Semenzato, Paola Cagnacci, Francesca Ossi, Federico Eccel, Emanuele Morellet, Nicolas Hewison, A. J. Mark Sturaro, Enrico Ramanzin, Maurizio
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Ecology Letters
We assessed the behavioral mechanisms of female Alpine ibex ( Capra ibex ) to cope with fluctuations in climate and resource availability that may become maladaptive under climate warming. Ibex optimized the use of resources along the Alpine altitudinal gradient by tracking the seasonal green wave. Further, females responded to temperatures exceedi...
Gioria, Margherita Carta, Angelino Baskin, Carol C Dawson, Wayne Essl, Franz Kreft, Holger Pergl, Jan van Kleunen, Mark Weigelt, Patrick Winter, Marten
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Ecology letters
With globalisation facilitating the movement of plants and seeds beyond the native range, preventing potentially harmful introductions requires knowledge of what drives the successful establishment and spread of alien plants. Here, we examined global-scale relationships between naturalisation success (incidence and extent) and invasiveness, soil se...
Clarke, John T.
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Ecology Letters
Establishing environmental predictors of body size is of fundamental importance to ecology. With data from over 27,000 species of fishes, I establish general size rules between the major aquatic habitat types, revealing that various marine‐influenced environments contain larger taxa than those in freshwaters. The findings align with the predictions...
Polazzo, Francesco Rico, Andreu
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Ecology Letters
Graphical representation of the effects of multiple stressors on the dimensionality of ecological stability.
Gómez-Gras, Daniel Linares, Cristina Dornelas, Maria Madin, Joshua S Brambilla, Viviana Ledoux, Jean-Baptiste López-Sendino, Paula Bensoussan, Nathaniel Garrabou, Joaquim
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Ecology letters
Quantifying changes in functional community structure driven by disturbance is critical to anticipate potential shifts in ecosystem functioning. However, how marine heatwaves (MHWs) affect the functional structure of temperate coral-dominated communities is poorly understood. Here, we used five long-term (> 10 years) records of Mediterranean corall...
Larsen, Stefano Comte, Lise Filipa Filipe, Ana Fortin, Marie‐Josée Jacquet, Claire Ryser, Remo Tedesco, Pablo A. Brose, Ulrich Erős, Tibor Giam, Xingli
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Ecology Letters
Synchrony between spatially separated populations influences species persistence and ecosystem stability. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that in dendritic habitats, such as river ecosystems, network topology and flow directionality generate fundamental spatial patterns in fish metapopulation synchrony. We articulate an empirical geog...
Rushing, Clark S. Brandt Ryder, T. Valente, Jonathon J. Scott Sillett, T. Marra, Peter P.
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Ecology Letters
Long‐distance dispersers must select breeding sites with no prior knowledge of site quality, but the cues they use to make these decisions are poorly understood. We used intrinsic markers to show that natal dispersing Wood Thrush favor high‐quality patches but avoid patches with both very low and very high conspecific density. These results suggest...
Harte, John Umemura, Kaito Brush, Micah
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Ecology Letters
The architecture of DynaMETE, a hybrid MaxEnt‐plus‐mechanism theory of macroecology. The time evolution of Macroecological Metrics in ecosystems disturbed by a hypothesised Mechanism is derived iteratively using the MaxEnt inference procedure (step E in the figure).
González-M, Roy Posada, Juan M Carmona, Carlos P Garzón, Fabián Salinas, Viviana Idárraga-Piedrahita, Álvaro Pizano, Camila Avella, Andrés López-Camacho, René Norden, Natalia
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Ecology letters
Extreme drought events have negative effects on forest diversity and functioning. At the species level, however, these effects are still unclear, as species vary in their response to drought through specific functional trait combinations. We used long-term demographic records of 21,821 trees and extensive databases of traits to understand the respo...
Mushegian, Alexandra A. Neupane, Naresh Batz, Zachary Mogi, Motoyoshi Tuno, Nobuko Toma, Takako Miyagi, Ichiro Ries, Leslie Armbruster, Peter A.
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Ecology Letters
We show that variation in the timing of a mosquito's autumnal diapause timing within and between continents is explained by a growing degree day (GDD) model that delineates a location‐specific deadline after which it is not possible to complete an additional full life cycle. GDD models are widely used to predict spring phenology by modeling growth ...