| Titre : | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35 - 2004 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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S. D. Hopper, Auteur ;
P. Gioia, Auteur
Like South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, the Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is species rich, with a Mediterranean climate and old, weathered, nutrient-deficient landscapes. This region has 7380 native vascular plants (sp[...]
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S. D. Cote, Auteur ;
T. P. Rooney, Auteur ;
J. P. Tremblay, Auteur ;
C. Dussault, Auteur ;
D. M. Waller, Auteur
Deer have expanded their range and increased dramatically in abundance worldwide in recent decades. They inflict major economic losses in forestry, agriculture, and transportation and contribute to the transmission of several animal and human di[...]
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The diversity of woodland herbs is one of the most striking features of deciduous forests in the temperate zone. Here I review the literature on the ecology of woodland herbs. The review is timely because, since Paulette Bierzychudek's seminal r[...]
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G. J. Niemi, Auteur ;
M. E. McDonald, Auteur
Ecological indicators have widespread appeal to scientists, environmental managers, and the general public. Indicators have long been used to detect changes in nature, but the scientific maturation in indicator development primarily has occurred[...]
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C. Folke, Auteur ;
S. Carpenter, Auteur ;
B. Walker, Auteur ;
M. Scheffer, Auteur ;
T. Elmqvist, Auteur ;
L. Gunderson, Auteur ;
C. S. Holling, Auteur
We review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic environments in relation to resilience of complex adaptive ecosystems and the functional roles of biological diversity in this context. The evidence reveals that the likelihood o[...]
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J. Podos, Auteur ;
S. K. Huber, Auteur ;
B. Taft, Auteur
Bird song provides an unusually impressive illustration of vertebrate behavioral diversification. Research on bird song evolution traditionally focuses on factors that enhance song diversity, such as cultural transmission and sexual selection. R[...]
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M. E. Katz, Auteur ;
Z. V. Finkel, Auteur ;
D. Grzebyk, Auteur ;
A. H. Knoll, Auteur ;
P. G. Falkowski, Auteur
The evolutionary succession of marine photoautotrophs began with the origin of photosynthesis in the Archean Eon, perhaps as early as 3.8 billion years ago. Since that time, Earth's atmosphere, continents, and oceans have undergone substantial c[...]
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K. D. Lafferty, Auteur ;
J. W. Porter, Auteur ;
S. E. Ford, Auteur
Many factors (climate warming, pollution, harvesting, introduced species) can contribute to disease outbreaks in marine life. Concomitant increases in each of these makes it difficult to attribute recent changes in disease occurrence or severity[...]
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L. Ries, Auteur ;
R. J. Fletcher, Auteur ;
J. Battin, Auteur ;
T. D. Sisk, Auteur
Edge effects have been studied for decades because they are a key component to understanding how landscape structure influences habitat quality. However, making sense of the diverse patterns and extensive variability reported in the literature h[...]
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Vertebrate dispersal of fruits and seeds is a common feature of many modem angiosperms and gymnosperms, yet the evolution and frequency of this feature in the fossil record remain unclear. Increasingly complex information suggests that (a) plant[...]
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A. Liebhold, Auteur ;
W. D. Koenig, Auteur ;
O. N. Bjornstad, Auteur
Spatial synchrony refers to coincident changes in the abundance or other time-varying characteristics of geographically disjunct populations. This phenomenon has been documented in the dynamics of species representing a variety of taxa and ecolo[...]
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R. D. Davic, Auteur ;
H. H. Welsh, Auteur
Salamanders are cryptic and, though largely unrecognized as such, extremely abundant vertebrates in a variety of primarily forest and grassland environments, where they regulate food webs and contribute to ecosystem resilience-resistance ( = sta[...]
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S. Y. Strauss, Auteur ;
R. E. Irwin, Auteur
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are broadly interested in how the interactions among organisms influence their abundance, distribution, phenotypes, and genotypic composition. Recently, we have seen a growing appreciation of how multispeci[...]
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C. B. Fenster, Auteur ;
W. S. Armbruster, Auteur ;
P. Wilson, Auteur ;
M. R. Dudash, Auteur ;
J. D. Thomson, Auteur
Floral evolution has often been associated with differences in pollination syndromes. Recently, this conceptual structure has been criticized on the grounds that flowers attract a broader spectrum of visitors than one might expect based on their[...]
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This review focuses on five key evolutionary issues pertaining to animal cognition, defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use of information. Whereas the use of information, or decision making, has been[...]
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N. S. Sodhi, Auteur ;
L. H. Liow, Auteur ;
F. A. Bazzaz, Auteur
Tropical forests are being lost at an alarming rate. Studies from various tropical locations report losses of forest birds as possibly direct or indirect results of deforestation. Although it may take a century for all the sensitive species to b[...]
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W. A. DiMichele, Auteur ;
A. K. Behrensmeyer, Auteur ;
T. D. Olszewski, Auteur ;
C. C. Labandeira, Auteur ;
J. M. Pandolfi, Auteur ;
S. L. Wing, Auteur ;
R. Bobe, Auteur
Studies of plant and animal assemblages from both the terrestrial and the marine fossil records reveal persistence for extensive periods of geological time, sometimes millions of years. Persistence does not require lack of change or the absence [...]
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Local habitat and biological diversity of streams and rivers are strongly influenced by landform. and land use within the surrounding valley at multiple scales. However, empirical associations between land use and stream response only varyingly [...]
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Molecular tools have profoundly rearranged our understanding of metazoan phylogeny. Initially based on the nuclear small ribosomal subunit (SSU or 18S) gene, recent hypotheses have been corroborated by several sources of data (including the nucl[...]
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J. W. Sites, Auteur ;
J. C. Marshall, Auteur
Species are routinely used as fundamental units of analysis in biogeography, ecology, macroevolution, and conservation biology. A large literature focuses on defining species conceptually, but until recently little attention has been given to th[...]
