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simecol: An Object-Oriented Framework for Ecological Modeling in R [PDF]

The simecol package provides an open structure to implement, simulate and share ecological models. A generalized object-oriented architecture improves readability and potential code re-use of models and makes simecol-models freely extendable and simple ...
Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke
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Hunting Strategies and Game Exploitation Organization in the Magdalenian: An Integrated Approach Based on Mortality Profiles and Stable Isotopes at Chaves Cave (Huesca, Spain)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding hunting strategies in Upper Paleolithic contexts remains challenging due to the complex relationships between prey behavior, environmental conditions, and human decision‐making. Addressing these dynamics requires integrating archeozoological, geospatial, and geochemical proxies capable of capturing demographic patterns, landscape
Alejandro Sierra, Marie Balasse, Luis Jiménez, Rafael Domingo, Lourdes Montes, Denis Fiorillo, Pilar Utrilla   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction and Optimization of Ecological Security Patterns Based on Self-Organizing Map and Multisource Data at Different Scales

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Establishing ecological security patterns (ESPs) is essential for protecting regional ecological integrity and guiding land-use optimization. Accurate identification of ecological sources is crucial; therefore, a multiscale identification framework has ...
Suping Zeng, Chunqian Jiang, Yanfeng Bai, Chunwu Jiang, Hui Wang, Zhaohui Jia, En Liu, Lina Guo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Greater future range expansions in alien than native ant species

Oikos, EarlyView.
There is growing concern that many species may not be able to track suitable conditions under climate change and suffer range contractions as a result. At the same time, alien species introduced to novel geographic ranges are often assumed to benefit from climate change.
Tongyi Liu, Sébastien Ollier, Cleo Bertelsmeier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Area‐restricted search under realistic constraints

Oikos, EarlyView.
Abstract Area‐restricted search (ARS) is one of the most influential and widely used concepts in foraging theory, capturing a simple rule by which animals intensify local search following a resource encounter. Because ARS performs well in many spatially structured environments, it serves as a basic model for interpreting movement patterns across taxa ...
Inon Scharf, Arik Dorfman
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersal‐limited birds at high risk from cattle farming deforestation in tropical forests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Deforestation driven by farming is a major threat to tropical biodiversity. Although this impact is well documented, assessments at local or regional scales often underestimate biodiversity loss at broader national scales by up to 60%. A key question remains: how do farming activities affect functional diversity and species traits across different ...
Giovanny Pérez, Simon C. Mills, Jacob B. Socolar, Jose M. Ochoa Quintero, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Robert P. Freckleton, Jos Barlow, James J. Gilroy, David P. Edwards   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the ecological principles underpinning forest landscape restoration: A case study of wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) on the Isle of Wight (UK) [PDF]

, 2008
Current woodland restoration programs are increasingly focussing on the creation of habitat networks in order to increase woodland cover and connectivity.
Brouwers, Niels, Brouwers, Niels Christiaan   +1 more
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source