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Megafauna moves nutrients uphill [PDF]
Current Biology, 2016 Large animals have a disproportionate capacity to transport nutrients along gradients and against water flow directions, making them more available to ecosystems and ultimately saving them from disappearing in sea floor sediments. Megafauna extinctions have reduced this capacity dramatically, while humans and their livestock aren’t stepping in to ...
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Ecography, EarlyView.Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are quantitative tools in biogeography and macroecology. Building upon the ecological niche concept, they correlate environmental covariates to species presence to model habitat suitability and predict species distributions.
Moritz Klaassen +3 more
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Ecology and SocietyMegafauna are among the most challenging conservation targets, particularly in the world’s tropical dry woodlands, which are under high and rising pressures.
Tamanna Kalam +4 more
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Recovery at Morvin: SERPENT final report [PDF]
, 2010 Recovery from disturbance is poorly understood in deep water, but the extent of anthropogenic impacts is becoming increasingly well documented. We used Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to visually assess the change in benthic habitat after exploratory ...
Gates, A.R., Jones, D.O.B.
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Preservation biases in the fossil record distort species ecological niche and distribution models
Ecography, EarlyView.Ecological niche models (ENMs) increasingly leverage the fossil record to understand species' environmental associations and predict their geographic distributions. However, fossils do not occur uniformly through time and space, which can compromise the robustness of ENMs and thus affect ecological conclusions. Here, we assessed how preservation biases
André M. Bellvé +3 more
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Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs) [PDF]
, 2014 Human impacts have left and are leaving distinctive imprints in the geological record. Here we show that in North America, the human-caused changes evident in the mammalian fossil record since c.
Allison Stegner, M +11 more
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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.This study quantifies stance‐phase joint angular excursions and angular utilization (AUI%) during walking in 182 terrestrial mammal species. Across mammals, total limb excursion during stance (TAE) decreases with increasing body mass, whereas AUI% remains broadly conserved, indicating similar proportional use of summed joint excursions to generate net ...
Paul Medina‐González
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Oikos, EarlyView.The recovery of large carnivores offers unique opportunities to study their cascading impacts on plant population dynamics. Medium‐sized carnivores, both prey and seed dispersers, are suppressed by apex predators, indirectly increasing seed‐eating rodent's populations and potentially altering plant establishment.
Tamara Burgos +3 more
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Geo-Biological Investigations on Azooxanthellate Cold-Water Coral Reefs on the Carbonate Mounds Along the Celtic Continental Slope [PDF]
, 2004 Northeast Atlantic 2004 Cruise No.
Bannert, Bernhard +27 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Understanding the ecological implications of species coexistence is central to biodiversity studies and to identify environmental and anthropogenic drivers of ecosystem dynamics, where ecological network analysis offers valuable insights. This study examines the complexity, structure, and potential responses to disturbances of the Strait of Magellan's ...
Claudia D. Andrade +4 more
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