Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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The Water Framework Directive's protection of groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems. [PDF]
AmbioBaaner L, Anker HT, Ejrnæs R.
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Hotspots of the Habitats Directive species in the Carpathians
Biological ConservationĽuboš Halada +2 more
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey +5 more
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Retrospective phenology in western Mediterranean plants: revealing climate change patterns through herbarium specimens. [PDF]
AoB PlantsSolakis-Tena A +2 more
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The programmatic approach, uncertainty and monitoring in the habitats directive
Chapter on the programmatic approach and the precautionary principle in the context of the Habitats Directive. It discusses the different types of scientific uncertainties and the role of monitoring in environmental law.
Kegge, R., Kremers, H.
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The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais +2 more
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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<i>Thesium ebracteatum</i> (Santalaceae) rediscovered in Romania: ecological and biogeographical context. [PDF]
Biodivers Data JRoleček J, Novák J, Bobek P.
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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan +2 more
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