APPENDIX TABLE 1 ECOSYSTEM PARAMETERS: Potential variables in those areas considered important from which significant factors were selected to be measured in the research program. BIOTIC PARAMETERS Plants Density: species and total community Diversity: species and community composition changes Community pattern: individual and species distribution Phenology: germination, leaf set, flowering, leaf fall, mortality Productivity: standing crop, caloric accumulation Photosynthetic rates: carbon accumulation Transpiration rates Water use efficiency Litter fall and accumulation Nutrient uptake and transfer Herbivory Animals Density: species and total community population Diversity: species, composition changes Behavior patterns Habitat selection Browsing and grazing rates: plant selection Migration: patterns, rates, occurrence Physiological rates: respiration, water use Secondary productivity: animal biomass Soil Organisms Diversity Density Composition changes Decomposition activity
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