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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"novel ecosystems"”.
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Farm ponds of the eastern Great Plains: Key challenges and opportunities for conserving amphibians in these novel ecosystems
… the United States. Emerging frameworks like the novel ecosystems concept could provide a path forward for farm pond conservation, but the concept remains controversial and its applicability largely untested. Consequently, my goal was to address both the ecological and philosophical aspects of …
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Avian ecology and rapid morphological change in a novel plant-frugivore system
Novel ecosystems are increasingly common, and the stability and functioning of novel ecosystems depends on the ability of species to fulfil functional roles such as seed dispersal. The morphology and foraging behavior of non-native species can influence their ability to fulfil functional roles; …
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Consumer nutrient stoichiometry : patterns, homeostasis, and links with fitness.
… Stoichiometric theory can be extended to novel ecosystems, such as streams, to predict the role of consumers in food web and nutrient cycles. To do To do this, the balance between consumer and diet stoichiometries is a logical starting point. Chapter three examines intra-‐specific …
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The diversity of flower-visiting insects in the gardens of English country houses
… Central England, the results show that these novel ecosystems are important sites for hoverflies, bees and butterflies. In 2010 almost 10,000 flower-visitors from 174 species were recorded Hoverflies were the only group to show a significant difference in species richness across the …
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Feral: Re-wilding the Urban Child through Process Driven Design and an Appreciation of Weeds
… increase the biodiversity of the city by valuing novel ecosystems and harnessing ecological processes. The design is dynamic and flexible made up of primarily catalytic interventions that both expose and accelerate natural processes on site, as well as proposed design responses to the predicted …
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The ecological impacts of agrivoltaics in semi-arid grasslands
… demonstrate that agrivoltaic systems create novel ecosystems characterized by spatial heterogeneity in resource availability and ecological processes. While solar infrastructure imposes clear constraints on certain ecosystem components—particularly mobile arthropod communities—the …
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The value of animal behaviour as a bio-indicator of restoration quality
… processes that affect many of the world’s ecosystems. It is therefore imperative that those promises can be met, which comes down to restoration ecologists’ and land managers’ capacity to predict and facilitate desirable ecological changes in a timely and socio-economically responsible …