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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling the effects of multifunctional forestry practices on the abundances of birds and their invertebrate prey. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Cordeiro Pereira JM, Klingenfuß S, Basile M, Frey J, Mikusiński G, Storch I.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Invasive Mammal Exclusion Restore an Ecosystem Function Mediated by Invertebrates? [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Watts C, Woolley CK, Arbuckle J, Bartlam S, Carpenter JK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Total herbivore exclusion alters plant species dominance and trait expression in endangered grassy woodlands. [PDF]

Ecology
Chinn N, Lebbink G, Risch AC, McGree J, Firn J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals differ. While seemingly trivial, this insight has nevertheless led to paradigm shifts, as three key fields of organismal biology have seen marked changes in key concepts over the past few decades. In animal behaviour, it has become increasingly recognised that behavioural differences among individuals can be stable over time and ...
Oliver Krüger, Jaime Anaya‐Rojas, Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, Nayden Chakarov, Melanie Dammhahn, Alkistis Elliott‐Graves, Claudia Fricke, Jürgen Gadau, Joseph I. Hoffman, Marie I. Kaiser, Sylvia Kaiser, Peter Korsten, Ulrich Krohs, Joachim Kurtz, Roland Langrock, Caroline Müller, Robert Peuß, Klaus Reinhold, Helene Richter, Norbert Sachser, Holger Schielzeth, Tim Schmoll, Ralf Stanewsky, Tamas Szekely, Franz J. Weissing, Meike Wittmann, Shuqing Xu   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Ranching Systems Exhibit Higher Multi-Trophic Biodiversity: Evidence from Three Ranching Areas. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Zhang K, Sun X, Jia H, Liang C, Zhang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Classifying avian drinking behaviour: ecological insights and implications in a changing world

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water is a fundamental currency of life, and its availability significantly influences animal behaviour, physiology and distributions. However, our knowledge around the dependence on water for drinking and the direct and indirect mechanisms driving related behaviours remains partial in the context of changing climates. Here, we review patterns
Shannon R. Conradie, Marc T. Freeman
wiley   +1 more source

Euthanasia Methods in Invertebrates: A Critical Narrative Review of Methodological and Welfare Standards. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Bakker J, de la Garza MA, Morel M, Outwater AH, Chipangura J, Stumpel JBG, Vercammen F, Lewbart GA, Nederlof RA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source