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Unraveling the role of environmental and anthropogenic drivers in shaping global patterns in mammal diversity

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Patterns in functional and phylogenetic diversity reflect ecological and evolutionary relationships among taxa, and thus can offer key insights into the mechanisms underlying species distributions. However, disentangling the relative influence of proximate environmental drivers versus biogeographic evolutionary history can be a challenge.
Carson P. Hedberg, Felisa A. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Living in the edge: demographic responses driven by density‐dependence and pulsed resources in a hibernating mammal

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Populations at the edge of a species' distribution often encounter more challenging environmental conditions than those at the core, requiring unique adaptations and strategies. However, the demographic processes driving these populations remain poorly understood.
Daniel Oro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Around the world, ecological communities are becoming more similar to one another in a process known as biotic homogenization – an increase in similarity among communities over time. While biotic homogenization has been widely studied among spatial communities, very little attention has been paid to beta diversity between seasonal communities ...
Peter J. Williams, Shannon R. Curley
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing benthos through predator stomach contents: spatiotemporal modeling of abundance and habitat use

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
In shelf ecosystems, benthic invertebrates facilitate nutrient recycling and the transfer of energy to higher trophic levels. However, large‐scale monitoring through direct sampling (e.g. using benthic grabs or bottom trawls) can be costly in terms of time and labor.
Jonathan C. P. Reum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating host condition into spatiotemporal multiscale models improves virus shedding predictions

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Understanding where and when pathogens occur in the environment has implications for reservoir population health and infection risk. In reservoir hosts, infection status and pathogen shedding are affected by processes interacting across different scales: from landscape features affecting host location and transmission to within‐host processes affecting
Andrew M. Kramer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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