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Alessio Marrone, Maria Cristina Mangano, Alan Deidun, Manuel Berlino and Gianluca Sarà
Habitat fragmentation (HF) is an ecological process, which is potentially also one of the main causes of diversity loss. Many studies have debated the best tools to adopt for assessing the effects of HF. The traditional application of biodiversity metric...
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Maureen M. Murúa, Audrey A. Grez, Javier A. Simonetti
Pág. 391 - 396
Habitat fragmentation can affect the morphological design of flying insects in different ways through changes in the costs and benefits of dispersal patterns. Larger wings should be favored if necessary resources are scattered across a fragmented land...
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A. A. Grez, T. Zaviezo
Pág. 29 - 34
Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss may affect insect abundance. Generally, small and isolated plant fragments support a depressed abundance of insects because of a lower resource abundance compared to that in large ones. Nevertheless, immediately aft...
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Max McClure and Maria Diuk-Wasser
Lyme disease (LD) is a commonly cited model for the link between habitat loss and/or fragmentation and disease emergence, based in part on studies showing that forest patch size is negatively related to LD entomological risk. An equivalent relationship h...
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Chiara Facca, Francesco Cavraro, Piero Franzoi and Stefano Malavasi
Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States in the framework of the European Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitat Dire...
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Maria Rita Palombo
Extinction of species has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of our planet, but it was generally outweighed in the course of quite a long geological time by the appearance of new species, except, especially, for the five geologically short times ...
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Erica McClaren,Todd Mahon,Frank I. Doyle,William L. Harrower
Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis laingi) have been recognized as a species of management concern in western North America for over 20 years. One of the most significant factors threatening Northern Goshawk populations in coastal British Columbia is ...
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Pavel Kindlmann, David L. Roberts
The Orchidaceae is a highly evolved, pollinator orientated family with some of the most specialized pollination systems. It has been suggestedthat plant specialization should be considered along with the degree of specialization of the mutualist partners...
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Felipe Vera Soto
Pág. 181 - 188
Resumen: El Parque Nacional Llanos de Challe, ubicado en la Región de Atacama, Chile, alberga una importante población de Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776). Este Mamífero posee una adaptabilidad excepcional a diversos hábitats, desde las zonas costeras hasta ...
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Felipe Vera Soto
Pág. 181 - 188
Resumen: El Parque Nacional Llanos de Challe, ubicado en la Región de Atacama, Chile, alberga una importante población de Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776). Este Mamífero posee una adaptabilidad excepcional a diversos hábitats, desde las zonas costeras hasta ...
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Héctor Mancilla, Karla Quiroz, Ariel Arencibia, Basilio Carrasco, Rolando García-Gonzales
Pág. 609 - 615
. Luma chequen, a small tree or large shrub belonging to the Myrtaceae family, is endemic to South America and has medicinal, nutritional and ornamental potential. However, its native habitat is deteriorating gradually, and it is suffering from the effec...
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Nikola Pfauserová, Ondrej Slavík, Pavel Horký, Jitka Kolárová and Tomá? Randák
The introduction of non-native species and human-altered habitats are currently the main threats to freshwater ecosystems. Due to predation and competition, biological invaders can cause extinctions and imperil the status of native species, and this phen...
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Teresa Campbell, Sinsamout Onboundisane, Heng Kong and Zeb S. Hogan
The giant freshwater whipray is a large-bodied stingray species that is listed as endangered across its known range from India through Southeast Asia. However, little is known about the species? ecology, biology, and conservation status. We reviewed all ...
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Emilia Ludwiczak, Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Laszczak-Dawid, Beata Gabrys, Bozena Kordan and Cezary Purwin
Owing to its wealth of nutritional values and low cultivation requirements, millet can become a key crop in global food systems. Thus, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared that 2023 is the International Year of Millet. The introduction of...
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Javier Martínez-Vega, David Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco M. Fernández-Latorre, Paloma Ibarra, Maite Echeverría and Pilar Echavarría
It is usually considered that Protected Areas (PAs) are an efficient tool for policies to conserve biodiversity. However, there is evidence that some pressures and threats arise from processes taking place both inside them and in their surroundings terri...
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Zuohua Miao, Lei Pan, Qiaozhi Wang, Pei Chen, Cheng Yan and Likun Liu
The creation of a road network can lead to the fragmentation and reduction of the connectivity of the ecological habitat. The study of urban ecological networks under threat from rapidly developing road networks is of great significance in understanding ...
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Tomasz Durak and Roma Durak
A significant loss of biodiversity resulting from human activity has caused biotic homogenisation to become the dominant process shaping forest communities. In this paper, we present a rare case of biotic differentiation in European temperate deciduous f...
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Rómulo Santelices, Fernando Drake, Carlos Mena, Rodrigo Ordenes, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo
Pág. 521 - 531
Santelices, R., F. Drake, C. Mena, R. Ordenes, and R.M. Navarro-Cerrillo. 2012. Current and potential distribution areas for Nothofagus alessandrii, an endangered tree species from central Chile. Cien. Inv. Agr. 39(3): 521-531. Nothofagus alessandrii ...
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