Search Results - "Bregman, Tom P."
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Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation
Published in Biological conservation (01-01-2014)“…•Impacts of forest fragmentation on birds are mediated by latitude and vary across functional groups.•Fragmentation alters the trophic structure of tropical,…”
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Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology
Published in Nature communications (18-05-2020)“…An organism’s ability to disperse influences many fundamental processes, from speciation and geographical range expansion to community assembly. However, the…”
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Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey
Published in Oikos (01-07-2015)“…The widespread destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats around the world creates a strong incentive to understand how species and communities respond…”
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Are protected areas required to maintain functional diversity in human-modified landscapes?
Published in PloS one (06-05-2015)“…The conversion of forest to agriculture across the world's tropics, and the limited space for protected areas, has increased the need to identify effective…”
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Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-02-2020)“…Animals have diversified into a bewildering variety of morphological forms exploiting a complex configuration of trophic niches. Their morphological diversity…”
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Using avian functional traits to assess the impact of land-cover change on ecosystem processes linked to resilience in tropical forests
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (14-12-2016)“…Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants and insects, but the response of these interactions to environmental…”
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Species interactions regulate the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical forest fragments
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-10-2015)“…Competitive interactions among species with similar ecological niches are known to regulate the assembly of biological communities. However, it is not clear…”
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Assessing the relative importance of isolated Ficus trees to insectivorous birds in an Indian human-modified tropical landscape
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-11-2017)“…The destruction of forest for agricultural expansion has created a vast estate of human-modified land in tropical regions. One group of organisms that are…”
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AVONET : morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds
Published in Ecology letters (01-03-2022)“…Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the…”
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Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 3, March 2022
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Using avian functional traits to assess the impact of land-cover change on ecosystem processes linked to resilience in tropical forests
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (14-12-2016)“…Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants and insects, but the response of these interactions to environmental…”
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The impacts of human land-use change on avian diversity and associated ecosystem functions
Published 01-01-2014“…Understanding the impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides is of great importance given unprecedented growth of…”
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Are Protected Areas Required to Maintain Functional Diversity in Human-Modified Landscapes?: e0123952
Published in PloS one (01-05-2015)“…The conversion of forest to agriculture across the world's tropics, and the limited space for protected areas, has increased the need to identify effective…”
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