Understanding the relationship between dispersal and range size
Ecology Letters, Volume 25, Issue 10, Page 2303-2323, October 2022., 2022 Dispersal is one of the most prominent hypothesised predictors of range size, but the theoretical expectation of a positive dispersal‐range size relationship has received mixed empirical support. By synthesising results from 86 studies on plants and animals in marine, terrestrial and freshwater realms, we show that the overall effect of dispersal on ...
Adriana Alzate, Renske E. Onstein
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Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 1-11, April/June 2022., 2022 We evaluated the functional characteristics of plant communities along the abundance gradient of Sporobolus cryptandrus, a C4 bunchgrass, in its both native North American and recent non‐native European ranges. We found that Sporobolus invasion in Europe leads to impoverishment of the host communities and compromises the biomass and floral resource ...
Alida A. Hábenczyus +10 more
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Neogene paleogeography provides context for understanding the origin and spatial distribution of cryptic diversity in a widespread Balkan freshwater amphipod. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Grabowski M +4 more
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A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography
Biological Reviews, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 2851-2870, December 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Island biogeography is the study of the spatio‐temporal distribution of species, communities, assemblages or ecosystems on islands and other isolated habitats. Island diversity is structured by five classes of process: dispersal, establishment, biotic interactions, extinction and evolution.
Julian Schrader +3 more
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“Step by step”: high frequency short-distance epizoochorous dispersal of aquatic macrophytes [PDF]
, 2016 Aquatic macrophytes can successfully colonise and re-colonise areas separated by space and time. The mechanisms underlying such “mobility” are not well understood, but it has often been hypothesised that epizoochory (external dispersal) plays an ...
Coughlan, Neil E. +2 more
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The recent and rapid spread of Themeda triandra [PDF]
, 2017 Tropical savannas cover over 20% of land surface. They sustain a high diversity of mammalian herbivores and promote frequent fires, both of which are dependent on the underlying grass composition.
Addicott, E. +13 more
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First record of Echinogammarus pungens (H. Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Africa with the checklist of North African freshwater gammarids [PDF]
, 2014 Taking into account the vast area of North Africa, the freshwater gammarid fauna of this area remains rather poorly studied. So far, 20 species of the three following genera: Echinogammarus (11 species), Gammarus (8 spp.) and Chaetogammarus (1 sp.) have ...
GRABOWSKI, M. +2 more
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Morphological characterization of fruits and seeds of Ruellia furcata (Nees) Lindau (Acanthaceae) from Espírito Santo State, Brazil [PDF]
, 2020 Acanthaceae is a wide spread family with usually capsular fruits, with two valves and explosive dehiscence containing two or more seeds. The morphological features of fruits and seeds are important in the identification at supra especific level, since ...
Aoyama, Elisa Mitsuko +2 more
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Diversity and dynamics of hydrophilic flora of Lowland Polissya (on the example of the Sluch River basin) [PDF]
, 2021 Study and analysis of hydrophilic flora diversity are important parts of environmental research due to various functions of vascular macrophytes in freshwater ecosystems, which deteriorate under the influence of anthropogenic activity and climate change.
Grokhovska, Y. +2 more
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The importance of waterbirds as an overlooked pathway of invasion for alien species [PDF]
, 2015 The importance of waterbirds as vectors of aliens has been recognized since Darwin's time, yet research by pioneers has been forgotten during the development of modern invasion biology, which tends to overlook this means of dispersal.
Green, Andy J.
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