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Hummingbird interaction niche packing is influenced by species richness and resource availability in the southern tropical Andes

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Niche partitioning is often considered an important mechanism promoting species co‐occurrence in species‐rich communities. As species richness increases, niche partitioning may lead to different niche structures, including increased packing of species niches when the ...
Bryan G. Rojas, Carlos Iván Espinosa, Catherine H. Graham, Boris A. Tinoco   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From steps to home ranges: How habitat disturbance influences the movement drivers of an arboreal primate

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Challenging the narrative about howler monkeys' high resilience to anthropogenic changes, our multiscale analysis reveals the costs of habitat disturbance to their movement ecology. We identify thermal limitations, reduced travel efficiency, and significant spatial saturation.
Anaid Cárdenas‐Navarrete, Sarie Van Belle, Ulises Lara‐García, Manuel Guzmán‐Aguilar, Onja H. Razafindratsima   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship between Winter Snow Cover Dynamics, Climate and Spring Grassland Vegetation Phenology in Inner Mongolia, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
The onset date of spring phenology (SOS) is regarded as a key parameter for understanding and modeling vegetation–climate interactions. Inner Mongolia has a typical temperate grassland vegetation ecosystem, and has a rich snow cover during winter ...
Dejing Qiao, Nianqin Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible parental care in a songbird correlates with sex‐specific responses to seasonal phenology, mating opportunity and reproductive success

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This population‐comparative study reveals that male and female parents respond differently to social and ecological conditions. This sex‐specific responsive strategy is related to the incongruent parental care systems across populations in Chinese penduline tits.
Jia Zheng, Wenni Jiang, Hui Wang, Zhengwang Zhang, De Chen, Jan Komdeur   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green-Down Protocol [PDF]

, 2003
The purpose of this resource is to observe plant green-down and report greendown data to help validate estimates of the end of the plant growing season. Students monitor the change in color of selected leaves of trees, shrubs or grasses.
The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
core  

First assessment of the plant phenology index (PPI) for estimating gross primary productivity in African semi-arid ecosystems

, 2019
The importance of semi-arid ecosystems in the global carbon cycle as sinks for CO2 emissions has recently been highlighted. Africa is a carbon sink and nearly half its area comprises arid and semi-arid ecosystems.
Abdi, A. M., Ardo, J., Boke-Olen, N., Eklundh, L., Jin, H., Lehsten, V., Tagesson, T.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Mechanisms promoting higher growth rate in arctic than in temperate shorebirds [PDF]

, 2002
We compared prefledging growth, energy expenditure, and time budgets in the arctic-breeding red knot (Calidris canutus) to those in temperate shorebirds, to investigate how arctic chicks achieve a high growth rate despite energetic difficulties ...
Piersma, Theunis,, Schekkerman, Hans,, Tulp, Ingrid,, Visser, G. Henk,   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Drought and growing season phenology over 35 years modulates species interactions among domestic and wild herbivores

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using a unique 35‐year dataset, this study shows that domestic livestock do not facilitate wild large herbivores as predicted by the grazing optimization hypothesis. Instead, competition caused avoidance of cattle by elk which intensified under drought, and highlights how climate change influences interactions among domestic and wild large herbivores ...
Joel Ruprecht, Tavis D. Forrester, Casey L. Brown, Lara F. Mengak, Michael J. Wisdom, Darren A. Clark, Taal Levi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green-Up Protocol [PDF]

, 2003
The purpose of this resource is to observe plant green-up and report data that will be used by scientists to validate satellite estimates of the beginning of the plant growing season.
The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
core  

Phenological respones to snow snow removal dates in the Central Alps: implications for climate warming

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2006
Low temperatures and the short growing season in high altitude snow patches in temperate mountains constrain life cycles and reproduction of snowbed species. This leads to a highly adapted timing of sexual reproduction. Winter precipitation and temperature, the main factors determining growing season length, are predicted to change with global warming.
Hülber, Karl, Gottfried, Michael, Pauli, Harald, Reiter, Karl, Winkler, Manuela, Grabherr, Georg   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source