Are ecologists conducting research at the optimal scale?Global Ecology and Biogeography - Tập 24 Số 1 - Trang 52-63 - 2015
Heather Bird Jackson, Lenore Fahrig
AbstractAimThe spatial extent (scale) at which landscape attributes are measured has a strong impact on inferred species–landscape relationships. Consequently, researchers commonly measure landscape variables at multiple scales to select one scale (the ‘scale of effect’) that yields the strongest species–landscape relationship. Sc...... hiện toàn bộ
A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implicationsGlobal Ecology and Biogeography - Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 145-158 - 2010
Ross A. Bradstock
ABSTRACTAim Patterns of fire regimes across Australia exhibit biogeographic variation in response to four processes. Variations in area burned and fire frequency result from differences in the rates of ‘switching’ of biomass growth, availability to burn, fire weather and ignition. Therefore differing processes limit fire (i.e. the lowest rat...... hiện toàn bộ
Bio‐ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modellingGlobal Ecology and Biogeography - Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 272-281 - 2012
L. Tyberghein, Heroen Verbruggen, Klaas Pauly, Charles Troupin, Frédéric Mineur, Olivier De Clerck
ABSTRACTAim The oceans harbour a great diversity of organisms whose distribution and ecological preferences are often poorly understood. Species distribution modelling (SDM) could improve our knowledge and inform marine ecosystem management and conservation. Although marine environmental data are available from various sources, there are cur...... hiện toàn bộ
Power in numbers. Drivers of high population density in insular lizardsGlobal Ecology and Biogeography - Tập 25 Số 1 - Trang 87-95 - 2016
Maria Novosolov, Gordon H. Rodda, Anat Feldman, Amy E. Kadison, Roi Dor, Shai Meiri
AbstractAimIslands organisms usually have fewer predator and competitor species than mainland ones. This is thought to result in high population densities on islands. We hypothesize that insular lizards have denser populations than mainland species and that density, in general, is negatively correlated with competitor and predator...... hiện toàn bộ
Leaf form–climate relationships on the global stage: an ensemble of charactersGlobal Ecology and Biogeography - Tập 24 Số 10 - Trang 1113-1125 - 2015
Jian Yang, Robert A. Spicer, Teresa E.V. Spicer, Nan Crystal Arens, Frédéric M.B. Jacques, Tao Su, Elizabeth M. Kennedy, Alexei B. Herman, David C. Steart, Gaurav Srivastava, R.C. Mehrotra, Paul J. Valdes, Naresh C. Mehrotra, Zhe‐Kun Zhou, Jiangshan Lai
AbstractAimEarly in their evolution, angiosperms evolved a diversity of leaf form far greater than that of any other group of land plants. Some of this diversity evolved in response to varying climate. Our aim is to test the global relationship between leaf form in woody dicot angiosperms and the climate in which they live.... hiện toàn bộ