(1) Urbanization threatens biodiversity, yet urban native plants support contributing to conservation and ecosystem services. Within agroecosystems, where non-native are abundant, may boost the abundance richness of beneficial arthropods. Nevertheless, current information focuses on pollinators, with little attention being paid other beneficials, like natural enemies. (2) We examined how specie...

Plant species affect soil bacterial diversity and compositions. However, little is known about the role of dominant plant species in shaping the soil bacterial community during the restoration of sandy grasslands in Horqin Sandy Land, northern China. We established a mesocosm pots experiment to investigate short-term responses of soil bacterial diversity and composition, and the related soil pr...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Elucidating the factors that determine the abundance and distribution of species remains a central goal of ecology. It is well recognized that genetic differences among individual species can affect the distribution and species interactions of dependent taxa, but the ecological effects of genetic differences on taxa of the same trophic level remain much less understood. Our...

Plant communities are coupled with abiotic factors, as species diversity and community composition both respond to and influence climate and soil characteristics. Interactions between vegetation and abiotic factors depend on plant functional types (PFT) as different growth forms will have differential responses to and effects on site characteristics. However, despite the importance of different...

We examined the spatial distribution, occurrence, and socioecological predictors of woody invasive plants (WIP) in two subtropical, coastal urban ecosystems: San Juan, Puerto Rico and Miami-Dade, United States. These two cities have similar climates and ecosystems typical of subtropical regions but differ in socioeconomics, topography, and urbanization processes. Using permanent plot data, avai...

Identification of factors that drive changes in plant community structure and contribute to decline and endangerment of native plant species is essential to the development of appropriate management strategies. Introduced species are assumed to be driving causes of shifts in native plant communities, but unequivocal evidence supporting this view is frequently lacking. We measured native vegetat...

This research investigates how human disturbance has affected foredune vegetation of the Georgia Sea Islands (GSI) in the United States. The cover of native dunebuilding grasses (Uniola paniculata L. and Panicum amarum Ell.) was more abundant within less-disturbed sites than in sites that had higher levels of human disturbance. In contrast, dunes in human-disturbed areas had significantly highe...

Data on the dynamics of species composition resource plants postagrogenic and forest lands are presented. The object study is abandoned arable land fields, felling with growth pine crops. Over period from 2006 to 2021, projective cover vegetation have changed. Judging by value coefficient floristic generality P. Ja??ard, in coincided only 27%, 15 years later - 36%. Thus, as environment formed a...

21 Chapter The sunflower family (Compositae or Asteraceae) is the largest family of flowering plants. Its many species occur around the world as annual and perennial herbs and as shrubs and trees (Chrysothamnus), and matchbrush (Gutierrezia)—make plants of this family among the most common and important plants of the Intermountain area (McArthur and others 1979a; table 1). Shrubs of these gener...