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Movement behaviour of native and invasive small mammals shows logging may facilitate invasion in a tropical rainforest [PDF]

, 2015
Invasive species pose one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. This study investigates the extent to which human disturbance to natural ecosystems facilitates the spread of non-native species, focusing on a small mammal community in selectively ...
Loveridge, R, Ewers, RM, Wearn, OR, Vieira, M, Bernard, H   +4 more
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

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Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trophic niches, diversity and community composition of invertebrate top predators (Chilopoda) as affected by conversion of tropical lowland rainforest in Sumatra (Indonesia)

PLoS ONE, 2017
Conversion of tropical rainforests into plantations fundamentally alters ecological niches of animal species. Generalist predators such as centipedes (Chilopoda) may be able to persist in converted ecosystems due to their ability to adapt and switch to ...
B. Klarner, H. Winkelmann, Valentyna Krashevska, M. Maraun, R. Widyastuti, S. Scheu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chemical diversity and phylogenetic insights into Hawaiian ʻākia (Wikstroemia) species used in traditional fishing practices

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Traditional fishing with plant‐based piscicides is a global practice in decline, facing increasing restrictions. We investigated the chemical diversity of endemic Wikstroemia species historically used to stun or poison fish in Hawaiʻi. Using 1‐H‐NMR, principal component analysis, targeted HPLC, and target‐capture sequencing, we characterized compounds ...
Louise Winther, Isaac Lichter‐Marck, Louise Kjaerulff, David Lorence, Uma Nagendra, Mike Opgenorth, Sverre J. Schou, Kenneth R. Wood, Felipe Zapata, Dan Staerk, Nina Rønsted   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continued survival of the Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus in Hainan, China

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Determining whether cryptic remnant animal populations survive within specific landscapes is a conservation challenge and may require multiple types of information.
Jialing Li, Yilin Cui, Hui Liu, Youqiang Wang, Heidi Ma, Samuel T. Turvey   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecology of ragadia makuta (lepidoptera: satyrinae) in tropical rainforests of Sabah, Malaysia. [PDF]

, 2000
The satyrid butterfly Ragadia makuta Horsfield was studied in lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah, Borneo. Data were collected monthly from March 1999 to February 2000 in two habitat types, unlogged forest and forest that had been selectively logged ...
Dawood, Mahadimenakbar Mohamed
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Niche‐tracking as a collecting method: Habitat‐targeted search strategies for taxon‐focused botany

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Biodiversity science depends on more than collecting plants—it depends on how we search for them. Although GPS and digital maps have transformed fieldwork, they can also encourage repeated visits to the same easy‐to‐access sites, leaving other habitats and populations unknown to science.
Lucas C. Marinho, Isabela M. Waga, Domingos Cardoso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary EFForTS project focuses on the ecological and socio-economic dimensions ...
J. Drescher, K. Rembold, Kara E. Allen, P. Beckschäfer, D. Buchori, Y. Clough, H. Faust, A. Fauzi, D. Gunawan, D. Hertel, B. Irawan, I. Jaya, B. Klarner, Christoph Kleinn, A. Knohl, M. Kotowska, Valentyna Krashevska, V. Krishna, C. Leuschner, W. Lorenz, A. Meijide, Dian N. Melati, M. Nomura, C. Pérez-Cruzado, Matin Qaim, I. Siregar, Stefanie Steinebach, A. Tjoa, T. Tscharntke, B. Wick, Kerstin Wiegand, H. Kreft, Stefan Scheu   +32 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

100 years of tropical bryophyte and lichen ecology : a bibliographic guide to the literature from 1901 - 2000 [PDF]

, 2002
A list of 401 citations pertaining to the ecology of tropical bryophytes and lichens is presented. The bibliography includes publications addressing the biology, ecology, natural history, and physiology of bryophytes and lichens, but generally eschews ...
Nadkarni, Nalini M., Merwin, Mark C.
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An extinction‐emergency metacollection: Maximising future recovery options for Rhodomyrtus psidioides (Myrtaceae), threatened by Myrtle Rust

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A challenge for wild plant conservation is the rising incidence of plant pathogens that are difficult to interdict, contain and manage. Invasive, fast‐moving, broad‐spectrum pathogens impose societal costs through losses of intrinsically valuable wild biodiversity, ecosystem function, current and potential genetic and biological assets, culturally ...
Robert O. Makinson, Veronica Viler, Amelia J. Martyn Yenson, Craig Stehn, Fiona R. Giblin, Catherine A. Offord, Philippa Walsh, Chantelle A. T. Doyle   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source