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A quantitative analysis of bird species richness and abundance in habitats in and adjacent to rainforest in northeast Queensland, Australia, is presented. Bird assemblages in five habitats surrounding tropical rainforest were compared using line transects over a six-week period in the winter dry-season, between July and September 1995. Data were analysed using the Shannon–Weaver index of biodiv...

Protected areas in mountains are regularly in the focus of international efforts to conserve the environment and enable sustainable development. The following article analyses the current extend of protection in mountainous versus non-mountainous areas, sheds light on the rationales behind the establishment of mountain protected areas, and proposes directions for future endeavours in protecting...

We develop a statistical method to infer the parameters of Hubbell's neutral model of biodiversity using data on local species abundances and their phylogenetic relatedness. This method uses the approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach, where the data are summarized into a small number of informative summary statistics. We used three statistics: the number of species in the sample, Shann...

Preserving biodiversity and ecosystem stability is a challenge that can be pursued through modern statistical mechanics modeling. Environmental changes and human activity threaten the fauna of many geographical areas. We exploit the entropy definition from thermodynamics to assess ecosystem stability. In particular, we study a minimal ecosystem on a lattice in which two species struggle for sur...

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the water quality of Çoruh Basin using BMWP (Biological Monitoring Working Party) index, ASPT (Average Score Per Taxon) Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index, EPT (Ephemeroptera Plecoptera Trichoptera taxa), EP taxa) index scores and benthic macroinvertebrates. The macroinvertebrates were collected from 54 stations at basin between 2014-2016 years. Standard hand...

The objective of this work is to explicit knowledge on the interactions between the chlorophyll-a and nine meroplankton larvae of epibenthonic fauna. The studied case is the Arraial do Cabo upwelling system, Southeastern of Brazil, which provides different environmental conditions. To assess this information a network approach based in probability estimative was used. Comparisons among the gene...