In this article we present an interrupted teaching case that introduces students to problems associated with invasive species and the challenges of ecosystem-level management. We challenge students to assume the role of a lake manager that is faced with the introduction of a non-native plant about...
Despite increasing attention for relationships between species richness and ecosystem services, for tropical forests such relationships are still under discussion. Contradicting relationships have been reported concerning carbon stock, while little is known about relationships concerning timber stock and the abun...
The remote sensing discipline has largely evolved over the last decades, currently allowing monitoring of and assessing key components of ecosystem functioning (that is, the biogeochemical flow of energy and matter within ecosystems) (Lovett and others2006; Jax2010; Van den Broeke and others2011; La...
The present study adopted a threshold approach in a manufactured GRav band (see Section 2.2.1), which categorised around 14% of image pixels as shadow. This thresholding approach likely overestimated the shadow’s extent on overcast days (e.g., 3 August 2021; Figure 9b) compared to sunny ...
(57.8%). These findings suggest a substantial underestimation of threats and associated extinction risk for tree species in current assessments. We also map hotspots of tree species exposed to rapidly changing threats around the world. Our data-driven approach can strengthen the efforts going into ...
Tripathi A, Shukla JK, Gehlot A, Mishra DK (2016) Condensed node proliferation technique (CNPT): a better low-cost macro-propagation approach through min-cuttings of Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari an endangered plant of Indian Thar Desert. Adv For Sci 3(4):65–69 Google Scholar Tuan...
‘modern analog’ concept assuming that modern and past species’ ecological requirements are comparable. In the indicator-species approach sensu stricto, the amount of pollen found is not critical; rather, the presence of pollen grains from an indicator type is the basis for interpretation. However...
Our simulation results indicate that multiple ecosystem services could be restored with an average of 66% of the species of the original community. Moreover, an average of 59% of the species would be needed to restore communities resilient to environmental changes. Our approach contributes to ...
Reconstructing the Mexican tropical dry forests via an autoecological niche approach: reconsidering the ecosystem boundaries PLoS One, 11 (2016), Article e0150932, 10.1371/journal.pone.0150932 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Prieto-Torres et al., 2016 D.A. Prieto-Torres, A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza, D...
The ecological importance of common species for many ecosystem processes and functions is unquestionably due to their high abundance. Yet, the importance of rare species is much less understood. Here we take a theoretical approach, exposing dynamical models of ecological networks to small perturbations...