Published in Ecology and evolution
Ecological monitoring of streams has often focused on assessing the biotic integrity of individual benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) communities through local measures of diversity, such as taxonomic or functional richness. However, as individual BMI communities are frequently linked by a variety of ecological processes at a regional scale, there is ...
Wetlands are the most important ecosystems on Earth, which can be found in many parts of the world. However, demand for food and economic development in the last century had driven many wetlands in the world being completely drained for cultivation and to the extent that no longer retain any natural wetland characteristics such as the Everglades Ag...
Topography exerts strong control on microclimate, resulting in distinctive vegetation patterns in areas of moderate to high relief. Using the Thornthwaite approach to account for hydrologic cycle components, a GIS-based Water Balance Toolset is presented as a means to address fine-scale species&ndash / site relationships. For each pixel within a st...
Published in Insects
Land use at landscape and field scales can increase the diversity and abundance of natural enemies for pest control. In this study, we investigated interactions between landscape elements (semi-natural vegetation, olive orchards, vineyards, other agricultural areas) and inter-row management (vegetation cover vs. bare soil) in relation to arthropod ...
Human alveolar echinococcosis caused by infection with Echinococcus multilocularis is one of the most potentially pathogenic helminthic zoonoses. Transmission occurs involving wildlife cycles typically between fox and small mammal intermediate hosts. A large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis was identified in the late 1980s in poor upland agri...
Adverse changes of the landscape resulting from diverse human activities have consequently caused quality decline and functional degradation of the natural landscape, endangering the natural habitats of various species. Meanwhile, technical advancements in the area of spatial analysis including GIS and remote sensing enable many kinds of easy-to-qu...
Published in Journal of Geographical Sciences
The spatiotemporal landscape heterogeneity implies multiple biodiversity mechanisms across scales, and the cross-disciplinary studies between landscape ecology and biodiversity are becoming a new research field in China. This paper briefly reviews the development of the field by comparing papers published in international journals and Chinese journ...
Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
海洋景观连接度会影响低能量的海洋生态系统 (如珊瑚礁、红树林、海草生态系统) 保护区的保护成效, 但目前尚不清楚高能量、裸露海岸线的保护区成效是否也受到类似空间关联的影响。我们以澳大利亚东部海滩的碎波区为模型, 分析了海洋景观连接度和保护区特性如何共同决定保护成效。我们利用 2000 公里裸露海岸线沿线的 12 个海洋保护区和 15 个钓鱼海滩的诱饵式远程水下视频监控位点, 测定了鱼类群落的空间格局。保护区的特性及其所在海岸线景观的空间特性共同影响着保护区成效。在含有超过 1.5 公里碎波带、距离多岩石的海角不足 100 米, 或是在异质性景观中含有小海滩的碎波带保护区中, 鱼类物种数和渔获量最高。因此, 优先保护那些与毗邻的互补生境紧密相连, 且面积足够大的海洋景观, 可以提高裸露海岸线的...
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution
A key aim of ecology is to understand the drivers of ecological patterns, so that we can accurately predict the effects of global environmental change. However, in many cases, predictors are measured at a finer resolution than the ecological response. We therefore require data aggregation methods that avoid loss of information on fine-grain heterog...
Published in Ecology and evolution
Species distributed along mountain slopes, facing contrasting habitats in short geographic scale, are of particular interest to test how ecologically based divergent selection promotes phenotypic and genetic disparities as well as to assess isolation-by-environment mechanisms. Here, we conduct the first broad comparative study of phenotypic variati...
