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The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes [PDF]

Ecography, 2014
Determining how ecological and evolutionary processes produce spatial variation in local species richness remains an unresolved challenge. Using mountains as a model system, we outline an integrative research approach to evaluate the influence of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms on the generation and maintenance of patterns of species richness ...
Graham, Catherine H., Carnaval, Ana C., Cadena, Carlos Daniel, Zamudio, Kelly, Roberts, Trina E., Para, Juan Luis, Mccain, Christy M., Bowie, Rauri C.K., Moritz, Craig, Baines, Stephen B., Schneider, Christopher J., VanDerWal, Jeremy, Rahbek, Carsten, Kozak, Kenneth H., Sanders, Nathan J.   +14 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Functional traits and habitat use: Investigating community assembly in a montane community (Carabidae: Nebria)

Ecosphere
The processes that influence community assembly, such as competition for resources and environmental filtering, are often scale dependent and vary across ecotones.
J. Schat, D. Kavanaugh, Jacki Whisenant, Genevieve Anderegg, Huijun Xiao, Sean D. Schoville   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon

Oikos, EarlyView.
Niche breadth, reflecting the range of environmental conditions or resources a species can exploit, influences its distribution, persistence, vulnerability to environmental change, and interspecific interactions. The elevational niche‐breadth hypothesis predicts broader ecological niches at higher elevations due to increased environmental stress and ...
Fernando P. Gaona, Sylvain Delabye, Vincent Maicher, Szabolcs Sáfián, Jan Altman, Jiří Doležal, Štěpán Janeček, Ishmeal N. Kobe, Mercy Murkwe, Robert Tropek   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home range size, habitat selection and roost use by the whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) in human-dominated montane landscapes.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Our understanding of animal adaptations to human pressure is limited by the focus on rare taxa, despite that common species are more significant in shaping structure, function and service provision of ecosystems.
Korneliusz Kurek, Olga Gewartowska, Katarzyna Tołkacz, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Robert W Mysłajek   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Relative Influences of Climate and Competition on Tree Growth along Montane Ecotones in the Rocky Mountains

, 2016
Distribution shifts of tree species are likely to be highly dependent upon population performance at distribution edges. Understanding the drivers of aspects of performance, such as growth, at distribution edges is thus crucial to accurately predicting ...
Cannon, Ellie, Copenhaver-Parry, Paige E
core   +1 more source

Unveiling human–wildlife interactions in the context of livestock grazing abandonment and the return of large carnivores, ungulates and vultures: A stakeholder perspective

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Pastoral practices remain a widespread economic activity across European mountain regions. However, the viability of this activity may be threatened by the recovery of large wild vertebrates associated with passive rewilding, leading to the so‐called human–wildlife conflicts.
P. Acebes, F. J. Muñoz‐Gálvez, Z. Iglesias‐González, M. García‐Llorente, D. López‐García   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity, distribution, and relative abundance of medium and large-sized mammals in Chukala Mountain Forest, East Shoa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

BMC Zoology
This study investigates the diversity, distribution, and relative abundance of medium and large-sized mammals in the biodiverse Chukala Mountain Forest of East Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia, during March to August 2020.
Nimona Alemu, Tsegaye Gadisa, Tadesse Habtamu, Tolera Kuma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Kazakhstan is recognized as a key stronghold for the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Nonetheless, the wolf status and the dynamics of human‐wolf coexistence in the region remain poorly understood. This study aims to fill that gap by exploring current attitudes towards wolves in Kazakhstan and identify the underlying drivers of these attitudes.
Alyona Koshkina, Svitlana Kudrenko, Andrés Ordiz, Saltanat Kamiyeva, Adam Devenish, Johannes Kamp   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural history and immature stage morphology of Spialia Swinhoe, 1912 in the Iberian Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)

Nota Lepidopterologica, 2018
We present new data on the ecology, natural history and geographic distribution of the recently described skipper Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, Dapporto, Dincă, Vicente & Vila, 2016 and compare its immature stage morphology with the sympatric ...
Juan L. Hernández-Roldán, Juan C. Vicente, Roger Vila, Miguel L. Munguira   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Leptodactylus cunicularius [PDF]

, 2008
Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological ...
de Sá, Rafael O., Heyer, Miriam Muedeking, Heyer, W. Ronald   +2 more
core   +1 more source