Irreversible community difference between bacterioplankton generalists and specialists in response to lake dredging

Y Yang, W Zhang, W Liu, D He, W Wan - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding response of bacterioplankton community responsible for maintaining
ecological functions of aquatic ecosystems to environmental disturbance is an important …

Global change in marine coastal habitats impacts insect populations and communities

TM Rippel, J Tomasula, SM Murphy… - Current opinion in insect …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Coastal ecosystems are decreasing alarmingly yet provide valuable ecosystem
services.•Disturbance may directly impact the food web or be indirect via effects on …

Habitat edges alter arthropod community composition

GM Wimp, SM Murphy - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context Historically, habitat edges were thought to increase diversity by combining
communities from two habitats, but empirical results are mixed. Variation in edge responses …

Transformations from specialists to generalists cause bacterial communities are more stable than micro-eukaryotic communities under anthropogenic activity …

L Liu, S Wang, J Chen - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Different microbial components have different responses to environmental disturbances.
Here, we found that the planktonic bacterial and micro-eukaryotic communities had different …

Habitat selection in a recovering bobcat (Lynx rufus) population

LR Jones, SA Johnson, CM Hudson, PA Zollner… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Understanding habitat selection of top predators is critical to predict their impacts on
ecological communities and interactions with humans, particularly in recovering populations …

Simple machine learning with aerial imagery reveals severe loss of a salt marsh foundation species

TM Rippel, CD Minsavage-Davis, V Shirey… - Estuaries and …, 2023 - Springer
Salt marshes are globally important ecosystems, but many have been lost or transformed
due to the impacts of global change. There have been attempts to broadly quantify salt …

Putting prey into the picture: improvements to species distribution models for bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

S Bennington, W Rayment, S Dawson - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020 - int-res.com
Species distribution models (SDMs) often rely on abiotic variables as proxies for biotic
relationships. This means that important biotic relationships may be missed, creating …

Habitat edge effects decrease litter accumulation and increase litter decomposition in coastal salt marshes

TM Rippel, EQ Mooring, J Tomasula, GM Wimp - Landscape Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Context Habitat fragmentation is known to be one of the leading causes of species
extinctions, however few studies have explored how habitat fragmentation impacts …

Smaller and isolated grassland fragments are exposed to stronger seed and insect predation in habitat edges

K Kuli-Révész, D Korányi, T Lakatos, ÁR Szabó… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Habitat fragmentation threatens terrestrial arthropod biodiversity, and thereby also leads to
alterations of ecosystem functioning and stability. Predation on insects and seeds by …

Strands of connection: unraveling livestock grazing effects on orb-weaver spiders

G Oyarzabal, M Guimarães - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2024 - Springer
Studies on the effects of grazing disturbances in grasslands have shown mixed results for
spider diversity, mainly regarding their guilds. While ungrazing, low, and moderate grazing …