Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures

A Ismaeel, APK Tai, EG Santos, H Maraia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Temperature is a fundamental driver of species distribution and ecosystem functioning. Yet,
our knowledge of the microclimatic conditions experienced by organisms inside tropical …

Assessing the Synergistic Effects of Land Use and Climate Change on Terrestrial Biodiversity: Are Generalists Always the Winners?

CP Sweeney, MA Jarzyna - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review There is increasing evidence that land use and land cover
(LULC) change interacts with climate change to shape biodiversity dynamics. The prevailing …

Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients

MA Kirk, FJ Rahel, DC Laughlin - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to identify drivers of historical freshwater fish community assembly by
testing for interactions between functional traits and two climatic gradients, namely elevation …

Bottom‐Up Evaluation of the Methane Budget in Asia and Its Subregions

A Ito, PK Patra, T Umezawa - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive methane (CH4) budget, including spatial and temporal patterns of sources
and sinks, is pivotal for effective climatic mitigation and prediction. This study used a bottom …

Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator

AEL Walker, MP Robertson, P Eggleton… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors that control decomposition is critical for predicting how the carbon
cycle will alter with global change. Until recently, the accepted paradigm was that climate …

Understanding global and regional patterns of termite diversity and regional functional traits

S Liu, S Xia, D Wu, JE Behm, Y Meng, H Yuan, P Wen… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Our understanding of broad-scale biodiversity and functional trait patterns is largely based
on plants, and relatively little information is available on soil arthropods. Here, we …

Differential effects of vegetation and climate on termite diversity and damage

D Wu, S Seibold, MDF Ellwood… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species diversity shapes ecosystem services. Despite the advantages that this relationship
has for pest management, few studies have investigated the links between infrastructure …

Termites are key drivers of short‐term deadwood decay in Neotropical Cerrado across vegetation types

AM D'Angioli, AE Zanne, R Constantino… - Austral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of deadwood in ecosystems is dependent on its longevity, as determined by
decay rates controlled by decay agents. Despite the importance of macroclimate, significant …

Habitat fragmentation drives pest termite risk in humid, but not arid, biomes

D Wu, C Liu, FS Caron, Y Luo, MR Pie, M Yu… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Predicting global change effects poses significant challenges due to the intricate interplay
between climate change and anthropogenic stressors in shaping ecological communities …

Utilization of community science data to explore habitat suitability of basal termite genera

A Goodman, J Allen, J Brim, A Codella… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The advent of community-science databases in conjunction with museum specimen locality
information has exponentially increased the power and accuracy of ecological niche …