Description: Das Projekt "Diversität, Dynamik und Strukturierungsmechanismen arborikoler Arthropodengemeinschaften gestörter und primärer Waldökosysteme im temperaten Mitteleuropa" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften, Biozentrum, Lehrstuhl für Zoologie III (Tierökologie und Tropenbiologie) durchgeführt. Similar to the tropics, forests formed the natural vegetation in Central Europe, however, they were almost completely clear-cut or converted into commercial forests hundreds of years ago. The theoretical foundations of ecology, like the niche theory, have been developed on highly disturbed systems in the countries of temperate latitudes. Based on the tacit assumption that the dynamic in disturbed systems is not distinctly different from that in primary forests, this was never tested, however. For arboreal arthropod communities of tropical low- land rain forests we found a transition in community structure from randomly composed communities in the primary forest to deterministically structured communities in disturbed forests. It is a central aspect of this project to test whether a transition in the structuring mechanisms between disturbed and primary forests does also occur in temperate latitudes. Since tree crowns of temperate forests are largely unexplored, the project is subdivided into two headings: 1. Characterisation of the arboreal arthropod communities of the same tree species in primary and differently disturbed forests by their faunistic description, their diversity, community structure and dynamics, 2. Comparable analysis of the structuring mechanisms of primary and disturbed forest types.
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SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Arthropoden ? Baumkrone ? Tierökologie ? Tierverhalten ? Vegetation ? Waldschaden ? Baum ? Gliedertier ? Ökologie ? Pflanzensamen ? Zoologie ? Pflanzenart ? Waldökosystem ? Temperater Forst ? Mitteleuropa ? Forst ? Ökologische Bewertung ? Terrestrisches Ökosystem ? Regenwald ? Tropengebiet ? Vergleichsanalyse ? Gemäßigte Zone ? Anthropogener Einfluss ? Fauna ? Wald ? Arborikole-Arthropodengemeinschaften ? Diversität ? Potenziell natürliche Vegetation ? Schadensverursachung ?
Region: Bayern
Bounding box: 12.53381° .. 12.53381° x 47.795° .. 47.795°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2000-12-07 - 2003-12-31
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