Search Results - "Daniel F. Doak"

A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation by Keinath, Douglas A., Doak, Daniel F., Hodges, Karen E., Prugh, Laura R., Fagan, William, Sekercioglu, Cagan H., Buchart, Stuart H. M., Kauffman, Matthew

“…Aim: Elucidating patterns in species responses to habitat fragmentation is an important focus of ecology and conservation, but studies are often geographically…”
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Sea otters, kelp forests, and the extinction of Steller’s sea cow by Estes, James A., Burdin, Alexander, Doak, Daniel F.

“…The late Pleistocene extinction of so many large-bodied vertebrates has been variously attributed to two general causes: rapid climate change and the effects…”
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Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem functioning in an African savanna by Pringle, Robert M, Doak, Daniel F, Brody, Alison K, Jocqué, Rudy, Palmer, Todd M

“…The finding that regular spatial patterns can emerge in nature from local interactions between organisms has prompted a search for the ecological importance of…”
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Lead poisoning and the deceptive recovery of the critically endangered California condor by Finkelstein, Myra E, Doak, Daniel F, George, Daniel, Burnett, Joe, Brandt, Joseph, Church, Molly, Grantham, Jesse, Smith, Donald R

“…Endangered species recovery programs seek to restore populations to self-sustaining levels. Nonetheless, many recovering species require continuing management…”
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need for integrative approaches to understand and conserve migratory ungulates by Bolger, Douglas T, Newmark, William D, Morrison, Thomas A, Doak, Daniel F

“…Over the last two centuries overhunting, anthropogenic barriers and habitat loss have disrupted many ungulate migrations. We review the literature on ungulate…”
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Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix? by Novak, Mark, Yeakel, Justin D, Noble, Andrew E, Doak, Daniel F, Emmerson, Mark, Estes, James A, Jacob, Ute, Tinker, M. Timothy, Wootton, J. Timothy

“…The community matrix is among ecology's most important mathematical abstractions, formally encapsulating the interconnected network of effects that species…”
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Do geographic, climatic or historical ranges differentiate the performance of central versus peripheral populations? by Pironon, Samuel, Villellas, Jesús, Morris, William F., Doak, Daniel F., García, María B.

“…Aim: The 'centre-periphery hypothesis' (CPH) predicts that species performance (genetics, physiology, morphology, demography) will decline gradually from the…”
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Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism by Palmer, Todd M., Doak, Daniel F., Stanton, Maureen L., Bronstein, Judith L., Kiers, E. Toby, Young, Truman P., Goheen, Jacob R., Pringle, Robert M.

“…Understanding cooperation is a central challenge in biology, because natural selection should favor "free-loaders" that reap benefits without reciprocating…”
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Termites create spatial structure and govern ecosystem function by affecting N2 fixation in an East African savanna by Fox-Dobbs, Kena, Doak, Daniel F, Brody, Alison K, Palmer, Todd M

“…The mechanisms by which even the clearest of keystone or dominant species exert community-wide effects are only partially understood in most ecosystems. This…”
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Ability of Matrix Models to Explain the Past and Predict the Future of Plant Populations by CRONE, ELIZABETH E, ELLIS, MARTHA M, MORRIS, WILLIAM F, STANLEY, AMANDA, BELL, TIMOTHY, BIERZYCHUDEK, PAULETTE, EHRLÉN, JOHAN, KAYE, THOMAS N, KNIGHT, TIFFANY M, LESICA, PETER, OOSTERMEIJER, GERARD, QUINTANA‐ASCENCIO, PEDRO F, TICKTIN, TAMARA, VALVERDE, TERESA, WILLIAMS, JENNIFER L, DOAK, DANIEL F, GANESAN, RENGAIAN, MCEACHERN, KATHYRN, THORPE, ANDREA S, MENGES, ERIC S

“…Uncertainty associated with ecological forecasts has long been recognized, but forecast accuracy is rarely quantified. We evaluated how well data on 82…”
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Climate Tolerances and Habitat Requirements Jointly Shape the Elevational Distribution of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps), with Implications for Climate Change Effects by Yandow, Leah H, Chalfoun, Anna D, Doak, Daniel F

“…Some of the most compelling examples of ecological responses to climate change are elevational range shifts of individual species, which have been observed…”
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Demographic responses of hybridizing cinquefoils to changing climate in the Colorado Rocky Mountains by Carscadden, Kelly A., Doak, Daniel F., Oldfather, Meagan F., Emery, Nancy C.

“…Hybridization between taxa generates new pools of genetic variation that can lead to different environmental responses and demographic trajectories over time…”
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Accounting for Life‐History Strategies and Timescales in Marine Restoration by Montero‐Serra, Ignasi, Garrabou, Joaquim, Doak, Daniel F., Figuerola, Laura, Hereu, Bernat, Ledoux, Jean‐Baptiste, Linares, Cristina

“…Understanding the drivers of restoration success is a central issue for marine conservation. Here, we explore the role of life‐history strategies of sessile…”
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Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability by Morris, W.F, Pfister, C.A, Tuljapurkar, S, Haridas, C.V, Boggs, C.L, Boyce, M.S, Bruna, E.M, Church, D.R, Coulson, T, Doak, D.F

“…Both means and year-to-year variances of climate variables such as temperature and precipitation are predicted to change. However, the potential impact of…”
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Understanding extinction risk and resilience in an extremely small population facing climate and ecosystem change by Bakker, Victoria J., Doak, Daniel F., Ferrara, Francesca J.

“…San Nicolas Island (SNI) foxes historically had the highest densities of the six subspecies of Channel Island fox, four of which were listed as endangered in…”
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Where and When do Species Interactions Set Range Limits? by Louthan, Allison M., Doak, Daniel F., Angert, Amy L.

“…A long-standing theory, originating with Darwin, suggests that abiotic forces set species range limits at high latitude, high elevation, and other abiotically…”
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Correctly Estimating How Environmental Stochasticity Influences Fitness and Population Growth by Doak, Daniel F., Morris, William F., Pfister, Cathy, Kendall, Bruce E., Bruna, Emilio M.

“…Increased temporal variance in life‐history traits is generally predicted to decrease individual fitness and population growth. We show that a widely used…”
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Population viability management: ecological standards to guide adaptive management for rare species by Bakker, Victoria J, Daniel F Doak

“…Many approaches to rare species management formulated by academics lack practicality and meaning for managers. Here, we propose an approach, which we refer to…”
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Climate and synchrony with conspecifics determine the effects of flowering phenology on reproductive success in Silene acaulis by Hall, Elijah S., Piedrahita, Lucas R., Kendziorski, Grace, Waddle, Ellen, Doak, Daniel F., DeMarche, Megan L.

“…Changes in flowering phenology resulting from climate change could impact individual plant fitness and population viability. Flowering phenology can mediate…”
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Buffering of Life Histories against Environmental Stochasticity: Accounting for a Spurious Correlation between the Variabilities of Vital Rates and Their Contributions to Fitness by Morris, William F., Doak, Daniel F.

“…Life‐history theory predicts vital rates that on average make large contributions to the annual multiplication rate of a lineage should be highly buffered…”
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