Plant Species and Functional Diversity along Altitudinal Gradients, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Understanding how biodiversity is organized across space and time has long been a central focus of ecologists and biogeographers.Altitudinal patterns of richness gradients are one of such striking patterns in the landscape.Despite its historical and ecological importance as a heuristic natural experimental site for development of ecological theories, the emergent patterns and mechanisms that structure them are poorly understood.This is partly because of the complex relationships of species to the environment and the choice of the response variable itself, i.e. using taxonomic richness as a metrics of diversity.This thesis, therefore, klimabedingte Wasser-Energiedynamik, das Arten-Flächenverhältnis in Bezug zum Gebirgsprofil, lokale topographische Einflüsse sowie Bodencharakteristika als entscheidende Einflussgrößen hinsichtlich der beobachteten Vielfalt erkannt.land use/land cover change?What are the main driving forces for land use/land cover change in the study area?Concerning climate change, particularly global warming, as drivers of biodiversity loss Manuscript 4 modelled the potential ecological consequences of species in the study area.The model developed by Colwell et al. (2008) was applied on a dataset of altitudinal vegetation surveys in our study area.The purpose of the study was to test the following Chapin III, F.
Author: Desalegn Wana
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2248563729