Assessing Fern Diversity: relative species richness and its environmental correlates in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorLwanga, Jeremiah S.
dc.contributor.authorBalmford, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBadaza, Rose
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T18:11:54Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T18:11:54Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.description.abstractTechniques for the rapid quantification of tropical biodiversity are of critical importance in deciding where to invest scarce conservation resources. Here we describe a simple survey method for assessing species-level richness of a poorly known plant group, the pteridophytes. We then illustrate the use of a powerful, rarefaction- based technique of controlling for inevitable differences in sampling effort to calculate the relative species richness of our study sites. Lastly, we explore how closely observed patterns of relative species richness of Ugandan forests are correlated with a suite of simple environmental variables. We find that fully 75% of the variance in our estimate of fern diversity can be predicted from just two measures: soil fertility (scored as C/N ratio, itself related to rainfall); and distance from the nearest putative Pleistocene refugium.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLwanga, J. S., Balmford, A., & Badaza, R. (1998). Assessing fern diversity: relative species richness and its environmental correlates in Uganda. Biodiversity & Conservation, 7(11), 1387-1398.https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008865518378en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6967
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBiodiversity & Conservationen_US
dc.subjectferns; relative species richness; environmental predictors; biodiversity surrogates; Ugandaen_US
dc.titleAssessing Fern Diversity: relative species richness and its environmental correlates in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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