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Forest landscape restoration in the drylands of Latin America [PDF]

, 2012
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) involves the ecological restoration of degraded forest landscapes, with the aim of benefiting both biodiversity and human well-being.
del Castillo, R.F, Echeverría, C., Geneletti, D., González-Espinosa, M., Malizia, L.R., Newton, Adrian, Premoli, A.C., Rey Benayas, J.M., Smith-Ramírez, C., Williams-Linera, G.   +9 more
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Marked decline in forest-dependent small mammals following habitat loss and fragmentation in an Amazonian deforestation frontier [PDF]

, 2020
Agricultural frontier expansion into the Amazon over the last four decades has created million hectares of fragmented forests. While many species undergo local extinctions within remaining forest patches, this may be compensated by native species from ...
Palmeirim, Ana Filipa, Peres, Carlos A., Santos-Filho, Manoel   +2 more
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Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha, Nicolai Konow   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of different forest types on soil microbial biomass and microbial entropy in the karst region of southwestern China

Frontiers in Plant Science
Soil microbial biomass and microbial entropy are used as important indicators of soil quality. However, the effects of forest-stand types remain poorly understood. This study focused on three stands of Cryptomeria japonica var. sinensis (CJ), Liquidambar
Yan Wu, Yan Wu, Xiaoli Zhong, Xun Liu, Xun Liu, Bo Ding, Bo Ding, Yunlin Zhang, Yunlin Zhang   +8 more
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The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S. Killen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of fuel treatments on California mixed-conifer forests

California Agriculture, 2015
Land managers implement forest fuel reduction treatments, including prescribed fire, mastication, and hand- and mechanical thinning, to modify wildfire behavior.
E Winford, J Stevens, H Safford
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Fires in nature: a review of the challenges for wild animals

European Journal of Ecology, 2021
Animals living in the wild are exposed to numerous challenges, such as fires, that can lead to suffering. The impacts of fire have been studied in different branches of ecology, but studies of its effects on the welfare of individual animals remain ...
JARA GUTIÉRREZ, Javier de Miguel
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Site Factors Influence on Herbaceous Understory Diversity in East Texas Pinus palustris savannas [PDF]

, 2018
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savannas were once dominant across the southeastern U.S., including East Texas and parts of western and central Louisiana.
Farrish, Kenneth, PhD, Kidd, Kathryn R., McCalip, Brooke, Oswald, Brian, Weng, Yuhi   +4 more
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fact Sheet: Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: response to Williams and Baker. [PDF]

, 2014
A recent study in Global Ecology and Biogeography (Williams and Baker 2012, hereafter W&B) described the historical conditions of forest structure and fire regimes on four large landscapes in Arizona, Colorado and Oregon.
Fule, Pete
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