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A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe [PDF]
, 2008 Environmental change alters ecosystem functioning and may put the provision of services to human at risk. This paper presents a spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of the corresponding vulnerability for Europe, using a new framework designed ...
Cramer, W. +3 more
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Trawling-induced change in benthic effect trait composition – A multiple case study
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 IntroductionThe importance of the response-effect trait dichotomy in marine benthic ecology has garnered recent attention. Response traits, characterising species responses to environmental variations, have been a dominant focus in the development of ...
Olivier Beauchard +14 more
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mSystems, 2019 Microorganisms can have a profound and varying effect on the chemical character of environments and, thereby, ecological health. Their capacity to consume or transform contaminants leads to contrasting outcomes, such as the dissipation of nutrient ...
Kim M. Handley
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Feeding wild animals is a regular habit in ecotourism worldwide with poorly known consequences for ecosystem functioning. This study investigates how effective bread feeding is at attracting coral reef fish in the South Pacific, which feeding groups of ...
Natalie Prinz +6 more
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Development of scenarios for land cover, population density, impervious cover, and conservation in New Hampshire, 2010–2100 [PDF]
, 2017 Future changes in ecosystem services will depend heavily on changes in land cover and land use, which, in turn, are shaped by human activities. Given the challenges of predicting long-term changes in human behaviors and activities, scenarios provide a ...
Grimm, Curt D. +5 more
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Phylogenetic constraints on ecosystem functioning [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2012 There is consensus that biodiversity losses will result in declining ecosystem functioning if species have different functional traits. Phylogenetic diversity has recently been suggested as a predictor of ecosystem functioning because it could approximate the functional complementarity among species.
Gravel, Dominique +5 more
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InsectsThe environment of mountain ecosystems can change greatly in short distances as elevation increases. The effects of elevation change on the distribution and body size of carabid beetles were investigated at elevations of 750–2600 m in the Changbaishan ...
Shengdong Liu +6 more
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Integrating trait-based empirical and modeling research to improve ecological restoration [PDF]
, 2018 A global ecological restoration agenda has led to ambitious programs in environmental policy to mitigate declines in biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Fiedler, Sebastian +2 more
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Functional soil mycobiome across ecosystems
Journal of Proteomics, 2022 Fungi support a wide range of ecosystem processes such as decomposition of organic matter and plant-soil relationships. Yet, our understanding of the factors driving the metaproteome of fungal communities is still scarce. Here, we conducted a field survey including data on fungal biomass (by phospholipid fatty acids, PLFA), community composition (by ...
Fernandes, Maysa L. P. +7 more
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InsectsThe hazelnut weevil larvae (Curculio dieckmanni) is a major pest of nut weevils, spending part of its life cycle in the soil and causing significant damage to hazelnut crops.
Bin Wang +6 more
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