Data from: Estimating species richness using environmental DNA
The foundation for any ecological study and the for effective management of biodiversity in natural systems requires knowing what species are present in an ecosystem. We assessed fish communities in a...
View ArticleData from: Harvested populations are more variable only in more variable...
The interaction between environmental variation and population dynamics is of major importance, particularly for managed and economically important species, and especially given contemporary changes in...
View ArticleData from: Compatible and incompatible pathogen-plant interactions...
The effects of multiple insect attacks on herbivore-induced plant volatiles and carnivorous arthropods are increasingly studied. Phytopathogens also represent an important threat to plants, and plant...
View ArticleData from: Litter microbial and soil faunal communities stimulated in the...
Large-scale disturbances can be important components of the temporal landscape of natural ecosystems, but generalities regarding ecosystem impacts are difficult due to their infrequent and...
View ArticleData from: Limited scope for plasticity to increase upper thermal limits
Increases in average temperature and the frequency of extreme temperature events are likely to pose a major risk to species already close to their upper physiological thermal limits. The extent to...
View ArticleData from: Soil-mediated eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the invasive plant...
Ecological and evolutionary processes historically have been assumed to operate on significantly different time scales. We know now from theory and work in experimental and model systems that these...
View ArticleData from: Linking the respiration of fungal sporocarps with their nitrogen...
Tissue nitrogen (N) concentration has been correlated with respiration (RS) across plants of different life forms, functional and phylogenetic groups, plant organs and ectomycorrhizae of different...
View ArticleData from: The efficacy and safety of bevacizumab plus erlotinib versus...
Objectives: Bevacizumab and erlotinib exhibit beneficial effects in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the efficacy of bevacizumab in combination with erlotinib remains...
View ArticleData from: EMMLi: A maximum likelihood approach to the analysis of modularity
Identification of phenotypic modules, semi-autonomous sets of highly-correlated traits, can be accomplished through exploratory (e.g., cluster analysis) or confirmatory approaches (e.g., RV coefficient...
View ArticleData from: Avoidance of windfarms by harbour seals is limited to pile driving...
As part of global efforts to reduce dependence on carbon-based energy sources there has been a rapid increase in the installation of renewable energy devices. The installation and operation of these...
View ArticleData from: A before-and-after assessment of patch-burn grazing and riparian...
1. Fire and grazing are common in grasslands worldwide to maintain grass cover and cattle production. The effects of fire, cattle grazing, and riparian fencing efficacy on prairie stream ecology are...
View ArticleData from: Bat communities respond positively to large-scale thinning of...
1. Over half of the world’s forests are secondary regrowth and support considerable biodiversity. Thinning of these forests is a widespread management practice that can affect forest species, including...
View ArticleData from: Host-adapted aphid populations differ in their migratory patterns...
1. Although phytophagous insects can vary genetically in host use and exhibit long-range movements, the combined implications of these phenomena for pest management have received limited attention. 2....
View ArticleData from: Scaring waterfowl as a management tool: how much more do geese...
1. With increasing numbers of many herbivorous waterfowl species, often foraging on farmland, the conflict with agriculture has intensified. One popular management tool is to scare birds off the land,...
View ArticleData from: Bottom trawling affects fish condition through changes in the...
1. Bottom trawl fisheries are wide-spread and cause mortality of benthic invertebrates, which in turn may lead to a decrease in the availability of prey for target fish species. Exploitation also...
View ArticleData from: Prescribed fire and conifer removal promote positive understory...
Fire-prone woodlands and savannas worldwide face management challenges resulting from fire exclusion and subsequent encroachment of fire-sensitive trees. In the Pacific Northwest (USA), Quercus...
View ArticleData from: A toolkit for optimizing fish passage barrier mitigation actions
1. The presence of dams, stream-road crossings, and other infrastructure often compromises the connectivity of rivers, leading to reduced fish abundance and diversity. The assessment and mitigation of...
View ArticleData from: Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in long-term time...
The link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) over long temporal scales is poorly understood. Here, we investigate biological monitoring and palaeoecological records on decadal,...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary history shapes patterns of mutualistic benefit in...
The ecological and evolutionary factors that drive the emergence and maintenance of variation in mutualistic benefit (i.e. the benefits provided by one partner to another) in mutualistic symbioses are...
View ArticleData from: The genomic bases of morphological divergence and reproductive...
Ecological speciation, driven by adaptation to contrasting environments, provides an attractive opportunity to study the formation of distinct species, and the role of selection and genomic divergence...
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