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From ecosystem ecology to landscape ecology: A progression calling for a well-founded research and appropriate disillusions

Landscape Online, 2008
In this paper, 1) a delineation of main theoretical, methodological and applicative issues of landscape ecology, 2) a comparison between landscape and ecosystem ecology, 3) a critical overview of actual limits of landscape ecology, are depicted.
Ireneo Ferrari, Alessandro Ferrarini
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What acceleration data from wildlife collars and animal body mass tell us about seed dispersal

Animal Biotelemetry, 2023
Background The seeds of many plant species can be dispersed over long distances in animal fur (epizoochory). Quantifying epizoochory in the wild is, however, challenging, since it is difficult to measure the retention times of seeds in fur.
Carsten M. Buchmann, Lukas Dreyling, Mihaela Constantin, Frank M. Schurr   +3 more
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Landscape metrics and indices : an overview of their use in landscape research [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at both landscape and ecosystem level.
Antrop, Marc, Mander, Ülo, Marja, Riho, Roosaare, Jüri, Uuemaa, Evelin   +4 more
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UK landscape ecology: trends and perspectives from the first 25 years of ialeUK [PDF]

, 2019
Context The 25th anniversary of the founding of the UK chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (ialeUK) was marked in 2017. Objectives To assess trends in UK landscape ecology research over ialeUK’s first 25 years, to compare ...
Bellamy, Chloe, Burton, Vanessa, Griffiths, Geoff, Metzger, Marc J., Millington, James D. A., Neumann, Jess, Porter, Jonathan, Young, Christopher   +7 more
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An inferior competitor is a successful invader due to its stress tolerance and productivity

Scientific Reports, 2023
The invasion of ecosystems by non-native species is recognized as one of the most significant global challenges, particularly in semiarid regions where native biodiversity is already under stress from drought and land degradation. The implicit assumption
Yohannes B. Tesfay, Annika Blaschke, Juergen Kreyling   +2 more
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Odyssey of First IALE World Congress in Africa and Opportunities for North-South or South-South Collaboration

Landscape Online, 2023
The landscape ecology community witnessed a landmark event in July 2023 as the 11th International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress unfolded on the African continent for the first time.
Werner Rolf, Joy Obando, Henry N. Bulley, Moses Azong Cho, Yazidi Bamutaze, Robert M. Scheller, Uta Schirpke   +6 more
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Drought sensitivity of beech on a shallow chalk soil in northeastern Germany – a comparative study

Forest Ecosystems, 2016
Background We compare the climate sensitivity of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in two forest nature reserves in northeastern Germany. The one reserve, Schlossberg, is characterized by shallow chalk soils, whereas in the other reserve, Eldena ...
Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Hanna Bümmerstede, Janette Iwanowski, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking, Ernst van der Maaten   +5 more
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Dendrometers challenge the ‘moon wood concept’ by elucidating the absence of lunar cycles in tree stem radius oscillation

Scientific Reports, 2023
Wood is a sustainable natural resource and an important global commodity. According to the ‘moon wood theory’, the properties of wood, including its growth and water content, are believed to oscillate with the lunar cycle.
Jan Tumajer, Sabine Braun, Andreas Burger, Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanic, Lorenz Walthert, Roman Zweifel, Martin Wilmking   +7 more
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Special Issue: landscape urbanism and green infrastructure [PDF]

, 2019
With the notion of landscape urbanism long neglected, interlinkages between ecology and architecture in the built environment are becoming visible. Yet, the diversity in understandings of the interconnections between cities and nature is the starting ...
Panagopoulos, Thomas
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Modelling and simulating change in reforesting mountain landscapes using a social-ecological framework [PDF]

, 2010
Natural reforestation of European mountain landscapes raises major environmental and societal issues. With local stakeholders in the Pyrenees National Park area (France), we studied agricultural landscape colonisation by ash (Fraxinus excelsior) to ...
A Gibon, A Gibon, A Gibon, A Mottet, A Otte, Annick Gibon, BJ Fu, BL Turner II, C Fontaine, C Lundstrom, C Monteil, Claude Monteil, CS Holling, D Valbuena, David Sheeren, DC Parker, DC Parker, DG Brown, E Moreira, E Tasser, EJJ Rykiel, F Berkes, F Berkes, F Bousquet, F Bousquet, G Augustins, G Balent, Gérard Balent, J Brandt, J Kolasa, J Wu, JB Dent, JC Castella, JG Wu, JP Deffontaines, K Helming, L An, M Antrop, M Burgi, M Duru, M Duru, M Gellrich, M Muraz, MG Turner, MP Julien, N Andrieu, P Wardle, PH Verburg, QB Le, R Matthews, R Soliva, RB Matthews, RH Økland, RW Kates, S Wagner, SM Manson, Sylvie Ladet, T Berger, T Plieninger, T Streifeneder, TFH Allen, TJ Bontkes, TR Robinson, V Grimm, Z Naveh   +64 more
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