Functional responses can unify invasion ecology [PDF]
Biological Invasions, 2017 AbstractWe contend that invasion ecology requires a universal, measurable trait of species and their interactions with resources that predicts key elements of invasibility and ecological impact; here, we advocate that functional responses can help achieve this across taxonomic and trophic groups, among habitats and contexts, and can hence help unify ...
Dick, Jaimie +12 more
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ADDITIVE VERSUS PROPORTIONAL PEST DAMAGE FUNCTIONS: WHY ECOLOGY MATTERS [PDF]
Economic analyses of pests typically assume damage is either additively separable from pest free yield or proportional to it. This paper describes the ecological assumptions required for additive and proportional damage functions to demonstrate that both
Mitchell, Paul D.
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An Ecological-Economic Integrated General Equilibrium Model [PDF]
A thorough analysis of sustainable development requires a better understanding of how economic and ecological systems interact over the long run. This paper provides an integrated model to analyze interactions between economic and ecological systems. The
Amy R. Hwang
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, 2010 Metabolism and growth rate of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, were investigated in a population invasive to Southampton Water, southern England. An individual metabolic model expressed as a function of soft tissue dry mass was fitted to data of 18 ...
Alastair Brown +8 more
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Thermodynamic Optimization for an Endoreversible Dual-Miller Cycle (DMC) with Finite Speed of Piston
Entropy, 2018 Power output ( P ), thermal efficiency ( η ) and ecological function ( E ) characteristics of an endoreversible Dual-Miller cycle (DMC) with finite speed of the piston and finite rate of heat transfer are investigated by applying finite time ...
Zhixiang Wu, Lingen Chen, Huijun Feng
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Maximum likelihood estimation for constrained parameters of multinomial distributions - Application to Zipf-Mandelbrot models [PDF]
, 2006 A numerical maximum likelihood (ML) estimation procedure is developed for the constrained parameters of multinomial distributions. The main difficulty involved in computing the likelihood function is the precise and fast determination of the multinomial ...
Izsák, F.
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Pattern formation in reaction diffusion models with spatially inhomogeneous diffusion coefficients [PDF]
, 1992 Reaction-diffusion models for biological pattern formation have been studied extensively in a variety of embryonic and ecological contexts. However, despite experimental evidence pointing to the existence of spatial inhomogeneities in various biological ...
Benson, D. L. +2 more
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Seed removal by ants in Brazilian savanna: optimizing fieldwork
Sociobiology, 2018 There has been an increase in the number of studies using seed removal by ants to evaluate ecosystem functioning; however, these studies encompassed varying time periods and used different types of seeds. Therefore, our aim was to evaluate differences in
Marina Acero Angotti +3 more
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Contextual Factors Associated with the Achievement of African American and European American Adolescents: A Diversimilarity Approach [PDF]
, 1999 The current study is an extension of Luster & McAdoo\u27s 1994 study of African American children and ecological factors impacting academic performance of these children. Luster and McAdoo found that maternal educational level, income, number of children
McKinney, Robin, Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph
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Don’t judge toxic weeds on whether they are native but on their ecological effects
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The sharp rise in anthropogenic activities and climate change has caused the extensive degradation of grasslands worldwide, jeopardizing ecosystem function, and threatening human well‐being.
Zhenchao Zhang +9 more
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