Biological Soil Crusts as Ecosystem Engineers in Antarctic Ecosystem [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Biological soil crusts (BSC) are considered as pivotal ecological elements among different ecosystems of the world. The effects of these BSC at the micro-site scale have been related to the development of diverse plant species that, otherwise, might be ...
Andrea Barrera +6 more
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Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Declines of large-bodied herbivorous reptiles are well documented, but the consequences for ecosystem function are not. Understanding how large-bodied herbivorous reptiles engineer ecosystems is relevant given the current interest in ...
Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs
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Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers [PDF]
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2021 AbstractBeavers have the ability to modify ecosystems profoundly to meet their ecological needs, with significant associated hydrological, geomorphological, ecological, and societal impacts. To bring together understanding of the role that beavers may play in the management of water resources, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems, this article ...
Roger E. Auster +2 more
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Marine biodiversity was greater in the presence of ecosystem engineers throughout the Phanerozoic [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsPhanerozoic marine biodiversity dynamics have been shaped by continuous environmental change and biotic interactions. Although ecosystem engineers – animals whose behaviours modify resource availability – have established impacts on modern community ...
Alison T. Cribb +2 more
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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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Secondhand homes: The multilayered influence of woodpeckers as ecosystem engineers [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Ecosystem engineers alter, and can be influenced in turn by, the ecosystems they live in. Woodpeckers choose foraging and nesting sites based, in part, on food availability. Once abandoned, these cavities, particularly within areas of high forage, may be
Faith O. Hardin +6 more
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Cancer Cells and M2 Macrophages: Cooperative Invasive Ecosystem Engineers [PDF]
Cancer Control, 2020 Many aspects of cancer can be explained utilizing well-defined ecological principles. Applying these principles to cancer, cancer cells are an invasive species to a healthy organ ecosystem.
Kayla V. Myers +2 more
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Evidence of Facilitation Cascade Processes as Drivers of Successional Patterns of Ecosystem Engineers at the Upper Altitudinal Limit of the Dry Puna. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Facilitation processes constitute basic elements of vegetation dynamics in harsh systems. Recent studies in tropical alpine environments demonstrated how pioneer plant species defined as "ecosystem engineers" are capable of enhancing landscape-level ...
Luca Malatesta +3 more
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Habitat-mediated variation in the importance of ecosystem engineers for secondary cavity nesters in a nest web. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Through physical state changes in biotic or abiotic materials, ecosystem engineers modulate resource availability to other organisms and are major drivers of evolutionary and ecological dynamics.
Hugo Robles, Kathy Martin
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Resource quantity and quality determine the inter-specific associations between ecosystem engineers and resource users in a cavity-nest web. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 While ecosystem engineering is a widespread structural force of ecological communities, the mechanisms underlying the inter-specific associations between ecosystem engineers and resource users are poorly understood. A proper knowledge of these mechanisms
Hugo Robles, Kathy Martin
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