The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things

A Spiridonov, N Eldredge - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
The process of evolution and the structures it produces are best understood in the light of
hierarchy theory. The biota traditionally is described by either the genealogical Linnaean …

Both local stability and dispersal contribute to metacommunity sensitivity to asynchronous habitat availability

P Moisset de Espanés, R Ramos-Jiliberto - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The stability of isolated communities depends on the complexity of their foodwebs. However,
it remains unclear how local stability interacts with dispersal in multitrophic …

Intermittent migration can induce pulses of speciation in a two-island system

D Princepe, S Czarnobai, RA Caetano… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Geographic barriers can come and go depending on natural conditions. These fluctuations
cause population cycles of expansion and contraction, introducing intermittent migrations …

[HTML][HTML] Constructing a Bayesian belief network to provide insights into the dynamic drivers of ecosystem service relationships

T Li, Z Qiao, L Ma, Y Ren, Y Luo, Z Ai, Y Yang - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation restoration has induced complex spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem service
(ES) relationships. However, dynamic analysis on the driving mechanisms underlying ES …

[HTML][HTML] Both local stability and dispersal contribute to metacommunity sensitivity to asynchronous habitat availability

PM de Espanes, R Ramos-Jiliberto - Scientific Reports, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The stability of isolated communities depends on the complexity of their foodwebs. However,
it remains unclear how local stability interacts with dispersal in multitrophic …

Non-deterministic reef fish community assembly in an upwelling-influenced transitional subprovince of the southwestern Atlantic

EAA Carnaúba, LMJ Gomes, GS Garcia… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There are two major theories for setting up ecological communities, the Niche Theory and
the Neutral Theory. Both seek to explain the main factors that form a community, which is a …

Dynamics of ecosystem services along ecological network seascapes

PR Guimarães Jr, CJ Melián - Journal of Physics: Complexity, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Human societies depend on services provided by ecosystems, from local needs such as
clean water and pest control to global services like the ozone layer and the ocean biological …

Habitat connectivity of threatened ungulate species in a native savanna landscape of northern South America

F Mosquera-Guerra, S Barreto, N Moreno-Niño… - Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
The native savanna ecosystem of the Orinoquia region is the habitat of 50% of the wild
ungulate species reported for Colombia. Over the last 20 years, this high species diversity …

A multi-species corridor between the Andean Amazonian and Amazon floodplain landscapes: prioritizing ecological connectivity areas for jaguar and threatened …

F Mosquera-Guerra, S Barreto, JD Palencia-Rivera… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The spatial heterogeneity and variability of environmental conditions in the Colombian
Amazon, located in north-eastern South America, are key factors explaining the high …

Habitat connectivity of three threatened ungulate species in the high plains native savanna of northern South America

FM Guerra, S Barreto, N Moreno-Niño… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
The high plains native savanna landscape (HPNSL) northeast of the Orinoco River is the
habitat of 50% of the wild ungulate species (WUS) reported for Colombia. Over the last 20 …