Search Results - "Ke, Alison"
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The “Sweet Spot” in the Middle: Why Do Mid-Scale Farms Adopt Diversification Practices at Higher Rates?
Published in Frontiers in sustainable food systems (01-10-2021)“…In the past few decades, farmers and researchers have firmly established that biologically diversified farming systems improve ecosystem services both on and…”
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Identification of Parkinson’s disease PACE subtypes and repurposing treatments through integrative analyses of multimodal data
Published in NPJ digital medicine (09-07-2024)“…Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a serious neurodegenerative disorder marked by significant clinical and progression heterogeneity. This study aimed at addressing…”
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Effects of agriculture and nature reserves on avian behavior in northwestern Costa Rica
Published in Conservation biology (01-08-2024)“…Behavioral changes are often animals’ first responses to environmental change and may act as a bellwether for population viability. Nonetheless, most studies…”
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Land-Use Change Effects on Tropical Bird Communities: Abundance Patterns, Behavioral Shifts, and Reproductive Success
Published 01-01-2023“…Land-use change currently constitutes the primary driver of modern biodiversity loss. One way that land conversion to agriculture can lead to biodiversity loss…”
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A hierarchical N‐mixture model to estimate behavioral variation and a case study of Neotropical birds
Published in Ecological applications (01-09-2022)“…Understanding how and why animals use the environments where they occur is both foundational to behavioral ecology and essential to identify critical habitats…”
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Multiple‐region, N‐mixture community model to assess associations of riparian area, fragmentation, and species richness
Published in Ecological applications (01-12-2022)“…The associations of habitat area and fragmentation with species richness long have been major topics within community ecology. Recent discussion has focused on…”
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Agriculture and hot temperatures interactively erode the nest success of habitat generalist birds across the United States
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (20-10-2023)“…Habitat conversion and climate change are fundamental drivers of biodiversity loss worldwide but are often analyzed in isolation. We used a continental-scale,…”
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Cavity‐nesting birds are limited by nesting habitat in Neotropical agricultural landscapes
Published in Biotropica (01-09-2023)“…Abstract Most studies comparing biodiversity between natural and human‐modified landscapes focus on patterns in species occurrence or abundance, but do not…”
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Ungrazed seminatural habitats around farms benefit bird conservation without enhancing foodborne pathogen risks
Published in Landscape ecology (05-07-2024)“…Context Conservation in working landscapes is critical for halting biodiversity declines and ensuring farming system sustainability. However, concerns that…”
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Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapes
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-08-2018)“…There is an ongoing need to integrate agricultural production with wildlife conservation to maintain biodiversity, especially in developing countries. The…”
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Remnant forest in Costa Rican working landscapes fosters bird communities that are indistinguishable from protected areas
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-07-2019)“…The outcome of the ongoing biodiversity crisis depends on the capacity of the Earth’s wildlife to persist in working landscapes. Yet, the species that occupy…”
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Inconsistent effects of landscape heterogeneity and land-use on animal diversity in an agricultural mosaic: a multi-scale and multi-taxon investigation
Published in Landscape ecology (01-02-2018)“…Context The landscape heterogeneity hypothesis states that increased heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes will promote biodiversity. However, this…”
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Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals
Published in Nature sustainability (01-12-2019)“…Regional and global assessments periodically update what we know, and highlight what remains to be known, about the linkages between people and nature that…”
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Countryside Biogeography: the Controls of Species Distributions in Human-Dominated Landscapes
Published in Current landscape ecology reports (01-06-2019)“…Purpose of Review Countryside biogeography seeks to explain the distribution of wildlife in human-dominated landscapes. We review the theoretical and empirical…”
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