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ZooKeys, 2011 Environmental variability is the main driver for the variation of biological characteristics (life-history traits) of species. Therefore, life-history traits are particularly suited to identify mechanistic linkages between environmental variability and ...
Michael Gerisch
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The Influence of Urbanization and Fire Disturbance on Plant-floral Visitor Mutualistic Networks
Diversity, 2020 The biodiversity loss resulting from rising levels of human impacts on ecosystems has been extensively discussed over the last years. The expansion of urban areas promotes drastic ecological changes, especially through fragmentation of natural areas ...
Mariana Beal-Neves +6 more
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Influence of flood disturbances and biotic interactions on the microdistribution of stream invertebrates [PDF]
, 2009 Most living communities form a temporally shifting patchwork of irregularly distributed organisms. Besides many habitat-specific biotic and abiotic environmental conditions, two key drivers are known to shape community structure: abiotic disturbance and ...
Effenberger, Michael
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Natural Disturbances Regime as a Factor of Korean Pine-Broadleaved Forest Stand Shaping in the South of the Russian Far East [PDF]
Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2015 Using dendroecological approach we reconstructed disturbance history of a mixed Korean pinebroadleaved stand in the south of the Russian Far East. Our results show that during the last two centuries there were no mass disturbances, which may lead to ...
Olga N. Ukhvatkina +3 more
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Nitrous oxide fluxes from tropical peat with different disturbance history and management [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2012 Tropical peatlands are one of the most important terrestrial ecosystems in terms of impact on the atmospheric greenhouse gas composition. Currently, greenhouse gas emissions from tropical peatlands following disturbances due to deforestation, drainage or
J. Jauhiainen +6 more
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Assessing conservation of a tropical African estuary : waterbird disturbance, livelihoods, and ecotourism [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of increasing conservation in the Sabaki River Mouth Important Bird Area. This was achieved by assessing the vulnerability of waterbirds to disturbance from human activity in the ...
England, Kate
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PlantsAnthropogenic disturbances significantly impact plant biodiversity in subtropical forests. While prior research has primarily concentrated on taxonomic diversity, other dimensions of biodiversity, such as phylogenetic and functional diversities, remain ...
Libin Liu +7 more
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Disturbance and Refugia in the Ecology of Stream Benthic Communities [PDF]
, 1997 PhDNatural habitats are spatially and temporally heterogeneous and exert powerful influences over the distribution, interactions and adaptations of organisms.
Gjerløv, Charlotte
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Blue-Green Systems, 2021 Given that long-term treated wastewater discharge may alter the microbial community of the recipient coast, it is important to evaluate whether and how the community's stability is impacted.
Jiayu Chen +5 more
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2015 In the literary recollections of camp survivors the figure of the Muselmann is a recurring motif. The author puts forward a thesis about the existence of a dominating, prototypical narration about a Muselmann, which occurs not only in literary texts but ...
Dennis Bock
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