Final-year research · University of Ghana, Legon
Sixty-five taxa, three levels of disturbance, one campus
Every record in this archive was photographed where it was found. Move along the gradient and watch the community change.
The gradient
Three points, one increasing pressure
Sites were chosen so that the only thing changing across them is how heavily people use the ground. Everything else — season, method, effort — was held steady.
Selected plates
All 65 records
From the archive
Richness
Taxa recorded at each point
Site I
21
Site II
26
Site III
27
Richness alone does not tell the story — the disturbed margin carries a comparable number of taxa, but they are different taxa, drawn from a narrower set of families and dominated by mobile generalists. Read the comparison →