Search Results - "Didham, Raphael K."

Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems by Tylianakis, Jason M, Didham, Raphael K, Bascompte, Jordi, Wardle, David A

“…The main drivers of global environmental change (CO₂ enrichment, nitrogen deposition, climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter…”
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Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities by Wong, Mark K. L., Didham, Raphael K.

“…Insects sustain key ecosystem functions, but how their activity varies across the day–night cycle and the underlying drivers are poorly understood. Although…”
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Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation by Ewers, Robert M., Didham, Raphael K.

“…Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be…”
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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward by Didham, Raphael K., Basset, Yves, Collins, C. Matilda, Leather, Simon R., Littlewood, Nick A., Menz, Myles H. M., Müller, Jörg, Packer, Laurence, Saunders, Manu E., Schönrogge, Karsten, Stewart, Alan J. A., Yanoviak, Stephen P., Hassall, Christopher

“…Many insect species are under threat from the anthropogenic drivers of global change. There have been numerous well‐documented examples of insect population…”
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Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges by Wilson, Maxwell C., Chen, Xiao-Yong, Corlett, Richard T., Didham, Raphael K., Ding, Ping, Holt, Robert D., Holyoak, Marcel, Hu, Guang, Hughes, Alice C., Jiang, Lin, Laurance, William F., Liu, Jiajia, Pimm, Stuart L., Robinson, Scott K., Russo, Sabrina E., Si, Xingfeng, Wilcove, David S., Wu, Jianguo, Yu, Mingjian

“…Habitat loss and fragmentation has long been considered the primary cause for biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation worldwide, and is a key research…”
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A global strategy to mitigate the environmental impact of China’s ruminant consumption boom by Du, Yuanyuan, Ge, Ying, Ren, Yuan, Fan, Xing, Pan, Kaixuan, Lin, Linshan, Wu, Xu, Min, Yong, Meyerson, Laura A., Heino, Mikko, Chang, Scott X., Liu, Xiaozi, Mao, Feng, Yang, Guofu, Peng, Changhui, Qu, Zelong, Chang, Jie, Didham, Raphael K.

“…Rising demand for ruminant meat and dairy products in developing countries is expected to double anthropogenic greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from…”
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Soil fertility shapes belowground food webs across a regional climate gradient by Laliberté, Etienne, Kardol, Paul, Didham, Raphael K., Teste, François P., Turner, Benjamin L., Wardle, David A., Klironomos, John

“…Changes in soil fertility during pedogenesis affect the quantity and quality of resources entering the belowground subsystem. Climate governs pedogenesis, yet…”
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Towards a better mechanistic understanding of edge effects by Ruffell, Jay, Didham, Raphael K.

“…Context Predicting and managing edge effects requires an understanding of the mechanisms that drive them. However, analytical methods that dominate edge…”
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Effect of Fragment Shape and Species' Sensitivity to Habitat Edges on Animal Population Size by EWERS, ROBERT M, DIDHAM, RAPHAEL K

“…Habitat fragmentation causes extinction of local animal populations by decreasing the amount of viable "core" habitat area and increasing edge effects. It is…”
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Pervasive impact of large-scale edge effects on a beetle community by Ewers, Robert M, Didham, Raphael K

“…Habitat edges are a ubiquitous feature of modern fragmented landscapes, but a tendency for researchers to restrict sampling designs to relatively small spatial…”
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A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project by Ewers, Robert M., Didham, Raphael K., Fahrig, Lenore, Ferraz, Gonçalo, Hector, Andy, Holt, Robert D., Kapos, Valerie, Reynolds, Glen, Sinun, Waidi, Snaddon, Jake L., Turner, Edgar C.

“…Opportunities to conduct large-scale field experiments are rare, but provide a unique opportunity to reveal the complex processes that operate within natural…”
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The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation by Laurance, William F., Camargo, José L.C., Luizão, Regina C.C., Laurance, Susan G., Pimm, Stuart L., Bruna, Emilio M., Stouffer, Philip C., Bruce Williamson, G., Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Van Houtan, Kyle S., Zartman, Charles E., Boyle, Sarah A., Didham, Raphael K., Andrade, Ana, Lovejoy, Thomas E.

“…We synthesize findings to date from the world’s largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the…”
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Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries by Frost, Carol M., Peralta, Guadalupe, Rand, Tatyana A., Didham, Raphael K., Varsani, Arvind, Tylianakis, Jason M.

“…Species have strong indirect effects on others, and predicting these effects is a central challenge in ecology. Prey species sharing an enemy (predator or…”
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Accounting for the causal basis of collinearity when measuring the effects of habitat loss versus habitat fragmentation by Ruffell, Jay, Banks‐Leite, Cristina, Didham, Raphael K

“…Collinearity among metrics of habitat loss and habitat fragmentation is typically treated as a nuisance in landscape ecology, and it is the norm to use…”
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Agricultural intensification drives landscape-context effects on host—parasitoid interactions in agroecosystems by Jonsson, Mattias, Buckley, Hannah L., Case, Bradley S., Wratten, Steve D., Hale, Roddy J., Didham, Raphael K.

“…1. Agricultural land use threatens ecosystem services such as biological control by natural enemies because of simplification of habitat structure and…”
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Continuous Response Functions for Quantifying the Strength of Edge Effects by Ewers, Robert M., Didham, Raphael K.

“…1. Ecological boundaries are a dominant feature of human-modified landscapes and have been the subject of numerous empirical studies. Robust statistical…”
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To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies by Cunningham, Saul A., Attwood, Simon J., Bawa, Kamal S., Benton, Tim G., Broadhurst, Linda M., Didham, Raphael K., McIntyre, Sue, Perfecto, Ivette, Samways, Michael J., Tscharntke, Teja, Vandermeer, John, Villard, Marc-André, Young, Andrew G., Lindenmayer, David B.

“…•A singular focus on increasing yield exacerbates biodiversity decline.•There are options that increase yield while protecting biodiversity.•Practices to…”
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Life After Logging: Strategic Withdrawal from the Garden of Eden or Tactical Error for Wilderness Conservation? by Didham, Raphael K.

“…Conservation management has undergone a dramatic paradigm shift from the strong 'wilderness conservation' ethos of the 1980s and 1990s to the 'biodiversity on…”
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Agricultural intensification exacerbates spillover effects on soil biogeochemistry in adjacent forest remnants by Didham, Raphael K, Barker, Gary M, Bartlam, Scott, Deakin, Elizabeth L, Denmead, Lisa H, Fisk, Louise M, Peters, Jennifer M R, Tylianakis, Jason M, Wright, Hannah R, Schipper, Louis A

“…Land-use intensification is a central element in proposed strategies to address global food security. One rationale for accepting the negative consequences of…”
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Disentangling biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation in woody plant seedlings at forest edges by Zheng, Shilu, Webber, Bruce L., Didham, Raphael K., Chen, Chun, Yu, Mingjian

“…In fragmented forests, edge effects can drive intraspecific variation in seedling performance that influences forest regeneration and plant composition…”
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