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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
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Kin discrimination in plants: overview and implications for population and community ecology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the discovery of identity discrimination, particularly self and kin discrimination amongst plant competitors, research on interplant interactions has advanced significantly within plant physiology and evolutionary ecology. This review synthesizes current knowledge on how both self and kin discrimination influence plant growth ...
Akira Yamawo
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trait-mediated processes and per capita contributions to ecosystem functioning depend on conspecific density and climate conditions

Communications Earth & Environment
The ecological consequences of environmental change are highly dependent on the functional contributions of the surviving community, but categorical descriptors commonly used to project ecosystem futures fail to capture context dependent response ...
Trystan Sanders, Martin Solan, Jasmin A. Godbold   +2 more
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A feedback loop between management, intraspecific trait variation and harvesting practices. [PDF]

AoB Plants, 2023
Locqueville J, Violle C, McKey D, Caillon S, Coq S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
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Species traits mediate terrestrial mammal density responses to human impacts

Ecography, EarlyView.
Human activities are reshaping ecosystems, but their effects on species population density remain poorly understood. Most studies focus on species presence–absence, thus limiting insight into how anthropogenic pressures affect population density. Emerging evidence suggests that responses of natural populations to human disturbance are highly variable ...
Luca Santini, Diana E. Bowler, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez, Inês S. Martins, Franziska Schrodt, Romain Frelat, Mickael Hedde, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Pierre Gaüzère, Cyrille Violle, Romain Goury, Joaquim Estopinan, Miriam Beck, Wilfried Thuiller   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Inter- and Intraspecific Trait Evolution with a Hierarchical Bayesian Approach

, 2016
The evolution of organisms is crucially dependent on the evolution of intraspecific variation. Its interactions with selective agents in the biotic and abiotic environments underlie many processes, such as intraspecific competition, resource partitioning
Silvestro, D., Salamin, N., Kostikova, A., Pearman, P.B., Pearman, P. B., Kostikova A, Salamin N, Silvestro, Daniele,, Pearman PB, Silvestro D   +9 more
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Disentangling the interactive effects of anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity

Ecography, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic activity threatens biodiversity through climate change, habitat fragmentation, and increasing frequency and scale of disturbance. Various theoretical studies have sought to shed light on how these factors could promote or hinder the coexistence of species. However, our understanding of the relative importance of, and interactions between,
Isaac Planas‐Sitjà, Ryosuke Iritani, Adam L. Cronin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intraspecific trait variation and adaptability of Stipa krylovii: Insight from a common garden experiment with two soil moisture treatments. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2023
Liu Y, Fan B, Gong Z, He L, Chen L, Ren A, Zhao N, Gao Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source