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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic evaluation of supplementation with Canavalia brasiliensis CIAT 17009 in a Colombian dual-purpose cattle system

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionIn the dual-purpose cattle systems of the Colombian Caribbean region, the grass Bothriochloa pertusa (Colosuana) is predominant. Despite its overall good performance, its productivity and quality significantly decline during dry seasons ...
John Jairo Junca Paredes, José Edwin Mojica Rodríguez, Mauricio Efren Sotelo Cabrera, Edwin Castro Rincón, Stefan Burkart   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilization of tropical forages and alfalfa meal by rabbits [PDF]

, 2016
The productivep erformanceo f rabbitsw as evaluatedo n diets of alfalfa meal and tropical forages. The results showed that rabbits can utilize high forage diets wlth little or no cereal grain.
Patton, N.M., Gheeke, P.R., Harris, D.J.
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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl, Alex S. Wegmann, Nick D. Holmes, Caitlin E. Andrews, Gérard Rocamora, Simon Ducatez, James C. Russell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of the new Tropical Forages Selection Tool by research, academia, farmers and other actors in the global Tropics [PDF]

, 2022
The Tropical Forages Selection Tool (TF) is an open-access online knowledge system used by researchers, educators, extensionists and livestock/forage producers from Latin America, Asia and Africa to obtain expert information on 172 major forages in ...
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
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Resolving the biome debate: ecological and palaeo‐data concur that the extensive tree‐limited grassy biomes of central and north‐western Madagascar are largely anthropogenic

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For millennia, human activities have transformed ecosystems globally. Determining which landscapes are predominantly anthropogenic is crucial to conservation and habitat restoration. Madagascar, a critically‐threatened biodiversity hotspot, is a prominent example.
Grant S. Joseph, Sean Hixon, Colleen L. Seymour, Laurie R. Godfrey, Miguel Pedrono, Karen E. Samonds, Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Brooke E. Crowley   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen, Lucía Romero‐Verdú, Anne O. Peschel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions

Ecography, EarlyView.
Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey, Brian D. Gerber, Adam S. Hadley, Hankyu Kim, Madison Sutton, Nina C. Ferrari, Matthew G. Betts   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human pressure, habitat heterogeneity and species traits jointly determine the level of dark diversity in coastal fish communities

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how anthropogenic pressures and environmental gradients shape coastal fish communities is a central question in biogeography and marine conservation. Yet, the set of species expected to occur at a site given ecological conditions but being absent – the so‐called dark diversity – has received far less attention than observed species, even ...
Loïc Sanchez, Jeanne Rolland, Adèle Barroil, Célia Bertrand, Agathe Blandin, Pierre Boissery, Thomas Bockel, Eric Charbonnel, Julie Deter, Régis Hocdé, Florian Holon, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Nicolas Loiseau, Bastien Macé, Anthony Maire, Stéphanie Manel, Marie Orblin, Franck Pichot, Jean‐Jacques Riutort, Lola Romant, Rémy Simide, Alice Valentini, Laure Velez, David Mouillot   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing tropical forages field genebanks at CIAT

, 2016
Two main reasons are identified for maintaining permanent field collections of tropical forages: (1) the inability to produce reliably sufficient and viable seed, and (2) outcrossing or highly heterozygous species where particular genotypes or ...
Maass, Brigitte L., Ortíz Escobar, Amanda   +1 more
core   +1 more source