Search Results - "Prentice, Honor C"

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands by de Bello, Francesco, Vandewalle, Marie, Reitalu, Triin, Lepš, Jan, Prentice, Honor C., Lavorel, Sandra, Sykes, Martin T.

“…1. The mechanisms driving nonrandom assembly patterns in plant communities have long been of interest in ecological research. Competing ecological theories…”
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Dark diversity in dry calcareous grasslands is determined by dispersal ability and stress-tolerance by Riibak, Kersti, Reitalu, Triin, Tamme, Riin, Helm, Aveliina, Gerhold, Pille, Znamenskiy, Sergey, Bengtsson, Karin, Rosén, Ejvind, Prentice, Honor C., Pärtel, Meelis

“…Temperate calcareous grasslands are characterized by high levels of species richness at small spatial scales. Nevertheless, many species from a…”
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Airborne Hyperspectral Data Predict Fine-Scale Plant Species Diversity in Grazed Dry Grasslands by Möckel, Thomas, Dalmayne, Jonas, Schmid, Barbara, Prentice, Honor, Hall, Karin

“…Semi-natural grasslands with grazing management are characterized by high fine-scale species richness and have a high conservation value. The fact that…”
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Convergent Morphological Evolution in Silene Sect. Italicae (Caryophyllaceae) in the Mediterranean Basin by Naciri, Yamama, Toprak, Zeynep, Prentice, Honor C, Hugot, Laetitia, Troia, Angelo, Burgarella, Concetta, Gradaille, Josep Lluis, Jeanmonod, Daniel

“…Recent divergence can obscure species boundaries among closely related taxa. section (Caryophyllaceae) has been taxonomically controversial, with about 30…”
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Sparing Land for Biodiversity at Multiple Spatial Scales by Ekroos, Johan, Ödman, Anja M., Andersson, Georg K. S., Birkhofer, Klaus, Herbertsson, Lina, Klatt, Björn K., Olsson, Ola, Olsson, Pål Axel, Persson, Anna S., Prentice, Honor C., Rundlöf, Maj, Smith, Henrik G.

“…A common approach to the conservation of farmland biodiversity and the promotion of multifunctional landscapes, particularly in landscapes containing only…”
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Airborne hyperspectral data predict Ellenberg indicator values for nutrient and moisture availability in dry grazed grasslands within a local agricultural landscape by Möckel, Thomas, Löfgren, Oskar, Prentice, Honor C., Eklundh, Lars, Hall, Karin

“…•Hyperspectral data predict Ellenberg (N and M) indicators in dry grazed grasslands.•Full-spectrum methods predict Ellenberg values better than vegetation…”
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Evidence for Positive Selection within the PgiC1 Locus in the Grass Festuca ovina by Li, Yuan, Canbäck, Björn, Johansson, Tomas, Tunlid, Anders, Prentice, Honor C

“…The dimeric metabolic enzyme phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI, EC 5.3.1.9) plays an essential role in energy production. In the grass Festuca ovina, field surveys…”
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Classification of Grassland Successional Stages Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery by Mockel, Thomas, Dalmayne, Jonas, Prentice, Honor C, Eklundh, Lars, Purschke, Oliver, Schmidtlein, Sebastian, Hall, Karin

“…Plant communities differ in their species composition, and, thus, also in their functional trait composition, at different stages in the succession from arable…”
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Spectral heterogeneity of QuickBird satellite data is related to fine-scale plant species spatial turnover in semi-natural grasslands by Hall, Karin, Reitalu, Triin, Sykes, Martin T., Prentice, Honor C.

“…Question: Can satellite data be related to fine-scale species diversity and does the integrated use of field and satellite data provide information that can be…”
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Semi-natural grassland continuity, long-term land-use change and plant species richness in an agricultural landscape on Öland, Sweden by Johansson, Lotten J., Hall, Karin, Prentice, Honor C., Ihse, Margareta, Reitalu, Triin, Sykes, Martin T., Kindström, Merit

“…The study characterizes historical land-use change and the development of semi-natural grassland habitats, over 274 years, within a mosaic agricultural…”
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Contrasting patterns of nucleotide polymorphism suggest different selective regimes within different parts of the PgiC1 gene in Festuca ovina L by Li, Yuan, Hansson, Bengt, Ghatnekar, Lena, Prentice, Honor C

“…Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI, EC 5.3.1.9) is an essential metabolic enzyme in all eukaryotes. An earlier study of the gene, which encodes cytosolic PGI in the…”
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Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas by Pettorelli, Nathalie, Graham, Nicholas A. J., Seddon, Nathalie, Maria da Cunha Bustamante, Mercedes, Lowton, Matthew J., Sutherland, William J., Koldewey, Heather J., Prentice, Honor C., Barlow, Jos

“…There is an increasing recognition that, although the climate change and biodiversity crises are fundamentally connected, they have been primarily addressed…”
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Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes by Purschke, Oliver, Schmid, Barbara C., Sykes, Martin T., Poschlod, Peter, Michalski, Stefan G., Durka, Walter, Kühn, Ingolf, Winter, Marten, Prentice, Honor C.

“…1. Theory predicts that the processes generating biodiversity after disturbance will change during succession. Comparisons of phylogenetic and functional…”
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Geographic and phylogenetic patterns in Silene section Melandrium (Caryophyllaceae) as inferred from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences by Rautenberg, Anja, Hathaway, Louise, Oxelman, Bengt, Prentice, Honor C.

“…[Display omitted] ► The dioecious species in Silene section Melandrium form a monophyletic group. ► The cpDNA mainly reflects a geographic pattern. ► The…”
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A horizontally transferred nuclear gene is associated with microhabitat variation in a natural plant population by Prentice, Honor C., Li, Yuan, Lönn, Mikael, Tunlid, Anders, Ghatnekar, Lena

“…Horizontal gene transfer involves the non-sexual interspecific transmission of genetic material. Even if they are initially functional, horizontally…”
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Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide by Li, Yuanzhi, Shipley, Bill, Price, Jodi N., de L. Dantas, Vinícius, Tamme, Riin, Westoby, Mark, Siefert, Andrew, Schamp, Brandon S., Spasojevic, Marko J., Jung, Vincent, Laughlin, Daniel C., Richardson, Sarah J., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Schöb, Christian, Gazol, Antonio, Prentice, Honor C., Gross, Nicolas, Overton, Jake, Cianciaruso, Marcus V., Louault, Frédérique, Kamiyama, Chiho, Nakashizuka, Tohru, Hikosaka, Kouki, Sasaki, Takehiro, Katabuchi, Masatoshi, Dussault, Cédric Frenette, Gaucherand, Stephanie, Chen, Ning, Vandewalle, Marie, Batalha, Marco Antônio

“…1. How the patterns of niche occupancy vary from species-poor to species-rich communities is a fundamental question in ecology that has a central bearing on…”
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Linking landscape history and dispersal traits in grassland plant communities by Purschke, Oliver, Sykes, Martin T., Reitalu, Triin, Poschlod, Peter, Prentice, Honor C.

“…Dispersal limitation and long-term persistence are known to delay plant species' responses to habitat fragmentation, but it is still unclear to what extent…”
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Determinants of fine-scale plant diversity in dry calcareous grasslands within the Baltic Sea region by Reitalu, Triin, Helm, Aveliina, Pärtel, Meelis, Bengtsson, Karin, Gerhold, Pille, Rosén, Ejvind, Takkis, Krista, Znamenskiy, Sergey, Prentice, Honor C.

“…► Extensive dataset was used to study plant diversity in alvar grasslands. ► Species richness was the highest under intermediate environmental conditions. ►…”
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History matters: village distances, grazing and grassland species diversity by Reitalu, Triin, Johansson, Lotten J., Sykes, Martin T., Hall, Karin, Prentice, Honor C.

“…1. Temperate semi‐natural grasslands are characterized by high levels of species diversity and have a high conservation value. Plant species diversity in…”
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Responses of grassland species richness to local and landscape factors depend on spatial scale and habitat specialization by Reitalu, Triin, Purschke, Oliver, Johansson, Lotten J., Hall, Karin, Sykes, Martin T., Prentice, Honor C.

“…Questions: To what extent is species richness in semi-natural grasslands related to local environmental factors and (present/past) surrounding landscape…”
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