Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory [PDF]
, 2014 Human activity poses multiple environmental challenges for ecosystems that have intrinsic value and also support that activity. Our ability to address these challenges is constrained, inter alia, by weaknesses in cross disciplinary understandings of ...
Dorward, Andrew
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Combining trade data and niche modelling improves predictions of the origin and distribution of non-native European populations of a globally invasive species [PDF]
, 2017 Aim: Although propagule pressure and environmental constraints are among the most important factors determining invasion success, studies considering both factors simultaneously are scarce.
Cardador, Laura +3 more
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Reduction of Genetic Variation When Far From the Niche Centroid: Prediction for Mangrove Species
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 The niche-centroid hypothesis states that populations that are distributed near the centroid of the species' ecological niche will have higher fitness-related attributes, such as population abundance and genetic diversity than populations near the edges ...
Maried Ochoa-Zavala +5 more
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To what degree are philosophy and the ecological niche concept necessary in the ecological theory and conservation? [PDF]
, 2017 Ecology as a field produces philosophical anxiety, largely because it differs in scientific structure from classical physics. The hypothetical deductive models of classical physics are simple and predictive; general ecological models are ...
Martins, Rogério P
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Using environmental niche modelling to investigate abiotic predictors of crocodilian attacks on people [PDF]
Oryx, 2020 AbstractCrocodilians are distributed widely through the tropics and subtropics, and several species pose a substantial threat to human life. This has important implications for human safety and crocodilian conservation. Understanding the drivers of crocodilian attacks on people could help minimize future attacks and inform conflict management ...
George Powell +4 more
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Anthropogenic impacts drive niche and conservation metrics of a cryptic rattlesnake on the Colorado Plateau of western North America [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Ecosystems transition quickly in the Anthropocene, whereas biodiversity adapts more slowly. Here we simulated a shifting woodland ecosystem on the Colorado Plateau of western North America by using as its proxy over space and time the fundamental niche ...
M. R. Douglas +7 more
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Bridging the gap between omics and earth system science to better understand how environmental change impacts marine microbes [PDF]
, 2015 The advent of genomic-, transcriptomic- and proteomic-based approaches has revolutionized our ability to describe marine microbial communities, including biogeography, metabolic potential and diversity, mechanisms of adaptation, and phylogeny and ...
Alexander +129 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The species we have studied the spatiotemporal genetic change in the northern dragonhead, a plant species that has experienced a drastic population decline and habitat loss in Europe.
Malene Nygaard +6 more
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The ecological adaptation of the unparalleled plastome character evolution in slipper orchids
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Plastomes may have undergone adaptive evolution in the process of plant adaptation to diverse environments, whereby species may differ in plastome characters.
Chao Hu +15 more
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Evaluating the ecological realism of plant species distribution models with ecological indicator values [PDF]
, 2020 Species distribution models (SDMs) are routinely applied to assess current as well as future species distributions, for example to assess impacts of future environmental change on biodiversity or to underpin conservation planning.
Ellenberg H. +16 more
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