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Inequalities in intraspecific plant–lemur interactions drive seed dispersal patterns

Oikos, EarlyView.
Biotic interactions occur between individuals and accumulate to shape species‐level interaction structure across a community. Skewed interaction structures, where a few individuals are highly connected and most have few interactions, are increasingly identified at the individual‐level.
Jadelys Tonos, Hasinavalona Rakotoarisoa, Onja H. Razafindratsima   +2 more
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Integrating and assessing metacommunity drivers of ecosystem function and resilience in benthic algal systems

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding the scales and mechanisms by which species composition interacts with ecosystem functions is critical for forecasting the effects of environmental perturbations on ecosystem services. However, the linkages between what regulates the ecosystem functions of dispersal‐capable networks of communities (metacommunities) and what regulates a ...
Thomas P. Shannon, Evelyn E. Gaiser
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Habitat loss reshuffles ecological and evolutionary interactions in a seed dispersal network

Oikos, EarlyView.
In tropical forests, habitat loss reshapes species composition, favoring generalists and recently emerged lineages while specialists and older evolutionary lineages are lost. However, how changes in species ecological attributes and evolutionary history affect ecological processes is poorly explored.
Fernando César Gonçalves Bonfim, Mauro Galetti, Elaine Rios, Cynthia Oliveira, Milena Gama, Ketlen Bona, Geanne Carla Novais‐ Pereira, Thiago de Castro Ribeiro, Eliana Cazetta   +8 more
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Foraging and movement flexibility shape seed dispersal by an arboreal primate in a modified landscape

Oikos, EarlyView.
As habitats change, the effectiveness of animal‐mediated seed dispersal increasingly depends on animal responses to altered structure and resources. With habitat loss and degradation accelerating across the tropics, understanding how dispersers' foraging behavior and movement influence seed removal and deposition is critical to promoting forest ...
Anaid Cárdenas‐Navarrete, Sarie Van Belle, Onja H. Razafindratsima   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elevation‐dependent soil and plant responses to a decade of warming and species removal

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding how ecosystems retain or release carbon under warming is a critical challenge. Dominant plant species, which contribute the most biomass, can mediate ecosystem responses to warming by modifying microclimate and nutrient cycling. To investigate how warming and shifts in plant dominance interact to affect carbon and nutrient dynamics, we ...
Anna Wootton, Olivia K. Vought, Isabel E. Thornberry, Carol Adair, Karin Rand, Maxwell Landsman‐Gerjoi, Aimée T. Classen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autumn phenology consistently delays in subtropical forests in China based on a new process-based model integrating temperature, photoperiod and precipitation

Environmental Research: Ecology
Climate warming has delayed vegetation autumn phenology, which in turn influences terrestrial carbon and water cycles and their feedback to the climate. However, the performance of autumn phenology models, especially for subtropical forests, remains poor.
Yue Xu, Mingwei Li, Zhaofei Wu, Xiran Li, Zunchi Liu, Xingyu Nie, Xuan Zhang, Jiahao Chen, Fanghua Hao, Yongshuo H Fu   +9 more
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Mesoclimatic origin affects alpine plant germination but not its plasticity

Oikos, EarlyView.
Mountain ecosystems are disproportionately exposed to global warming, which may put alpine plant species in particular at risk. Plant species' migration and persistence depend on successful seed regeneration, with demographic traits such as germination being strongly sensitive to both present and ancestral climate.
Lukas Dietrichstein, Norbert Helm, Kryštof Chytrý, Andreas Mayr, Johannes Wessely, Andreas Kollert, Maximiliane M. Herberich   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Temperature-Dependent Phenology Model for Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae). [PDF]

J Econ Entomol, 2017
Mujica N, Sporleder M, Carhuapoma P, Kroschel J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Population recovery of an endangered macaw enhances long‐distance seed dispersal via stomatochory

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seed dispersal by large, mobile vertebrates plays a key role in shaping plant spatial dynamics and community structure. However, how variation in animal population size influences the magnitude and spatial scale of seed dispersal remains poorly understood.
Giulyana A. Benedicto, Erica C. Pacífico, Mathias M. Pires   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trait‐associated pathway links plant diversity to litterfall phenology in a seasonally dry tropical forest

Oikos, EarlyView.
Phenology plays a central role in regulating energy flow and nutrient cycling, yet remains insufficiently integrated into biodiversity–ecosystem functioning frameworks. This gap is especially relevant in strongly seasonal systems, where community‐wide synchrony in leaf litterfall may arise from either temporal niche differentiation among species or ...
Ana E. Bonato Asato, Otávio Sena, José L. A. Silva, Gabriel H. S. Silva, Mery I. G. de Alencar, Eduardo Arlé, Bruno T. Goto, Anderson da R. Gripp, Jorge G. F. Genovez, Rodrigo L. Martins, Nico Eisenhauer, André Y. S. P. Belo, Adriano S. Mota, Alexandre F. Souza, Adriano Caliman   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source