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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the spatial lag effect of Tobler's First Law of Geography in Earth system predictive learning. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhou P, Liu Y, Chen K, Deng M, Li Q.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Six-fold reduction in ocean heat content estimate uncertainty since 1960. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Yuan H, Cheng L, Pan Y, Zhang B, Meyssignac B, Trenberth KE, Zhu Y, Song X, Zheng H, Bao S, Du J, Zhu J, Jin Z, Chi X, Jiang J, Zhang R, Tian Y, Liu N.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Hadean timeline for the emergence of the RNA World. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Abramov O, Medvegy A, Kremer B, Mojzsis SJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl, Alex S. Wegmann, Nick D. Holmes, Caitlin E. Andrews, Gérard Rocamora, Simon Ducatez, James C. Russell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting the range expansion of larger benthic foraminifera under earth's changing climate. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Amao AO, Consorti L, Kaminski MA, Argadestya I, Al-Ramadan K, Frontalini F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler, Natasha Barbolini, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan, Marian Schubert, Catarina Rydin, Olwen M. Grace, Aelys M. Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantification of the coupled dynamics of marine microbes and reactive oxygen species in laboratory batch culture experiments. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr
McCullough DK, Bowden EC, Calfee BC, Gilchrist MA, Zinser ER, Talmy D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source