Herbivore cross‐scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilienceJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 53 Số 3 - Trang 646-655 - 2016
Kirsty L. Nash, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Simon Jennings, Shaun K. Wilson, David R. Bellwood
Summary Functional redundancy contributes to resilience if different species in
the same functional group respond to disturbance in different ways (response
diversity). If species in a functional group perform their functional role at
different spatial scales (cross‐scale redundancy), they are expected to respond
differently to scale‐specific disturbance. Consequently, variance in the spatial
scal... hiện toàn bộ
Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterfliesJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 52 Số 2 - Trang 505-513 - 2015
David J. Perović, Sagrario Gámez‐Virués, Carmen Börschig, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Jochen Krauß, Juliane Steckel, Christoph Rothenwöhrer, Stefan Erasmi, Teja Tscharntke, Catrin Westphal
Summary Landscape heterogeneity represents two aspects of landscape
simplification: (i) compositional heterogeneity (diversity of habitat types);
and (ii) configurational heterogeneity (number, size and arrangement of habitat
patches), both with different ecological implications for community composition.
We examined how independent gradients of compositional and configurational
landscape heteroge... hiện toàn bộ
Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfallJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 49 Số 5 - Trang 1084-1093 - 2012
Carlos P. Carmona, Francisco M. Azcárate, Francesco de Bello, Helios Sáinz Ollero, Jan Lepš, Begoña Peco
Summary Changes in livestock grazing regimes are among the most important
drivers of species loss and decrease in functional diversity world‐wide.
However, taxonomic and functional diversities (TD and FD) can respond
differently to changes in grazing regime or productivity. We surveyed plant
communities from 67 sites under different grazing regimes (from heavy grazing to
grazing abandonment) in we... hiện toàn bộ
Patterns and determinants of mammal species occurrence in IndiaJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 46 Số 6 - Trang 1189-1200 - 2009
Krithi K. Karanth, James D. Nichols, James E. Hines, K. Ullas Karanth, Norman L. Christensen
Summary 1. Many Indian mammals face range contraction and extinction, but
assessments of their population status are hindered by the lack of reliable
distribution data and range maps. 2. We estimated the current geographical
ranges of 20 species of large mammals by applying occupancy models to data from
country‐wide expert. We modelled species in relation to ecological and social
covariates (prote... hiện toàn bộ
Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator‐dependent cropJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 52 Số 2 - Trang 323-330 - 2015
Rachel E. Mallinger, Claudio Gratton
Summary Native, wild bees are important pollinators for both crop and wild
plants. With concerns over the availability and cost of managed honeybees,
attention has turned to native, wild bees as crop pollinators. However, the
ability of native, wild bees to provide sufficient pollination may depend on
their populations at local scales. Therefore, at the farm scale, we examined the
pollination cont... hiện toàn bộ
Social and ecological drivers of success in agri‐environment schemes: the roles of farmers and environmental contextJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 52 Số 3 - Trang 696-705 - 2015
Morag McCracken, Ben A. Woodcock, Matt Lobley, Richard F. Pywell, Eirini Saratsi, Ruth D. Swetnam, Simon R. Mortimer, Stephanie J. Harris, Michael Winter, Shelley A. Hinsley, James M. Bullock
Summary Agri‐environment schemes remain a controversial approach to reversing
biodiversity losses, partly because the drivers of variation in outcomes are
poorly understood. In particular, there is a lack of studies that consider both
social and ecological factors. We analysed variation across 48 farms in the
quality and biodiversity outcomes of agri‐environmental habitats designed to
provide poll... hiện toàn bộ
Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination‐dependent cropJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 51 Số 4 - Trang 890-898 - 2014
Brett R. Blaauw, Rufus Isaacs
Summary Pollination services from wild insects contribute to crop productivity
around the world, but are at risk of decline in agricultural landscapes. Using
highbush blueberry as a model system, we tested whether wildflower plantings
established adjacent to crop fields would increase the abundance of wild
pollinators during crop bloom and enhance pollination and yield. Plantings were
seeded in 20... hiện toàn bộ
Sweat bees on hot chillies: provision of pollination services by native bees in traditional slash‐and‐burn agriculture in the Yucatán Peninsula of tropical MexicoJournal of Applied Ecology - Tập 54 Số 6 - Trang 1814-1824 - 2017
Patricia Landaverde‐González, José Javier G. Quezada‐Euán, Panagiotis Theodorou, Tomás E. Murray, Martin Husemann, Ricardo Ayala, Humberto Moo‐Valle, Rémy Vandame, Robert J. Paxton
Summary Traditional tropical agriculture often entails a form of slash‐and‐burn
land management that may adversely affect ecosystem services such as
pollination, which are required for successful crop yields. The Yucatán
Peninsula of Mexico has a >4000 year history of traditional slash‐and‐burn
agriculture, termed ‘milpa’. Hot ‘Habanero’ chilli is a major
pollinator‐dependent crop that nowadays is... hiện toàn bộ