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Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

Ecography, EarlyView.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng, Nicoletta Riccardi, Pin Nie, Maria Urbańska, Timo J. Marjomäki, Wojciech Andrzejewski, Małgorzata Ożgo, Keiko Nakamura, Jouni Taskinen   +8 more
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Dietary specialization is linked to reduced species durations in North American fossil canids [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
How traits influence species persistence is a fundamental question in ecology, evolution and palaeontology. We test the relationship between dietary traits and both species duration and locality coverage over 40 million years in North American canids, a ...
Mairin Balisi, Corinna Casey, Blaire Van Valkenburgh   +2 more
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Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality

Ecography, EarlyView.
Organisms' energy requirements increase with body mass, leading to larger home range areas and lower population density. Previous research has highlighted the differential scaling of these variables in mammals, where species with large home ranges have higher density than expected due to increased home range overlap. Here we investigate this phenomenon
Luca Santini, Gianni Jacucci, Marlee A. Tucker   +2 more
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Climate change alters the spatial pattern of plant spectral diversity across forest types

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Species distribution, spatial distance, and neighboring interact6ions are among the most important drivers of global variation in plant species diversity. However, the effects of climate change on the relationship between spatial interactions and species
Yu Peng, Jiaxun Xin, Nanyi Peng
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Changing patterns of colonisation and persistence during the wolf recolonisation of the human‐dominated Italian alpine region

Ecography, EarlyView.
Dynamic occupancy models are fundamental for understanding complex species recolonisation processes, as they allow the assessment of both colonisation and persistence probabilities over time. Using a dynamic occupancy model and a large‐scale multi‐year dataset on wolf presence collected in the Italian alpine region between 2014 and 2020, we analysed ...
M. V. Boiani, P. Dupont, R. Bischof, O. Friard, F. Bisi, G. Bombieri, S. Calderola, S. Carolfi, C. Chioso, L. Corlatti, U. Fattori, P. Ferrari, S. Filacorda, M. Geary, P. Molinari, E. Pernechele, D. Righetti, M. Tomasella, F. Truc, E. Avanzinelli, A. von Hardenberg, F. Marucco   +21 more
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The macroecology of rapid evolutionary radiation [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011
A long-standing debate in ecology addresses whether community composition is the result of stochastic factors or assembly rules. Non-random, over-dispersed patterns of species co-occurrence have commonly been attributed to competition—a particularly important force in adaptive radiation.
Nicholas F, Parnell, J Todd, Streelman
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TreeMig framework ver. 1.0: an R package with GUI to simulate spatio‐temporal forest dynamics

Ecography, EarlyView.
Spatio‐temporal vegetation models are essential for simulating dynamics and shifts in species distributions over large areas, particularly under global change. One such model is the dynamic forest landscape model TreeMig. We have developed a framework that makes the model more user‐friendly, improves its functionality, and expands its possibilities ...
Heike Lischke, David Böhm, Dirk R. Schmatz, Achilleas Psomas, Thomas J. Löffler, Alain Joss, Daniel Scherrer   +6 more
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The future of endemic and threatened birds of the Amazon in the face of global climate change

Ecology and Evolution
The anthropogenic impacts on the environment, including deforestation and the escalating emissions of greenhouse gases, have significantly contributed to global climate change that can lead to alterations in ecosystems.
Kauê Felippe deMoraes, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Gabriela Silva Ribeiro Gonçalves, Pablo Vieira Cerqueira, Marcos Pérsio Dantas Santos   +4 more
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A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2016
Are we entering a new ‘Golden Age’ of biogeography, with continued development of infrastructure and ideas? We highlight recent developments, and the challenges and opportunities they bring, in light of the snapshot provided by the 7th biennial meeting ...
Michael N Dawson, Jan C. Axmacher, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jessica L. Blois, Bethany A. Bradley, Anna F. Cord, Jürgen Dengler, Kate S. He, Lawrence R. Heaney, Roland Jansson, Miguel D. Mahecha, Corinne Myers, David Nogués-Bravo, Anna Papadopoulou, Björn Reu, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Alycia Stigall, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Daniel G. Gavin   +19 more
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Age‐related trends in niche position and specialization in Neotropical vertebrates

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species' niche positions and breadths within a region's environmental space, measured through ecological niche factor analysis (ENFA) as marginality and specialization, can reflect evolutionary constraints related to lineage age. The ‘internal incumbency' hypothesis predicts that older species, due to competitive preemption, occupy more central niche ...
Carlos Calderón del Cid, Fabricio Villalobos, Ricardo Dobrovolski, Bruno Vilela   +3 more
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