benítez, ángel cruz, darío lópez, fausto cumbicus, nixon naranjo, carlos riofrío, maría ochoa-pérez, teddy vega, marlon
The mangrove biome is a highly productive system globally, with flora and fauna adapted to significant saline influence, where salt flats coexist alongside these systems, emerging over sands and muds with high salinity and sparse vegetation. The objective of this research is to describe, for the first time in Ecuador, the diversity of epiphytic lic...
chen, hu lei, jing-pin wan, ji-zhong
Soil respiration (Rs) is a widely monitored parameter in global forest management that results in activities that contribute to ecosystem functions. Rs can vary depending on different disturbance levels and ecosystem types as a result of changes in forest management practices. Understanding the mechanisms through which different forest management p...
Harvey, Richard G Duclos, David Krumbeck, Janina Tang, Shuiquan
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American journal of veterinary research
To report the density, and the major constituents, of the bacteria on the skin surface of healthy dogs and to assess if scraping the skin before sampling was necessary. 20 healthy dogs were recruited for the study, with informed consent in all cases. Flocked swabs were used to sample the skin surface and to sample the skin surface after superficial...
Southworth, Jane Ryan, Sadie J. Herrero, Hannah V. Khatami, Reza Bunting, Erin L. Hassan, Mehedy Muir, Carly S. Waylen, Peter
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Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Introduction: The dynamics of terrestrial vegetation are shifting globally due to environmental changes, with potential repercussions for the proper functioning of the Earth system. However, the response of global vegetation, and the variability of the responses to their changing environment, is highly variable. In addition, the study of such chang...
Krasnov, Boris R Shenbrot, Georgy I Khokhlova, Irina S
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Parasitology
We used data on the species composition of regional assemblages of fleas and their small mammalian hosts from 6 biogeographic realms and applied a novel method of step-down factor analyses (SDFA) and cluster analyses to identify biogeographic (across the entire globe) and ecological (within a realm across the main terrestrial biomes) clusters of th...
Rabosky, Daniel L.
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Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is frequently described as the most dramatic biodiversity pattern on Earth, yet ecologists and biogeographers have failed to reach consensus on its primary cause. A key problem in explaining the LDG involves collinearity between multiple factors that are predicted to affect species richness in the same direc...
Yang, Xuejun Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena Lortie, Christopher J Verdú, Miguel Cavieres, Lohengrin A Huang, Zhenying Gao, Ruiru Liu, Rong Zhao, Yonglan Cornelissen, Johannes H C
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Ecology letters
Although plant-plant interactions (i.e. competition and facilitation) have long been recognised as key drivers of plant community composition and dynamics, their global patterns and relationships with climate have remained unclear. Here, we assembled a global database of 10,502 pairs of empirical data from the literature to address the patterns of ...
Crous, Kristine Y Uddling, Johan De Kauwe, Martin G
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The New phytologist
Evergreen species are widespread across the globe, representing two major plant functional forms in terrestrial models. We reviewed and analysed the responses of photosynthesis and respiration to warming in 101 evergreen species from boreal to tropical biomes. Summertime temperatures affected both latitudinal gas exchange rates and the degree of re...
a., juan
Trophic niche breadth plays a key role in biogeographic distribution patterns. Theory posits that generalist strategies are favoured in a more heterogeneous set of environments across a spatio-temporal gradient of resources predictability, conferring individuals and species a greater capacity for colonising new habitats and thus expanding their dis...
Scholtz, Rheinhardt
Grasslands are the most threatened and least protected biome. Yet, no study has been conducted to identify the last remaining continuous grasslands on Earth. Here, we used World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifications to measure the degree of intactness remaining for the world's grassland ecoreg...
