Age ratio in groups of a social ungulate affects epizoochorous dispersal and diaspore exchanges
Oikos, EarlyView.Animal‐mediated seed dispersal is a key process in plant population dynamics, species distribution and ecosystem functioning. As long‐distance dispersal agents, ungulates help to maintain native plant populations facing abiotic changes in their habitat and habitat fragmentation or habitat loss.
Antoine Roux +6 more
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The Updated Assessment of the Liverwort Flora of Laos, the Least-Studied Higher Plants Group in Indochina. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Bakalin VA +4 more
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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 +2 more
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An outbreak of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis in immunocompetent individuals caused by presumed intravenous infusion contamination. [PDF]
Front Cell Infect MicrobiolZhang X +7 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan +6 more
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Spatially divided outlier removal for LiDAR de-noising in adverse weather conditions. [PDF]
Sci RepShin S, Joo J, Lee H, Kim SC.
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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 +2 more
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When wolves aren't enough: revisiting trophic cascades in northern Wisconsin
Oikos, EarlyView.Elimination of top predators has allowed large herbivores to flourish in many terrestrial ecosystems, transforming food webs and ecosystem functions. Restoration of large predator communities is hoped to reverse negative effects of this trophic downgrading, but evidence for such effects is elusive.
Elaine M. Brice +6 more
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Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (<i>Argya squamiceps</i>) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciBen Mocha Y, Ring I, Keynan O.
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Oikos, EarlyView.Phenotypic variation in functional traits underpins responses to environmental gradients, influencing thermoregulation, energy balance, and long‐term persistence under climate extremes. Climate change is altering these gradients globally, yet in species that have already disappeared from much of their range, adaptive phenotypes may have also been lost,
Jack Bilby +4 more
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