Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "community ecology and biodiversity"

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    • Evaluating the Relative Environmental Impact of Countries 

      Bradshaw, Corey J. A.; Giam, Xingli; Sodhi, Navjot Singh (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Environmental protection is critical to maintain ecosystem services essential for human well-being. It is important to be able to rank countries by their environmental impact so that poor performers as well as policy ...

    • Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods 

      Willis, Charles G.; Ruhfel, Brad R; Primack, Richard B.; Miller-Rushing, Abraham J.; Losos, Jonathan; Davis, Charles (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Invasive species have tremendous detrimental ecological and economic impacts. Climate change may exacerbate species invasions across communities if non-native species are better able to respond to climate changes than ...

    • The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern 

      Polidoro, Beth A.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Collins, Lorna; Duke, Norman C.; Ellison, Joanna C.; Fernando, Edwino S.; Kathiresan, Kandasamy; Koedam, Nico E.; Livingstone, Suzanne R.; Miyagi, Toyohiko; Moore, Gregg E.; Nam, Vien Ngoc; Ong, Jin Eong; Primavera, Jurgenne H.; Salmo, Severino G., III; Sanciangco, Jonnell C.; Sukardjo, Sukristijono; Yong, Jean Wan Hong; Ellison, Aaron M.; Farnsworth, Elizabeth Jean; Wang, Yamin (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services and support ...

    • Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna 

      Pringle, Robert Mitchell; Doak, Daniel F.; Brody, Alison K.; Jocqué, Rudy; Palmer, Todd M. (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      The finding that regular spatial patterns can emerge in nature from local interactions between organisms has prompted a search for the ecological importance of these patterns. Theoretical models have predicted that ...