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Self-segregation in heterogeneous metapopulation landscapes [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2022 Complex interactions are at the root of the population dynamics of many natural systems, particularly for being responsible for the allocation of species and individuals across apposite niches of the ecological landscapes. On the other side, the randomness that unavoidably characterises complex systems has increasingly challenged the niche paradigm ...
Jean-François de Kemmeter +2 more
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Land, 2022 Arable land systems are complex ecosystems composed of cultivated land and semi-natural habitats. Retaining an appropriate proportion of semi-natural habitats in arable land systems is beneficial for enhancing landscape heterogeneity and biodiversity ...
Xiaoyu Guo +3 more
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Regulation of water bodies to urban thermal environment: Evidence from Wuhan, China
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Exploring how water bodies work on the thermal environment in a real and complex urban context is of great significance to develop urban blue infrastructure (BI) system for climate adaption.
Qijiao Xie, Lu Ren, Chenzhe Yang
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Collective foraging in heterogeneous landscapes [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2014 Animals foraging alone are hypothesized to optimize the encounter rates with resources through Lévy walks. However, the issue of how the interactions between multiple foragers influence their search efficiency is still not completely understood.
Kunal Bhattacharya, Tamás Vicsek
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Recent studies have emphasized forests as crucial habitat for wild bees. In Europe, most forests are managed following the principles of close‐to‐nature silviculture, which combine timber production and nature conservation.
Tristan Eckerter +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 To increase the resilience of our food system, we must better understand how ecosystem services such as pest control and pollination provided by a diverse insect community contribute to crop yield.
Shane Stiles +3 more
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Insects, 2020 The biology of parasitoids in natural ecosystems remains very poorly studied, though they are key species for their functioning. Here we focused on Phobocampe confusa, a Nymphalini specialist, responsible for high mortality rates in charismatic butterfly
Hélène Audusseau +5 more
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Using satellite data to assess spatial drivers of bird diversity
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Birds are useful indicators of overall biodiversity, which continues to decline globally, despite targets to reduce its loss. The aim of this paper is to understand the importance of different spatial drivers for modelling bird distributions ...
Merryn L. Hunt +4 more
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Diversity, 2022 Soil fauna contribute to important ecological functions such as improving soil structure and promoting nutrient circulation. They are the common environmental indicators in agricultural landscape.
Panpan Zhang +6 more
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Testing the assumptions of the pyrodiversity begets biodiversity hypothesis for termites in semi-arid Australia [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Fire shapes the composition and functioning of ecosystems globally. In many regions, fire is actively managed to create diverse patch mosaics of fire-ages under the assumption that a diversity of post-fire-age classes will provide a greater variety of ...
Hayley Davis +4 more
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