Reproduction and Dispersal of Biological Soil Crust Organisms [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Biological soil crusts (BSCs) consist of a diverse and highly integrated community of organisms that effectively colonize and collectively stabilize soil surfaces.
Steven D. Warren +8 more
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Dispersal and Repulsion of Entomopathogenic Nematodes to Prenol [PDF]
Biology, 2019 Chemosensory cues are crucial for entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs)—a guild of insect-killing parasitic nematodes that are used as biological control agents against a variety of agricultural pests.
Kassandra Kin +2 more
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Long-distance wind-dispersal of spores in a fungal plant pathogen: estimation of anisotropic dispersal kernels from an extensive field experiment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Given its biological significance, determining the dispersal kernel (i.e., the distribution of dispersal distances) of spore-producing pathogens is essential. Here, we report two field experiments designed to measure disease gradients caused by sexually-
Adrien Rieux +8 more
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Effects of mis-alignment between dispersal traits and landscape structure on dispersal success in fragmented landscapes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Dispersal is fundamental to population dynamics and hence extinction risk. The dispersal success of animals depends on the biophysical structure of their environments and their biological traits; however, comparatively little is known about how ...
Justine L. Atkins +2 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Metacommunity ecology highlights the importance of integrating simultaneously environmental filtering and spatial processes, such as mass effects and dispersal limitation, into investigation of community assembly.
Zhengfei Li +8 more
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Does scale matter? A systematic review of incorporating biological realism when predicting changes in species distributions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 There is ample evidence that biotic factors, such as biotic interactions and dispersal capacity, can affect species distributions and influence species' responses to climate change. However, little is known about how these factors affect predictions from
Sydne Record +6 more
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A new method for modelling biological invasions from early spread data accounting for anthropogenic dispersal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Biological invasions are one of the major causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. In spite of human aided (anthropogenic) dispersal being the key element in the spread of invasive species, no framework published so far accounts for its peculiar ...
Luca Butikofer +4 more
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The initial dispersal and spread of an intentional invader at three spatial scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The way an invasion progresses through space is a theme of interest common to invasion ecology and biological pest control. Models and mark-release studies of arthropods have been used extensively to extend and inform invasion processes of establishment ...
Nadiah P Kristensen +2 more
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Rethinking Biological Invasions as a Metacommunity Problem
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Perhaps more than any other ecological discipline, invasion biology has married the practices of basic science and the application of that science. The conceptual frameworks of population regulation, metapopulations, supply-side ecology, and community ...
Bryan L. Brown, Jacob N. Barney
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Is a nonlocal diffusion strategy convenient for biological populations in competition? [PDF]
, 2015 We study the convenience of a nonlocal dispersal strategy in a reaction-diffusion system with a fractional Laplacian operator. We show that there are circumstances - namely, a precise condition on the distribution of the resource - under which a nonlocal
Massaccesi, Annalisa, Valdinoci, Enrico
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