The Collapse of Ecosystem Engineer Populations [PDF]
Mathematics, 2018 Humans are the ultimate ecosystem engineers who have profoundly transformed the world’s landscapes in order to enhance their survival. Somewhat paradoxically, however, sometimes the unforeseen effect of this ecosystem engineering is the very collapse of ...
José F. Fontanari
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Badger Meles meles as Ecosystem Engineer and Its Legal Status in Europe [PDF]
Animals, 2022 The European badger plays an important role as a natural factor shaping species diversity in forests. Its extensive setts can be used by many other animals as shelters.
Przemysław Kurek +7 more
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Complex Effects of Ecosystem Engineer Loss on Benthic Ecosystem Response to Detrital Macroalgae. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Ecosystem engineers change abiotic conditions, community assembly and ecosystem functioning. Consequently, their loss may modify thresholds of ecosystem response to disturbance and undermine ecosystem stability.
Francesca Rossi +4 more
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Environmental optima for an ecosystem engineer: a multidisciplinary trait-based approach [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 A complex interplay of biotic and abiotic factors underpins the distribution of species and operates across different levels of biological organization and life history stages.
Amelia Curd +12 more
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Aquaculture-derived trophic subsidy boosts populations of an ecosystem engineer [PDF]
Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2018 Environmental management of coastal aquaculture is focused on acute impacts of organic and nitrogenous wastes close to farms. However, the energy-rich trophic subsidy that aquaculture provides may create cascades with influences over broader spatial ...
White, CA +5 more
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Effects of an ecosystem engineer on belowground movement of microarthropods. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Ecosystem engineers affect other species by changing physical environments. Such changes may influence movement of organisms, particularly belowground where soil permeability can restrict dispersal.
Erin K Cameron +2 more
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Climate change impacts on potential recruitment in an ecosystem engineer [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2013 Climate variability and the rapid warming of seas undoubtedly have huge ramifications for biological processes such as reproduction. As such, gametogenesis and spawning were investigated at two sites over 200 km apart on the south coast of Ireland in an ...
Emer Morgan +2 more
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Spatiotemporal variation in the sign and magnitude of ecosystem engineer effects on lake ecosystem production [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2019 Ecosystem engineers can have diverse and conflicting effects on their ecosystems, and the balance between these effects can depend on the physical environment.
Joseph S. Phillips +4 more
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Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Ecosystem engineers are species that transform habitats in ways that influence other species.While the impacts of many engineers have been well described, our understanding of how their impact varies along environmental gradients remains ...
Alan N. Costa +2 more
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Reference genome for the California ribbed mussel,Mytilus californianus, an ecosystem engineer [PDF]
Journal of Heredity, 2022 Lisa X Paggeot +2 more
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