The Taxonomic Significance of Species That Have Only Been Observed Once: The Genus Gymnodinium (Dinoflagellata) as an Example

AE Thessen, DJ Patterson, SA Murray - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Taxonomists have been tasked with cataloguing and quantifying the Earth's biodiversity.
Their progress is measured in code-compliant species descriptions that include text, images …

Not by the light of the moon: investigating circadian rhythms and environmental predictors of calling in Bornean great argus

DJ Clink, T Groves, AH Ahmad, H Klinck - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Great argus pheasants are known for their elaborate visual mating displays, but relatively
little is known about their general ecology. The use of passive acoustic monitoring—which …

Benign effects of logging on aerial insectivorous bats in Southeast Asia revealed by remote sensing technologies

N Yoh, DJI Seaman, NJ Deere… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Logging is the most widespread disturbance in tropical forests, altering ecological
communities and functions. However, many species can persist in logged forests …

Differential response of bird functional traits to post-fire salvage logging in a boreal forest ecosystem

ET Azeria, J Ibarzabal, C Hébert, J Boucher, L Imbeau… - Acta Oecologica, 2011 - Elsevier
The concept of functional trait-environment relationship posits that species in a local
community should possess similar traits that match the selective environment. The present …

Disentangling habitat use by frugivorous birds: constant interactive effects of forest cover and fruit availability

D Martínez, D García - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
Frugivorous animals contribute to forest regeneration, but the provision of this ecosystem
service is spatially filtered by the environmental factors limiting frugivore habitat use …

Habitat structure and body size distributions: Cross‐ecosystem comparison for taxa with determinate and indeterminate growth

KL Nash, CR Allen, C Barichievy, M Nyström… - Oikos, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat structure across multiple spatial and temporal scales has been proposed as a key
driver of body size distributions for associated communities. Thus, understanding the …

Shifts in community structure of tropical trees and avian frugivores in forests recovering from past logging

N Velho, J Ratnam, U Srinivasan, M Sankaran - Biological Conservation, 2012 - Elsevier
Logging is one of the most pervasive threats to biodiversity in tropical forests. In this study,
we concurrently examined the responses of the avian frugivore community and the …

How do diversity and functional nestedness of bird communities respond to changes in the landscape caused by eucalyptus plantations?

LI Jacoboski, VJ Debastiani, A de Mendonça-Lima… - Community …, 2016 - Springer
Studies of functional diversity can help to understand processes that determine the presence
of species in different habitats. Measurement of functional diversity in silviculture areas is …

Environmental associations of sponges in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

DFR Cleary, NJ De Voogd - … of the Marine Biological Association of …, 2007 - cambridge.org
Relatively little is known about spatial turnover of marine benthic taxa in the diverse reef
environments of Indonesia and how this is structured by environmental conditions. In the …

Variable shifts in bird and bat assemblages as a result of reduced‐impact logging revealed after 10 years

AE Harris, G Maharaj, M Hallett… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Selective logging is the most widespread driver of land‐use change in biodiverse and
carbon‐rich tropical forests. However, the effects of selective logging on biodiversity are less …