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Sampling effort to characterize estuarine macroinfaunal communities in patchy habitats

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Estuarine benthic macroinfauna have aggregated, patchy distributions, making accurate community measurements dependent upon sampling scales. The purpose of this study is to determine the appropriate core sizes and sampling effort needed to characterize benthic infaunal communities in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA.
Paul A. Montagna
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Connecting the distribution and diversification of marine plants

Oikos, EarlyView.
Integration of the evolutionary history with distribution of extant species is necessary to explain present‐day diversity, particularly for ‘foundation' species, such as seagrasses, which create habitats of socioecological relevance. Here, we resolved if varying evolutionary history of seagrass families has imprinted the distribution ranges of extant ...
Fernando Tuya, Javier Martínez‐ Pérez, Álvaro Fueyo, Néstor E. Bosch   +3 more
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Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson, Monika Suškevičs, Baiba Prūse, Marta Barberis, Sara A. O. Cousins, Živa Fišer, Margaux Julien, Marianne Kivastik, Marcin Klisz, Attila Lengyel, Zuzana Münzbergová, Radosław Puchałka, Iris Reinula, Froukje Rienks, Julie Koch Sheard, Viktor Siverin, Bojana Stojanova, Sabrina Träger, Tsipe Aavik   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

The origin and nature of macroecological patterns in amphibians: old questions, novel approaches

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2013
The role of physiological parameters as determinants of macroscale patterns is still widely disputed. Using amphibians as a model, I revisited three fundamental themes in macroecology from a physiological perspective: the global diversity gradient ...
Sidney F. Gouveia
doaj  

The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development

People and Nature
Biological invasions have substantial and rising social‐ecological impacts threatening human livelihoods and communities and hampering progress towards a just and equitable world. Currently, biological invasions are not adequately recognised and included
Bernd Lenzner, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Gilles Colling, Stefan Dullinger, Julia Fugger, Michael Glaser, Jennifer H. Hennenfeind, Ekin Kaplan, Daijun Liu, Ali Omer, Aníbal Pauchard, Helen E. Roy, Tobias Schernhammer, Anna Schertler, Peter Stoett, Lisa Tedeschi, Tom Vorstenbosch, Johannes Wessely, Franz Essl   +18 more
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Marine meiofaunal macroecology and paleoecology: microfossil Ostracoda and Foraminifera as models [PDF]

, 2014
Special Session 3: Ecological and Evolutionary Paradigms in Marine Biology and How Meiofauna can be Used to Address Them: no. SS3-9Conference Theme: Life in the Changing OceanSmall benthic organisms, meiofauna, have been investigated less intensively ...
Yasuhara, M
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Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Patterns of biological diversity have been shaped by cultural practices in the past, while in turn, cultures and languages have evolved in close interaction with local species and ecosystems. However, in the Anthropocene, human activities are putting increasingly diverse pressures on ecosystems and cultures, resulting in accelerating threat ...
Bernd Lenzner, Andreas Baumann, Sietze Norder, Franz Essl, Hannes A. Fellner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shared leadership can promote success in collaborative research networks in ecology

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract While collaborative science is becoming the norm in ecology, many ecologists participating in collaborations are less aware of the body of research that studies the processes by which collaborative teams organize and communicate.
Daniel C. Allen, Amy J. Burgin, Erin C. Seybold, Walter K. Dodds, Michelle H. Busch, Anna Bergstrom, Corey A. Krabbenhoft, Kate S. Boersma, James C. Stegen, Julian D. Olden, Carla L. Atkinson, C. Nathan Jones, Thibault Datry, Sarah E. Godsey, Arial J. Shogren, Annika W. Walters, Stephen Plont, Richard H. Walker, Margaret Shanafield, Meryl C. Mims, Adam N. Price, Chelsea R. Smith, Yaqi You, Michael T. Bogan, Ryan M. Burrows, Mathis L. Messager, Rachel Stubbington, Margaret A. Zimmer   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew, Crysta Gantz, Brigid Wills, Benjamin Baiser, Sydne Record, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Angela L. Strecker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting species abundance distributions by simultaneously using number and biomass as units of measurement [PDF]

, 2007
The universal observation that some species in an ecological community are common, but many more are rare, is neatly encapsulated in a species abundance distribution (SAD)1.
Anne E. Magurran, Peter A. Henderson
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