Jones, SEI Tobias, JA Freeman, R Portugal, SJ
Closely related tropical bird species often occupy mutually exclusive elevational ranges, but the mechanisms generating and maintaining this pattern remain poorly understood. One hypothesis is that replacement species are segregated by interference competition (e.g. territorial aggression), but the extent to which competition combines with other ke...
De Smedt, Pallieter Baeten, Lander Proesmans, Willem Berg, Matty P. Brunet, Jörg Cousins, Sara A. O. Decocq, Guillaume Deconchat, Marc Diekmann, Martin Gallet-Moron, Emilie
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Landscape Ecology
PurposeMost of the agricultural landscape in Europe, and elsewhere, consists of mosaics with scattered fragments of semi-natural habitat like small forest fragments. Mutual interactions between forest fragments and agricultural areas influence ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, a process strongly mediated by the macrodetritivore communit...
De Smedt, Pallieter Wasof, Safaa Van de Weghe, Tom Hermy, Martin Bonte, Dries Verheyen, Kris
Forests are structurally rich ecosystems with strong spatial variation in microclimate. Local temperature and soil moisture are important drivers of leaf litter breakdown, a key ecosystem process vital for forest functioning. Additionally, detritivore species composition and activity are equally dependent on microclimate, rendering changes in micro...
De Smedt, Pallieter Baeten, Lander Berg, Matty P. Gallet-Moron, Emilie Brunet, Jorg Cousins, Sara A. O. Decocq, Guillaume Diekmann, Martin Giffard, Brice De Frenne, Pieter
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Forest edges show strong abiotic and biotic gradients potentially altering community composition and ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. While abiotic gradients are well studied, short-scale biotic gradients, like detritivore species composition and their associated trait distribution remains a poorly explored research-field. We sampled w...
Hattermann, Dirk Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus Otte, Annette Eckstein, Rolf Lutz
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PloS one
Most island-ecology studies focus on the properties of entire island communities, thus neglecting species-environment relationships operating at the habitat-level. Habitat-specific variation in the strength and sign of these relationships will conceal patterns observed on the island scale and may preclude a mechanistic interpretation of patterns an...
De Wandeler, Hans Sousa-Silva, Rita Ampoorter, Evy Bruelheide, Helge Carnol, Monique Dawud, Seid M Dănilă, Gabriel Finer, Leena Hättenschwiler, Stephan Hermy, Martin
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Wellens, Siel Sandrini-Neto, Leonardo González-Wangüemert, Mercedes Lana, Paulo
Mangroves are under threat worldwide by deforestation, overexploitation and climate change. The availability and consumption rates of propagules influence mangrove recruitment and can play a major role in their viability and restoration potential. We assess the potential trophic competition between Goniopsis cruentata and Ucides cordatus, two domin...
Deschamps, Kevin Roosen, Philip Nobels, Frank Deleu, Paul-André Birch, Ivan Desloovere, Kaat Bruyninckx, Herman Matricali, Giovanni Staes, Filip
The non-invasive nature of pedobarographic measurements is particularly attractive to researchers for analyzing and characterizing the impact of specific pathological foot conditions. However, adequate clinical use of pedobarographic technology requires a profound technical and methodological knowledge. Several papers summarized the technical capac...
Pimentel, R Lopes, DJH Mexia, AMM Mumford, JD
The fruit fly Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann is one of the most important threats to the trade of fresh fruits in the world due to its ability to survive in a wide range of hosts and climatic conditions. The main goal of this study is to evaluate if there is any significant relationship between the abundance of wild adults of C. capitata and the spat...
Silva, Sofia Marques Barros, Nadia de Moraes Ribas, Camila C. Ferrand, Nuno Morgante, Joao Stenghel
CAPESProdoc fellowship in the Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo