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Determinants of Bird Richness in the Louzishan National Nature Reserve: Effects of Productivity and Habitat Heterogeneity Across Taxonomic and Functional Dimensions [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Human activities are modifying Earth's ecosystems in different ways and at different scales, and conserving multiple aspects of biodiversity has become important for maintaining ecosystem stability.
Xiaocui Ma, Meiting Wang, Shiguang Zhang, Dongmei Wan, Yiting Jiang   +4 more
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Artificial reef design affects benthic secondary productivity and provision of functional habitat

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Novel hard substratum, introduced through offshore developments, can provide habitat for marine species and thereby function as an artificial reef. To predict the ecological consequences of deploying offshore infrastructure, and sustainably manage the ...
Sally Rouse, Joanne S. Porter, Thomas A. Wilding   +2 more
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Quality management system in construction design offices: A review in the brasilian context

Revista Ingeniería de Construcción, 2008
The design is one of the most important parts of the construction chain. However, it is considered the main barrier for the evolution of the construction industry to achieve an industrial level.
Michele Fossat, Humberto R. Roman
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Effects of human disturbance on habitat and fish diversity in Neotropical streams.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Human pressures have been intensely modifying freshwater ecosystems worldwide. We assessed the effects of human pressure on habitat diversity and primary productivity to understand the consequences on fish fauna in 25 tropical and subtropical streams of ...
Crislei Larentis, Bruna Caroline Kotz Kliemann, Mayara Pereira Neves, Rosilene Luciana Delariva   +3 more
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Using remotely sensed indicators of primary productivity to improve prioritization of conservation areas for top predators

Ecological Indicators, 2021
The need to incorporate habitat dynamics into spatial conservation prioritization is increasingly recognized but often limited by the lack of available temporal data. To overcome this limitation, model-assisted monitoring has been advocated and developed
Adrián Regos, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Luis Tapia, Jesús Domínguez, João P. Honrado   +4 more
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Habitat amount or landscape configuration: Emerging HotSpot analysis reveals the importance of habitat amount for a grassland bird in South Dakota.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Habitat loss and fragmentation are two important drivers of biodiversity decline. Understanding how species respond to landscape composition and configuration in dynamic landscapes is of great importance for informing the conservation and management of ...
Sprih Harsh, Robert C Lonsinger, Andrew J Gregory   +2 more
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Large river habitat complexity and productivity of Puget Sound Chinook salmon. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
While numerous studies have shown that floodplain habitat complexity can be important to fish ecology, few quantify how watershed-scale complexity influences productivity.
Jason E Hall, Correigh M Greene, Oleksandr Stefankiv, Joseph H Anderson, Britta Timpane-Padgham, Timothy J Beechie, George R Pess   +6 more
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Sensitivity to weather drives Great Basin mesic resources and Greater Sage-Grouse productivity

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Anticipating and mitigating the effects climate change will have on wildlife populations requires an improved understanding of the ways in which those populations are currently adapted to climate and how they are affected by variation in weather ...
Carl G. Lundblad, Christian A. Hagen, J. Patrick Donnelly, Skyler T. Vold, Ann M. Moser, Shawn P. Espinosa   +5 more
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Simultaneous monitoring of vegetation dynamics and wildlife activity with camera traps to assess habitat change

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Vegetation phenology and productivity drive resource use by wildlife. Vegetation dynamics also reveal patterns of habitat disturbance and recovery. Monitoring these fine‐scale vegetation patterns over large spatiotemporal extents can be difficult, but ...
Catherine Sun, Christopher Beirne, Joanna M. Burgar, Thomas Howey, Jason T. Fisher, A. Cole Burton   +5 more
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Landscape alteration affects the demography of an endangered avian predator by reducing the habitat quality

Avian Research, 2022
Habitat transformation is identified as major threat to biodiversity loss globally, affecting threatened raptors. Changes in land use can alter the abundance and distribution of birds of prey by affecting habitat availability and quality.
Dimitar Demerdzhiev, Dobromir Dobrev, Georgi Popgeorgiev, Stoycho Stoychev   +3 more
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