Ecologists long have been aware that there is flux of energy and nutrients from riverine
systems to the surrounding terrestrial landscape and vice versa. Riparian ecotones are …

Aim In a selected literature survey we reviewed studies on the habitat heterogeneity–animal
species diversity relationship and evaluated whether there are uncertainties and biases in …

A simple habitat assessment score (HAS) was designed to assess habitat complexity across
several different shallow tropical marine habitats including sandy patches, algal beds …

Numerous ecological studies use Principal Components Analysis (PCA) for exploratory
analysis and data reduction. Determination of the number of components to retain is the …

Patterns of habitat use by breeding birds were studied in cottonwood riparian forests along
100 km of the South Fork of the Snake River in southeastern Idaho, United States, from 1991 …

Sets of artificial reefs were replicated in 5 bays off Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to
investigate the effects of habitat complexity on fish assemblages. Increasing percentage …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …

The response of rivers and riparian forests to upstream dams shows a regional pattern
related to physiographic and climatic factors that influence channel geometry. We carried out …

In 1995, birds were surveyed in riparian woodlands along a gradient of urbanization in the
Santa Clara Valley, CA, USA, in order to determine the relationships between riparian bird …

The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis states that an increase in habitat heterogeneity leads
to an increase in species diversity. We tested this hypothesis for a community of small …