Abstract & Context The quantification of biomass of woody plants is at the basis of calculations of forest biomass and carbon stocks. Although there are well-developed allometric models for trees, they do not apply ...

Forest loss can affect ecosystem processes such as litter decomposition. In semi-arid areas, where forest loss is increasing, soil fauna can play a particularly important role on litter decomposition. However, few studies ...

We assessed components of woody plant diversity within and between 16 sites dispersed across the nearly 200,000 ha of the Semi-arid Chaco vegetation of the Copo Conservation Unit, northern Argentina. Argentina's Semi-arid ...

Semiarid forests are worldwide threatened by land use changes, particularly agriculture. However, in some cases, due to particular economic or social processes, agriculture ends and forests may or may not recover to their ...

The expression Forest Transition (FT) and Ecological Transition (ET) were coined to describe the recovery path of forested areas (or more general natural vegetation) after heavy conversion into croplands. FT/ET would be ...

Woodpeckers feed primarily on insects, larvae and other arthropods; however, several members of this family include plant products in their diets, such as sap. Among them, the genera Sphyrapicus and Melanerpes include the ...

Few studies have quantified changes in riparian and adjacent forestacross landscape units. In this study, the composition and structure ofriparian and adjacent forest were compared in a humid and a semiarid ecoregionin ...