Scaling biodiversity responses to hydrological regimes

RJ Rolls, J Heino, DS Ryder, BC Chessman… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Of all ecosystems, freshwaters support the most dynamic and highly concentrated
biodiversity on Earth. These attributes of freshwater biodiversity along with increasing …

Review of effects of dam construction on the ecosystems of river estuary and nearby marine areas

X Zhang, C Fang, Y Wang, X Lou, Y Su, D Huang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dams have made great contributions to human society, facilitating flood control, power
generation, shipping, agriculture, and industry. However, the construction of dams greatly …

Season‐modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation

DF Ferreira, R Rocha, A López‐Baucells… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and
abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can …

Flood pulse dynamics affects exploitation of both aquatic and terrestrial prey by Amazonian floodplain settlements

W Endo, CA Peres, T Haugaasen - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Rural populations in the tropics frequently rely on game vertebrates and fish to supply their
daily protein requirements. However, few studies have quantified the environmental and …

Review on environmental alterations propagating from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems

R Schulz, M Bundschuh, R Gergs, CA Brühl… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Terrestrial inputs into freshwater ecosystems are a classical field of environmental science.
Resource fluxes (subsidy) from aquatic to terrestrial systems have been less studied …

Combining ALOS/PALSAR derived vegetation structure and inundation patterns to characterize major vegetation types in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development …

J Ferreira-Ferreira, TSF Silva, AS Streher… - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2015 - Springer
Remote sensing studies of vegetation cover and hydrologic dynamics in Amazonian
wetlands have been mostly limited temporally or spatially, and the distribution and spatial …

Patterns in the use of rainforest vertical space by Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats: all the action is up in the canopy

JT Marques, MJ Ramos Pereira, JM Palmeirim - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In tropical rainforests environmental conditions vary dramatically from the ground to the
canopy, resulting in a marked stratification in the way vertical space is used by organisms …

The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests: an assessment using autonomous recorders

L Torrent, A López‐Baucells, R Rocha… - Remote Sensing in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies predict a future decrease in precipitation across the tropics, particularly the
Amazon, likely causing significant droughts that have negative consequences for …

Optimizing sampling design to deal with mist-net avoidance in Amazonian birds and bats

JT Marques, MJ Ramos Pereira, TA Marques… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Mist netting is a widely used technique to sample bird and bat assemblages. However,
captures often decline with time because animals learn and avoid the locations of nets. This …

[HTML][HTML] Microhabitat requirements and occupancy of understorey bird forest specialists in Southern Mistbelt Forests of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

N Bitani, CP Cordier, DAE Smith, YCE Smith… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monitoring species' habitat selection and microhabitat requirements is vital for conservation
and management, though studies on bird species' habitat selection at relatively fine scales …