Search Results - "Palmer, W. M."

The effects of organic amendment and soil emplacement method on manufactured soil quality and growth of amenity woodland at a former cokeworks site by Palmer, M.W., Davies, R.D.

“…•We tested the effects of mixed organic amendments on manufactured soil.•properties and tree growth.•We tested the effects of different soil emplacement…”
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Putting Things in Even Better Order: The Advantages of Canonical Correspondence Analysis by Palmer, Michael W.

“…Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) is quickly becoming the most widely used gradient analysis technique in ecology. The CCA algorithm is based upon…”
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Spatiotemporal distribution of airborne elements monitored with the moss bags technique in the Greater Thriasion Plain, Attica, Greece by Saitanis, C. J., Frontasyeva, M. V., Steinnes, E., Palmer, M. W., Ostrovnaya, T. M., Gundorina, S. F.

“…The well-known moss bags technique was applied in the heavily polluted Thriasion Plain region, Attica, Greece, in order to study the spatiotemporal…”
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Quantifying the influence of environmental texture on the rate of species turnover: evidence from two habitats by McGlinn, D. J, Palmer, M. W

“…The environmental texture hypothesis (ETH) proposes that the spatial geometry or texture of the environment influences the rate at which species are…”
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Stand dynamics of an Appalachian old-growth forest during a severe drought episode by Olano, J.M., Palmer, M.W.

“…We analyzed data from 19 0.1 ha permanent plots of an old-growth cove forest in Walker Cove Research Natural Area (North Carolina), in order to understand the…”
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p53 protein regulates the effects of amifostine on apoptosis, cell cycle progression, and cytoprotection by LEE, E. J, GERHOLD, M, PALMER, M. W, CHRISTEN, R. D

“…To determine the role of p53 protein on the cellular effects of amifostine, we used molecularly engineered HCT116 colon cancer cells in which the p53 gene was…”
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The Coexistence of Species in Fractal Landscapes by Palmer, Michael W.

“…The degree of spatial dependence in a landscape can be modeled by varying the landscape's fractal dimension, D. I simulated landscapes in which D varied…”
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montane grasslands of the Western Ghats, India: Community ecology and conservation by Thomas, S. M, M. W. Palmer

“…The montane (shola) grasslands of Western Ghats, South India are a component of a landscape mosaic including the better-studied shola forests. The conservation…”
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Variance in Species Richness, Species Association, and Niche Limitation by Palmer, Michael W., van der Maarel, Eddy

“…A low variance in species richness, relative to a null model, has been proposed as evidence for niche limitation in ecological communities. We demonstrate that…”
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The estimation of species richness by extrapolation by Palmer, Michael W.

“…In this note, I contrast eight estimators of species richness with true species richness of 30 0.1-ha forest plots in the North Carolina piedmont…”
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Plant species composition and soil characteristics around Iranian piospheres by Shahriary, E., Palmer, M.W., Tongway, D.J., Azarnivand, H., Jafari, M., Mohseni Saravi, M.

“…Most of Iran’s land area consists of arid and semi-arid rangelands, and because of this grazers depend on watering points. In the vicinity of the watering…”
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Estimating Species Richness: The Second-Order Jackknife Reconsidered by Palmer, Michael W.

“…A researcher revises a formula that he used to estimate species richness in a study of hardwood forest plots in the North Carolina piedmont…”
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Edaphic factors and the landscape-scale distributions of tropical rain forest trees by Clark, David B., Palmer, Michael W., Clark, Deborah A.

“…Tropical rain forests have the highest tree diversity on earth. Nonrandom spatial distributions of these species in relation to edaphic factors could be one…”
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Interannual variation in weed biomass on arable land in Sweden by MILBERG, P, HALLGREN, E, PALMER, M. W

“…Data were analysed on weed biomass from untreated plots in 2672 field experiments conducted in spring‐ and autumn‐sown cereal and oilseed crops in Sweden…”
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Is the number of tree species in small tropical forest plots nonrandom? by Palmer, M. W, D. B. Clark, D. A. Clark

“…Tree species richness is remarkably high in many tropical forests, even at very fine spatial scales. However, the study of fine-scale richness is complicated…”
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Disentangling the role of remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy for North American plant species richness by Rocchini, D, L. Dadalt, L. Delucchi, M. Neteler, M.W. Palmer

“…Due to the difficulties of field-based species data collection at wide spatial scales, remotely sensed spectral diversity has been advocated as one of the most…”
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Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction by Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Palmer, M.W., Scheiner, S.M.

“…Rarefaction is a widely applied technique for comparing the species richness of samples that differ in area, volume or sampling effort. Despite widespread…”
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Scale Dependence and the Species-Area Relationship by Palmer, Michael W., White, Peter S.

“…The complex relationship between species richness and area can be simplified by decomposing spatial scale into its components: grain, extent, and number of…”
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Fractal Geometry: A Tool for Describing Spatial Patterns of Plant Communities by Palmer, Michael W.

“…Vegetation is a fractal because it exhibits variation over a continuum of scales. The spatial structure of sandrim, bryophyte, pocosin, suburban lawn, forest…”
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Potential biases in site and species selection for ecological monitoring by PALMER, M. W

“…A number of the contributions to this workshop (particularly in the session on biodiversity and population monitoring) have stressed the importance of choosing…”
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