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Pulse seedling recruitment on the population dynamics of a columnar cactus: Effect of an extreme rainfall event
Gabriel Arroyo-Cosultchi | Jordan Golubov | María C. Mandujano
Demographic studies on the Cactaceae have highlighted several threats which are clearly human induced (e.g., disturbance) or intrinsic to their biology (e.g., infrequent recruitment). Most demographic...
Tarin Toledo-Aceves | Mariana Hernández-Apolinar
Epiphytes are a major component of tropical montane cloud forests. Over-exploitation and forest loss and degradation affect remnant populations. In this study, we analysed the population dynamics of...
Leshan Du | Beifen Yang | Wenbin Guan | Junmin Li
The morphological and anatomical characteristics of stems have been found to be related to drought resistance in plants. Testing the phenotypic selection of water availability on stem anatomical traits...
Predicting impacts of climate change on habitat connectivity of Kalopanax septemlobus in South Korea
Wanmo Kang | Emily S. Minor | Dowon Lee | Chan-Ryul Park
Understanding the drivers of habitat distribution patterns and assessing habitat connectivity are crucial for conservation in the face of climate change. In this study, we examined a sparsely distributed...
Effects of seed traits variation on seedling performance of the invasive weed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.
William Ortmans | Grégory Mahy | Arnaud Monty
Seedling performance can determine the survival of a juvenile plant and impact adult plant performance. Understanding the factors that may impact seedling performance is thus critical, especially for...
Christos Mammides | Constantinos Kounnamas | Eben Goodale | Costas Kadis
Unpaved, low traffic roads are often assumed to have minimal effects on biodiversity. To explore this assertion, we sampled the bird communities in fifteen randomly selected sites in Pafos Forest, Cyprus...
Ángeles Limón | Begoña Peco
Due to the high content of viable seeds, topsoil is usually spread on ground left bare during railway and motorway construction to facilitate the regeneration of vegetation cover. However, during handling...
Ana Aguilar-Chama | Roger Guevara
Concurrent interactions and the availability of resources (e.g., light) affect the cost/benefit balance during mutualistic and antagonistic interactions, as well as plant resource allocation patterns....
Available online 12 January 2016
Karen D. McCoy | Muriel Dietrich | Audrey Jaeger | David A. Wilkinson | Matthieu Bastien | Erwan Lagadec | Thierry Boulinier | Hervé Pascalis | Pablo Tortosa | Matthieu Le Corre | Koussay Dellagi | Camille Lebarbenchon
The role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens has received much attention over the past several years due to their high vagility. Seabirds are particularly interesting...
Available online 8 January 2016
C. Quétel | S. Marinesque | D. Ringler | L. Fillinger | T. Changeux | C. Marteau | M. Troussellier
TAAF ensures since 2007 the management of 5 small tropical islands lying in the southwestern Indian Ocean: the Iles Eparses. These islands share an exceptional natural heritage including many marine...
Laíse da Silveira Pontes | Danièle Magda | Benoît Gleizes | Cyril Agreil
Reconciling the well known benefits of shrubs for forage with environmental goals, whilst preventing their dominance, is a major challenge in rangeland management. Browsing may be an economical solution...
Javier Bueno-Enciso | Esperanza S. Ferrer | Rafael Barrientos | Eva Serrano-Davies | Juan José Sanz
In patchy forest areas, the size of the forest patch where birds breed has a strong influence on their breeding success. However, the proximate effects contributing to lowering the breeding success...
Romina C. Torres | Daniel Renison
In seasonally dry forests direct facilitation by woody species due to amelioration of harsh abiotic conditions could be important during germination and early establishment of tree seedlings, and under...
Effects of high density on spacing behaviour and reproduction in Akodon azarae: A fencing experiment
Belén Ávila | Florencia Bonatto | José Priotto | Andrea R. Steinmann
We studied the short term spacing behavioural responses of Pampean grassland mouse (Akodon azarae) with regard to population density in four 0.25 ha enclosures (two control and two experimental) in...
Nuri Nurlaila Setiawan | Margot Vanhellemont | An De Schrijver | Stephanie Schelfhout | Lander Baeten | Kris Verheyen
Litter decomposition is an essential process for biogeochemical cycling and for the formation of new soil organic matter. Mixing litter from different tree species has been reported to increase litter...
Verónica Gomes | Miguel A. Carretero | Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou
Understanding if morphological differences between organisms that occupy different environments are associated to differences in functional performance can suggest a functional link between environmental...
Bamboo thickets alter the demographic structure of Euterpe edulis population: A keystone, threatened palm species of the Atlantic forest
Débora Cristina Rother | Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues | Marco Aurélio Pizo
The rapid spread of bamboos can strongly affect forest structure by interfering plant regeneration and reducing local biodiversity. Considering that bamboos exert a negative influence on the plant community,...
Antonio J. Carpio | Jose Oteros | Francisco S. Tortosa | José Guerrero-Casado
The intensification of agriculture has significant environmental consequences. This intensification entails the simplification and homogenisation of the landscape, which leads to strong negative impacts...
Lianjie Wu | Anzhi Ren | Yuanfang Jing | Yong Zhou | Xinyu Wang | Junhua Qin | Yubao Gao
Leaf endophytes such as Epichloë can affect the competitive ability of host grasses, but the reported responses are inconsistent. We hypothesized that this inconsistency is caused, at least in part,...
Fungal-mediated mortality explains the different effects of dung leachates on the germination response of grazing increaser and decreaser species
Carlos P. Carmona | Elena Navarro | Begoña Peco
Depending on their response to grazing, grassland species can be categorized as grazing increasers or decreasers. Grazing by livestock includes several different activities that can impact species differently....
Evelyne M. Elst | Kamal P. Acharya | Pervaiz A. Dar | Zafar A. Reshi | Jarle Tufto | Ivan Nijs | Bente J. Graae
Invasive exotic plants often grow fast, reproduce rapidly and display considerable phenotypic plasticity in their invasive range, which may be essential characteristics for successful invasion. However,...
Nitin Sekar | Xingli Giam | Netra Prasad Sharma | Raman Sukumar
Elephants are thought to be effective seed dispersers, but research on whether elephant dung effectively protects seeds from seed predation is lacking. Quantifying rates of seed predation from elephant...
Influence of fine-scale habitat structure on nest-site occupancy, laying date and clutch size in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus
Seyed Mehdi Amininasab | Oscar Vedder | Elske Schut | Berber de Jong | Michael J.L. Magrath | Peter Korsten | Jan Komdeur
Most birds have specific habitat requirements for breeding. The vegetation structure surrounding nest-sites is an important component of habitat quality, and can have large effects on avian breeding...
Individual trees in open vegetation such as woodlands can act as “nuclei” for the colonization of forest tree species, which consequently lead to the formation of forest patches. This phenomenon is...
Krishna Prasad Pokharel | Ilse Storch
Species co-exist in their individual niches by partitioning resources. The main prey of the big predators – wild boar, chital, and sambar are sympatric in tropical south-Asia. In order to obtain a better...
Alvaro Fuentealba | Éric Bauce
Woody plants regularly sustain biomass losses to herbivorous insects. Consequently, they have developed various resistance mechanisms to cope with insect attack. However, these mechanisms of defense...
Simone Fattorini | François Rigal | Pedro Cardoso | Paulo A.V. Borges
We examine whether Species Abundance Distribution models (SADs) and diversity indices can describe how species colonization status influences species community assembly on oceanic islands. Our hypothesis...
Low habitat overlap at landscape scale between wild camelids and feral donkeys in the Chilean desert
Juan E. Malo | Benito A. González | Cristina Mata | André Vielma | Denise S. Donoso | Nicolás Fuentes | Cristián F. Estades
Feral domestic ungulates may compete with the populations of wild herbivores with which they coexist, particularly so in arid regions. The potential competition between wild camelids and feral donkeys...
Available online 17 December 2015
P. Chabanet | L. Bigot | J.-B. Nicet | P. Durville | L. Massé | T. Mulochau | C. Russo | E. Tessier | D. Obura
Monitoring of coral reefs has become a major tool for understanding how they are changing, and for managing them in a context of increasing degradation of coastal ecosystems. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring...
Monitoring austral and cyclonic swells in the “Iles Eparses” (Mozambique channel) from microseismic noise
Available online 11 November 2015
Guilhem Barruol | Céline Davy | Fabrice R. Fontaine | V. Schlindwein | K. Sigloch
We deployed five broadband three-components seismic stations in the Iles Eparses in the south-west Indian Ocean and on Mayotte Island, between April 2011 and January 2014. These small and remote oceanic...
Available online 10 November 2015
Loriane Mendez | Cédric Cotté | Aurélien Prudor | Henri Weimerskirch
Seabirds are considered to be good indicators of the marine environment. However, little is known about the effects of environmental variability on the foraging behaviour of tropical seabirds. Red-footed...
Modern sediments and Pleistocene reefs from isolated carbonate platforms (Iles Eparses, SW Indian Ocean): A preliminary study
Available online 10 November 2015
Stéphan J. Jorry | Gilbert F. Camoin | Gwénaël Jouet | Pascal Le Roy | Claude Vella | Simon Courgeon | Sophie Prat | Christophe Fontanier | Victorien Paumard | Julien Boulle | Bruno Caline | Jean Borgomano
Isolated carbonate platforms occur throughout the geologic record, from Archean to present. Although the respective roles of tectonics, sediment supply and sea-level changes in the stratigraphical architecture...
Plankton communities in the five Iles Eparses (Western Indian Ocean) considered to be pristine ecosystems
Available online 10 November 2015
M. Bouvy | P. Got | I. Domaizon | M. Pagano | C. Leboulanger | C. Bouvier | C. Carré | C. Roques | C. Dupuy
Coral reef environments are generally recognized as being the most threatened of marine ecosystems. However, it is extremely difficult to distinguish the effects of climate change from other forcing...
Jordan J. Sikkema | Jennifer N. Boyd
Invasive plant species and overabundant herbivore populations have the potential to significantly impact rare plant species given their increased risk for local extirpation and extinction. We used interacting...
Stanislava Koprdova | Solène Bellanger | Jiří Skuhrovec | Henri Darmency
Many kinds of pests can reduce seed production. Some directly attack seeds before they are released, and some are hosted by the fruit and impact seed ripening and viability indirectly. Pre-dispersal...
Daniela Rodríguez | Ricardo A. Ojeda
Assemblage patterns could be primarily generated by two types of drivers: exogenous (such as environmental and climatic factors) and endogenous (interactions such as competition, predation, mutualism...
Melanie von Gagern | Martin von Gagern | Angela Schmitz Ornés
Null model analyses are a common technique used to detect co-occurrence patterns in presence-absence matrices of species. One method which aims to identify interesting pairs of species has been introduced...
Federico Morelli | Leszek Jerzak | Fabio Pruscini | Riccardo Santolini | Yanina Benedetti | Piotr Tryjanowski
The construction of roads is currently well spread in many parts of our world and impacts strongly on wildlife distribution. Some bird species avoid, while other prefer to be in the vicinity of these...
Jay F. Anderson | Hema S.N. Duddu | Steven J. Shirtliffe | Dilshan Benaragama | Lena D. Syrovy | Katherine A. Stanley | Teketel A. Haile
Silene latifolia Poir. (white cockle or white campion) is an important invasive weed in North American agriculture. It exhibits dioecy, therefore, both male and female plants are required in order for...
M. Thomann | E. Imbert | P.-O. Cheptou
Growing human footprint on the environment rapidly modifies the living conditions of natural populations. This could lead to phenotypic changes through both plasticity and evolution. Therefore, distinguishing...
Do parasitoids explain differential abundance of two syntopic orb-weaver spiders (Araneae: Araneidae)?
Marcelo O. Gonzaga | João C.F. Cardoso | João Vasconcellos-Neto
In this study, we examined the relative abundance of two congeneric species of orb-weaver spiders, Cyclosa fililineata and Cyclosa morretes, in an area of Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil, and...
Size-related change in Nitraria sphaerocarpa patches shifts the shrub-annual interaction in an arid desert, northwestern China
Gefei Zhang | Qiyue Yang | Xiaofen Wang | Wenzhi Zhao
In arid and semi-arid ecosystems, the effect of shrubs on their understory plants has been frequently reported. Many previous studies have shown that both facilitation and competition act simultaneously,...
Synchronous flowering despite differences in snowmelt timing among habitats of Empetrum hermaphroditum
Miriam J. Bienau | Michael Kröncke | Wolf L. Eiserhardt | Annette Otte | Bente J. Graae | Dagmar Hagen | Ann Milbau | Walter Durka | R.Lutz Eckstein
The topography within arctic-alpine landscapes is very heterogeneous, resulting in diverse snow distribution patterns, with different snowmelt timing in spring. This may influence the phenological development...
Non-native grass invasion associated with increases in insect diversity in temperate forest understory
Judith L. Metcalf | Sarah M. Emery
Invasive plants can alter the structure and function of plant communities to such a degree that they can also have significant impacts on the insect communities. Because insects play an important role...
Distribution of functional traits in subtropical trees across environmental and forest use gradients
Cecilia Blundo | Lucio R. Malizia | Mario González-Espinosa
The relationship between functional traits and environmental factors contribute to understanding community structure and predicting which species will be able to elude environmental filters in different...
Cecilia Guerra | Ezequiel Aráoz
As a group amphibians are the vertebrates most affected by anthropic activity, particularly by agriculture. The rapid advance of the agricultural frontier makes it important to identify the role of...
Mario R. Moura | Marianna Dixo | Renato N. Feio
Effective management of semi-aquatic animals requires detailed information on upland habitat use around aquatic habitats. Quantifying the amount of habitats needed to sustain local animals’ populations...
Thomas Tixier | Juliette M.G. Bloor | Jean-Pierre Lumaret
In grazed ecosystems, coprophagous beetles are known to play an important role in nutrient cycling, but interactions between species identity and dung beetle abundance on soil processes remain unclear....