Kharel, Nisha Dangol, Anuj Shrestha, Ashmita Airi, Hemanti Devkota, Anjana Thapa, Lal Bahadur Shrestha, Bharat Babu
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Ecology and evolution
Comparisons of plant traits between native and invasive congeners are useful approaches for identifying characteristics that promote invasiveness. We compared germination patterns and seedling growth of locally sympatric populations of native Mimosa himalayana and two varieties of invasive M. diplotricha (var. diplotricha and var. inermis) growing ...
Merchant, Hana N Portugal, Steven J Bennett, Nigel C Janse van Vuuren, Andries K Faulkes, Chris G Bowen, James Hart, Daniel W
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Ecology and evolution
Morphological adaptation is the change in the form of an organism that benefits the individual in its current habitat. Mole-rats (family Bathyergidae), despite being subterranean, are impacted by both local and broad-scale environmental conditions that occur above ground. Common mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) present an ideal mammali...
Jiao, Fangfang Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Aiqin
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Ecology and evolution
In heterostylous plants, short-tongued pollinators are often ineffective/inefficient owing to the limitations imposed by a long corolla tube. However, it is unclear how disassortative pollen transfer is achieved in small flowers. We investigated the pollination pattern and floral morph variation by analyzing heterostylous syndrome, pollinator group...
Dawei, Wu Xinyi, Hu Hao, Chen Guoyuang, Chen Weihua, Chen Changhu, Lu
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Ecology and evolution
The western population of the red-crowned crane Grus japonensis in mainland China has been decreasing in the past few decades and wild population enhancement programmes have been launched in this country. First, 14 captive-bred red-crowned cranes were released into the core area of Yancheng National Nature Reserve for Rare Birds (YNNR), one of the ...
Bukauskaitė, Dovilė Dementavičius, Deivis Rumbutis, Saulius Treinys, Rimgaudas
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Ecology and evolution
Avian haemosporidian parasites are widespread globally and infect numerous wild bird species. However, they have primarily been studied in passerine birds. Accordingly, the prevalence and diversity of these parasites in birds of prey remain understudied. This lack of research is primarily due to the international protection status of many of these ...
Kaspari, Michael Weiser, Michael D Siler, Cameron D Marshall, Katie E Smith, Sierra N Stroh, Katherine M de Beurs, Kirsten M
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Ecology and evolution
Nonnative species are a key agent of global change. However, nonnative invertebrates remain understudied at the community scales where they are most likely to drive local extirpations. We use the North American NEON pitfall trapping network to document the number of nonnative species from 51 invertebrate communities, testing four classes of drivers...
Graves, Gary R
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Ecology and evolution
The core breeding range of Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii) overlaps a zone of exceptionally high tornado frequency in southeastern North America. The importance of tornadoes in creating breeding habitat for this globally rare warbler and other disturbance-dependent species has been largely overlooked. This paper estimates tornado frequ...
Wen, Xuanye Fang, Guofei Chai, Shouquan He, Chuanjie Sun, Shouhui Zhao, Guanghua Lin, Xiao
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Ecology and evolution
In recent decades, ecological niche models (ENMs) have been widely used to predict suitable habitats for species. However, for invasive organisms, the prediction accuracy is unclear. In this study, we employed the most widely used maximum entropy (MaxEnt) model and ensemble model (EM) Biomod2 and verified the practical effectiveness of the ENM in p...
Bogota-Gregory, Juan David Jenkins, David G Acosta-Santos, Astrid Agudelo Córdoba, Edwin
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Ecology and evolution
Reference conditions are difficult to find in the Anthropocene but essential for effective biodiversity conservation. Aquatic ecosystems in the Andes-Amazon transition zone of Colombia are now at high risk due to expanded human activities after peace agreements in 2016 ended armed conflict because lands formerly controlled by FARC and other armed g...
Lenormand, Maxime Papuga, Guillaume Argagnon, Olivier Soubeyrand, Maxence De Barros, Guilhem Alleaume, Samuel Luque, Sandra
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Ecology and evolution
The delimitation of bioregions helps to understand historical and ecological drivers of species distribution. In this work, we performed a network analysis of the spatial distribution patterns of plants in south of France (Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) to analyze the biogeographical structure of the French Mediterranean flora...
