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 polymorphism and the speed of biological invasions.
PLoS ONE, 2012 The speed at which biological range expansions occur has important consequences for the conservation management of species experiencing climate change and for invasion by exotic organisms.
Elizabeth C Elliott, Stephen J Cornell
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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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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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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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Dispersion-cancelled biological imaging with quantum-inspired interferometry [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2013 Quantum information science promises transformative impact over a range of key technologies in computing, communication, and sensing. A prominent example uses entangled photons to overcome the resolution-degrading effects of dispersion in the medical-imaging technology, optical coherence tomography.
M. D. Mazurek +4 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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Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Bird‐mediated dispersal is presumed to be important in the dissemination of many different types of organisms, but concrete evidence remains scarce. This is especially true for biota producing microscopic propagules.
Niko R. Johansson +2 more
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