Search Results - "Ecology letters"

AVONET : morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds by Tobias, Joseph A., Sheard, Catherine, Pigot, Alex L., Devenish, Adam J. M., Sayol, Ferran, Neate‐Clegg, Montague H. C., Alioravainen, Nico, Weeks, Thomas L., Barber, Robert A., Cooper, Jacob C., Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Analuddin, Kangkuso, Fjeldså, Jon, Seddon, Nathalie, Sweet, Paul R., DeClerck, Fabrice A. J., Naka, Luciano N., Aleixo, Alexandre, MacGregor, Hannah E. A., Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Rahbek, Carsten, Fritz, Susanne A., Thomas, Gavin H., Schleuning, Matthias, Vincent, Claire, Phillips, Anna G., Montaño‐Centellas, Flavia A., Leandro‐Silva, Victor, Freeman, Benjamin G., Bregman, Tom P., Cooney, Christopher R., Hughes, Emma C., Capp, Elliot J. R., Varley, Zoë K., Friedman, Nicholas R., Korntheuer, Heiko, Trisos, Christopher H., Weeks, Brian C., Hanz, Dagmar M., Töpfer, Till, Bravo, Gustavo A., Remeš, Vladimír, Nowak, Larissa, Moncada R., Amilkar J., Matysioková, Beata, Baldassarre, Daniel T., Martínez‐Salinas, Alejandra, Wolfe, Jared D., Chapman, Philip M., Daly, Benjamin G., Neu, Alexander, Ford, Michael A., Mayhew, Rebekah J., Fabio Silveira, Luis, Kelly, David J., Pollock, Henry S., Grabowska‐Zhang, Ada M., McEntee, Jay P., Meneses, Camila G., Muñoz, Marcia C., Powell, Luke L., Jamie, Gabriel A., Matthews, Thomas, Johnson, Oscar, Brito, Guilherme R. R., Zyskowski, Kristof, Crates, Ross, Harvey, Michael G., Jurado Zevallos, Maura, Hosner, Peter A., Bradfer‐Lawrence, Tom, Maley, James M., Stiles, F. Gary, Lima, Hevana S., Provost, Kaiya L., Chibesa, Moses, Mashao, Mmatjie, Howard, Jeffrey T., Mlamba, Edson, Chua, Marcus A. H., Gómez, M. Isabel, García, Natalia C., Päckert, Martin, Ali, Jarome R., Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Carlson, Monica L., Urriza, Rolly C., Brzeski, Kristin E., Prawiradilaga, Dewi M., Rayner, Matt J., Miller, Eliot T., Bowie, Rauri C. K., Lafontaine, René‐Marie, Scofield, R. Paul, Somarathna, Lankani, Lepage, Denis, Illif, Marshall, Neuschulz, Eike Lena, Templin, Mathias, Dehling, D. Matthias

“…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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The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis by Albrecht, Matthias, Kleijn, David, Williams, Neal M., Tschumi, Matthias, Blaauw, Brett R., Bommarco, Riccardo, Campbell, Alistair J., Dainese, Matteo, Drummond, Francis A., Entling, Martin H., Ganser, Dominik, Arjen de Groot, G., Goulson, Dave, Grab, Heather, Hamilton, Hannah, Herzog, Felix, Isaacs, Rufus, Jacot, Katja, Jeanneret, Philippe, Jonsson, Mattias, Knop, Eva, Kremen, Claire, Landis, Douglas A., Loeb, Gregory M., Marini, Lorenzo, McKerchar, Megan, Morandin, Lora, Pfister, Sonja C., Potts, Simon G., Rundlöf, Maj, Sardiñas, Hillary, Sciligo, Amber, Thies, Carsten, Tscharntke, Teja, Venturini, Eric, Veromann, Eve, Vollhardt, Ines M.G., Wäckers, Felix, Ward, Kimiora, Wilby, Andrew, Woltz, Megan, Wratten, Steve, Sutter, Louis, Irwin, Rebecca

“…Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive…”
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Co‐occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions by Blanchet, F. Guillaume, Cazelles, Kevin, Gravel, Dominique, Jeffers, Elizabeth

“…There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first…”
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Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation by Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Fahrig, Lenore, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Watling, James I., Tischendorf, Lutz, Benchimol, Maíra, Cazetta, Eliana, Faria, Deborah, Leal, Inara R., Melo, Felipe P. L., Morante‐Filho, Jose C., Santos, Bráulio A., Arasa‐Gisbert, Ricard, Arce‐Peña, Norma, Cervantes‐López, Martín J., Cudney‐Valenzuela, Sabine, Galán‐Acedo, Carmen, San‐José, Miriam, Vieira, Ima C. G., Slik, J.W. Ferry, Nowakowski, A. Justin, Tscharntke, Teja, Jordan, Ferenc

“…Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes. Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the…”
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The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe by Martin, Emily A., Dainese, Matteo, Clough, Yann, Báldi, András, Bommarco, Riccardo, Gagic, Vesna, Garratt, Michael P.D., Holzschuh, Andrea, Kleijn, David, Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó, Marini, Lorenzo, Potts, Simon G., Smith, Henrik G., Al Hassan, Diab, Albrecht, Matthias, Andersson, Georg K.S., Asís, Josep D., Aviron, Stéphanie, Balzan, Mario V., Baños‐Picón, Laura, Bartomeus, Ignasi, Batáry, Péter, Burel, Francoise, Caballero‐López, Berta, Concepción, Elena D., Coudrain, Valérie, Dänhardt, Juliana, Diaz, Mario, Diekötter, Tim, Dormann, Carsten F., Duflot, Rémi, Entling, Martin H., Farwig, Nina, Fischer, Christina, Frank, Thomas, Garibaldi, Lucas A., Hermann, John, Herzog, Felix, Inclán, Diego, Jacot, Katja, Jauker, Frank, Jeanneret, Philippe, Kaiser, Marina, Krauss, Jochen, Le Féon, Violette, Marshall, Jon, Moonen, Anna‐Camilla, Moreno, Gerardo, Riedinger, Verena, Rundlöf, Maj, Rusch, Adrien, Scheper, Jeroen, Schneider, Gudrun, Schüepp, Christof, Stutz, Sonja, Sutter, Louis, Tamburini, Giovanni, Thies, Carsten, Tormos, José, Tscharntke, Teja, Tschumi, Matthias, Uzman, Deniz, Wagner, Christian, Zubair‐Anjum, Muhammad, Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf, Scherber, Christoph

“…Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement…”
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Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease by Mordecai, Erin A., Caldwell, Jamie M., Grossman, Marissa K., Lippi, Catherine A., Johnson, Leah R., Neira, Marco, Rohr, Jason R., Ryan, Sadie J., Savage, Van, Shocket, Marta S., Sippy, Rachel, Stewart Ibarra, Anna M., Thomas, Matthew B., Villena, Oswaldo, Byers, James (Jeb)

“…Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly…”
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Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change by Stevens‐Rumann, Camille S., Kemp, Kerry B., Higuera, Philip E., Harvey, Brian J., Rother, Monica T., Donato, Daniel C., Morgan, Penelope, Veblen, Thomas T., Lloret, Francisco

“…Forest resilience to climate change is a global concern given the potential effects of increased disturbance activity, warming temperatures and increased…”
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research by Gonzalez, Andrew, Germain, Rachel M., Srivastava, Diane S., Filotas, Elise, Dee, Laura E., Gravel, Dominique, Thompson, Patrick L., Isbell, Forest, Wang, Shaopeng, Kéfi, Sonia, Montoya, Jose, Zelnik, Yuval R., Loreau, Michel, Brose, Ulrich

“…A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and…”
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How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software by Ovaskainen, Otso, Tikhonov, Gleb, Norberg, Anna, Guillaume Blanchet, F., Duan, Leo, Dunson, David, Roslin, Tomas, Abrego, Nerea, Chave, Jerome

“…Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate…”
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Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure by Martin‐StPaul, Nicolas, Delzon, Sylvain, Cochard, Hervé, Maherali, Hafiz

“…Stomata play a significant role in the Earth's water and carbon cycles, by regulating gaseous exchanges between the plant and the atmosphere. Under drought…”
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The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages by Shi, Shengjing, Nuccio, Erin E., Shi, Zhou J., He, Zhili, Zhou, Jizhong, Firestone, Mary K.

“…While interactions between roots and microorganisms have been intensively studied, we know little about interactions among root‐associated microbes. We used…”
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Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis by Zhang, Zhijie, Liu, Yanjie, Yuan, Ling, Weber, Ewald, van Kleunen, Mark, Gurevitch, Jessica

“…Allelopathy (i.e. chemical interactions between plants) is known to affect individual performance, community structure and plant invasions. Yet, a quantitative…”
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Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? by Sinclair, Brent J., Marshall, Katie E., Sewell, Mary A., Levesque, Danielle L., Willett, Christopher S., Slotsbo, Stine, Dong, Yunwei, Harley, Christopher D. G., Marshall, David J., Helmuth, Brian S., Huey, Raymond B.

“…Thermal performance curves (TPCs), which quantify how an ectotherm's body temperature (Tb) affects its performance or fitness, are often used in an attempt to…”
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A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology by Thompson, Patrick L., Guzman, Laura Melissa, De Meester, Luc, Horváth, Zsófia, Ptacnik, Robert, Vanschoenwinkel, Bram, Viana, Duarte S., Chase, Jonathan M., Calcagno, Vincent

“…The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept…”
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Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice by Suraci, Justin P., Clinchy, Michael, Zanette, Liana Y., Wilmers, Christopher C., Grether, Greg

“…Apex predators such as large carnivores can have cascading, landscape‐scale impacts across wildlife communities, which could result largely from the fear they…”
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global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities by Siefert, Andrew, Violle, Cyrille, Chalmandrier, Loïc, Albert, Cécile H, Taudiere, Adrien, Fajardo, Alex, Aarssen, Lonnie W, Baraloto, Christopher, Carlucci, Marcos B, Cianciaruso, Marcus V, L. Dantas, Vinícius, Bello, Francesco, Duarte, Leandro D. S, Fonseca, Carlos R, Freschet, Grégoire T, Gaucherand, Stéphanie, Gross, Nicolas, Hikosaka, Kouki, Jackson, Benjamin, Jung, Vincent, Kamiyama, Chiho, Katabuchi, Masatoshi, Kembel, Steven W, Kichenin, Emilie, Kraft, Nathan J. B, Lagerström, Anna, Bagousse‐Pinguet, Yoann Le, Li, Yuanzhi, Mason, Norman, Messier, Julie, Nakashizuka, Tohru, Overton, Jacob McC, Peltzer, Duane A, Pérez‐Ramos, I. M, Pillar, Valério D, Prentice, Honor C, Richardson, Sarah, Sasaki, Takehiro, Schamp, Brandon S, Schöb, Christian, Shipley, Bill, Sundqvist, Maja, Sykes, Martin T, Vandewalle, Marie, Wardle, David A, Chase, Jonathan

“…Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better address major questions in community ecology. However, a general…”
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Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition by Adler, Peter B., Smull, Danielle, Beard, Karen H., Choi, Ryan T., Furniss, Tucker, Kulmatiski, Andrew, Meiners, Joan M., Tredennick, Andrew T., Veblen, Kari E., Comita, Liza

“…Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous…”
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Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling by Kannenberg, Steven A., Schwalm, Christopher R., Anderegg, William R. L., Rejmanek, Marcel

“…Multi‐year lags in tree drought recovery, termed ‘drought legacy effects’, are important for understanding the impacts of drought on forest ecosystems,…”
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Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe by Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Eldridge, David J., Ochoa, Victoria, Gozalo, Beatriz, Singh, Brajesh K., Maestre, Fernando T., van der Putten, Wim

“…The relationship between soil microbial communities and the resistance of multiple ecosystem functions linked to C, N and P cycling (multifunctionality…”
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Invasive plants differentially affect soil biota through litter and rhizosphere pathways: a meta‐analysis by Zhang, Pei, Li, Bo, Wu, Jihua, Hu, Shuijin, Seabloom, Eric

“…Invasive plants affect soil biota through litter and rhizosphere inputs, but the direction and magnitude of these effects are variable. We conducted a…”
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