Determinants of Bird Richness in the Louzishan National Nature Reserve: Effects of Productivity and Habitat Heterogeneity Across Taxonomic and Functional Dimensions [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionHuman activities are modifying Earth's ecosystems in different ways and at different scales, and conserving multiple aspects of biodiversity has become important for maintaining ecosystem stability.
Xiaocui Ma +4 more
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The importance of habitat heterogeneity. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Quintana-Ascencio PF.
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Habitat heterogeneity affects the thermal ecology of an endangered lizard. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 AbstractGlobal climate change is already contributing to the extirpation of numerous species worldwide, and sensitive species will continue to face challenges associated with rising temperatures throughout this century and beyond. It is especially important to evaluate the thermal ecology of endangered ectotherm species now so that mitigation measures ...
Gaudenti N +4 more
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Integrating MRI habitat heterogeneity and peritumoral radiomics into a nomogram for optimized risk stratification in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter study [PDF]
Frontiers in OncologyBackgroundRisk stratification is essential for optimizing treatment in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), particularly for identifying suitable candidates for total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT).
Liang Zhang +5 more
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Plant intraspecific functional trait variation is related to within‐habitat heterogeneity and genetic diversity in Trifolium montanum L. [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Intraspecific trait variation (ITV), based on available genetic diversity, is one of the major means plant populations can respond to environmental variability.
Kevin Karbstein +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Mangroves have been dwindling rapidly in the last few decades due to human activities, and thus restoration is commonly conducted to recover the ecological functions of degraded mangroves. However, afforestation (i.e. mangrove plantation in mudflats) can
Jonathan Y.S. Leung
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Seedling survival simultaneously determined by conspecific, heterospecific, and phylogenetically related neighbors and habitat heterogeneity in a subtropical forest in Taiwan [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Density dependence and habitat heterogeneity have been recognized as important driving mechanisms that shape the patterns of seedling survival and promote species coexistence in species‐rich forests. In this study, we evaluated the relative importance of
Teng‐He Huang +3 more
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Seed Heteromorphism: An Important Adaptation of Halophytes for Habitat Heterogeneity. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2018 Seed germination is a very critical and important step for seedling establishment under saline environments, as high level of salinity in the soil can prevent seed germination. However halophytes exhibit an interesting mechanism to cope with salt stress. Many halophytes produce heteromorphic seeds, which have different dormancy and germination behavior
Liu R, Wang L, Tanveer M, Song J.
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Methods for characterizing the co-development of biofilm and habitat heterogeneity. [PDF]
J Vis Exp, 2015 Biofilms are surface-attached microbial communities that have complex structures and produce significant spatial heterogeneities. Biofilm development is strongly regulated by the surrounding flow and nutritional environment. Biofilm growth also increases the heterogeneity of the local microenvironment by generating complex flow fields and solute ...
Li X +6 more
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Habitat generalist species constrain the diversity of mimicry rings in heterogeneous habitats [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 AbstractHow evolution creates and maintains trait patterns in species-rich communities is still an unsolved topic in evolutionary ecology. One classical example of community-level pattern is the unexpected coexistence of different mimicry rings, each of which is a group of mimetic species with the same warning signal.
Irina Birskis-Barros +2 more
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