Spatial environmental heterogeneity influences diversity of organisms at different scales. Environmental filtering suggests that local environmental conditions provide habitat-specific scenarios for niche requirements, ...

Questions: Recruitment microsites are imposed on plants, first by seed dispersal and then by the environment. Different seed dispersal vectors could decrease or increase the environmental filtering imposed on seedlings, ...

Woody plants have been encroaching into savannas on a global scale. Global climatic changes, along with changes to disturbance regimes, are considered to be the main drivers of this process. Particularly, many formerly ...

The performance of filter media in filtration is the main factor in choosing a material that meets the requirements for a filtration process. It takes into consideration the collection efficiency, permeability, pressure ...

The ethanol industry is of great importance to the Brazilian economy since the sugarcane is one of the most important monocultures in the country. Although its activities are regulated by numerous rules in order to minimize ...