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Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of the Birds of Western Africa and Priorities for Survey and Inventory
(2018-04-12)Primary biodiversity data are widely used to model ecological niches and geographic distributions of species, assess the status of global biodiversity, and inform conservation decisions. However, these data are often ... -
Appendix for: Major challenges for correlational ecological niche model projections to future climate conditions
(2018-01-01)Appendix for: Species-level forecasts of distributional potential and likely distributional shifts in the face of changing climates have become popular in the literature in the past 20 years. Many refinements have been ... -
Mammals [of Monteverde]—2000–2017
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Evolution of Sex Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Animals: A Beautiful Theory, Undermined by Facts and Bedeviled by Details
(Oxford University Press, 2017-08-22)Many animals with genetic sex determination harbor heteromorphic sex chromosomes, where the heterogametic sex has half the gene dose of the homogametic sex. This imbalance, if reflected in the abundance of transcripts or ... -
Ecology of Floristic Quality Assessment: testing for correlations between coefficients of conservatism, species traits and mycorrhizal responsiveness
(Oxford University Press, 2017-12-21)Many plant species are limited to habitats relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance, so protecting these undisturbed habitats is essential for plant conservation. Coefficients of conservatism (C values) were ... -
Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change
(Nature Publishing Group, 2010-07-22)Environmental change has altered the phenology, morphological traits and population dynamics of many species1,2. However, the links underlying these joint responses remain largely unknown due to a paucity of long-term data ... -
Mites (Acari: Laelapidae) parasitic on the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus
(1972)Three species of parasitic mites of the family Laelapidae were found to be present in significant numbers on the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus. Two hundred and two individuals were identified from 15 host animals. ... -
PROGRAM CODE FOR: Inventory Statistics Meet Big Data: Complications for Estimating Numbers of Species
(2018-01-01)Software code for developing and interpreting simulations regarding inventory completeness. -
Climate change influences on the potential geographic distribution of the disease vector tick Ixodes ricinus
(PLOS One, 2017-12-05)BACKGROUND Ixodes ricinus is a species of hard tick that transmits several important diseases in Europe and North Africa, including Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis. Climate change is affecting the geographic ... -
Sobre la relación entre idoneidad del hábitat y la abundancia poblacionalbajo diferentes escenarios de dispersión
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2016-04-07)Trabajos recientes basados en modelación del nicho para estimar la distribución de las especies han aportado evidencias de que la abundancia de una especie decrece conforme aumenta la distancia al centroide del nicho ... -
Impacts of Niche Breadth and Dispersal Ability on Macroevolutionary Patterns
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05-31)We describe a spatially explicit simulation experiment designed to assess relative impacts of macroecological traits on patterns of biological diversification under changing environmental conditions. Using a simulation ... -
A new genus and species of maimetshid wasps in Lebanese Early Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Maimetshidae)
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-26)An interesting new maimetshid wasp is described and figured from the Early Cretaceous of Lebanon. Zorophratra corynetes Engel, new genus and species, differs in several important features from all other Maimetshidae and ... -
Zika Virus, Elevation, and Transmission Risk
(Public Library of Science, 2016-05-09)Introduction: Zika virus has appeared in the Americas in the form of a major outbreak, and is now known to cause birth defects when pregnant women are infected. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... -
Two new genera of Cretaceous dustywings in amber from northern Myanmar (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae)
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-01)Two new genera and species are added to the fauna of dustywings (Coniopterygidae) preserved in Upper Cretaceous (earliest Cenomanian) amber of northern Myanmar, doubling the described diversity from this deposit. One genus ... -
A new species of the booklouse genus Embidopsocus in Baltic amber (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae)
(University of Kansas, 2016-04-18)The first representative of the booklouse genus Embidopsocus Hagen (Nanopsocetae: Liposcelididae) is documented from the blaue Erde of northern Europe. Embidopsocus pankowskiorum Engel, new species, is similar to the ... -
Temperature-mediated changes in microbial carbon use efficiency and 13C discrimination
(European Geosciences Union, 2016-06-07)Understanding how carbon dioxide (CO2) flux from ecosystems feeds back to climate warming depends in part on our ability to quantify the efficiency with which microorganisms convert organic carbon (C) into either biomass ... -
Phylogenetically Structured Differences in rRNA Gene Sequence Variation among Species of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Implications for Sequence Clustering
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016-07-29)Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form mutualisms with plant roots that increase plant growth and shape plant communities. Each AM fungal cell contains a large amount of genetic diversity, but it is unclear if this diversity ... -
Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis
(BioMed Central, 2016-06-10)Background: Local adaptation, the differential success of genotypes in their native versus foreign environment, arises from various evolutionary processes, but the importance of concurrent abiotic and biotic factors as ...
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