Search Results - "Watling, James I."

Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies by Watling, James I., Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Victor, Pfeifer, Marion, Baeten, Lander, Banks‐Leite, Cristina, Cisneros, Laura M., Fang, Rebecca, Hamel‐Leigue, A. Caroli, Lachat, Thibault, Leal, Inara R., Lens, Luc, Possingham, Hugh P., Raheem, Dinarzarde C., Ribeiro, Danilo B., Slade, Eleanor M., Urbina‐Cardona, J. Nicolas, Wood, Eric M., Fahrig, Lenore, Storch, David

“…Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the…”
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Local community size mediates ecological drift and competition in metacommunities by Orrock, John L., Watling, James I.

“…The outcome of competitive interactions is likely to be influenced by both competitive dominance (i.e. niche-based dynamics) and ecological drift (i.e. neutral…”
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Tropical amphibians in shifting thermal landscapes under land-use and climate change by Nowakowski, A. Justin, Watling, James I., Whitfield, Steven M., Todd, Brian D., Kurz, David J., Donnelly, Maureen A.

“…Land-cover and climate change are both expected to alter species distributions and contribute to future biodiversity loss. However, the combined effects of…”
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Thermal biology mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification by Nowakowski, A. Justin, Watling, James I., Thompson, Michelle E., Brusch, George A., Catenazzi, Alessandro, Whitfield, Steven M., Kurz, David J., Suárez‐Mayorga, Ángela, Aponte‐Gutiérrez, Andrés, Donnelly, Maureen A., Todd, Brian D., Calcagno, Vincent

“…Human activities often replace native forests with warmer, modified habitats that represent novel thermal environments for biodiversity. Reducing biodiversity…”
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One Shell of a Problem: Cumulative Threat Analysis of Male Sea Turtles Indicates High Anthropogenic Threat for Migratory Individuals and Gulf of Mexico Residents by Ashford, Micah, Watling, James I., Hart, Kristen

“…Human use of oceans has dramatically increased in the 21st century. Sea turtles are vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors in the marine environment because of…”
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Fragments as Islands: a Synthesis of Faunal Responses to Habitat Patchiness by WATLING, JAMES I., DONNELLY, MAUREEN A.

“…Scientific interest in the impact of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is increasing, but our understanding of fragmentation is clouded by a lack of…”
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Meta-analysis reveals the importance of matrix composition for animals in fragmented habitat by Watling, James I., Nowakowski, A. Justin, Donnelly, Maureen A., Orrock, John L.

“…Aim: Connectivity is a key determinant of the distribution and abundance of organisms and is greatly influenced by anthropogenic landscape modification, yet we…”
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Validating predictions from climate envelope models by Watling, James I, Bucklin, David N, Speroterra, Carolina, Brandt, Laura A, Mazzotti, Frank J, Romañach, Stephanie S

“…Climate envelope models are a potentially important conservation tool, but their ability to accurately forecast species' distributional shifts using…”
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Threatened and endangered subspecies with vulnerable ecological traits also have high susceptibility to sea level rise and habitat fragmentation by Benscoter, Allison M, Reece, Joshua S, Noss, Reed F, Brandt, Laura A, Mazzotti, Frank J, Romañach, Stephanie S, Watling, James I

“…The presence of multiple interacting threats to biodiversity and the increasing rate of species extinction make it critical to prioritize management efforts on…”
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Desiccation resistance explains amphibian distributions in a fragmented tropical forest landscape by Watling, James I, Braga, Lorenzo

“…CONTEXT: Although amphibian distributions are associated with environmental moisture at global and local scales, less is known about how desiccation tolerance…”
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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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Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda by Fahrig, Lenore, Watling, James I., Arnillas, Carlos Alberto, Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Jörger‐Hickfang, Theresa, Müller, Jörg, Pereira, Henrique M., Riva, Federico, Rösch, Verena, Seibold, Sebastian, Tscharntke, Teja, May, Felix

“…ABSTRACT The legacy of the ‘SL > SS principle’, that a single or a few large habitat patches (SL) conserve more species than several small patches (SS), is…”
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Virtual special issue: Insights from a landscape ecological perspective for tropical biology and conservation by Watling, James I., Urbina‐Cardona, J. Nicolás

“…We conducted a keyword search to sample a subset of research on landscape ecology published in Biotropica between 2016 and mid‐2021. Our search returned…”
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The influence of matrix quality on species richness in remnant forest by Reider, Ian J., Donnelly, Maureen A., Watling, James I.

“…Context Habitat destruction is the leading threat to terrestrial biodiversity, isolating remnant habitat in a matrix of modified vegetation. Objectives Our…”
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Performance metrics and variance partitioning reveal sources of uncertainty in species distribution models by Watling, James I, Brandt, Laura A, Bucklin, David N, Fujisaki, Ikuko, Mazzotti, Frank J, Romanach, Stephanie S, Speroterra, Carolina

“…Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in basic and applied ecology, making it important to understand sources and magnitudes of uncertainty in SDM…”
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Comparing species distribution models constructed with different subsets of environmental predictors by Bucklin, David N., Basille, Mathieu, Benscoter, Allison M., Brandt, Laura A., Mazzotti, Frank J., Romañach, Stephanie S., Speroterra, Carolina, Watling, James I.

“…Aim To assess the usefulness of combining climate predictors with additional types of environmental predictors in species distribution models for…”
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Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life by Justin Nowakowski, A., Watling, James I., Murray, Alexander, Deichmann, Jessica L., Akre, Thomas S., Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L., Todd, Brian D., McRae, Louise, Freeman, Robin, Frishkoff, Luke O.

“…Protected areas (PAs) are the primary strategy for slowing terrestrial biodiversity loss. Although expansion of PA coverage is prioritized under the Convention…”
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Upper thermal limits predict herpetofaunal responses to forest edge and cover by Veselka, Andrew J., Aponte‐Gutiérrez, Andrés, Medina‐Báez, Osmary A., Watling, James I.

“…Amphibians and reptiles are sensitive to changes in the thermal environment, which varies considerably in human‐modified landscapes. Although it is known that…”
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Comparison of climate envelope models developed using expert-selected variables versus statistical selection by Brandt, Laura A., Benscoter, Allison M., Harvey, Rebecca, Speroterra, Carolina, Bucklin, David, Romañach, Stephanie S., Watling, James I., Mazzotti, Frank J.

“…•Two variable selection. methods were used to create species distribution models for 15 species.•Experts identified more important climate variables than the…”
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Invasive shrub alters native forest amphibian communities by Watling, James I., Hickman, Caleb R., Orrock, John L.

“…► We investigate whether an invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii, affects native amphibians. ► L. maackii invasion decreased richness and homogenized species…”
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