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27 February 2015
There may be no more prevalent icon of climate change in the Arctic than the polar bear. The story is simple: a warming climate is causing reductions in the volume, extent and seasonal duration of Arctic sea ice. Polar bears use the sea ice surface for hunting seals,...
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27 February 2015
Invasive populations within the invaded range are often regarded as a homogeneous group in the studies of invasive plants. However, since invasive plants can evolve very rapidly and there may be lots of differences between old and young invasive populations, the...
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13 February 2015
Ecosystem-shaping interactions between consumers and plants are notoriously variable. Indeed, even within a single system (and a single pair of interacting species) enormous variability can be seen -- the same consumer might increase plant biomass at one place and time...
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13 February 2015
Understanding the distribution of species over space and time is an important aspect of ecological research and has great value for wildlife and land management. How animals choose foraging sites is typically influenced by a variety of environmental conditions...
The editor’s choice papers are for February are two meta-analyses: Bracken and colleagues studied signatures of nutrient limitation in primary producers ; Jauni et al. how non-native plant species benefit from disturbance . Matthew Bracken and colleagues collected data...
Understanding how changes in the climate affect biological communities is essential in predicting the future size and composition of populations. However, accurate predictions pose a difficult challenge for researchers. For the majority of animal species it is not...
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4 February 2015
This is our first collaboration study between a population geneticist, Hideki Innan, and a field-based tropical ecologist, me, Yayoi Takeuchi. I have been long wondering why Hubbell’s neutral model fitted so well to tropical forest communities because my impression of...
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3 February 2015
The introduction of a new species to an ecological community can initiate a chain of events that results in a significant change to the community’s composition. For instance, the introduction of a pollinator species can facilitate the colonization of new plants that...
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30 January 2015
Despite the increasing use of Species Distribution Models (SDM) for predicting current or future animal distribution, only a few studies have linked the gradient of habitat suitability to demographic parameters. Species Distribution Models are a niche modelling...
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30 January 2015
Everyone who likes to spend some time in nature, or who has trees at home, knows that several animals love to feed on fruits. Figs, tomatoes, peppers, guavas, mangos, bananas, and many other delicacies are harvested by frugivores that range from tiny bats to huge...
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