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An a posteriori measure of network modularity [v3; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/2ju]

F1000Research, 2013
Measuring the modularity of networks, and how it deviates from random expectations, important to understand their structure and emerging properties. Several measures exist to assess modularity, which when applied to the same network, can return both ...
Timothée Poisot
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Kin and multilevel selection in social evolution: a never-ending controversy? [version 1; referees: 4 approved]

F1000Research, 2016
Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these two theories has been plagued by controversy for almost half a ...
Jos Kramer, Joël Meunier
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The Urban Political Ecology of Post-industrial Scottish Towns: Examining Greengairs and Ravenscraig [PDF]

, 2013
Urban ecological politics is shaped by both moments of concerted action and more silent perceptions and responses. Instead of only being evident in situations of organised protest, the politics of urban ecology is also manifested, in material and ...
Ioris, A. A. R., Ioris, Antonio A. R.
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The grand challenges of migration ecology that radar aeroecology can help answer [PDF]

, 2018
Many migratory species have experienced substantial declines that resulted from rapid and massive expansions of human structures and activities, habitat alterations and climate change. Migrants are also recognized as an integral component of biodiversity
Dokter, Adriaan M.,, Farnsworth, Andrew, Jennifer F. Krauel, Dokter, A. M., Silke Bauer, Horton, Kyle G.,, Krauel, J., Bauer, Silke,, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Farnsworth, A, Kelly, J.F., Chapman, Jason W.,, Bauer, Silke, Horton, Kyle G., Shamoun-Baranes, J, Nilsson, C., Lars B. Petterson, Chapman, J.W., Dokter, Adriaan M., Reynolds, Don R., Petterson, Lars B., Judy Shamoun‐Baranes, Shamoun-Baranes, Judy,, Cecilia Nilsson, Jason W. Chapman, Petterson, L.B., Bauer, S., Chapman, Jason W., Lund University., Shamoun-Baranes, Judy, Krauel, Jennifer F.,, Kyle G. Horton, Reynolds, DR, Reynolds, D.R., Kelly, Jeffrey F., Krauel, J.F., Petterson, LB, Horton, K. G., Kelly, J., Andrew Farnsworth, Reynolds, D. R., Horton, KG, Kelly, JF, Dokter, A.M., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Horton, K.G., Bauer, S, Adriaan M. Dokter, Kelly, Jeffrey F.,, Petterson, L. B., Krauel, Jennifer F., Reynolds, Don R.,, Nilsson, Cecilia, Dokter, AM, Farnsworth, A., Petterson, Lars B.,, Chapman, JW, Nilsson, C, Chapman, J. W., Krauel, JF, Don R. Reynolds, Farnsworth, Andrew,, Nilsson, Cecilia,   +62 more
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Stressor richness intensifies productivity loss but mitigates biodiversity loss

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Ecosystems are subject to a multitude of anthropogenic environmental changes. Experimental research in the field of multiple stressors has typically involved varying the number of stressors, here termed stressor richness, but without controlling for ...
Mark Holmes, Jurg Werner Spaak, Frederik De Laender   +2 more
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Machine learning and deep learning—A review for ecologists

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The popularity of machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI) has risen sharply in recent years. Despite this spike in popularity, the inner workings of ML and DL algorithms are often perceived as opaque, and their ...
Maximilian Pichler, Florian Hartig
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Implications of Current Ecological Thinking for Biodiversity Conservation: a Review of the Salient Issues

Ecology and Society, 2005
Given escalating concern worldwide about the loss of biodiversity, and given biodiversity's centrality to quality of life, it is imperative that current ecological knowledge fully informs societal decision making.
Tabatha J. Wallington, Richard J. Hobbs, Susan A. Moore   +2 more
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Positive density dependence acting on mortality can help maintain species-rich communities

eLife, 2020
Conspecific negative density dependence is ubiquitous and has long been recognized as an important factor favoring the coexistence of competing species at local scale.
Thomas G Aubier
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Network Analyses Can Advance Above-Belowground Ecology [PDF]

, 2018
An understanding of above-belowground (AG-BG) ecology is important for evaluating how plant interactions with enemies, symbionts, and decomposers affect species diversity and will respond to global changes.
Ramirez, Kelly S., Geisen, S., Putten, Wim H., van der, Ramirez, K.S., Snoek, Basten L., Geisen, Stefan, Snoek, Basten L, van der Putten, W.H., Morriën, E., Morriën, Elly, Snoek, B.L., van der Putten, Wim H., van der Putten, Wim H, Ramirez, Kelly S   +13 more
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Conséquences écologiques des introductions dans les hydrosystèmes : essai de synthèse

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 1997
Un essai de bilan des effets écologiques des introductions d'espèces est présenté à partir des exposés des orateurs de ce colloque et de la bibliographie.
HAURY J., PATTEE E.
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