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Hyman, A. Challen, Thomas K. Frazer, Charles A. Jacoby, Jessica R. Frost, and Michał Kowalewski. "Long-term persistence of structured habitats: seagrass meadows as enduring hotspots of biodiversity and faunal stability." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1912 (2019): 20191861. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1861.

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Ecological studies indicate that structurally complex habitats support elevated biodiversity, stability and resilience. The long-term persistence of structured habitats and their importance in maintaining biodiverse hotspots remain underexplored. We combined geohistorical data (dead mollusc assemblages, ‘DA’) and contemporary surveys (live mollusc assemblages, ‘LA’) to assess the persistence of local seagrass habitats over multi-centennial timescales and to evaluate whether they acted as long-term drivers of biodiversity, stability and resilience of associated fauna. We sampled structured seag

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Hof, Christian, Martin Brändle, D. Matthias Dehling, et al. "Habitat stability affects dispersal and the ability to track climate change." Biology Letters 8, no. 4 (2012): 639–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0023.

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Habitat persistence should influence dispersal ability, selecting for stronger dispersal in habitats of lower temporal stability. As standing (lentic) freshwater habitats are on average less persistent over time than running (lotic) habitats, lentic species should show higher dispersal abilities than lotic species. Assuming that climate is an important determinant of species distributions, we hypothesize that lentic species should have distributions that are closer to equilibrium with current climate, and should more rapidly track climatic changes. We tested these hypotheses using datasets fro

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D'Aoust, Stéphane G., and Robert G. Millar. "Stability of Ballasted Woody Debris Habitat Structures." Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 126, no. 11 (2000): 810–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9429(2000)126:11(810).

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Ryu, Sunghoon, and Incheol Lee. "Mesocosm Assessment of Stability Habitat for Halophyte." Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 03, no. 06 (2015): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/gep.2015.36003.

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SCHEURING, ISTVÁN. "Habitat Diversity and Stability in a Metapopulation." Journal of Theoretical Biology 206, no. 2 (2000): 229–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.2000.2117.

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Figueira, J. E. C., R. Cintra, L. R. Viana, and C. Yamashita. "Spatial and temporal patterns of bird species diversity in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil: implications for conservation." Brazilian Journal of Biology 66, no. 2a (2006): 393–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1519-69842006000300003.

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Analysis of a three-year bird survey in the pantanal of Poconé revealed that most of the resident and seasonal birds are habitat generalists, using two or more habitats. In this study, previously sampled habitats were ranked in relation to species richness and stability (as measured by the ratio of seasonal to resident species). In all, nine habitats were grouped into three categories; results are as follows: 1) forests: more species-rich and more stable; 2) cerrado: intermediate levels; and 3) aquatic: less species-rich and less stable. The number of seasonal species remained relatively const

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Boraks, André, and Anthony S. Amend. "Fungi in soil and understory have coupled distribution patterns." PeerJ 9 (September 21, 2021): e11915. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11915.

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Ecological processes that control fungal distribution are not well understood because many fungi can persist in a wide variety of dissimilar habitats which are seldom sampled simultaneously. Geographic range size is reflective of species’ resource usage, and for plants and animals, there is a robust positive correlation between niche-breadth and range-size. It remains unknown whether this pattern is true for fungi. To investigate the fungal niche breadth–range size relationship we identified habitat specialists and generalists from two habitats (plant leaves and soil) and asked whether habitat

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Miljkovic, Danijela. "Developmental stability of Iris pumila flower traits: A common garden experiment." Archives of Biological Sciences 64, no. 1 (2012): 123–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/abs1201123m.

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I. pumila natural populations usually occur in two different habitat types: dune and forest. These I. pumila habitats differ in many abiotic environmental factors, but mostly in available light intensity and quality. The effects of different light intensity on the developmental stability of I. pumila floral traits were analyzed on clones taken from two different natural light habitat types that were raised in contrasting light treatments in experimental garden conditions (common garden experiment). As an indicator of developmental stability, we used two fluctuating asymmetry indices (FA1 and F

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Zhang, Hong-Xiang, Qian Wang, and Su-Wen Jia. "Genomic Phylogeography of Gymnocarpos przewalskii (Caryophyllaceae): Insights into Habitat Fragmentation in Arid Northwestern China." Diversity 12, no. 9 (2020): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d12090335.

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Extensive range of deserts and gobis (rocks) had promoted habitat fragmentation of species in arid northwestern China. Distribution of endangered Gymnocarpos przewalskii Maxim. covers most of gobis (rocks) and desert terrain across arid regions of northwestern China. In the present study, we had employed genomic phylogeographical analysis to investigate population structure of G. przewalskii and test the effect of environmental conditions on spatial pattern of genetic diversity. Results showed four groups were identified from east to west: Edge of the Alxa Desert, Hexi Corridor, Hami Basin, an

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Goddard, Alicia D., Russell D. Dawson, and Michael P. Gillingham. "Habitat selection by nesting and brood-rearing sharp-tailed grouse." Canadian Journal of Zoology 87, no. 4 (2009): 326–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z09-016.

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Breeding success is a critical component of population stability and is often influenced by the habitats used during the breeding season. Current hypotheses suggest that sharp-tailed grouse ( Tympanuchus phasianellus (L., 1758)) select nest and brood-rearing habitats that provide both lateral and overhead cover to avoid detection by predators. We examined the selection of nesting and brood-rearing habitats of sharp-tailed grouse at three spatial scales (landscape, patch, and site) in northeastern British Columbia using standard and conditional logistic regression models and an information–theo

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Cramer, Alli N., and Stephen L. Katz. "Primary production and habitat stability organize marine communities." Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, no. 1 (2020): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13192.

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Walker, Julie E., Christine Angelini, Ilgar Safak, Andrew H. Altieri, and Todd Z. Osborne. "Effects of Changing Vegetation Composition on Community Structure, Ecosystem Functioning, and Predator–Prey Interactions at the Saltmarsh-Mangrove Ecotone." Diversity 11, no. 11 (2019): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d11110208.

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Decreasing frequency of freeze events due to climate change is enabling the poleward range expansion of mangroves. As these tropical trees expand poleward, they are replacing herbaceous saltmarsh vegetation. Mangroves and saltmarsh vegetation are ecosystem engineers that are typically viewed as having similar ecosystem functions. However, few studies have investigated whether predation regimes, community structure, and ecosystem functions are shifting at the saltmarsh-mangrove ecotone. In this study, we manipulated predator access to marsh and mangrove creekside habitats to test their role in

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Kareiva, P. "Habitat fragmentation and the stability of predator–prey interactions." Nature 326, no. 6111 (1987): 388–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/326388a0.

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Pârvulescu, Lucian, Claudia Zaharia, Marius-Ioan Groza, Ovidiu Csillik, Alina Satmari, and Lucian Drăguţ. "Flash-flood potential: a proxy for crayfish habitat stability." Ecohydrology 9, no. 8 (2016): 1507–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1744.

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Lodge, D. M., and P. Kelly. "Habitat disturbance and the stability of freshwater gastropod populations." Oecologia 68, no. 1 (1985): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00379482.

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LeCraw, Robin M., Pavel Kratina, and Diane S. Srivastava. "Food web complexity and stability across habitat connectivity gradients." Oecologia 176, no. 4 (2014): 903–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3083-7.

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Park, Kidoo, Kil Lee, and Young-Oh Kim. "Use of Instream Structure Technique for Aquatic Habitat Formation in Ecological Stream Restoration." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (2018): 4032. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114032.

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Drought flow as the minimum flow rate required for restoration of the Mokgamcheon stream was calculated by the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) V.5.0. The adequacy of drought flow to guarantee the minimum ecological environment was assessed using suitable low-flows not exceeding the maximum pollution concentration of the ecosystem calculated by Design FLOWs (DFLOW) V.4.1. Fish flows, which provide proper ecological habitat for fish, were calculated using Physical HABitat SIMulation (PHABSIM) V.1.5.2 to provide proper ecological habitat for target fishes such as Carassius auratus and Zacco p

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Hilgartner, William B., and Grace S. Brush. "Prehistoric habitat stability and post-settlement habitat change in a Chesapeake Bay freshwater tidal wetland, USA." Holocene 16, no. 4 (2006): 479–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683606hl938rp.

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DEATH, R. G. "Spatial patterns in benthic invertebrate community structure: products of habitat stability or are they habitat specific?" Freshwater Biology 33, no. 3 (1995): 455–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.1995.tb00406.x.

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Richardson, Laura E., Nicholas A. J. Graham, and Andrew S. Hoey. "Coral species composition drives key ecosystem function on coral reefs." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1921 (2020): 20192214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2214.

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Rapid and unprecedented ecological change threatens the functioning and stability of ecosystems. On coral reefs, global climate change and local stressors are reducing and reorganizing habitat-forming corals and associated species, with largely unknown implications for critical ecosystem functions such as herbivory. Herbivory mediates coral–algal competition, thereby facilitating ecosystem recovery following disturbance such as coral bleaching events or large storms. However, relationships between coral species composition, the distribution of herbivorous fishes and the delivery of their funct

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Hickey, David R. "Shell shape plasticity in Late Pennsylvanian myalinids (Bivalvia)." Journal of Paleontology 61, no. 2 (1987): 290–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600002847x.

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Analyses of shell shape variation in epifaunal and semi-infaunal myalinids from the LaSalle “cyclothem” attest to the extensive shape plasticity of some Late Pennsylvanian myalinids. Mean shell shapes differ significantly within and among species across three nearshore facies. Discriminant analyses of Fourier biometric data categorized by taxonomic, populational (habitat), life-mode, and “multi-species habitat assemblage”” discriminant groups reveal patterns of shape change and variation across an inferred environmental stress gradient in addition to taxonomic and life-mode shape differences.

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Moir, Monika, Leigh R. Richards, Michael I. Cherry, and Ramugondo V. Rambau. "Demographic responses of forest-utilizing bats to past climate change in South Africa." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 130, no. 4 (2020): 850–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa048.

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Abstract Historical forest contractions may have restricted the distributions of forest-utilizing fauna while providing opportunities for range expansions for open-habitat species. We aimed to test if habitat associations have played an important role in determining population genetic structure and demographic responses of six bats to oscillations in forest extent since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We hypothesized that forest-associated species would display high levels of population structure and past population contractions as their distribution is dependent on fragmented forests. By cont

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YANO, Kenji, Katsutoshi KIMURA, Michifumi HAYASHI, Shinji KUWABARA, Katsunori SEINO, and Masaki ITO. "STABILITY OF RUBBLE MOUND HABITAT FOR ROCKY SHORE FISHERIES RESOURCES." PROCEEDINGS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING IN THE OCEAN 16 (2000): 505–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2208/prooe.16.505.

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Zhang, Feng, Yi Tao, and Cang Hui. "Organism-induced habitat restoration leads to bi-stability in metapopulations." Mathematical Biosciences 240, no. 2 (2012): 260–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2012.08.006.

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Ryu, Sung-Hoon, In-Cheol Lee, Kyung-Hoi Kim, and Han-Sam Yoon. "Assessment in Habitat Stability of Halophyte by using Mesocosm Experiment." Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment and safety 20, no. 6 (2014): 619–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2014.20.6.619.

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Rugiero, Lorenzo, Massimo Capula, Massimiliano Di Vittorio, Daniele Dendi, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli. "Ontogenetic Habitat Use and Density of the Green Lizard (Lacerta bilineata) in Contrasted Landscapes in France and Italy." Conservation 1, no. 1 (2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/conservation1010001.

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Habitat modification is a major factor in the decline of reptile populations. The degree of the decline has been shown to be directly related to the intensity of habitat modification. Farming practices and urbanization are just two of the factors involved indicating that the development of practices that minimize or cancel anthropogenic impacts is urgently needed to prevent further declines. This requires knowledge of population ecology of reptiles in both disturbed and pristine habitats. In this paper, we describe aspects of green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) population ecology in a forest–past

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Lafontaine, J. D., and D. M. Wood. "A ZOOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE NOCTUIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) OF BERINGIA, AND SOME INFERENCES ABOUT PAST BERINGIAN HABITATS." Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 120, S144 (1988): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/entm120144109-1.

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AbstractThe 245 species of Noctuidae known from Beringia, i.e. northwestern North America and northeastern Asia, are arranged in six groups based on their habitat preferences. These groups are analysed in terms of their distribution, endemism within Beringia, and zoogeographic affinities. The fauna associated with taiga, boreomontane forests and southern steppe (prairie) habitats shows only limited evidence of continuous occurrence in Beringia, and limited exchange during the Pleistocene between the Nearctic and Palaearctic. We have concluded therefore that this fauna has entered the Beringian

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Kumar, Dinesh, Jatin Gupta, and Soumyendu Raha. "Partitioning a reaction–diffusion ecological network for dynamic stability." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 475, no. 2223 (2019): 20180524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0524.

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The loss of dispersal connections between habitat patches may destabilize populations in a patched ecological network. This work studies the stability of populations when one or more communication links is removed. An example is finding the alignment of a highway through a patched forest containing a network of metapopulations in the patches. This problem is modelled as that of finding a stable cut of the graph induced by the metapopulations network, where nodes represent the habitat patches and the weighted edges model the dispersal between habitat patches. A reaction–diffusion system on the

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Lélias, Marie-Loup, Alban Lemasson, and Thierry Lodé. "Social organization of otters in relation to their ecology." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133, no. 1 (2021): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab016.

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Abstract Otter species are known to fluctuate intraspecifically from a solitary lifestyle to group-living arrangements. By examining what is known about habitat use and foraging style in otters of 13 different species, based on 93 studied sites, we assessed (1) the relationship between social habits and preferred habitats, (2) the relationship between species and prey preferences, and (3) the effect of predator avoidance on their social organization in order to assess the socio-ecological factors influencing otters. Females remain the core of their social stability. We show the major influence

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Spence, John R. "The habitat templet and life history strategies of pond skaters (Heteroptera: Gerridae): reproductive potential, phenology, and wing dimorphism." Canadian Journal of Zoology 67, no. 10 (1989): 2432–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z89-344.

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Reproductive traits, diapause, and wing dimorphism of four pond skater species occurring in central Alberta, Canada, are explained as adaptive responses to a complex of habitat features. Species using temporary habitats had greater fecundity, but habitat permanence alone was a poor predictor of reproductive longevity, preoviposition period, or reproductive rate. Fecundity and longevity were significantly lower and more variable in direct than in diapaused breeders. There was no geographical or annual variation in fecundity, suggesting that values observed are good measures of reproductive pote

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Greenwood, S. R. "Habitat Stability and Wing Length in Two Species of Arboreal Psocoptera." Oikos 52, no. 3 (1988): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3565195.

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Takenaka, Yasuto, Hiroyuki Matsuda, and Yoh Iwasa. "Competition and evolutionary stability of plants in a spatially structured habitat." Researches on Population Ecology 39, no. 1 (1997): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02765251.

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Beesley, L. S., and J. Prince. "Fish community structure in an intermittent river: the importance of environmental stability, landscape factors and within-pool habitat descriptors." Marine and Freshwater Research 61, no. 5 (2010): 605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf09137.

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In rivers worldwide, hydrological persistence and variability (i.e. environmental stability) typically parallel longitudinal changes in habitat. This interaction complicates determination of the hierarchy of mechanisms that structure fish communities along rivers. In this study, we examined fish species richness and presence–absence in pools of an intermittent river system containing underground water storages (Fortescue River, north-west Australia), a system that was predicted to uncouple this relationship. Stability, measured by pool persistence, was unrelated to a pool's maximum depth or it

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Kolada, Agnieszka, Ryszard Piotrowicz, Elżbieta Wilk-Woźniak, Piotr Dynowski, and Piotr Klimaszyk. "Conservation status of the Natura 2000 habitat 3110 in Poland: Monitoring, classification and trends." Limnological Review 17, no. 4 (2017): 215–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/limre-2017-0020.

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Abstract Soft water lakes, or so-called lobelia lakes, which are inhabited by a specific vegetation composed of isoetids, have been subjected to intense research aimed at evaluating their condition and conservation status for many years in Poland. At the time of Poland’s accession to the European Union and the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive, these lakes were classified as natural habitat 3110. In accordance with the provision of the Habitat Directive a comprehensive methodology for monitoring and classification of the state of this habitat has been developed. Using this methodolog

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Favaro, Brett, and Martin Olszynski. "Authorized net losses of fish habitat demonstrate need for improved habitat protection in Canada." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74, no. 3 (2017): 285–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0480.

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Fish habitat is essential to the stability and productivity of fisheries. In Canada, the primary legal tool for protecting fish habitat is the federal Fisheries Act. In 2012, this law was changed to narrow the scope of habitat protection. The government’s position was that the previous regime went beyond what was necessary to protect fish and fish habitat. Here, we tested that assertion by examining Fisheries Act authorizations to harmfully alter, disrupt, or destroy fish habitat issued by Fisheries and Oceans Canada during a 6-month period in 2012, obtained using access to information process

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Leihy, Rachel I., and Steven L. Chown. "Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1940 (2020): 20202121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2121.

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Terrestrial species on islands often show reduced dispersal abilities. For insects, the generality of explanations for island flight loss remains contentious. Although habitat stability is considered the most plausible explanation, others are frequently highlighted. Adopting a strong inference approach, we examined the hypotheses proposed to account for the prevalence of flightlessness in island insect assemblages, for a region long suspected to be globally unusual in this regard—the Southern Ocean Islands (SOIs). Combining comprehensive faunal inventories, species' morphological information,

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McIntosh, Angus R. "Habitat- and size-related variations in exotic trout impacts on native galaxiid fishes in New Zealand streams." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57, no. 10 (2000): 2140–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f00-188.

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The factors controlling the effects of introduced trout on native galaxiid fishes in New Zealand streams were investigated by quantitative and qualitative electrofishing. Habitat assessments indicated that bed stability was closely related to total fish biomass. Exotic trout were not present at the most unstable sites but inhabited most medium to large streams with stable beds. Galaxiids (Galaxias vulgaris, Galaxias brevipinnis, and Galaxias paucispondylus) occurred at sites that spanned almost the entire range of habitat conditions and co-occurred with trout more frequently at intermediate le

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Giberson, Donna J., and Daniel Caissie. "Stream habitat hydraulics: interannual variability in three reaches of Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55, no. 2 (1998): 485–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f97-247.

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The hydraulic habitat of 12 sites in a small salmon stream in central New Brunswick was investigated between 1992 and 1995 to determine patterns of habitat (substrate) stability between and within reaches. Stability was evaluated by measuring particle size distribution in replicated erosional and depositional sites in each reach and calculating the proportion of the bed predicted to be in motion at given flood flows. Erosional (riffle) sites in all reaches showed significant differences (ANOVA, p < 0.05) in substrate particle sizes from year to year, movement of embedded sediment samplers,

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Terui, Akira, Nobuo Ishiyama, Hirokazu Urabe, Satoru Ono, Jacques C. Finlay, and Futoshi Nakamura. "Metapopulation stability in branching river networks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 26 (2018): E5963—E5969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800060115.

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Intraspecific population diversity (specifically, spatial asynchrony of population dynamics) is an essential component of metapopulation stability and persistence in nature. In 2D systems, theory predicts that metapopulation stability should increase with ecosystem size (or habitat network size): Larger ecosystems will harbor more diverse subpopulations with more stable aggregate dynamics. However, current theories developed in simplified landscapes may be inadequate to predict emergent properties of branching ecosystems, an overlooked but widespread habitat geometry. Here, we combine theory a

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Regos, Adrián, and Jesús Domínguez. "The contribution of Earth observation technologies to the reporting obligations of the Habitats Directive and Natura 2000 network in a protected wetland." PeerJ 6 (March 21, 2018): e4540. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4540.

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Background Wetlands are highly productive systems that supply a host of ecosystem services and benefits. Nonetheless, wetlands have been drained and filled to provide sites for building houses and roads and for establishing farmland, with an estimated worldwide loss of 64–71% of wetland systems since 1900. In Europe, the Natura 2000 network is the cornerstone of current conservation strategies. Every six years, Member States must report on implementation of the European Habitats Directive. The present study aims to illustrate how Earth observation (EO) technologies can contribute to the report

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Herlambang, Alamsyah Elang Nusa, Mochamad Hadi, and Udi Tarwotjo. "Struktur Komunitas Capung di Kawasan Wisata Curug Lawe Benowo Ungaran Barat." Bioma : Berkala Ilmiah Biologi 18, no. 2 (2016): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/bioma.18.2.70-78.

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Dragonflies have an important role for the stability of the ecosystem that is as predator and prey at the same time. The availability of food resources and optimal environmental conditions affect the species richness of dragonflies in the habitats. Reasearch on dragonfly comunity structure aims to find out the differences of community structure in each habitat type in the region of Curug Lawe Benowo. The research was conductet in 4 different stations which focus on species of dragonfly, amount of an individual species, habitats, environmental conditions, and the corellation between the variabl

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Sorensen, A. A., G. B. Stenhouse, M. L. Bourbonnais, and T. A. Nelson. "Effects of habitat quality and anthropogenic disturbance on grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) home-range fidelity." Canadian Journal of Zoology 93, no. 11 (2015): 857–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2015-0095.

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In the Rocky Mountain eastern slopes of Alberta, Canada, grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis Ord, 1815) live in a landscape heavily impacted by industrial development and human disturbance. We characterized the role of changing habitat quality and new disturbance features on patterns of grizzly bear seasonal home-range fidelity and drift by comparing consecutive-year seasonal home ranges. We relied on the geographic technique “spatial–temporal analysis of moving polygons” (STAMP) to examine changes in habitat quality and new development between zones of home-range fidelity, expansion, and c

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Zamora-Camacho, Francisco Javier, and Mar Comas. "Greater reproductive investment, but shorter lifespan, in agrosystem than in natural-habitat toads." PeerJ 5 (September 12, 2017): e3791. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3791.

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Global amphibian decline is due to several factors: habitat loss, anthropization, pollution, emerging diseases, and global warming. Amphibians, with complex life cycles, are particularly susceptible to habitat alterations, and their survival may be impaired in anthropized habitats. Increased mortality is a well-known consequence of anthropization. Life-history theory predicts higher reproductive investment when mortality is increased. In this work, we compared age, body size, and different indicators of reproductive investment, as well as prey availability, in natterjack toads (Epidalea calami

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Spinova, Yuliia, Tetyana Kuchma, and Iryna Vyshenska. "Pinus sylvestris L. var. cretacea Kalen. In The ”Kreidova Flora” Branch of Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve: Current State and Conservation Measures." Environmental Research, Engineering and Management 75, no. 4 (2019): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.erem.75.4.23858.

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The "Kreidova Flora" (Cretaceous Flora) branch of Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve was created in 1988 to protect unique cretaceous vegetation, including pine forests on chalk. The Standing Committee of the Berne Convention in 2018 added these forests to the list of endangered habitats as “G3.4G Pinus sylvestris forest on chalk in the steppe zone“. For the last 40 years, the area covered with pine trees has doubled, but there are threats of invasive plants, periodical fires and other losses as a result of military actions since 2014. Satellite remote sensing data (Landsat archive) were used to

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Leach, Clinton B., Colleen T. Webb, and Paul C. Cross. "When environmentally persistent pathogens transform good habitat into ecological traps." Royal Society Open Science 3, no. 3 (2016): 160051. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160051.

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Habitat quality plays an important role in the dynamics and stability of wildlife metapopulations. However, the benefits of high-quality habitat may be modulated by the presence of an environmentally persistent pathogen. In some cases, the presence of environmental pathogen reservoirs on high-quality habitat may lead to the creation of ecological traps, wherein host individuals preferentially colonize high-quality habitat, but are then exposed to increased infection risk and disease-induced mortality. We explored this possibility through the development of a stochastic patch occupancy model, w

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Stillman, J. H., and G. N. Somero. "A comparative analysis of the evolutionary patterning and mechanistic bases of lactate dehydrogenase thermal stability in porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes." Journal of Experimental Biology 204, no. 4 (2001): 767–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.204.4.767.

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The kinetic properties of orthologous homologs (orthologs) of enzymes are typically correlated with environmental temperatures in species adapted to different thermal regimes, but correlations between adaptation temperature and enzyme thermal stability are less clear. Although the thermal stability of a protein is related chiefly to its primary structure (including post-translational modification), thermal stability can also be altered by extrinsic factors present in the intracellular milieu. Here, we present a comparative analysis of the thermal stability of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) orthol

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Lambert, C., M. Authier, M. Doray, G. Dorémus, J. Spitz, and V. Ridoux. "Decadal stability in top predator habitat preferences in the Bay of Biscay." Progress in Oceanography 166 (September 2018): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.03.007.

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Stendera, Sonja, and Richard K. Johnson. "Habitat-specific stability and persistence of benthic invertebrate communities in boreal lakes." Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie 171, no. 4 (2008): 311–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/1863-9135/2008/0171-0311.

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Himeidan, Yousif E., Guofa Zhou, Laith Yakob, et al. "Habitat stability and occurrences of malaria vector larvae in western Kenya highlands." Malaria Journal 8, no. 1 (2009): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-234.

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Death, Russell G., and Michael J. Winterbourn. "Diversity Patterns in Stream Benthic Invertebrate Communities: The Influence of Habitat Stability." Ecology 76, no. 5 (1995): 1446–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1938147.

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