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Land use and land cover change in a tropical mountain landscape of northern Ecuador: Altitudinal patterns and driving forces by Guarderas, Paulina, Smith, Franz, Dufrene, Marc

“…Tropical mountain ecosystems are threatened by land use pressures, compromising their capacity to provide ecosystem services. Although local patterns and…”
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Modeling potential natural vegetation: A new light on an old concept to guide nature conservation in fragmented and degraded landscapes by Bourdouxhe, Axel, Wibail, Lionel, Claessens, Hugues, Dufrêne, Marc

“…•Quantitative and qualitative assessment highlighted the good accuracy of potential natural vegetation models.•Potential natural vegetation modeling performs…”
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How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators by Breyne, Johanna, Dufrêne, Marc, Maréchal, Kevin

“…•The performance of ecosystem services is distinct from its importance.•Interactions between socio-cultural values and forest preferences are…”
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Combining forest exploitation and heathland biodiversity: Edges structure drives microclimates quality and reptile abundance in a coniferous plantation by Duchesne, Thomas, Rault, Pierre-Alexis, Quistinic, Pierre, Dufrêne, Marc, Lourdais, Olivier

“…•In Western Europe, conversion of heathlands to planted forest had a severe impact on biodiversity by inducing habitat closure.•Forest edges may offer…”
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Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes by Coppée, Thomas, Paquet, Jean-Yves, Titeux, Nicolas, Dufrêne, Marc

“…•Despite using abundance data, the models’ temporal transferability is still poor.•Using traditional variables of land cover does not predict changes in most…”
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Contribution of agroecological farming systems to the delivery of ecosystem services by Boeraeve, Fanny, Dendoncker, Nicolas, Cornélis, Jean-Thomas, Degrune, Florine, Dufrêne, Marc

“…Agroecology has been suggested as a promising concept for reconciling agricultural production and environmental sustainability by optimizing ecological…”
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Flexible habitat use in a migratory songbird expanding across a human-modified landscape: is it adaptive? by Gailly, Robin, Cousseau, Laurence, Paquet, Jean-Yves, Titeux, Nicolas, Dufrêne, Marc

“…Behavioural plasticity during habitat selection plays a key role in determining whether organisms may thrive under human-induced rapid environmental changes…”
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Managed as wild, horses influence grassland vegetation differently than domestic herds by Mutillod, Clémentine, Buisson, Elise, Tatin, Laurent, Mahy, Gregory, Dufrêne, Marc, Mesléard, François, Dutoit, Thierry

“…The urgent need to preserve ecosystems over vast areas has placed rewilding with wild herbivores to the forefront. However, there are still few scientific…”
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No favorable effect of reduced tillage on microbial community diversity in a silty loam soil (Belgium) by Degrune, Florine, Theodorakopoulos, Nicolas, Dufrêne, Marc, Colinet, Gilles, Bodson, Bernard, Hiel, Marie-Pierre, Taminiau, Bernard, Nezer, Carine, Daube, Georges, Vandenbol, Micheline

“…•No favorable effect of reduced tillage on microbial communities.•No influence of crop residue management on microbial communities.•A loess-derived soil and an…”
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Participatory identification and selection of ecosystem services: building on field experiences by Boeraeve, Fanny, Dufrene, Marc, De Vreese, Rik, Jacobs, Sander, Pipart, Nathalie, Turkelboom, Francis, Verheyden, Wim, Dendoncker, Nicolas

“…The concept of ecosystem services (ESs) has become a popular tool for science that aims to support decision making for sustainable management of natural…”
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The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises by Maebe, Laura, Dufrêne, Marc, Claessens, Hugues, Maréchal, Kevin, Ligot, Gauthier, Messier, Christian

“…[Display omitted] •The Navigate framework offers a joint application of the concepts of resilience and ecosystem services (ES)•Resilience brings in the dynamic…”
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Comparison of methods to model species habitat networks for decision-making in nature conservation: The case of the wildcat in southern Belgium by Bourdouxhe, Axel, Duflot, Rémi, Radoux, Julien, Dufrêne, Marc

“…Facing the loss of biodiversity caused by landscape fragmentation, implementation of ecological networks to connect habitats is an important biodiversity…”
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Species Assemblages and Indicator Species: The Need for a Flexible Asymmetrical Approach by Dufrene, Marc, Legendre, Pierre

“…This paper presents a new and simple method to find indicator species and species assemblages characterizing groups of sites. The novelty of our approach lies…”
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Survival cost to relocation does not reduce population self-sustainability in an amphibian by Cayuela, Hugo, Gillet, Lilly, Laudelout, Arnaud, Besnard, Aurélien, Bonnaire, Eric, Levionnois, Pauline, Muths, Erin, Dufrêne, Marc, Kinet, Thierry

“…Relocations are increasingly popular among wildlife managers despite often low rates of relocation success in vertebrates. In this context, understanding the…”
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Effects of the conversion of intensive grasslands into Christmas tree plantations on bird assemblages by Gailly, Robin, Paquet, Jean-Yves, Titeux, Nicolas, Claessens, Hugues, Dufrêne, Marc

“…•Growing Christmas trees in intensive grasslands enriches bird assemblages.•Christmas tree plantations positively affect bird species richness and…”
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Landscape delineation strategy and size of mapping units impact the performance of habitat suitability models by Delangre, Jessica, Radoux, Julien, Dufrêne, Marc

“…•Two landscape partitioning strategies at four resolutions were compared using generalized additive models.•Resolution had a larger impact than delineation…”
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How (not) to perform ecosystem service valuations: pricing gorillas in the mist by Fanny, Boeraeve, Nicolas, Dendoncker, Sander, Jacobs, Erik, Gómez-Baggethun, Marc, Dufrêne

“…Monetary valuation of ecosystem services (ES) is gaining growing interest in scientific papers, policies and awareness-raising documents for its potential as a…”
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A century of local changes in bumblebee communities and landscape composition in Belgium by Vray, Sarah, Rollin, Orianne, Rasmont, Pierre, Dufrêne, Marc, Michez, Denis, Dendoncker, Nicolas

“…Bumblebees ( Bombus spp.) are declining in most parts of Western Europe. Many studies have highlighted the role of agricultural intensification and…”
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Changes in the distribution of carabid beetles in Belgium revisited: Have we halted the diversity loss? by Desender, Konjev, Dekoninck, Wouter, Dufrêne, Marc, Maes, Dirk

“…Twenty years ago, Desender and Turin (1989) analysed the changes in the composition of carabid beetles in four NW European countries between the periods <1950…”
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Anopheles species associations in Southeast Asia: indicator species and environmental influences by Obsomer, Valérie, Dufrene, Marc, Defourny, Pierre, Coosemans, Marc

“…BACKGROUND: Southeast Asia presents a high diversity of Anopheles. Environmental requirements differ for each species and should be clarified because of their…”
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