Processes and biodiversity in native woodland ecosystems (PROBECO)
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PROJECT COMPONENTS
 
Phytochemical Diversity
 
Ecological Processes
   
Vertebrate herbivore and vegetation interactions
   
Plant-invertebrate interactions
   
Soil microbial and mycorrhizal diversity and function
 
Spatial Ecology

 

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THE FIVE INTEGRAL COMPONENTS

 
  Phytochemical Diversity

 
Determination of spatial variability in terpene and phenolic concentrations in a Scots pine population read more >>

Vera Thoss, Glenn Iason, Joan Beaton, Dave Sim and Jack Lennon.

  Ecological Processes


The relationship between genetic diversity, species diversity and ecological interactions read more >>
Vertebrate herbivore and vegetation interactions
     

 
To determine the spatial variation in ground vegetation composition and its interaction with seed predation, germination and seedling establishment read more >>

To determine spatial variability in Scots pine seedling mortality and its relationship to phytochemical phenotype read more >>

Plant-invertebrate Interactions
     
 


To test whether the contrasting needle morphology and terpene chemistry of pine trees significantly alters the species composition, population performance and ecosystem consequences of insect herbivores read more >>


Soil microbial and mycorrhizal diversity and function
     
 


Quantification of mycorrhizal species diversity in relation to pine phytochemistry and relationship between functional and taxonomic diversity read more >>

 

  Spatial Ecology
     
 
To incorporate spatial variation in biochemical polymorphism, species number and distribution and measures of ecological function into a simple, spatial model of structure and function of a natural native Scots pine forest read more >>

Jack Lennon, Peter Dennis, Glenn Iason, Vera Thoss, Robin Pakeman, Colin Campbell..

 

 

 
 


Contact information: Email g.iason@macaulay.ac.uk: Telephone +44 (0) 1224 498200 - The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK.