Estimating Forest Above-Ground Biomass in Central Amazonia Using Polarimetric Attributes of ALOS/PALSAR Images by Igor da Silva Narvaes, João Roberto dos Santos, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Paulo Maurício de Alencastro Graça, Ulisses Silva Guimarães, Fábio Furlan Gama

“…This fact can be related to the floristic and structural variation in the primary forest units, the degree of human intervention in legal logging, and the differences among succession stages.…”
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Multi-environment factors dominate plant community structure and diversity in an ombrotrophic bog: The water level is the main regulating mechanism by Yue Li, Yue Li, Xue Wang, Xue Wang, Chunguang He, Chunguang He, Haibo Jiang, Haibo Jiang, Lianxi Sheng, Lianxi Sheng

“…Moreover, the distribution of plant communities was mainly determined by water level, water conductivity, soil moisture content, pH, and organic carbon, which significantly explained 32.2%, 30.9%, 29.7%, 29.1%, and 22.5% of the variation in floristic composition. Among these factors, water level was the dominant factor influencing the distribution of plant communities. …”
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Mulching in lowland hay meadows drives an adaptive convergence of above- and below-ground traits reducing plasticity and improving biomass: A possible tool for enhancing phytoremed... by Michele Dalle Fratte, Antonio Montagnoli, Simone Anelli, Stefano Armiraglio, Peter Beatrice, Alex Ceriani, Elia Lipreri, Alessio Miali, Paolo Nastasio, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini

“…To this aim, we evaluated at the community level seven years of mulching application in a PCBs and HMs soil-polluted Site of National Interest (SIN Brescia-Caffaro) through the analysis of the floristic composition and the above- and below-ground plant traits. …”
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Latitudinal variation in the woody species diversity and population structure of Lannea microcarpa Engl. and K. Krause in Burkina Faso by Béatrice Tinguéri, Kangbéni Dimobe, Benjamin Lankoandé, Joseph Issaka Boussim, Amadé Ouédraogo

“…The density of L. microcarpa populations and the floristic diversity of its habitats decreased significantly (p < 0.001) from sub-Sahelian to south-Sudanian zones. …”
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Analysis of Calcareous Soils for Two Various Facies within the Nature Reserve of El-Mergueb (M’sila, Algeria) by Mezani Samir, Adjabi Amina, Sidi Hachemi, Bounar Rabah, Naseri Hamid Reza

“…The average of gypsum and salinity was low. Floristic diversity defined 284 species. The data on the chemical characteristics of the soil studied have been the subject of a detailed statistical analysis (PCA). …”
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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Tree Diversity and Distribution in Urban Resettlement Areas for Displaced Farmers by Chunping Xie, C. Y. Jim, Xiangui Yi, Dawei Liu, Xu Guo

“…We assessed tree species composition, floristic diversity, tree dimensions, importance value, RRA characteristics, and greening management. …”
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Integrating morphological characters, molecular markers, and distribution patterns to assess the identity of Blepharis species from Jordan by Riyadh Muhaidat, Mohammad H. Brake, Mazhar Al Zoubi, Robert I. Colautti, Amjad Al-Nasser, Muheeb Awawdeh, Khalid Al-Batayneh, Wesam Al Khateeb, Athena D. McKown, Jamil Lahham, Ahmad El-Oqlah

“…These findings are important for informing and revising floristic work within the region and an updated key has been included in our findings.…”
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Ecological Niche Modelling and Potential Distribution of <i>Artemisia sieberi</i> in the Iranian Steppe Vegetation by Hamidreza Mirdavoudi, Darush Ghorbanian, Sedigheh Zarekia, Javad Miri Soleiman, Mashaalaah Ghonchepur, Eileen Mac Sweeney, Andrea Mastinu

“…<i>Artemisia sieberi</i> Besser occurs in many parts of the Irano-Turanian floristic region, which is mostly distributed throughout the Iranian plateau, especially in Iran. …”
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Establishment of an erosion-control plant cover in a sand pit under Arctic conditions using sewage sludge by A. V. Lusis, L. A. Ivanova, T. T. Gorbachyova, A. V. Rumyantseva

“…The present study investigates the characteristics of the floristic composition of the phytocenoses formed in a sand pit. …”
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LIVING ON THE EDGE: TIMING OF RAND FLORA DISJUNCTIONS CONGRUENT WITH ONGOING ARIDIFICATION IN AFRICA by Lisa ePokorny, Ricarda eRiina, Mario eMairal, Andrea S. Meseguer, Victoria eCulshaw, Jon eCendoya, Miguel eSerrano, Rodrigo eCarbajal, Santiago eOrtiz, Myriam eHeuertz, Myriam eHeuertz, Myriam eHeuertz, Isabel eSanmartin

“…The Rand Flora is a well-known floristic pattern in which unrelated plant lineages show similar disjunct distributions in the continental margins of Africa and adjacent islands —Macaronesia-northwest Africa, Horn of Africa-Southern Arabia, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. …”
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Settlement‐era forest structure and composition in the Klamath Mountains: reconstructing a historical baseline by Clarke A. Knight, Charles V. Cogbill, Matthew D. Potts, James A. Wanket, John J. Battles

“…The purpose of this study was to use PDE to reconstruct the settlement‐era forest conditions in Six Rivers National Forest—a floristically diverse temperate forest in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California—to quantify differences with modern conditions. …”
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Distribution and eco-coenotic patterns of the forest orchid Epipactis pontica in Slovakia by Richard Hrivnák, Matúš Hrivnák, Michal Slezák, Jaroslav Vlčko, Juliána Baltiarová, Marek Svitok

“…Principal component analysis supported the floristic separation of plant communities and showed some significant vegetation environmental relationships. …”
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Coastal Evolution in a Wetland Affected by Large Tsunamigenic Earthquakes in South-Central Chile: Criteria for Integrated Coastal Management by Carolina Martínez, Einer Sepúlveda-Zúñiga, Mauricio Villagrán, Octavio Rojas, Matías Gómez, Pablo López, Carolina Rojas

“…The postearthquake effects on the floristic composition were not significant, with the species <i>Spartina densiflora</i>, which presented a high tolerance to these types of changes, predominating. …”
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Vegetation cover and seasonality as indicators for selection of forage resources by local agro-pastoralists in the Brazilian semiarid region by Sonaly Silva da Cunha, Maiara Bezerra Ramos, Humberto Araújo de Almeida, Maria Gracielle Rodrigues Maciel, Stefanny Martins de Souza, Kamila Marques Pedrosa, Sérgio de Faria Lopes

“…Abstract Local knowledge and uses of forage resources are highly dynamic, and can be mediated by multiple factors, such as seasonality, floristic diversity and the morphophysiological characteristics of plants. …”
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Grazing intensity drives plant diversity but does not affect forage production in a natural grassland dominated by the tussock-forming grass Andropogon lateralis Nees by Pablo Giliard Zanella, Luis Henrique Paim Della Giustina Junior, Cassiano Eduardo Pinto, Tiago Celso Baldissera, Simone Silmara Werner, Fabio Cervo Garagorry, Martín Jaurena, Fernando Alfredo Lattanzi, André Fischer Sbrissia

“…However, to prevent losses in floristic diversity, such grassland should not be grazed at canopy heights higher than 28 cm.…”
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Role of Silviculture in the Formation of Norway Spruce Forests along the Southern Edge of Their Range in the Central Russian Plain by Tatiana Chernenkova, Ivan Kotlov, Nadezhda Belyaeva, Elena Suslova, Olga Morozova, Olga Pesterova, Maria Arkhipova

“…Despite the significant anthropogenic impact and the high proportion of plantations in the composition of Norway spruce forests (about 60–80%), their floristic and typological diversities correspond to such properties of zonal broad-leaved–coniferous communities. …”
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Alien Species of Lepidium in the Flora of Romania: Invasion History and Habitat Preference by Culiţă SÎRBU, Adrian OPREA, Cristian Valeriu PATRICHE, Costel SAMUIL, Vasile VÎNTU

“…<i>virginicum </i>are presented in this paper. The floristic records of these species, collected between 1816 and 2013, were used in the study. …”
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Effects of natural broadleaved regeneration vs conifer restoration on the herb layer and microclimate by Vukov Dragana, Galić Zoran, Rućando Marko, Ilić Miloš, Ćuk Mirjana, Igić Dušan, Igić Ružica, Orlović Saša

“…Soil moisture and the total herb cover significantly differed in the naturally regenerated beech forest and Douglas-fir plantation. Floristic similarity between the surveyed forest stands was 28.12%. …”
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Quantifying floral shape variation in 3D using microcomputed tomography: a case study of a hybrid line between actinomorphic and zygomorphic flowers by Chun-Neng eWang, Chun-Neng eWang, Hao-Chun eHsu, Cheng-Chun eWang, Tzu-Kuei eLee, Yan-Fu eKuo

“…To demonstrate the advantages of the 3D-µCT-GM approach, we applied the approach to a second-generation population of florist’s gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) crossed from parents of zygomorphic and actinomorphic flowers. …”
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Population ecology of vervet monkeys in a high latitude, semi-arid riparian woodland by Graham Pasternak, Leslie R. Brown, Stefan Kienzle, Andrea Fuller, Louise Barrett, S. Peter Henzi

“…We argue that this was a consequence of the high density of <em>Acacia karroo</em>, which accounted for a third of annual foraging effort in what was a relatively depauperate floristic habitat. We ascribed the large group size and home range overlap to constraints on group fission.…”
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