Reptile diversity and rodent community structure across a political border

Shanas, Uri; Galyun, Yunes Abu; Alshamlih, Mohammed; Cnaani, Jonathan; Guscio, Dalit; Khoury, Farès; Mittler, Shacham; Nassar, Khaled; Shapira, Idan; Simon, Donald L.; Sultan, H.; Topel, Elad; Ziv, Yaron

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.021

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“…The RELATE function was further used to examine whether the Coleoptera distribution is congruent with other groups and thus it was compared to Araneae and to Reptilia distribution. Reptilia data was retrieved from a previous study (Shanas et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Using the RELATE function, we found that beetles and spiders showed relatively low congruence (r ¼ 0.575, p ¼ 0.001), with even lower congruence between beetles and reptiles (r ¼ 0.379, p ¼ 0.001), and spiders and reptiles (r ¼ 0.335, p ¼ 0.001) (reptile data taken from Shanas et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Haloxylon persicum shrubs per hectare and sporadic occurrence of Calligonum comosum shrubs (see also Shanas et al, 2006). Within each landscape unit, we established three "close" plots close to (50e200 m) and three plots "far" (>2 km) from the agricultural fields (hereafter, close and far, respectively).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, most of the "close" sites were on the Israeli side and most of the "far" sites were on the Jordanian side of the border. Because we also suspected that the border itself, dividing two societies with distinct and different impacts on the land, would affect biodiversity, we chose three additional plots in each country to enable an exclusive cross-comparison of the effect of agricultural fields as well as an exclusive cross-comparison of the "border effect" (for complete details of the study sites see Appendix A and Shanas et al, 2006). In this way, we were able to compare the four landscape units within each country; then use the SM plots close and far from agricultural fields within Israel, and the SD plots close and far from agricultural fields within Jordan to perform separate comparisons of the effect of agriculture proximity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The land on the Jordanian side has remained relatively intact and only sparsely populated mainly by traditional and pastoral societies, with few villages that started in recent years to develop irrigated farming (Khoury and Al-Shamlih, 2006). This has resulted in different faunal representation across the political border (Shanas et al, 2006). Hence, in this study, we aimed to examine how the different patterns of land use affect biodiversity patterns across this political border.…”

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Mathematical models of sand dune dynamics have considered different types of sand dune cover. However, despite the important role of psammophilous plants (plants that flourish in moving-sand environments) in dune dynamics, the incorporation of their effects into mathematical models of sand dunes remains a challenging task. Here we propose a nonlinear physical model for the role of psammophilous plants in the stabilization and destabilization of sand dunes. There are two main mechanisms by which the wind affects these plants: (i) sand drift results in the burial and exposure of plants, a process that is known to result in an enhanced growth rate, and (ii) strong winds remove shoots and rhizomes and seed them in nearby locations, enhancing their growth rate. Our model describes the temporal evolution of the fractions of surface cover of regular vegetation, biogenic soil crust, and psammophilous plants. The latter reach their optimal growth under either (i) specific sand drift or (ii) specific wind power. The model exhibits complex bifurcation diagrams and dynamics, which explain observed phenomena, and it predicts new dune stabilization scenarios. Depending on the climatological conditions, it is possible to obtain one, two, or, predicted here for the first time, three stable dune states. Our model shows that the development of the different cover types depends on the precipitation rate and the wind power and that the psammophilous plants are not always the first to grow and stabilize the dunes.

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Using the Ecosystem Services Framework in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Platform: Lessons from the Wadi Araba Desert, Israel and Jordan

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Reptile diversity and rodent community structure across a political border

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

Landscape and a political border determine desert arthropods distribution

Landscape and a political border determine desert arthropods distribution

The effects of psammophilous plants on sand dune dynamics

Using the Ecosystem Services Framework in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Platform: Lessons from the Wadi Araba Desert, Israel and Jordan

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