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Ecology
Arianne F. Messerman, Adam G. Clause, Shantel V. L. Catania, H. Bradley Shaffer, Christopher A. Searcy
Summary: Our study focused on the interactions between imperilled amphibians and macrocrustaceans in California wetlands, revealing how they coexist under different habitat conditions. Natural playa pools offer abundant food resources for these imperilled species compared to human-modified stock ponds.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Limnology
Kelley A. Fritz, Matt R. Whiles
Summary: Research has found that terrestrial insect inputs are the second largest subsidy for temporary ponds, but are often unaccounted for in similar studies. While larger ponds produce greater total fluxes to terrestrial habitats, smaller ponds are often more productive per unit area.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
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Biology
Lewis A. Jones, Christopher D. Dean, Philip D. Mannion, Alexander Farnsworth, Peter A. Allison
Summary: The latitudinal biodiversity gradient is a pervasive pattern of the modern biosphere, but it is influenced by geological and anthropogenic biases. Spatial sampling heterogeneity impacts the detectability of genuine gradients, with sampling-standardization aiding in the reconstruction of relative gradients but unable to address artefactual absences introduced by biases.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Regina Lopes da Cunha, Jordi Sala, Margarida Machado, Dani Boix, Celine Madeira, Pedro Madeira, Margarida Cristo, Luis Cancela da Fonseca, Rita Castilho
Summary: The study investigated the genetic structure and distribution patterns of two fairy shrimp species, revealing deeply divergent clades in T. stagnalis and shallower divergences in B. cortesi. Both species showed evidence of frequent local and rare long-distance dispersal events, with limited intermediate dispersal, more common in B. cortesi. The contrasting phylogeographic patterns may be explained by evolutionary and ecological processes operating at different time scales.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Keita Nishizawa, Naoto Shinohara, Marc W. Cadotte, Akira S. Mori
Summary: Beta-diversity generally decreases with increasing latitude. Geographic variables mainly explain the variations in plant community composition at low and high latitudes, while environmental variables correlate most strongly with variation in species composition at mid-latitudes.
Article
Limnology
Patrick Grillas, Laila Rhazi, Gaetan Lefebvre, Mohammed El Madihi, Brigitte Poulin
Summary: The study found that climate change is impacting the hydrology and plant community of temporary ponds in Morocco, with projected shorter hydroperiods leading to a decrease in species richness. The severity of change was not determined by the location of the ponds along a latitudinal gradient, but rather by the interaction between the size of their catchment area and the thickness of the permeable soil layer.
Article
Ecology
Chaz Hyseni, Jani Heino, Luis Mauricio Bini, Ulf Bjelke, Frank Johansson
Summary: The study investigated invertebrate metacommunities in urban ponds in Stockholm, Sweden, and found that functional connectivity was the most important factor influencing community differentiation. Combined blue-green functional connectivity had a significant impact on structuring urban pond communities, and increased functional connectivity was associated with an increase in species richness.
BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Lu Jin, Jia-Jia Liu, Qiao-Ming Li, Lu-Xiang Lin, Xiao-Na Shao, Tian-Wen Xiao, Bu-Hang Li, Xiang-Cheng Mi, Hai-Bao Ren, Yan Zhu, Xiu-Juan Qiao, Ju-Yu Lian, Xu-Gao Wang, Hu Du, Guang-Ze Jin, Jens-Christian Svenning, Gang Hao, Xue-Jun Ge
Summary: Our study demonstrates for the first time that the seed dispersal mode strongly influences the latitudinal phylogenetic patterns of woody angiosperm assemblages in China, highlighting the importance of the interaction between dispersal limitation and environmental filtering in determining the large-scale distribution of forest biodiversity.
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
David G. G. Cook, Leyna R. R. Stemle, David L. L. Stokes, Arianne F. F. Messerman, Julian A. A. Meisler, Christopher A. A. Searcy
Summary: Habitat creation is a common strategy for recovering populations threatened by altered habitat, but man-made habitats may not always support the re-establishment of target species. In this study, we found that constructed vernal pools can be valuable breeding habitats for the endangered California tiger salamanders. We concluded that constructed pools can be important tools in the recovery of imperiled pool-breeding amphibians if proper design elements for the target species are considered.
JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dunja Lukic, Tom Pinceel, Federico Marrone, Monika Mioduchowska, Csaba F. Vad, Luc Brendonck, Robert Ptacnik, Zsofia Horvath
Summary: Pleistocene glaciations had a significant impact on the biota in the Palaearctic, leading to phylogeographic signals of range contraction and rapid postglacial recolonization. The study on fairy shrimps revealed distinct refugia for the two species, with genetic divergence consistent with late Pleistocene glacial cycles. Most dispersal events occurred within 100 km, but there were also several long-distance dispersal events (> 1000 km).
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Takumi Saito, Takahiro Hirano, Bin Ye, Larisa Prozorova, Mohammad Shariar Shovon, Tu Van Do, Kazuki Kimura, Purevdorj Surenkhorloo, Yuichi Kameda, Yuta Morii, Hiroshi Fukuda, Satoshi Chiba
Summary: In order to clarify the effect of niche conservatism on the evolutionary history of freshwater snails, a phylogenetic analysis was conducted on lymnaeid individuals from eleven Radix species. Ancestral geographic reconstruction indicated that the genus originated around the Indian subcontinental region, with shorter latitudinal immigration distances compared to longitudinal distances. Ecological niche modeling suggested that climate, particularly annual mean temperature and precipitation of the driest month, greatly influenced the current distribution of freshwater snails.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Pedro A. C. L. Pequeno, Elizabeth Franklin, Roy A. Norton
Summary: Geographic isolation and environmental gradients in soil composition can drive intraspecific phenotypic divergence in soil invertebrates, leading to local-scale animal diversification. The study found that soil clay and water contents, as well as moisture levels, may play a role in shaping the phenotypes of these organisms.
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Roberta Cozer Bacca, Mateus Marques Pires, Leonardo Felipe Bairos Moreira, Cristina Stenert, Leonardo Maltchik
Summary: The metacommunity organisation of aquatic insects in temporary ponds in southern Brazil is influenced by environmental factors (habitat structure; water chemistry; climate) and spatial factors, with differences observed between strong-flying and weak-flying insect subsets. Climate and fine-scale spatial factors play a significant role in structuring the composition of strong-flying insects, while weak-flying insects are more affected by local water chemistry and spatially structured climate.
Article
Statistics & Probability
Akinori Fuji, Buntarou Kusumoto, Takayuki Shiono, Yasuhiro Kubota, Werner Ulrich, John B. Dickie, Si-Chong Chen
Summary: Seed dormancy is associated with seed mass and dispersal mode, and these associations can help us understand trait-based community assembly and plant biogeography. The geographic patterns of dormancy/non-dormancy strategies are shaped by climate factors and indicate the filtering/sorting processes related to seed traits.
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Ian J. Anderson, Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Ecology
Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Jamie M. Kneitel, Nestor Samiylenko, Luis Rosas-Saenz, Alyssa Nerida
Letter
Plant Sciences
Russell C. Croel, Jamie M. Kneitel
Letter
Plant Sciences
Russell C. Croel, Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Russell C. Croel, Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Entomology
D. A. Yee, D. Allgood, J. M. Kneitel, K. A. Kuehn
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Ecology
Maarten Van den Broeck, Laila Rhazi, Aline Waterkeyn, Mohammed El Madihi, Patrick Grillas, Jamie M. Kneitel, Luc Brendonck
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Hiroshi R. Shin, Jamie M. Kneitel
Article
Ecology
Nicholas F. de Camargo, Guilherme G. Reis, Anna Carla L. Camargo, Gabriela B. Nardoto, Jamie M. Kneitel, Emerson M. Vieira
Summary: The trophic niche width of arboreal rats is influenced by temporal variation of food resources, between-individual differences in food-resource rank preferences, and competition. During the wet season, the rats have a wider isotopic niche due to individual specialization, while in the dry season, individual niche widths contract. The population trophic niche width expands via individual specialization in response to ecological opportunity and increased competition in the warm-wet season.
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Randall Robert Kido, Jamie M. Kneitel
Summary: Environmental productivity and biodiversity are interconnected, with biodiversity often peaking at intermediate levels of productivity. Nutrient enrichment can lead to eutrophication, impacting invertebrates in habitats like California vernal pools. This study showed changes in mesocosm turbidity, chlorophyll-a, and phosphorus levels due to nutrient addition, with increases in small crustacean abundance but no effects on taxonomic richness. Further research is needed on long-term nutrient inputs and their interactions with human activities.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jasmine Rios, Melanie Dibbell, Emely Flores, Jamie M. M. Kneitel
Summary: Plant community assembly is influenced by environmental factors such as hydro-regime, nutrient levels, and thatch accumulation. This study evaluated the responses of algae and plant functional groups to variation in hydro-regime, nutrient addition, and thatch. The results showed that unstable hydroperiods and nutrient addition increased algal cover, while aquatic plant cover was negatively associated with algae and positively associated with terrestrial plant cover. Stable hydro-regime promoted aquatic plant growth, while thatch accumulation promoted terrestrial plant growth. These findings are crucial for wetland conservation and management.