Nagel, Leah D. McNulty, Stacy A. Schlesinger, Matthew D. Gibbs, James P.
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Wetlands
The distribution and function of small, temporarily ponded wetlands such as vernal pools are driven by climate variation, especially precipitation. These wetland ecosystems provide important habitat for amphibians, whose breeding effort (egg deposition) is often used to characterize pool habitat quality. However, whether breeding effort consistentl...
Li, Shi Li, Dan Zhang, Lishi Shang, Weiping Qin, Bo Jiang, Yunlei
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Avian Research
BackgroundThe Rufous-backed Bunting, Emberiza jankowskii, is an endangered species that is primarily distributed in Inner Mongolia, China. The main threats to the continued persistence of this species are habitat loss and degradation. However, the impact of population loss on genetic diversity remains unclear. To support future conservation and man...
Dixon, Alan Wood, Adrian Hailu, Afework
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Wetlands
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa wetlands provide ecosystem services that are critical to the development needs of many people. Local wetland use, however, is often at odds with broader national policy goals in which narratives of conservation and protection dominate, hence a recurring challenge is how to reconcile these tensions through the developme...
Laroche, Fabien Riotte-Lambert, Louise
Context: Metapopulation theory makes useful predictions for conservation in fragmented landscapes. For randomly distributed habitat patches, it predicts that the ability of a metapopulation to recover from low occupancy level (the “metapopulation capacity”) linearly increases with habitat amount. This prediction derives from describing the dispersa...
Bufebo, Belayneh Elias, Eyasu Agegnehu, Getachew
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Environmental Systems Research
BackgroundUnderstanding the effects of landscape positions on soil physicochemical properties is crucial for improving the soil productivity and to ensure the environmental sustainability. Three land use types forest land, grazing land and cultivated land all within upper, middle and lower landscape positions were selected to determine the effects ...
Momeni, Jamal Parejo, Melanie Nielsen, Rasmus O. Langa, Jorge Montes, Iratxe Papoutsis, Laetitia Farajzadeh, Leila Bendixen, Christian Căuia, Eliza Charrière, Jean-Daniel
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundWith numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and the natural distribution range have been altered by anthropogenic factors. The conservation of this natural heritage relies on the availability of accurate tools for su...
Samain, Marie-Stéphanie Granados Mendoza, Carolina Martínez Salas, Esteban Manuel
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PhytoKeys
Hydrangea section Cornidia , currently consisting of 19 accepted taxa, occurs from Mexico to Chile and Argentina, with one species in southeast Asia. Its representatives are root-climbing lianas which may grow up to 60 m high in the tree canopy of temperate to (sub)tropical forests. Our extensive field work throughout its distribution area, study o...
Kubsch, Marcus Opitz, Sebastian Nordine, Jeffrey Neumann, Knut Fortus, David Krajcik, Joseph
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Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research
Energy conservation is a fundamental concept in physics and across the sciences as it provides a lens for investigating a wide range of phenomena. Research into energy learning progressions has shown that a majority of students across K-12 struggle with energy conservation. These studies characterize students’ learning progressions as starting from...
Schwarz, Jonas F. L. Mews, Sina DeRango, Eugene J. Langrock, Roland Piedrahita, Paolo Páez-Rosas, Diego Krüger, Oliver
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Oecologia
Foraging strategies are of great ecological interest, as they have a strong impact on the fitness of an individual and can affect its ability to cope with a changing environment. Recent studies on foraging strategies show a higher complexity than previously thought due to intraspecific variability. To reliably identify foraging strategies and descr...
Klingler, Kelly B. Jahner, Joshua P. Parchman, Thomas L. Ray, Chris Peacock, Mary M.
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
BackgroundDistributional responses by alpine taxa to repeated, glacial-interglacial cycles throughout the last two million years have significantly influenced the spatial genetic structure of populations. These effects have been exacerbated for the American pika (Ochotona princeps), a small alpine lagomorph constrained by thermal sensitivity and a ...