Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by UP Author "Parr, Catherine Lucy"

Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by UP Author "Parr, Catherine Lucy"

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  • Agricultural expansion in African savannas : effects on diversity and composition of trees and mammals 
    Tripathi, Hemant G.; Woollen, Emily S.; Carvalho, Mariana; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Ryan, Casey M. (Springer, 2021-09)
    Land use change (LUC) is the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. However, the global understanding of LUC’s impact on biodiversity is mainly based on comparisons of land use endpoints (habitat vs non-habitat) ...
  • Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes 
    Nimmo, Dale G.; Avitabile, Sarah; Banks, Sam C.; Bliege Bird, Rebecca; Callister, Kate; Clarke, Michael F.; Dickman, Chris R.; Doherty, Tim S.; Driscoll, Don A.; Greenville, Aaron C.; Haslem, Angie; Kelly, Luke T.; Kenny, Sally A.; Lahoz-Monfort, Jose J.; Lee, Connie; Leonard, Steven; Moore, Harry; Newsome, Thomas M.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Ritchie, Euan G.; Schneider, Kathryn; Turner, James M.; Watson, Simon; Westbrooke, Martin; Wouters, Mike; White, Matthew; Bennett, Andrew F. (Wiley, 2019-06)
    Movement is a trait of fundamental importance in ecosystems subject to frequent disturbances, such as fire‐prone ecosystems. Despite this, the role of movement in facilitating responses to fire has received little attention. ...
  • Ant colony nest networks adapt to resource disruption 
    Burns, Dominic D.R.; Franks, Daniel W.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Robinson, Elva J.H. (Wiley, 2021-01)
    1. Animal social structure is shaped by environmental conditions, such as food availability. This is important as conditions are likely to change in the future and changes to social structure can have cascading ecological ...
  • Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti-Mara ecosystem 
    Probert, James R.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Holdo, Ricardo M.; Anderson, T. Michael; Archibald, Sally; Mustaphi, Colin J. Courtney; Dobson, Andrew P.; Donaldson, Jason E.; Hopcraft, Grant C.; Hempson, Gareth P.; Morrison, Thomas A.; Beale, Colin M. (Wiley, 2019-10)
    Fire is a key driver in savannah systems and widely used as a land management tool. Intensifying human land uses are leading to rapid changes in the fire regimes, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and composition. ...
  • The biogeography of Gabonese savannas: evidence from termite community richness and composition 
    Evouna Ondo, Fidele; Jeffery, Kathryn J.; Whytock, Robin; Abernethy, Katharine A.; Couteron, Pierre; Eggleton, Paul; Griffin, Claire; Ostle, Nicolas J.; Koumba Pambo, Aurelie-Flore; Ngomanda, Alfred; Ndong, Josue Edzang; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2023-09)
    AIM : The mosaic of savannas that persists in the forest-dominant Congo Basin is thought to be palaeoclimatic relics, but past biogeographical processes that have formed and maintained these systems are poorly understood. ...
  • Biome awareness disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration 
    Silveira, Fernando A.O.; Ordonez-Parra, Carlos A.; Moura, Livia C.; Schmidt, Isabel B.; Andersen, Alan N.; Bond, William J.; Buisson, Elise; Durigan, Giselda; Fidelis, Alessandra; Oliveira, Rafael S.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Rowland, Lucy; Veldman, Joseph W.; Pennington, R. Toby (Wiley, 2022-08)
    We introduce the concept of Biome Awareness Disparity (BAD)—defined as a failure to appreciate the significance of all biomes in conservation and restoration policy—and quantify disparities in (a) attention and interest, ...
  • Carbon flux and forest dynamics : increased deadwood decomposition in tropical rainforest tree-fall canopy gaps 
    Griffiths, Hannah M.; Eggleton, Paul; Hemming-Schroeder, Nicole; Swinfield, Tom; Woon, Joel S.; Allison, Steven D.; Coomes, David A.; Ashton, Louise A.; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2021-04)
    Tree mortality rates are increasing within tropical rainforests as a result of global environmental change. When trees die, gaps are created in forest canopies and carbon is transferred from the living to deadwood pools. ...
  • Clarifying terrestrial recycling pathways 
    Bishop, Tom R.; Griffiths, Hannah M.; Ashton, Louise A.; Eggleton, Paul; Woon, Joel S.; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Elsevier, 2021-01)
    Pausas and Bond argue that there are three major pathways by which the carbon and nutrients assimilated by plants are recycled through ecosystems: microbial decomposition, vertebrate herbivory, and wildfires. This framework ...
  • Comment on “the global tree restoration potential” 
    Veldman, Joseph W.; Aleman, Julie C.; Alvarado, Swanni T.; Anderson, T. Michael; Archibald, Sally; Bond, William J.; Boutton, Thomas W.; Buchmann, Nina; Buisson, Elise; Canadell, Josep G.; De Sa Dechoum, Michele; Diaz-Toribio, Milton H.; Durigan, Giselda; Ewel, John J.; Fernandes, G. Wilson; Fidelis, Alessandra; Fleischman, Forrest; Good, Stephen P.; Griffith, Daniel M.; Hermann, Julia-Maria; Hoffmann, William A.; Le Stradic, Soizig; Lehmann, Caroline E.R.; Mahy, Gregory; Nerlekar, Ashish N.; Nippert, Jesse B.; Noss, Reed F.; Osborne, Colin P.; Overbeck, Gerhard E.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Pausas, Juli G.; Pennington, R. Toby; Perring, Michael P.; Putz, Francis E.; Ratnam, Jayashree; Sankaran, Mahesh; Schmidt, Isabel B.; Schmitt, Christine B.; Silveira, Fernando A.O.; Staver, A. Carla; Stevens, Nicola; Still, Christopher J.; Stromberg, Caroline A.E.; Temperton, Vicky M.; Varner, J. Morgan; Zaloumis, Nicholas P. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-10-18)
    Bastin et al.’s estimate (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) that tree planting for climate change mitigation could sequester 205 gigatonnes of carbon is approximately five times too large. Their analysis inflated soil organic ...
  • Continent‐level drivers of African pyrodiversity 
    Hempson, Gareth P.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Archibald, Sally; Anderson, T. Michael; Mustaphi, Colin J. Courtney; Dobson, Andrew P.; Donaldson, Jason E.; Morrison, Thomas A.; Probert, James; Beale, Colin M. (Wiley, 2018-06)
    Pyrodiversity, which describes fire variability over space and time, is believed to increase habitat heterogeneity and thereby promote biodiversity. However, to date there is no standardised metric for quantifying ...
  • The costs and benefits of decentralization and centralization of ant colonies 
    Burns, Dominic D.R.; Pitchford, Jon W.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Franks, Daniel W.; Robinson, Elva J.H. (Oxford University Press, 2019-11)
    A challenge faced by individuals and groups of many species is determining how resources and activities should be spatially distributed: centralized or decentralized. This distribution problem is hard to understand due ...
  • Cross-boundary human impacts compromise the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem 
    Veldhuis, Michiel P.; Ritchie, Mark E.; Ogutu, Joseph O.; Morrison, Thomas A.; Beale, Colin M.; Estes, Anna B.; Mwakilema, William; Ojwang, Gordon O.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Probert, James; Wargute, Patrick W.; Hopcraft, J. Grant C.; Olff, Han (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019)
    Protected areas provide major benefits for humans in the form of ecosystem services, but landscape degradation by human activity at their edges may compromise their ecological functioning. Using multiple lines of evidence ...
  • DNA barcoding reveals incorrect labelling of insects sold as food in the UK 
    Siozios, Stefanos; Massa, Annie; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Verspoor, Rudi L.; Hurst, Gregory D.D. (PeerJ, 2020-02-11)
    BACKGROUND . Insects form an established part of the diet in many parts of the world and insect food products are emerging into the European and North American marketplaces. Consumer confidence in product is key in ...
  • Drought and fire determine juvenile and adult woody diversity and dominance in a semi-arid African savanna 
    Trotter, Felix D.; Lehmann, Caroline E.R.; Donaldson, Jason E.; Mangena, Happy E.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Archibald, Sally (Wiley, 2022-07)
    The aim of this study was to understand how communities of adult and juvenile (seedlings and saplings) woody plants were impacted by fire and the 2014–2016 El Niño drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa. We used a ...
  • Ecological strategies of (pl)ants : towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants 
    Gibb, Heloise; Bishop, Tom R.; Leahy, Lily; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Lessard, Jean-Philippe; Sanders, Nathan J.; Shik, Jonathan Z.; Ibarra-Isassi, Javier; Narendra, Ajay; Dunn, Robert; Wright, Ian J. (Wiley, 2023-01)
    Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from decades of work that largely focussed on ...
  • The effect of fire on ant assemblages does not depend on habitat openness but does select for large, gracile predators 
    Bishop, Tom R.; Tomlinson, Andy; Mcneice, Travers; Spfenthourakis, Spyros; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Ecological Society of America, 2021-06)
    Ecosystems can respond in a variety of ways to the same agent of disturbance. In some contexts, fire causes large and long-lasting changes to ecological communities. In others, fire has a limited or short-lived impact ...
  • Effects of fire frequency on savanna butterfly diversity and composition : a preliminary study 
    Gaget, Elie; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Sirami, Clelia (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-09)
    Fire plays a major role in many biomes, is widely used as a management tool and is likely to be affected by climate change. For effective conservation management, it is essential to understand how fire regimes affect ...
  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene 
    Kelly, Luke T.; Giljohann, Katherine M.; Duane, Andrea; Aquilue, Nuria; Archibald, Sally; Batllori, Enric; Bennett, Andrew F.; Buckland, Stephen T.; Canelles, Quim; Clarke, Michael F.; Fortin, Marie-Josee; Hermoso, Virgilio; Herrando, Sergi; Keane, Robert E.; Lake, Frank K.; McCarthy, Michael A.; Moran-Ordonez, Alejandra; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Pausas, Juli G.; Penman, Trent D.; Regos, Adrian; Rumpff, Libby; Santos, Julianna L.; Smith, Annabel L.; Syphard, Alexandra D.; Tingley, Morgan W.; Brotons, Lluis (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-11)
    BACKGROUND : Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants, animals, and ecosystems depend on ...
  • Fire ecology for the 21st century : conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire 
    Nimmo, Dale G.; Andersen, Alan N.; Archibald, Sally; Boer, Matthias M.; Brotons, Lluis; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Tingley, Morgan W. (Wiley, 2022-03)
    No abstract available.
  • The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages 
    Pansu, Johan; Hutchinson, Matthew C.; Anderson, T. Michael; Te Beest, Mariska; Begg, Colleen M.; Begg, Keith S.; Bonin, Aurelie; Chama, Lackson; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Coissac, Eric; Cromsigt, Joris P.G.M.; Demmel, Margaret Y.; Donaldson, Jason E.; Guyton, Jennifer A.; Hansen, Christina B.; Imakando, Christopher I.; Iqbal, Azwad; Kalima, Davis F.; Kerley, Graham I. H.; Kurukura, Samson; Landman, Marietjie; Long, Ryan A.; Munuo, Isaack Norbert; Nutter, Ciara M.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Potter, Arjun B.; Siachoono, Stanford; Taberlet, Pierre; Waiti, Eusebio; Kartzinel, Tyler R.; Pringle, Robert M. (National Academy of Sciences, 2022-08-22)
    Ecological niche differences are necessary for stable species coexistence but are often difficult to discern. Models of dietary niche differentiation in large mammalian herbivores invoke the quality, quantity, and ...