103 individuals (37 species) amphibians reptiles found. This includes 14 species frogs six families...

Tropical forests are major repositories of biodiversity, but are fast disappearing as land is converted to agriculture. Decision-makers need to know which of the remaining forests to prioritize for conservation, but the only spatial information on forest biodiversity has, until recently, come from a sparse network of ground-based plots. Here we explore whether airborne hyperspectral imagery can...