Katharoyan, Chaitanya Rajkaran, Anusha Peer, Nasreen
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Mangroves are expanding polewards due to global change, often encroaching into adjacent temperate saltmarshes. In both vegetated ecosystems, brachyurans are responsible for ecological processes and functions such as nutrient cycling and sediment bioturbation. South African mangroves occur at a latitudinal limit and are establishing further south du...
Shitara, Takuto Kurokawa, Hiroko Oguro, Michio Sasaki, Takehiro Ohashi, Haruka Niiyama, Kaoru Shibata, Mitsue Matsui, Tetsuya
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Comparison of old and new vegetation maps is an effective way to detect vegetation dynamics. Recent developments in computer technology have made it possible to accurately compare old paper vegetation maps with current digitized vegetation maps to reveal long-term vegetation dynamics. Recently, a 1:50,000 scale vegetation map of the Hakkoda Mountai...
de Tomás Marín, Sergio Galán Díaz, Javier Rodríguez-Calcerrada, Jesús Prieto, Iván de la Riva, Enrique G.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction Functional trait-based approaches are extensively applied to the study of mechanisms governing community assembly along environmental gradients. These approaches have been classically based on studying differences in mean values among species, but there is increasing recognition that alternative metrics of trait distributions should be...
Johnson, Kellie Taylor, Avery Socha, Annika Barkyoumb, Ellie Nakamura, Koichi Kaiser, Carl L. German, Christopher R. Yoerger, Dana R. Van Dover, Cindy Lee
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Systematic surveys of the distribution of epibenthic megafaunal species relative to one another and to environmental variables in the deep sea can lead to inferences and testable hypotheses regarding factors that influence their distributions. Here we use a seascape approach to provide insight into the character and spatial extent of the influence ...
Otieno, Nickson Erick Mukasi, Jonathan
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Fu, Lingyu Xie, Ruifeng Ma, Dalong Zhang, Man Liu, Lin
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Ecology and evolution
Permafrost degradation by global warming is expected to alter the hydrological processes, which results in changes in vegetation species composition and gives rise to community succession. Ecotones are sensitive transition areas between ecosystem boundaries, attract particular interest due to their ecological importance and prompt responses to the ...
Zhen, Ying Dongmo, Michel AK Harrigan, Ryan J Ruegg, Kristen Fu, Qi Hanna, Rachid Bonebrake, Timothy C Smith, Thomas B
Habitat-specific thermal responses are well documented in various organisms and likely determine the vulnerability of populations to climate change. However, the underlying roles of genetics and plasticity that shape such habitat-specific patterns are rarely investigated together. Here we examined the thermal plasticity of the butterfly Bicyclus do...
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People often use parks and other forested areas for outdoor activities such as hiking and walking their dogs. Areas of primary use are paths or grassy meadows on the edges of the forests that constitute transitional areas between different plant communities (aka ecotones). In this study, we monitored the seasonal dynamics of questing ticks in fores...
Perez, Roberto Pérez-Cutillas, Pedro Gonzálvez, Moisés Muñoz-Hernández, Clara Arcenillas-Hernández, Irene de Ruiz de Ybáñez, Rocío Escribano, Fernando Martínez-Carrasco, Carlos
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Medical and veterinary entomology
The role of red fox as host for a wide range of parasites, particularly fleas and other arthropods causing vector-borne diseases, in combination with its capability to adapt to anthropized environments, makes this wild canid an epidemiologically remarkable species at the wildlife-domestic-human interface, especially in the present time of rise of e...
Zitouni, Naoual Chavanon, Guy
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E3S Web of Conferences
Riparian communities are made up of species that colonise the wet banks of different aquatic environments (ocean, river, torrent, water body, dayas) whatever their size and as long as they are being impounded. These are species that are highly dependent on their biotope, with very strict ecological and ethological requirements, and are vulnerable t...
