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Dynamics of post fire plant community assembly in Doñana coastal dunes
Chozas, Sergio; Mira, André F.; Serrano, Manuel; Medina, Nagore G.; Hortal, Joaquín; Díaz-Barradas, María CruzFire significantly contributes to the distribution, composition, and functioning of ecosystems. It is also among the most damaging disturbances, exacerbated by increasing fire intensity and extent due to climate change. However, some ecosystems, like Mediterranean scrublands, recover quickly due to species’ adaptations to frequent fire regimes. This study investigates the community assembly processes during a s...
eBryoSoil: a citizen science application to monitor changes in soil ecosystems
Mira, André F.; Hortal, Joaquín; Portela, Ana Paula; Albertos, Belén; Estébanez, Belén; Branquinho, Cristina; Vieira, Cristiana; Hespanhol, HelenaBiological soil covers (BSCs) play a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning by enhancing soil stability, mediating nutrient cycling, and influencing soil hydrology. Recognized as ecosystem engineers, they can physically modify, maintain, or create habitats, facilitating plant community development. Through these intricate interactions, BSCs contribute significantly to ecological processes, highlighting their imp...
Current and historical factors drive variation of reproductive traits in unisex...
Boquete, María Teresa; Varela, Zulema; Fernández, José Angel; Calleja, Juan Antonio; Branquinho, Cristina; Chilà, Antonina; Cronberg, NilsUnisexual bryophytes provide excellent models to study the mechanisms that regulate the frequency of sexual versus asexual reproduction in plants, and their ecological and evolutionary implications. Here, we determined sex expression, phenotypic sex ratio, and individual shoot traits in 242 populations of the cosmopolitan moss Pseudoscleropodium purum spanning its whole distributional range. We tested whether n...
Current climate, but also long‐term climate changes and human impacts, determin...
Santos, Ana M. C.; Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Barbosa, Ana Márcia; Bini, L. Mauricio; Diniz‐Filho, J. Alexandre F.; Faleiro, Frederico V.AIM: Historical climate variations, current climate and human impacts are known to influence current species richness, but their effects on phylogenetic and trait diversity have been seldom studied. We investigated the relationship of these three factors with the independent variations of species, phylogenetic and trait diversity of European mammals. Considering the position of the 0 ⁰C isotherm in the Last Gla...
Current climate, but also long‐term climate changes and human impacts, determin...
Santos, Ana M.C.; Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Barbosa, Ana Márcia; Bini, Luis Mauricio; Diniz‐Filho, José Alexandre F.; Faleiro, Frederico V.Aim: Historical climate variations, current climate and human impacts are known to influence current species richness, but their effects on phylogenetic and trait diversity have been seldom studied. We investigated the relationship of these three factors with the independent variations of species, phylogenetic and trait diversity of European mammals. Considering the position of the 0 ºC isotherm in the Last Gla...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...