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Article: Researchers from University of Padua report recent findings in global ecology.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"We tested whether the species-energy and species-human relationships vary between native and both naturalized and casual alien species richness when other environmental variables had been taken into account. Location Trento Province, a region (c. 6200 km2) on the southern border of the European Alps (Italy), subdivided into 156 contiguous (c. 37.5 km2) cells and ranging in elevation from 66 to 3769 m. Data were separated into three subsets, representing richness of natives, naturalized aliens and casual aliens and separately related to temperature, human population and various environmental correlates of plant species diversity," researchers in Legnaro, Italy report.
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