Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Macroecology"

Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Macroecology"

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  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research 
    Guerra, Carlos A.; Heintz-Buschart, Anna; Sikorski, Johannes; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Guerrero-Ramirez, Nathaly; Cesarz, Simone; Beaumelle, Lea; Rillig, Matthias C.; Maestre, Fernando T.; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Buscot, Francois; Overmann, Jorg; Patoine, Guillaume; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Winter, Marten; Wubet, Tesfaye; Kusel, Kirsten; Bardgett, Richard D.; Cameron, Erin K.; Cowan, Don A.; Grebenc, Tine; Marin, Cesar; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Singh, Brajesh K.; Wall, Diana H.; Eisenhauer, Nico (Nature Publising Group, 2020-08-03)
    Soils harbor a substantial fraction of the world’s biodiversity, contributing to many crucial ecosystem functions. It is thus essential to identify general macroecological patterns related to the distribution and functioning ...
  • Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates : a cross-taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis 
    Esmaeili, Saeideh; Jesmer, Brett R.; Albeke, Shannon E.; Aikens, Ellen O.; Schoenecker, Kathryn A.; King, Sarah R.B.; Abrahms, Briana; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Beck, Jeffrey L.; Boone, Randall B.; Cagnacci, Francesca; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Chimeddorj, Buyanaa; Cross, Paul C.; Dejid, Nandintsetseg; Enkhbyar, Jagdag; Fischhoff, Ilya R.; Ford, Adam T.; Jenks, Kate; Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza; Hennig, Jacob D.; Ito, Takehiko Y.; Kaczensky, Petra; Kauffman, Matthew J.; Linnell, John D.C.; Lkhagvasuren, Badamjav; McEvoy, John F.; Melzheimer, Joerg; Merkle, Jerod A.; Mueller, Thomas; Muntifering, Jeff; Mysterud, Atle; Olson, Kirk A.; Panzacchi, Manuela; Payne, John C.; Pedrotti, Luca; Rauset, Geir R.; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Sawyer, Hall; Scasta, John D.; Signer, Johannes; Songer, Melissa; Stabach, Jared A.; Stapleton, Seth; Strand, Olav; Sundaresan, Siva R.; Usukhjargal, Dorj; Uuganbayar, Ganbold; Fryxell, John M.; Goheen, Jacob R. (Wiley, 2021-10)
    The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) states that energy intake for ungulates is maximised when forage biomass is at intermediate levels. Nevertheless, metabolic allometry and different digestive systems suggest that ...
  • Darker ants dominate the canopy : testing macroecological hypotheses for patterns in colour along a microclimatic gradient 
    Law, Stephanie J.; Bishop, Tom R.; Eggleton, Paul; Griffiths, Hannah; Ashton, Louise; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2020-02)
    Gradients in cuticle lightness of ectotherms have been demonstrated across latitudes and elevations. Three key hypotheses have been used to explain these macroecological patterns: the thermal melanism hypothesis (TMH), the ...
  • The functional biogeography of African acacias (Vachellia and Senegalia) at adult and seedling life stages 
    Milne, Laura (University of Pretoria, 2022)
    Savannas constitute the largest biome on the African continent. Savanna systems are characterised by the coexistence of C4 grasses in the understorey and trees or shrubs in the overstorey. This balance is maintained by ...
  • Geographical variation in ant foraging activity and resource use is driven by climate and net primary productivity 
    Lasmar, Chaim J.; Bishop, Tom R.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Queiroz, Antonio C.M.; Schmidt, Fernando A.; Ribas, Carla R. (Wiley, 2021-06)
    AIM : Foraging activity is critical for animal survival. Comprehending how ecological drivers influence foraging behaviour would benefit our understanding of the link between animals and ecological processes. Here, we ...
  • Macroecology meets invasion ecology : linking the native distributions of Australian acacias to invasiveness 
    Hui, Cang; Richardson, D.M. (David Mark), 1958-; Robertson, Mark P.; Wilson, John R.U.; Yates, Colin J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09)
    AIM : Species' native ranges reflect the net outcome of interactions between life-history strategies and biotic and abiotic influences over evolutionary timescales. Differences in native ranges might be indicative both of ...
  • Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index 
    Buschke, Falko T.; Hagan, James G.; Santini, Luca; Coetzee, Bernard Walter Thomas (Nature Publising Group, 2021-08)
    The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a standardized indicator for tracking population trends through time. Due to its ability to aggregate many time series in a single metric, the LPI has been proposed as an indicator for the ...
  • The relative importance of environment, human activity and space in explaining species richness of South African bird orders 
    Wilson, John W.; Janse Van Rensburg, Berndt; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus; Keith, Mark (Blackwell, 2008)
    AIM: To assess the relative importance of environmental (climate, habitat heterogeneity and topography), human (population density, economic prosperity and land transformation) and spatial (autocorrelation) influences, and ...
  • Taxonomic and functional ecology of montane ants 
    Bishop, Tom R. (International Biogeography Society, 2017)
    Why is biological diversity distributed in the way that it is? This question has been central to ecology and biogeography for centuries and is of great importance for pure and applied reasons. I use a functional trait ...
  • Using computer vision to understand the global biogeography of ant color 
    Idec, Jacob H.; Bishop, Tom R.; Fisher, Brian L. (Wiley, 2023-03)
    Organisms use color to serve a variety of biological functions, including camouflage, mate attraction and thermoregulation. The potential adaptive role of color is often investigated by examining patterns of variation ...