Emergent encoding of dispersal network topologies in spatial metapopulation models

G Nicoletti, P Padmanabha, S Azaele… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We address a generalization of the concept of metapopulation capacity for trees and
networks acting as the template for ecological interactions. The original measure had been …

Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities

P Padmanabha, G Nicoletti, D Bernardi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact of
landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. However, extensions to multiple …

Heterogeneous dispersal networks to improve biodiversity science

P Savary, JP Lessard, PR Peres-Neto - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - cell.com
Dispersal has a key role in shaping spatial patterns of biodiversity, yet its spatial
heterogeneity is often overlooked in biodiversity analyses and management strategies …

Habitat restoration and the recovery of metacommunities

KA Gawecka, J Bascompte - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem restoration is becoming a widely recognised solution to the biodiversity crisis.
However, there is still a gap between restoration science and practice. Specifically, we lack …

Rapid evaluation of habitat connectivity change to safeguard multispecies persistence in human-transformed landscapes

J Oehri, SLR Wood, E Touratier, B Leung… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Following the adoption of the Post-2020 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(KM-GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) there is a clear science-policy …

The evolutionary age-range size relationship is modulated by insularity and dispersal in plants and animals

A Alzate, R Rozzi, JA Velasco, DR Robertson, A Zizka… - Biorxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Earth is home to millions of plant and animal species, with more than 40 thousand species
facing extinction worldwide (Diaz et al. 2019). Species' range size is particularly important in …

Integrating learning into animal range dynamics under rapid human‐induced environmental change

J Aben, JMJ Travis, H Van Dyck… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) is creating environments deviating
considerably from natural habitats in which species evolved. Concurrently, climate warming …

[HTML][HTML] Metapopulation networks unlock the effects of landscape fragmentation on agricultural pests and natural predators

Z Wen, Y Fu, H Zheng, Z Ouyang - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
In agricultural landscapes, patches containing diverse species can serve as nodes, and
species diffusion among these patches can serve as edges, forming metapopulation …

The influence of fragmented landscapes on speciation

JRM Ciccheto, AC Carnaval… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the face of unprecedented global transformations, unravelling the intricate mechanisms
governing biodiversity patterns is imperative for predicting and interpreting species …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic research of interaction behaviors of intergroup percolation and permeation

Y Yuan, C Li, Y Yang, XB Chen - Physics Letters A, 2024 - Elsevier
Percolation and permeation phenomena typically occur in porous media. However, they can
also occur in the interactions of natural, biological, and social groups and are one of the key …