Unit Doc Title Source Language Author keywords Keywords plus Funding Funding text Publisher Publishing year Web of science category Subject category Unique article identifier Co-author countries Leading author country
1 Representation of Ecosystem Services by Terrestrial Protected Areas: Chile as a Case Study PLOS ONE English CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; PRIORITIES; SYSTEM; CHALLENGES; FRAMEWORK; HISTORY; TARGETS; REGION "Chilean studentship under the Becas Chile program of the Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Teconologica, Gobierno de Chile (CONICYT); [ICM P05-002]; [PFB-23]" "This work has been funded by APD's studentship, which is a Chilean studentship under the Becas Chile program of the Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Teconologica, Gobierno de Chile (CONICYT). PAM acknowledges support from grants ICM P05-002 and PFB-23. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000328745100047 Chile; UK; USA UK
2 Overview of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP) AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY English "Land surface modeling; Energy, water and carbon budget; Amazonia; Model intercomparison" GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODEL; SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION SIB2; CARBON-CYCLE FEEDBACKS; TRANSFER SCHEME LSX; LAND-SURFACE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TERRESTRIAL CARBON; GLOBAL CLIMATE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODEL NASA [NNX09AL52G] "Financial support comes from NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program Grant NNX09AL52G. Research contributed by J.B. Fisher was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA. We thank the various individuals and modeling groups from Brazil, United States, Canada, Netherlands, England, Japan, Spain among other countries that, with limited or no funding sources, kindly devoted their time and efforts to the success of this project. We also thank the LBA scientists who obtained observations in the field including the Principal Investigators for the tower sites referenced as follows." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Agronomy; Forestry; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Agriculture; Forestry; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000327000200012 Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; France; Japan; Netherlands; Peoples R China; Spain; UK; USA Brazil
3 Large-scale patterns in morphological diversity and species assemblages in Neotropical Triatominae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ English kissing bugs; morphology; species richness; environmental filtering; assembly rules; functional diversity FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; SPATIAL-PATTERNS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT; MODEL SELECTION; BODY-SIZE; RICHNESS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; HEMIPTERA ANPCyT [PICT 2008-0035]; ANR [ANR-08-MIE-007]; CNRS/UMR [5558]; Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1; CONICET [PIP 2010-2012 IU 0089]; UNCOMA "Financial support: ANPCyT (PICT 2008-0035), ANR (ANR-08-MIE-007), CNRS/UMR (5558), Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CONICET (PIP 2010-2012 IU 0089), UNCOMA" FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ 2013 Parasitology; Tropical Medicine Parasitology; Tropical Medicine WOS:000330037300007 Argentina; France Argentina
4 Sustainability and climate variability in low-input peasant maize systems in the central Mexican highlands AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English Sustainability; Indicators; Family agriculture; Drought; Frost FARMING SYSTEMS; LATIN-AMERICA; AGRICULTURE; MANAGEMENT; AGROECOSYSTEMS; SMALLHOLDER; DIVERSITY; MICHOACAN; IMPACT "Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, SEMARNAT-CONACYT [2008-0107918]" "We thank the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia for sectorial funds provided by SEMARNAT-CONACYT 2008-0107918 and to Sociedad Cientifica Latinoamericana de Agroecologia (SOCLA), Fundacion CENSA and the Fundacion CSFUND under the project ""Identifying and understanding climate change in resilient peasant farming systems of Latin America: disseminating principles of resilience among small farmers of the region"". We also thank Ivan Franch (CIGA) for technical support." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000329553200022 Mexico; Spain Spain
5 The origin and dispersal pathway of the spotted sea hare Aplysia dactylomela (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) in the Mediterranean Sea AQUATIC INVASIONS English Aplysiidae; Atlantic Ocean; population genetics; haplotype network CLIMATE-CHANGE; ADRIATIC SEA; MARINE; GASTROPODA; RECORDS; BIODIVERSITY; INVASIONS; GENETICS; PACIFIC; PATTERN "California State Polytechnic University through the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA); Provost's Teacher-Scholar Program" "We are indebted to Philibert Bidgrain, Christophe Cadet, Giuseppe Colamonaco, Carlo Cunha, Anne DuPont, Jessica Goodheart, Panayiotis Ovalis, Walter Renda, Tom Turk, and Nathalie Yonow (in alphabetical order) for providing specimens and/or information. Three anonymous reviewers made constructive comments that greatly improved the manuscript. This research project was supported by the California State Polytechnic University through the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA) and a scholarship from the Provost's Teacher-Scholar Program. This is a CEIMAR 38 journal publication." REGIONAL EURO-ASIAN BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS CENTRE-REABIC 2013 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000329280000006 Greece; Israel; Italy; Malta; Spain; Turkey; USA; Venezuela USA
6 Development of a cost-effective diversity-maximising decision-support tool for in situ crop genetic resources conservation: The case of cacao ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS English Plant genetic resources; Cost-effective prioritisation; Weitzman diversity; Locally common alleles; Risk measures; Climate change SUBDIVIDED POPULATIONS; CATTLE BREEDS; ALLELIC RICHNESS; MARKERS; PLANT; DIFFERENTIATION; ALLOCATION; PRIORITIES; DISTANCES; EROSION "Bioversity International's (CGIAR) Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship scheme (VFF); CGIAR Forest, Agroforestry and Tree Research program" "This publication and associated research was made possible through project funding associated with Bioversity International's (CGIAR) Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship scheme (VFF). Maarten van Zonneveld is also grateful to the CGIAR Forest, Agroforestry and Tree Research program for financial support. We are also grateful to cacao expert Dapeng Zhang at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Sustainable Perennial Crops Lab for comments on an earlier version of the paper." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Ecology; Economics; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Business & Economics WOS:000328712600015 Colombia; Denmark; Germany; Italy Italy
7 Drastic changes in aquatic bacterial populations from the Cuatro Cienegas Basin (Mexico) in response to long-term environmental stress ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY English Bacterial diversity; UV radiation; Temperature; 16S rRNA clone library; Mesocosms FRESH-WATER BACTERIA; 2 MICROBIAL MATS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; UV-RADIATION; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE; COMPARATIVE METAGENOMICS; SOLAR-RADIATION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; MODEL SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY SEP-CONACyT [50705]; SEMARNAT [0023459]; WWF-Alianza Carlos Slim [OL039]; CSIC (Spain); CONACyT (Mexico); CBTA22 "This work was supported by SEP-CONACyT 50705, SEMARNAT 0023459, and WWF-Alianza Carlos Slim OL039 Grants. SP had a postdoctoral scholarship from CSIC (Spain) and wrote this article in her academic stay funded by CONACyT (Mexico). We would like to thank R Gonzalez; JA Valdivia; the teachers CH Hernandez and PL Arizpe; the high school students J Almaguer, JR Galvan, RA Benitez, VC Sanchez, JA Banuelos, and JA Luevanos; and A Herrera from the CBTA22 of Cuatro Cienegas and L Espinosa Asuar for technical assistance in the field and laboratory; and E Aguirre for logistic support. We specially thank PRONATURA Noreste for the access to the Pozas Azules ranch, the office of APFF of Cuatro Cienegas for their support, and above all the CBTA22 for providing long-term housing and support for the experiment." SPRINGER 2013 Microbiology Microbiology WOS:000326804000027 Mexico; Spain Mexico
8 "Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions identify East Asia as the cradle for the evolution of the cosmopolitan genus Myotis (Mammalia, Chiroptera)" MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Myotis; Vespertilionidae; Lagrange; Molecular dating; Biogeography CYTOCHROME-B SEQUENCES; BATS CHIROPTERA; DIVERSIFICATION RATES; CRYPTIC DIVERSITY; SPECIES COMPLEX; MIXED MODELS; VESPERTILIONIDAE; MITOCHONDRIAL; SYSTEMATICS; CONSERVATION Swiss National Funds for Scientific research [3100A0-105588]; Bat Conservation International "We are deeply indebted to those individuals and institutions who generously donated tissues for genetic analyses. These samples provide the foundation of such broad taxonomic surveys and would not be possible without their help. These individuals are: P. Benda (Natural History Museum, Prague), L.R. Heaney and W. Stanley (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA), G. Jones (University of Bristol, UK), K. Kawai (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan), T. Kingston (Boston University, Boston, USA), S. Kruskop and A.V. Borisenko (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University), T.H. Kunz (Boston University, Boston, USA), J. Ma (Beijing, China), V. Matveev (Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia), late O. von Helversen, and F. Mayer (University of Erlangen, Germany). This research was supported by grants from the Swiss National Funds for Scientific research to M. Ruedi and A. Cibois (3100A0-105588), and from Bat Conservation International to B. Stadelmann. This publication is contribution No. 2013-123 of the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR 5554 - CNRS-IRD)." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2013 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000326417600003 Canada; France; Mexico; Switzerland; Taiwan Switzerland
9 Patterns and origin of intraspecific functional variability in a tropical alpine species along an altitudinal gradient PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY English Andes; Azorella aretioides; competition; facilitation; genetic distance; Lasiocephalus ovatus; paramo; plant functional traits; SLA; upward range extension CLIMATE-CHANGE; CUSHION PLANT; TEMPERATURE RELATIONS; FREEZING TOLERANCE; SNOWMELT GRADIENT; PARAMO PLANTS; EUROPEAN ALPS; GLOBAL CHANGE; RANGE SHIFTS; ECOLOGY Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (Proyecto: Mecanismos de colonizacion de la vegetacion en el super-paramo) "We warmly thank the constructive suggestions provided by Laszlo Nagy and four anonymous reviewers. Our manuscript is undoubtedly a stronger contribution as a result of their efforts. We also thank Vincent Jung and Vincent Deblauwe, whose comments helped to improve the structure of the manuscript, Juan Carlos Escobar for conducting molecular analyses, Micaela Mafla and Javier Irazabal for contributing to data collection, members of Team Dynadiv for comments on the population genetics section, Lindsay Clark for discussion on the software Polysat, Fabian Moscoso, Soraya Alvarado and Julio Benitez from INIAP for discussions about foliar nutrient concentration, and Vincent Jomelli and Bernard Francou for discussion on glacial dynamics and related topics in the Andean region. This research was supported by a grant from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (Proyecto: Mecanismos de colonizacion de la vegetacion en el super-paramo)." TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000324904500012 Ecuador; France Ecuador
10 Coastal urbanization leads to remarkable seaweed species loss and community shifts along the SW Atlantic MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN English Phycogeographycal regions; South-West Atlantic; Marine biodiversity loss; Urbanization metrics; Macroalgae; Calcareous algae POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; WATER-QUALITY; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; CLIMATE-CHANGE; URBAN RUNOFF; CORAL; REEF; BIODIVERSITY; IMPACTS Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personel (CAPES) [17/2009]; Brazilian Marine Biodiversity Network - SISBIOT-Amar "This study was funded by the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personel (CAPES), under the project PNADB No. 17/2009. Supplementary financial support was also provided by the Brazilian Marine Biodiversity Network - SISBIOT-Amar. Field and laboratorial work was performed with the valuable assistance of several collaborators from the University of Sao Paulo, the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, the Federal University of Espirito Santo, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000328005800027 Brazil; UK Brazil
11 Comparative Patterns of Plant Invasions in the Mediterranean Biome PLOS ONE English ALIEN PLANTS; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOTIC HOMOGENIZATION; NONNATIVE FLORA; SPATIAL SCALES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RESOURCE-USE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; DIVERSITY "Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL2009-7515, CSD2008-00040]; Junta de Andalucia [RNM-4031]; ALARM project (Assessing LArge scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods) [GOCE-CT-2003-506675]; Project ICM [P05-002]" "MV acknowledges financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion projects RIXFUTUR (CGL2009-7515) and MONTES (CSD2008-00040) and the Junta de Andalucia project RNM-4031; NF and EU by the ALARM project (Assessing LArge scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods; GOCE-CT-2003-506675) to generate the database of Chile. NF acknowledges FONDECYT 3120125, Project ICM P05-002 and PFB-23. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000327143800038 Australia; Chile; Greece; Italy; South Africa; Spain; USA Greece
12 Can Biospecimen Science Expedite the Ex Situ Conservation of Plants in Megadiverse Countries? A Focus on the Flora of Brazil CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES English biodiversity; genetic resources; germplasm; preservation; sustainability SWIETENIA-MACROPHYLLA KING; IN-VITRO CONSERVATION; EUTERPE-EDULIS MART.; POPULATION GENETIC-STRUCTURE; SAMPLE PREANALYTICAL CODE; THEOBROMA-CACAO L.; BANANA MUSA SPP.; ATLANTIC FOREST; MATING SYSTEM; MICROSATELLITE MARKERS "International Foundation for Science (Sweden); British Council (UK); Capes (Ministry of Education, Brazil); CNPq (National Research Council, Brazil)" "The authors acknowledge the support of the International Foundation for Science (Sweden), The British Council (UK), Capes (Ministry of Education, Brazil) and CNPq (National Research Council, Brazil). The authors are most grateful to Dr Marcos Edel Martinez Montero, Bioplantas Centre, University of Ciego de Avila, Cuba, for his diligent review of their paper. The authors thank Dr Fotini Betsou (Integrated Biobank of Luxemburg for introducing them to the concept of Biospecimen Science. The authors greatly appreciate the encouragement of Dato' Dr Marzalina Mansor (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia) and her kind consideration regarding the application of the Biospecimen Science paradigm for the conservation of biodiversity in Megadiverse countries. The authors gratefully acknowledge their ongoing collaborations with Dr Jayanthi Nadarajan, and previous collaborations with colleagues at the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, and the Universities of the Witwatersrand and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000321285700004 Brazil; UK UK
13 A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Crop wild relative; Gene pool; Food security; Plant conservation; Plant genetic resources CLIMATE-CHANGE; GAP ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; CONSERVATION; DISEASES; WALK; SIDE; L. Norwegian Government via the Global Crop Diversity Trust The research accomplished in this project was conducted with the financial support of the Norwegian Government via the Global Crop Diversity Trust. ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000328804300030 Colombia; Germany; UK; USA UK
14 Exploring the tempo of species diversification in legumes SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY English Species diversification; Leguminosae; Calliandra; lndigofereae; Lupinus; Mimosa; Robinieae; Diversification rate shift; Speciation rate; Extinction rate DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; NEOTROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION; PLANT DIVERSIFICATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES; RAPID DIVERSIFICATION; MIMOSA LEGUMINOSAE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ORDER FABALES; SEQUENCE DATA "National Science Foundation [31003A_135522, PBZHP3_147199]; Coordenaceio de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES/PNPD) [02697/09-2]; Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (SISBIOTA); Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade CNPq [563084/2010-3]; Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade FAPESB [PES0053/2011]" "We thank the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 31003A_135522 to C.E.H., and PBZHP3_147199 to J.M.de V.), the Coordenaceio de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES/PNPD no. 02697/09-2 to E.R.de S.), and the Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (SISBIOTA, CNPq 563084/2010-3 and FAPESB PES0053/2011 to L.P.de Q. and E.R.de S.) for financial support, Daniele Silvestro for help with customizing BayesRate, and Matt Lavin, Peter Linder, Tommi Nyman and two reviewers for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000328808400004 Brazil; Switzerland; UK Switzerland
15 "Alpine Ecology in the Iberian Peninsula: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Learn?" MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT English Alpine ecosystems; global change; mountain areas; socioecological research CLIMATE-CHANGE IMPACTS; PLANT DIVERSITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MOUNTAIN; PYRENEES; VEGETATION; EUROPE; GRASSLANDS; MANAGEMENT; POLICY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 2013 "Environmental Sciences; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000328488000009 Brazil; Canada; Estonia; Spain Canada
16 A role for below-ground biota in plant-plant facilitation JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English nurse species; plant reproduction; plant-soil (below-ground) interactions; pyrosequencing; Retama; soil bacteria ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; RIBOSOMAL-RNA SEQUENCES; SOIL FEEDBACK; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RETAMA-SPHAEROCARPA; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; ECOSYSTEMS; DIVERSITY; STRESS "Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) [143AP, 2009Pt0007]; Portuguese FCT; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2010-17081]; Junta de Andalucia Regional Government [P09-RNM-4821]" "This work was performed thanks to an international collaborative project (Grant 143AP Program 2009Pt0007) funded by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Portuguese FCT; additional funds were provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Junta de Andalucia Regional Government (Grants CGL2010-17081 and P09-RNM-4821, respectively). We thank Ray Callaway and Christian Schob for comments on a previous version of this manuscript and Jeff Powell, Amit N. Khachane and Fernando Casanoves for advice on data analysis. Results from 454 pyrosequencing data are deposited in the ENA Sequence Read Archive under the accession number PRJEB4399." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000325984300006 Chile; Portugal; Spain Portugal
17 Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest OECOLOGIA English Climate change; Fog-dependent forest; Local water gradient; Species distribution; Plant hydraulic traits CALIFORNIA REDWOOD FOREST; ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; CLIMATIC GRADIENT; SEMIARID CHILE; WOODY-PLANTS; XYLEM; WATER "CONICYT [24110074, PFB-23]; Fondecyt [1110929]; Millennium Scientific Initiative [P05-002]" "We would like to express our gratitude to Leonardo Ramirez, Felipe Albornoz, Rafaella Canessa, Aurora Gaxiola, wPaulina Lobos, Juan Monardez, Carmen Ossa, Daniel Salinas, Daniel Stanton and Patricio Valenzuela for their invaluable assistance in the field and useful discussions and comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by CONICYT fellowship 24110074 to B. S.-N., and grants Fondecyt 1110929 to F. P., P05-002 from Millennium Scientific Initiative and PFB-23 from CONICYT to the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Chile. This study is a contribution to LINC-Global (Chile-Spain) and to the Research Program of the Chilean Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research network at Fray Jorge National Park." SPRINGER 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000325819700001 Chile; Spain Chile
18 Coupling ordination techniques and GAM to spatially predict vegetation assemblages along a climatic gradient in an ENSO-affected region of extremely high climate variability JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE English Edaphic gradient; Multivariate statistics; Precipitation gradient; Species distribution; Tropical dry forest; Vegetation unit distribution TROPICAL DRY FORESTS; DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE-ANALYSIS; EL-NINO; SOUTH-AMERICA; ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CONSERVATION STATUS; SPECIES RICHNESS; RAINFALL EVENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; DIVERSITY Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Ri 370/19-1] "We acknowledge NASA LP DAAC for granting access to remote sensing imagery (ASTER, MODIS). We are also most grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project Ri 370/19-1) for funding this work. We are also most grateful to three anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments helped to improve the manuscript. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Michael Richter (Erlangen) for providing initial investigation concepts and further support, and Dr. Alexander Brenning (Waterloo) for statistical support." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Plant Sciences; Ecology; Forestry Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000325370200019 Germany; Peru Germany
19 "Water management in mediterranean river basins: a comparison of management frameworks, physical impacts, and ecological responses" HYDROBIOLOGIA English Integrated water resources management; Water policy; River ecosystems; California; Chile; Spain LOWER EBRO RIVER; REGULATED CALIFORNIA STREAM; NATIONAL HYDROLOGICAL PLAN; BIOBIO RIVER; SACRAMENTO RIVER; NATIVE FISH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; FLOW REGULATION; RAINBOW-TROUT; NE SPAIN U.S. Scholar Fulbright Grant We thank V. Resh and N. Bonada for inviting us to contribute to this special issue. A. Merenlender and P. Moyle and two anonymous reviewers provided valuable feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. T. G. was supported by a U.S. Scholar Fulbright Grant. SPRINGER 2013 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000325182400019 Chile; Spain; USA USA
20 Evaluating the performance of multiple remote sensing indices to predict the spatial variability of ecosystem structure and functioning in Patagonian steppes ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS English Desertification; Ecosystem functioning; Landscape function analysis; Vegetation indices ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX; LEAF-AREA INDEX; SPECIES RICHNESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; SEMIARID LANDSCAPES; SOIL; DESERTIFICATION; INDICATORS; PRODUCTIVITY; COVER "INTA; project GEF PNUD ARG (""Manejo Sustentable de ecosistemas aridos y semiaridos para el control de la desertificacion en la Patagonia"") [07/G35]; European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC Grant [242658]" "We thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their useful and constructive comments on previous versions of the manuscript. JJG acknowledges support from INTA and from the project GEF PNUD ARG 07/G35 (""Manejo Sustentable de ecosistemas aridos y semiaridos para el control de la desertificacion en la Patagonia""). FTM acknowledges support from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement no. 242658 (BIOCOM)." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000323860700021 Argentina; Spain Argentina
21 Node-by-node disassembly of a mutualistic interaction web driven by species introductions PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English biological invasions; community disassembly; seed dispersal; pollination; herbivory SEED-DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES; TEMPERATE FOREST; SOUTH-AMERICA; MISTLETOE; NETWORKS; BIODIVERSITY; POLLINATION; STABILITY; CONSEQUENCES US National Science Foundation NSF [DEB-1110431]; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee "We thank the staff of Nahuel Huapi National Park and Los Arrayanes National Park, D. Mujica, and C. Chehebar for logistic support and permission to carry out fieldwork; G. Barrios, J Karlanian, and J. Paritsis for valuable assistance in the field; Dan Simberloff, Greg Crutsinger, Adrian Stier, and two anonymous reviewers for useful comments and suggestions; and Ezequiel Rodriguez-Cabal for making the drawings. This research was supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation NSF DEB-1110431 and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee (to M.A.R.-C.)." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000325395600055 Argentina; Canada; Denmark; USA USA
22 Tolerance of Sponge Assemblages to Temperature Anomalies: Resilience and Proliferation of Sponges following the 1997-8 El-Nino Southern Oscillation PLOS ONE English CORAL-REEF SPONGES; GREAT-BARRIER-REEF; NORTHERN BAHIA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CNIDARIAN COMMUNITY; CARIBBEAN REEFS; MARINE SPONGES; BRAZIL; PATTERNS; PACIFIC Plymouth University Marine Institute "This work is funded by the corresponding author, Francisco Kelmo, with additional support from the Plymouth University Marine Institute to FK. The funder coordinated the overall research objectives and organised the sampling, identification of organisms and data collation throughout the survey, developed sampling methodology, input information on species biology and wrote the paper." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000325501300058 Brazil; New Zealand; UK Brazil
23 MARKED ECOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN SEAGRASS AND REEF MOLLUSCAN COMMUNITIES SINCE THE MID-HOLOCENE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE English BOCAS-DEL-TORO; GREAT-BARRIER-REEF; CORAL-REEFS; DEATH ASSEMBLAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; EASTERN PACIFIC; PHASE-SHIFTS; WEST-INDIES; PANAMA; ECOSYSTEMS "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Academic Programs; Princeton Environmental Institute; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University; National System of Investigators (SNI) of the National Research of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama (SENACYT)" "We thank B de Gracia, G Jacome, P Gondola, A Bilgray, U Gonzalez, and M Lukowiak for their valuable assistance with this project at STRI, and KL Cramer for her comments on the manuscript. M Aardema and S Rabin at Princeton offered advice on statistics, along with many members of the Pacala lab. We thank MA Kosnik, an anonymous reviewer and guest editor L Collins for their useful feedback. This research was generously supported by an internship from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Academic Programs, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University to Fredston-Hermann. The National System of Investigators (SNI) of the National Research of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama (SENACYT) supported A O'Dea." ROSENSTIEL SCH MAR ATMOS SCI 2013 Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000326555900013 Panama; UK; USA Panama
24 Mercury as a proxy for volcanic activity during extreme environmental turnover: The Cretaceous-Paleogene transition PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English Cretaceous-Paleogene transition; Volcanism; Mercury; Thermo-desorption; Carbon isotope stratigraphy PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; TERTIARY BOUNDARY; STEVNS-KLINT; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; IMPACT EVENT; NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA; HG-196/HG-202 RATIO; MASS EXTINCTIONS; SIBERIAN TRAPS "Paraiba Drilling Project/UFPE/CNPq/Princeton University; CNPq [470399/2008, 472842/2010-2]; FACEPE [APQ 0727-1.07/08]; CNPq INCT-TMCOcean [573.601/2008-9]; PIP-CONICET [200801-0061]; CIUNSA [1680, 2043]; Universidad Nacional de Salta" "We thank Gilsa M. Santana and Vilma S. Bezerra for assistance with stable isotope analyses in the LABISE and to Talita M. Soares for help with the Hg analysis. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the manuscript greatly contributed to improve it. This study was partially supported by the Paraiba Drilling Project/UFPE/CNPq/Princeton University and by grants to ANS (CNPq 470399/2008, CNPq 472842/2010-2, and FACEPE APQ 0727-1.07/08) to LDL (CNPq INCT-TMCOcean 573.601/2008-9) and to RAM (PIP-CONICET 200801-0061, CIUNSA 1680 and 2043 projects, Universidad Nacional de Salta). This is the NEG-LABISE contribution n. 259." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000325599000013 Argentina; Brazil; Denmark; Uruguay Brazil
25 Phenological Changes in the Southern Hemisphere PLOS ONE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; BREEDING PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; MIGRATION PHENOLOGY; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; NATURAL SYSTEMS; CITIZEN SCIENCE; OCEAN; PENGUINS "National Research Foundation of South Africa; Applied Centre for Climate and Earth System Science; FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) [2010/50713-5, 2010/52113-5]; CNPq (National Council for Science); Swedish research council (FORMAS); Macquarie University" "This work is based upon research supported by the National Research Foundation of South Africa to RA, PB, and RJMC, and by the Applied Centre for Climate and Earth System Science to RA. LPCM and the Phenology Laboratory at UNESP are supported by FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation grant # 2010/50713-5 and # 2010/52113-5); LPCM receives a Research Productivity Fellowship and grant from CNPq (National Council for Science). ML is supported by the Swedish research council (FORMAS). LJB was supported by a Macquarie University New Staff Grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000325427100019 Australia; Brazil; France; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; USA Australia
26 "Genetic diversity, structure and conservation of the endangered Cantabrian Capercaillie in a unique peripheral habitat" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH English Gene flow; Historical distribution; Isolation; Quercus pyrenaica forests; Range contraction; Spain; Tetrao urogallus cantabricus TETRAO-UROGALLUS-CANTABRICUS; MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION; RANGE; FRAGMENTATION; INFERENCE; DECLINE; FOREST "CIBIO (Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Portugal); Universidad de Leon [ULE AG-185]; FCT (Portugal) [SFRH/BPD/36021/2007]; Universidad de Leon (Spain)" "We thank Luis Robles for his help with the fieldwork in the Mediterranean peripheral forest. We are grateful to CTM technicians for their help in the lab, and to Jesus T. Garcia and Maria Calero-Riestra at IREC for helpful discussions and assistance with the statistical analyses. We also thank the anonymous referees that helped to improve the manuscript. Finally, we are grateful to Mark Herse for reviewing the English text. The funding for the lab work was provided by CIBIO (Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Portugal). Fieldwork was funded by Universidad de Leon (project ULE AG-185). Raquel Godinho was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/36021/2007) from FCT (Portugal) and Manuel A. Gonzalez by a predoctoral scholarship from the Universidad de Leon (Spain)." SPRINGER 2013 Ecology; Zoology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Zoology WOS:000324276700012 Norway; Panama; Portugal; Spain Spain
27 The Hill of Six Lakes revisited: new data and re-evaluation of a key Pleistocene Amazon site QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS English Amazonia; Palaeoecology; Ice age; Pollen QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES; NEOTROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; POLLEN RECORD; TROPICAL FORESTS; LOWLAND AMAZONIA; AEOLIAN ACTIVITY; PLANT DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; TIME-SCALES; RIO-NEGRO "CNPq [575747/2008-0-CT-Amazonia, 477127/2011-8]" "This work is dedicated to the memories of Thomas Van Der Hammen and Antonio Rossi. We would like to express our sincere thanks to Elena Franzineli, who kindly provided the sediment samples. We are much indebted to Henry Hooghiemstra, Francis Mayle and journal editor Neil Roberts for their valuable critical reviews. We thank also an anonymous reviewer and Blanca de Leon for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript. Mario Terra Araujo is also thanked for kindly permitting access to botanical collections of the Six Lakes Hill, Maria de Nazare C. Bastos and Antonio Elielson Sousa da Rocha for herbarium information and Bruce W. Nelson for collecting the moss sample at the hill. This work was supported by CNPq (processes 575747/2008-0-CT-Amazonia and 477127/2011-8) and by a scholarship awarded to Carlos D'Apolito. All administrative duties were facilitated by the Botany Department at the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), in Manaus." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000324449200012 Brazil; Panama; USA UK
28 Vinecology: pairing wine with nature CONSERVATION LETTERS English New world mediterranean; vineyard; footprint; winelands; working landscapes; best practices; viticulture MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; COMMODITY PRODUCTION; SOUTH-AFRICA; WATER-USE; LAND-USE; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY Nature Conservancy-California; CONICYT-Chile [PFB 23/2008] "This work was supported in part by The Nature Conservancy-California and CONICYT-Chile (Award# PFB 23/2008), and is a result of three international workshops held on the subject (Stellenbosch, South Africa 2008; Santiago, Chile 2009; and Davis, California 2011). We are grateful for the contributions and suggestions of many affiliates, not limited to Pierre De Villiers, Louise Jackson, Matthew Hoffman, Rodd Kelsey, Kirk Klausmeyer, Mark Lubell, Cliff Ohmart, Pablo Marquet, Scott Morrison, Jason Pelletier, Jeff Parrish, Todd Rosenstock, Rebecca Shaw, Emma Underwood, and Steve Wratten. Sydney Vickery assisted with figures. We would also like to thank the many winegrape growers that have provided a valued perspective, and leadership within their industry." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000325501800001 Australia; Chile; South Africa; Sweden; USA USA
29 Climate change and plant dispersal along corridors in fragmented landscapes of Mesoamerica ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION English Biodiversity conservation policy; biological corridors; cellular automaton; climate change adaptation; connectivity; Holdridge; landscape fragmentation; MAPSS; migration; species dispersal LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; MIGRATION RATES; CHANGE IMPACTS; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY; MIDSUMMER DROUGHT; CAPE PROTEACEAE; SEED DISPERSAL MESOTERRA Project of the Mesoamerican Agro-Environmental Program at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) This work was funded by the MESOTERRA Project of the Mesoamerican Agro-Environmental Program at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000324046400012 France; Indonesia Costa Rica
30 "Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability" ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION English Biodiversity loss; ecosystem vulnerability; functional traits; phylogenetic conservatism; specific effect function; specific response function MAMMALIAN EXTINCTION RISK; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION RATES; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MINERAL-NUTRITION; CENTRAL ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; PLANT TRAITS; DIVERSITY; FRAMEWORK "Natural Environment Research Council, UK; Leverhulme Trust United Kingdom; CONICET; FONCyT; Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina); Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [CRN 2015, SGP-CRA2015]; US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325, GEO-1138881]; MICINN; Junta de Andalucia Spain" "Natural Environment Research Council, UK, supported the Centre for Population Biology Working Group ""Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity in a changing world"", support to S. D. from The Leverhulme Trust United Kingdom, CONICET, FONCyT, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina), and Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015 and SGP-CRA2015, which were supported by the US National Science Foundation (grants GEO-0452325 and GEO-1138881); support to P. J. from MICINN, Junta de Andalucia Spain" WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000324046400015 Argentina; Netherlands; Spain; UK; USA Argentina
31 Reframing ecosystem management in the era of climate change: Issues and knowledge from forests BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Climate change adaptation; Climate change mitigation; Ecological processes; Ecosystem based approaches to mitigation and adaptation; resilience; Social-ecological system CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; WESTERN UNITED-STATES; EL-NINO; GENETIC DIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; TREE MORTALITY; TROPICAL TREE; OLD-GROWTH "Mitsui and Co., Ltd. Environment Fund; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)" "We thank Dr. Lian Pin Koh and anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript. This study was funded by the Mitsui and Co., Ltd. Environment Fund and by the Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), given to ASM." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000323871700014 Colombia; Japan; Switzerland; USA Japan
32 Heat freezes niche evolution ECOLOGY LETTERS English Bioclimatic envelope models; biological invasions; climate change; CTmax; CTmin; evolutionary rates; lower thermal tolerance; niche conservatism; species distributions; thermal adaptation; upper thermal tolerance TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT BIOGEOGRAPHY; UPPER THERMAL LIMITS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; DIVERSITY GRADIENT; OXYGEN LIMITATION; CHILL-COMA; TOLERANCE; DROSOPHILA LINCGlobal CSIC-PUC; NICHE project of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CGL2011-26852]; Integrated Program of ICDT [1/SAESCTN/ALENT-07-0224-FEDER-001755]; Danish NSF; CSIC-JAE [2010 00735] "This study is funded through the LINCGlobal CSIC-PUC and the NICHE project (CGL2011-26852) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. M.B.A. also acknowledges the Integrated Program of IC&DT Call No 1/SAESCTN/ALENT-07-0224-FEDER-001755, and the Danish NSF for support. P.F.Y. is funded through a CSIC-JAE PhD studentship (2010 00735). F.B. acknowledges FONDECYT (1130015). P.A.M. acknowledges ICM (P05-002) and CONICYT (PFB-23). We thank Natalia Melo for providing animal drawings for Figs 1-5, and the handling editor and six anonymous referees for constructive criticism of the manuscript (any potential error remains ours though)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000323159300011 Australia; Chile; Denmark; Portugal; Spain; USA Spain
33 Genetically engineered trees for plantation forests: key considerations for environmental risk assessment PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL English genetic engineering; forests; environment; risk assessment ABIOTIC STRESS-TOLERANCE; EUCALYPTUS-GLOBULUS; LIGNIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC POPLARS; REDUCED LIGNIN; SALT TOLERANCE; HYBRID POPLAR; CELL-WALL; BACILLUS-THURINGIENSIS; PARTICLE-ACCELERATION WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Plant Sciences Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Plant Sciences WOS:000323253900003 Australia; Brazil; Canada; Finland; Japan; New Zealand; Peoples R China; Sweden; UK; USA USA
34 Aquatic community structure across an Andes-to-Amazon fluvial gradient JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Anthropogenic impacts; fluvial gradient; global warming; longitudinal connectivity; mining; Neotropics; river continuum concept; sediment; shredders RIVER CONTINUUM CONCEPT; ACID-MINE DRAINAGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; CONTRASTING PATTERNS; STREAMS; DIVERSITY; WATER; FISH; CONNECTIVITY "Coypu Foundation; NSF [OISE-1064578]; Aquatic Critter, Inc.; estate of George and Carolyn Kelso via the International Sportfish Fund" "We thank Hernan Ortega (Natural History Museum of San Marcos University, Lima, Peru) for assistance with permits, logistics and fieldwork; Don Taphorn, Jose Birindelli, David Brooks, Max Hidalgo, Rosemary Argomedo, Juan Valadez, Brian Booth, Mark Dion, Clay Risen and Scott Schaefer for assistance with collecting and identifying specimens; David Werneke and Jonathan Armbruster (Auburn University Museum) for cataloguing and curating fish specimens; and Paulo Petry (The Nature Conservancy) for stream order maps. Funding came from a Coypu Foundation grant to N.K.L., NSF grant OISE-1064578 to N.K.L., the Aquatic Critter, Inc., and the estate of George and Carolyn Kelso via the International Sportfish Fund." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000322981900008 Denmark; Peru; USA Canada
35 A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE English Functional trait; Ecosystem functioning; Biotic interactions; Plant-soil interactions; Biotic control; Environmental change; Pollination; Grassland; Soil nitrogen; Field margins LAND-USE CHANGE; EFFECT TRAITS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITIES; LANDSCAPE; RESPONSES; SPECIALIZATION; POLLINATION; ABUNDANCE; SCALE European Commission [036890] "This work was supported by the RUBICODE Coordinated Action (Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems) of FP6 of the European Commission (Contract No. 036890). RUBICODE contributes to the Global Land Project. We are grateful to Marie Vandewalle for help in preparation of the workshop that led to development of these ideas. Pablo Cipriotti, Hans Cornelissen, Christian Feld, Sylvain Doledec, Thierry Hance, Jan Leps, Juliet Osborne, Peter Poschlod and Simon Potts provided valuable input during the successive refinements of the framework." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Plant Sciences; Ecology; Forestry Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000322628400016 Argentina; Czech Republic; France; Netherlands; Switzerland; UK France
36 Are functional traits good predictors of species performance in restoration plantings in tropical abandoned pastures? FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT English Crown length; Early successional environments; Leaf dry matter content; Los Tuxtlas; Functional trait; Mexico LOWLAND RAIN-FOREST; COSTA-RICA; TRADE-OFFS; ALLOCATION PATTERNS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; CROWN ARCHITECTURE; NEOTROPICAL FOREST; CENTRAL AMAZONIA; SHADE TOLERANCE; LIGHT GRADIENT "University of Illinois at Chicago; Wageningen University; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; National Science Foundation of the United States (DEB) [0516259]; Graduate School Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, Wageningen University" "We are grateful to Eladio Velasco for expert field assistance. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial and logistical support from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Wageningen University and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with special thanks to the Director and staff of the LTBS, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, and the National Science Foundation of the United States (DEB # 0516259 to Henry F. Howe and C-MG). We are grateful to Hank Howe for constructive comments on the manuscript. C-MG was supported by a scholarship from the Graduate School Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, Wageningen University while writing." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Forestry Forestry WOS:000321405600005 Mexico; Netherlands Mexico
37 The projected impact of climate and land use change on plant diversity: An example from West Africa JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS English Biodiversity; Burkina Faso; Presence-only data; Sahel; Savanna; Species distribution modeling SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTINCTION RISK; BURKINA-FASO; COVER DATA; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS; AGRICULTURE; RESOLUTION; RICHNESS "'LOEWE - Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz' of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts" "The present study was funded by the research funding programme 'LOEWE - Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz' of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts. We particularly thank A.T., B.S., M.S., K.H., C. Chatelain, U. Kere, K. Kuppers, M. Bohm, J. Denschlag, M. Ataholo, J. Krohmer, K. Schumann, A. Zwarg, I. Kirchmair, K. Wala, F. Legba and A.B.H. Tente for providing species distribution data. We thank Irina Laube and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on this work. We further acknowledge two anonymous reviewers for improving the writing style." ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000320976400006 Benin; Burkina Faso; Colombia; Germany Germany
38 Giant Hydrogen Sulfide Plume in the Oxygen Minimum Zone off Peru Supports Chemolithoautotrophy PLOS ONE English CENTRAL BALTIC SEA; ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; NITRIC-OXIDE REDUCTASE; TROPICAL SOUTH-PACIFIC; BLACK-SEA; SULFATE-REDUCTION; NITROUS-OXIDE; WATER COLUMN; SULFUR CYCLE; AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION WGL-PAKT project 'REAL' (Leibniz Association); Max Planck Society; Helmholtz Association; German Research Association "Funding was provided by the WGL-PAKT project 'REAL' (Leibniz Association), the Max Planck Society and the Helmholtz Association. The Cluster of Excellence ""The Future Ocean"" provided structural support. This work is a contribution of the Collaborative Research Centre 754 ""climate - biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical oceans'' (www.sfb754.de), which is supported by the German Research Association. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000324470100006 Canada; France; Germany; Peru; UK; USA Germany
39 Large-Scale Spatial Distribution Patterns of Gastropod Assemblages in Rocky Shores PLOS ONE English LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENTS; SOUTH-AFRICA; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; LITTORININAE GASTROPODA; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES; SOUTHEASTERN PACIFIC; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; GLOBAL PATTERNS; CLIMATE-CHANGE Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through the NaGISA project; History of the Near Shore (HNS) program; History of Marine Populations (HMAP); Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO); Suffolk University; Gulf of Maine (GoMA) project; Decanato de Investigacion y Desarrollo - Universidad Simon Bolivar; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council - Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring; SAEON (South African Environmental Observation Network); SANCOR Seachange Program; Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB); Chevron-Venezuela "Funding was provided by multiple sources, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through the NaGISA project, the History of the Near Shore (HNS) program, the History of Marine Populations (HMAP), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Suffolk University, the Gulf of Maine (GoMA) project, Chevron-Venezuela, Decanato de Investigacion y Desarrollo - Universidad Simon Bolivar, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council - Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring, SAEON (South African Environmental Observation Network), and SANCOR Seachange Program and the Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000323115800056 Argentina; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Cuba; Italy; Japan; South Africa; Trinid & Tobago; USA; Venezuela Venezuela
40 How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals? GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English AFOLU; agriculture; climate; ecosystem services; food security; forestry; GHG; mitigation CLIMATE-CHANGE MITIGATION; FREE-MARKET APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GLOBAL AGRICULTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; CARBON; ENERGY; SOIL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGY "FAO Trust Funds [GCP/GLO/286/GER, GCP/GLO/325/NOR]; EU; Austrian Academy of Sciences; Austrian Ministry of Science and Research" "PS is a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder and his input contributes to the University of Aberdeen Environment and Food Security Theme and to Scotland's ClimateXChange. The work also contributed to the EU FP7 project GHG-Europe. FNT acknowledges FAO Trust Funds GCP/GLO/286/GER and GCP/GLO/325/NOR provided by the Governments of Germany and Norway. This work contributes to the FAO Project 'Monitoring and Assessment of GHG Emissions and Mitigation Potentials in Agriculture.' MH's input contributes to the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). HH, CL and KHE gratefully acknowledge support by EU funding (FP7 project VOLANTE, ERC-grant LU-ISE), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000328744900001 Australia; Austria; Brazil; Germany; India; Iran; Italy; Kenya; Mexico; New Zealand; Peoples R China; Russia; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Tunisia; UK; USA UK
41 Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English EL-NINO; CRITICAL TRANSITIONS; SHRUB ENCROACHMENT; SOUTH-AMERICA; WOODY COVER; SAVANNA; FOREST; DETERMINANTS; ECOSYSTEMS; AFRICA ERC-Early Warning grant; Spinoza award This research was partly financially supported by the ERC-Early Warning grant and Spinoza award received by M. S. We thank C. J. F. Ter Braak for insightful discussions on the statistical approaches taken and G. Mazzochini for advice on spatial linear modelling. The data reported in this paper are extracted as described in the supporting online material from the publicly available sites of MODIS (http://www.glcf.umd.edu/data/vcf/) and CRU (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/). NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2013 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000324487400026 Brazil; Netherlands Netherlands
42 Critical research needs for identifying future changes in Gulf coral reef ecosystems MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN English Persian Gulf; Arabian Gulf; Coral Reefs; Expert; Assessment; Research Gap MARINE PROTECTED AREAS; ARABIAN GULF; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PERSIAN-GULF; SOUTH-AFRICA; FISH; MANAGEMENT; RECOVERY; IMPACTS; DUBAI "New York University Abu Dhabi Institute in Abu Dhabi; University of Technology, Sydney; Ministry of Environment and Water, United Arab Emirates; Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (NSF/NIEHS); Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi; Kuwait University; KAUST AEA 3 Joint Collaborative Research award the Natural History Museum, London; Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO); Schure-Beijerinck-Poppingfonds (KNAW); Alida Buitendijkfonds; Jan Joost ter Pelkwijkfonds; Martin-Fellowship; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Census of Marine Life; NERC [NE/K00641X/1]" "This manuscript is a direct result of the 'Coral Reefs of the Gulf conference, hosted and sponsored by the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute in Abu Dhabi, February 2012. In addition, D.A. Feary was supported by a Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship within the University of Technology, Sydney, D.M. Anderson was provided support from the Ministry of Environment and Water, United Arab Emirates, and the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (NSF/NIEHS), E. Grandcourt was supported by Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi, H. Mahmood was supported by Kuwait University, C.R. Voolstra was supported by a KAUST AEA 3 Joint Collaborative Research award the Natural History Museum, London and the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) are thanked by D.M. John and J.D. George for supporting their research in the UAE' research at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and partial field work for K. Samimi-Namin was supported by Schure-Beijerinck-Poppingfonds (KNAW), Alida Buitendijkfonds, Jan Joost ter Pelkwijkfonds, and Martin-Fellowship. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Census of Marine Life are gratefully acknowledged for the research grant provided to K. Samimi-Namin; in this regard N. D'Adamo (UNESCO, ICO, Perth), M. Claereboudt (Sultan Qaboos University), J.H. Ausubel (Rockefeller University), and P. Miloslavich (Universidad Simon Bolivar) are appreciated for their continuous support and encouragement. The Mideast Coral Reef Society Initiative is funded by the NERC (NE/K00641X/1 to J. Wiedenmann)." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000323021100012 Australia; Bahrain; Brazil; Iran; Kuwait; Netherlands; Portugal; Saudi Arabia; Taiwan; U Arab Emirates; UK; USA Australia
43 "Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Water Level, Flora and Macro-fauna of a Large Neotropical Wetland" PLOS ONE English DEER BLASTOCERUS-DICHOTOMUS; CYANOBACTERIUM CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS-RACIBORSKII; SPECIES-AREA CURVES; ESTEROS-DEL-IBERA; MARSH DEER; PANTANAL WETLAND; VEGETATION DIVERSITY; FRESH-WATER; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION BBVA Foundation [BIOCON 04-100/05] "The present study is conducted under BBVA Foundation sponsored research project entitled ""Impacto de los cambios del nivel de agua sobre la biodiversidad de los humedales del Ibera (Argentina)'' (BIOCON 04-100/05). The authors would like to thank the Subsecretaria de Recursos Hidricos (Argentina Government) and the Center for Water Research (University of Western Australia) for making hydro-meteorological data and DYRESM freely accessible for research. Request of raw data derived from the present study must be addressed to andres.cozar@uca.es. The authors also thank Ibera park rangers and Conservation Land Trust Foundation for their valuable support during the surveys, and two reviewers for their constructive comments that improved the paper, and are especially grateful to Dr. Vincent Hull for his huge support in the study of Ibera. Permission for field work in Ibera Reserve was granted by Corrientes government, and by Conservation Land Trust Foundation in private land. This research did not involve capture or handling of animals, therefore did not require approval of animal care and use procedures. Field studies did not create effects on endangered or protected species. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000321736900022 Argentina; Italy; Spain Spain
44 "Deconstructing the signal: phylogenetic structure, elevation change, and the implications for species co-existence" EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH English environmental gradient; Mexico; nearest taxon index; net relatedness index; phylogenetic clustering; species-to-genus ratio; temporal niche dynamics; tropical dry forest RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; FOREST TREES; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NICHE CONSERVATISM; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL FORESTS; TEMPORAL NICHES; GENUS RATIOS "UC-Mexus grant; Fulbright-Garcia Robles grant; University of California, Davis Jastro-Shields grant; National Geographic Society; [DEB-0713866]" "J.N.W. thanks M. Schwartz, M. Rejmanek, and R. Dirzo for comments and guidance on an early draft. M. Elorza, I. Trejo, B. Anacker, and K. Ram provided technical help. Funding for J.N.W. came from UC-Mexus, Fulbright-Garcia Robles, and University of California, Davis Jastro-Shields grants. C. K. K. was partially supported during the writing of this paper by DEB-0713866 and a grant from the National Geographic Society. We thank Michael Bowler for his comments and discussion, and Chamela Biological Station for hospitality during the initial stages of this collaboration." EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY LTD 2013 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000329997100001 Mexico; UK Mexico
45 The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species CONSERVATION & SOCIETY English amphibian decline; climate change; Bufo periglenes; conservation; Incilius periglenes; media representation; uncertainty DECLINING AMPHIBIAN POPULATIONS; TROPICAL MOUNTAIN; EXTINCTIONS; DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; PERSPECTIVE; SCIENTISTS; SCIENCE; TRENDS; RISK MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA PVT LTD 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Environmental Studies Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000326983600007 Brazil; UK UK
46 Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; RANGE SHIFTS; EXTINCTIONS; PROJECTIONS; HOTSPOTS; FUTURE; LIFE "MacArthur Foundation to World Wildlife Fund, US; ARC [DP110104186]; CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)" "We thank the Met Office Hadley Centre and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change for use of the emission scenarios produced for the AVOID project. We also thank the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), in particular T. Robertson, for the support provided during the completion of the analyses presented here. A portion of the funding for the Wallace Initiative came from a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to World Wildlife Fund, US. We wish to acknowledge S. Raper's contribution to the production of the probabilistic climate model. We thank M. Brown at James Cook University for technical assistance. J.A.W. was financially supported, in part, by ARC Discovery Grant DP110104186. J.R-V. and A.J. were partly financially supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2013 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000324486300025 Australia; Colombia; UK UK
47 Going Back to Basics: Importance of Ecophysiology when Choosing Functional Traits for Studying Communities and Ecosystems NATUREZA & CONSERVACAO English Functional Diversity; Community Assembly; Ecosystem Functioning; Ecosystem Services; CWM LEAF LIFE-SPAN; PLANT TRAITS; WOOD DENSITY; ECONOMICS SPECTRUM; ECOLOGY; FRAMEWORK; DRY; WORLDWIDE; SOIL; AREA NWO postdoctoral [NWO / 819.01.017]; CNPq; FAPERJ "We thank all the members of the Laboratorio de Ecologia Vegetal (UFRJ) for all good discussions in the last years, Tim Moulton who carefully read and comment on the manuscript and two anonymous reviewers for critiques and suggestions. Bruno H.P. Rosado thanks Profs. Glauco Machado and Paulo Inacio, from the University of Sao Paulo, for the invitation to participate in the Field Course ""Ecology of the Atlantic Rain Forest"", what motivated the initial writing of this manuscript. Andre T.C. Dias was financed by NWO postdoctoral grant number NWO / 819.01.017. Eduardo A. de Mattos thanks financial support from CNPq and FAPERJ." ASSOC BRASILEIRA CIENCIA ECOLOGICA E CONSERVACAO 2013 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000324965000003 Brazil; Netherlands Brazil
48 Small Ruminant Lentiviruses (SRLVs) Break the Species Barrier to Acquire New Host Range VIRUSES-BASEL English SRLV; cross-species; wild ruminants; adaptation; genetic diversity; recombination; primate lentivirus ARTHRITIS-ENCEPHALITIS-VIRUS; MAEDI-VISNA-VIRUS; HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE; NATURAL TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS-DISEASES; GENETIC DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE "FUNCAP (DCR program); Departement of Sante Animale of INRA, France" "J.C.M Cruz was supported by FUNCAP (DCR program). We thank the Departement of Sante Animale of INRA, France for the financial support of the program. Thanks to J. Gagnon for his English and suggestion input." MDPI AG 2013 Virology Virology WOS:000322172200017 Algeria; Brazil; France; USA France
49 Carbon stocks and cocoa yields in agroforestry systems of Central America AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English Biomass; Certification; Climate change; Timber; Trade-off; Forest CACAO THEOBROMA-CACAO; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; COSTA-RICA; ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; PLANTING DENSITY; SOIL CARBON; DRY FOREST; SEQUESTRATION; DYNAMICS; STORAGE "CATIE/MAP/PCC; COCABO (Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples de Cacao Bocatorefia, Panama); ACOMUITA (Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Talamanca, Costa Rica); CACAONICA (Cooperativa de Servicio Agroforestal y de Comercializacion de Cacao, Waslala, Nicaragua); APROCACAHO (Asociacion de productores de cacao de Honduras); Instituto agroecologico bilingile Fray Domingo de Vico, Cahabon, Guatemala; ASECAN (Asociacion de sembradores de cacao de la cuenca del Nahualapa, Guatemala); APROCA (Asociacion de productores de sur occidente de Guatemala)" "We would like to thank the support provided by field assistants from COCABO (Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples de Cacao Bocatorefia, Panama), ACOMUITA (Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Talamanca, Costa Rica), CACAONICA (Cooperativa de Servicio Agroforestal y de Comercializacion de Cacao, Waslala, Nicaragua), APROCACAHO (Asociacion de productores de cacao de Honduras), Instituto agroecologico bilingile Fray Domingo de Vico, Cahabon, Guatemala; ASECAN (Asociacion de sembradores de cacao de la cuenca del Nahualapa, Guatemala) and APROCA (Asociacion de productores de sur occidente de Guatemala). We would also like to thank Ignacio Rodriguez Arias for is valuable help in the field in Talamanca (Costa Rica). Jenny Ordofiez, Bruno Rapidel, Goetz Schroth, Antonio Carlos Goma-Rodriguez and anonymous reviewers provided valuable comments on the manuscript. Alejandra Villota and David Calvache, from the University of Narifio, Colombia, helped prepare tables, figures and bibliography. Research was funded by CATIE/MAP/PCC." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000321476100006 Costa Rica; France Costa Rica
50 Long-term Changes in Bird Communities after Wildfires in the Central Brazilian Amazon BIOTROPICA English Amazonia; avifauna; Brazil; fires; long-term response ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS; RECURRENT WILDFIRES; UNDERSTOREY BIRDS; GROUND FIRES; HABITAT; RESPONSES; FRAGMENTS U.K. National Environment Research Council [NE/G000816/1]; Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX07AF16G]; Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia [CNPq 574008/2008-0] "We sincerely thank Juliana Rechetelo and Gregory Thom for the important help on mist-net surveys in 2008, and Torbjorn Haugaasen and Carlos Peres for their help in 1998 and 2000. We also thank Sidnei Dantas and Alexandre Aleixo, who helped us identify some bird songs and specimens. We are also thankful for the important suggestions from the editors and reviewers of this article. This study was funded by the U.K. National Environment Research Council grant (NE/G000816/1), the Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (NNX07AF16G), and the Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia (CNPq 574008/2008-0). Birders Exchange and Idea Wild donated important materials for this research." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000321210900010 Brazil; UK; USA Brazil
51 UNEP-SETAC guideline on global land use impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services in LCA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT English Biodiversity; Ecological functions; Ecosystem services; Life cycle assessment; Land use LIFE-CYCLE-ASSESSMENT; NATURAL-ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; FRAMEWORK; OCCUPATION; TRADEOFFS; WORLDS; AREA UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative "The authors wish to thank the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative for financial support of this work under the project Operational Characterization Factors for Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Life Cycle Impact Assessment-Compatible with the Framework of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative (LULCIA). In addition, we are grateful for the comments of two anonymous reviewers and for those of Thomas E. McKone and Till Bachmann. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations Environment Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Moreover, the views expressed do not necessarily represent the decision or the stated policy of the United Nations Environment Programme or any participants such as members of the International Life Cycle Board, nor does citing of trade names or commercial processes constitute endorsement. Information contained herein does not necessarily reflect the policy or views of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). Mention of commercial or non-commercial products and services does not imply endorsement or affiliation by SETAC." SPRINGER HEIDELBERG 2013 "Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences" Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000320377700002 Argentina; Canada; Germany; Italy; Switzerland; UK Germany
52 An Inventory of Crop Wild Relatives of the United States CROP SCIENCE English SUNFLOWER GERMPLASM LINES; IN-SITU CONSERVATION; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; TRITICUM-TAUSCHII; GENETIC-RESOURCES; HORDEUM-BULBOSUM; CLIMATE-CHANGE; INTROGRESSION LINES; WHEAT GERMPLASM; IMPROVE YIELD "Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome, Italy" "Research by the corresponding author was funded by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome, Italy. We thank the NPGS curators, members of the NPGS Crop Germplasm Committees, and ARS crop experts for their inputs on the Inventory and Gary Kinard, Edward Garvey, Karen Williams, and Larry Stritch for helpful comments on the manuscript." CROP SCIENCE SOC AMER 2013 Agronomy Agriculture WOS:000319918300030 Colombia; Netherlands; UK; USA Colombia
53 Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English Body temperature; diel cycle; environmental temperature; global warming; life history; lizards; thermal biology THERMAL BIOLOGY; CLUTCH SIZE; BODY-SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE; PERFORMANCE; PATTERNS; FIELD; CONSTRAINTS; INSULARITY Israel Science Foundation [1005/12]; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); National Science Foundation (USA) [DEB 0844523]; CAPES; CNPq; FAPDF; Leverhulme Trust "We thank members of the Global Assessment of Reptile Distribution Working Group, Barry Sinervo and an anonymous referee for valuable discussion. We thank Uri Roll for enlightening comments on a previous draft of this manuscript. Erez Maza and Meirion Hopkins have been indispensable in mapping lizard geographic ranges. This study was supported by an Israel Science Foundation grant # 1005/12 to S.M. G.P. is supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), A.M.B. is supported by grant DEB 0844523 from the National Science Foundation (USA). G.R.C. is supported by CAPES, CNPq and FAPDF. D.P.-D. is supported by the Leverhulme Trust." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000320326600006 Belgium; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; France; Greece; Israel; Malaysia; UK; USA Israel
54 Global environmental changes: setting priorities for Latin American coastal habitats GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English benthic ecology; climate impacts; habitat mapping; long-term monitoring; marine biodiversity CLIMATE-CHANGE; IMPACTS FAPESP [2011/22074-0]; ReBentos (CNPq/FAPESP); CoNISMa Supported by FAPESP (2011/22074-0) and ReBentos (CNPq/FAPESP). English revision by Ramon Arthur Clark. S. F. is supported by CoNISMa. Authors thank the comments on the manuscript made by the colleague Fabio Scarano (The Nature Conservancy). WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000319963500001 Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Cuba; Italy; Mexico; Spain; UK; Uruguay; Venezuela Brazil
55 "New insights into vegetation, climate and fire history of southern Brazil revealed by a 40,000 year environmental record from the State Park Serra do Tabuleiro" VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY English Late Quaternary; Campos; Atlantic rainforest; Araucaria forest; Southern Brazilian climate; Fire history; Serra do Tabuleiro LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LA-NINA EVENTS; ARAUCARIA FOREST; ATLANTIC FOREST; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; SAO-FRANCISCO Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [BE 2116/9-1]; Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa Cientifica e Tecnologica do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC) [CON08857/2007-9]; Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN (U.S. NSF) [GEO-0452325] The authors are grateful to Nele Jantz and Alessandra Fidelis for an English revision of the article. We also thank Patricio Moreno and one anonymous reviewer for valuable comments which helped to significantly improve the manuscript. Funding for the project was provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (BE 2116/9-1). Part of fieldwork expenses and radiocarbon dating were financially supported by Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa Cientifica e Tecnologica do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC) (Grant CON08857/2007-9) and by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN-2005 (U.S. NSF Grant GEO-0452325). SPRINGER 2013 Plant Sciences; Paleontology Plant Sciences; Paleontology WOS:000319777400002 Brazil; Germany Germany
56 Assessing the Response of Nematode Communities to Climate Change-Driven Warming: A Microcosm Experiment PLOS ONE English BACTERIVOROUS NEMATODES; MARINE-SEDIMENTS; SANDY BEACH; BIODIVERSITY; ASSEMBLAGES; DIVERSITY; MEIOFAUNA; CHLOROPHYLL; ACCLIMATION; MEIOBENTHOS CONACYT; Flemish National Science Foundation (FWO) [3G019209W]; research council of UGent [BOF09/24J/148]; [CONACYT-SEMARNAT-2004-C01-300] "This research was funded by the grant CONACYT-SEMARNAT-2004-C01-300 to ARO. The paper derived from the first author's PhD research at the Marine Ecology program at CICESE where she was supported by CONACYT. TM received funding from the Flemish National Science Foundation (FWO) through project 3G019209W and from the research council of UGent (project BOF09/24J/148). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000320576400140 Belgium; Mexico Mexico
57 Large-Scale Variation in Combined Impacts of Canopy Loss and Disturbance on Community Structure and Ecosystem Functioning PLOS ONE English BIODIVERSITY LOSS; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ROCKY SHORES; DIVERSITY; ASSEMBLAGES; STABILITY; IDENTITY "European Community [GOCE-CT-2003-505446]; Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology" "The project was carried out within the framework of the MarBEF Network of Excellence 'Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning' which was funded by the Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems Programme of the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (contract no. GOCE-CT-2003-505446). Additional funding was provided by participating institutions and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000320363300067 Canada; Chile; Estonia; France; Germany; Ireland; Italy; Portugal; UK Ireland
58 Tracking climate change in a dispersal-limited species: reduced spatial and genetic connectivity in a montane salamander MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English climate change; connectivity; dispersal; genetic structure; landscape genetics; Pseudoeurycea leprosa; Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt EXTREME POPULATION SUBDIVISION; MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; LANDSCAPE GENETICS; EXTINCTION RISK; COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE; NICHE CONSERVATISM; WESTERN-HEMISPHERE; MIGRATION RATES; MOUNTAIN PASSES "Microsoft Corporation; Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [2008-0890]; Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) [SFRH/BPD/74834/2010]; PAPIIT-UNAM [IN212111]; National Science Foundation" "Molecular data were collected in the Evolutionary Genetics Core Facility and the Core Laboratories Genotyping and Sequencing Facility at Cornell. Analyses benefited from resources provided by the Computational Biology Service Unit at Cornell University, a facility partially funded by Microsoft Corporation. GVA was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Ref: 2008-0890) and a post-doctoral fellowship from Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Ref: SFRH/BPD/74834/2010; FCT, Portugal). Fieldwork and laboratory efforts were funded by grants from PAPIIT-UNAM (number IN212111 to G. P.-O.) and the National Science Foundation (to KZ). We thank Dr. Stephen Spear and three anonymous referees for constructive comments on earlier versions of the manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000320396100008 Colombia; Mexico; USA Portugal
59 High rates of forest loss and turnover obscured by classical landscape measures APPLIED GEOGRAPHY English Conservation; Data constraints; Deforestation; Fragmentation; Habitat turnover; Landscape indices; Remote sensing SOUTH-CENTRAL CHILE; TROPICAL MONTANE FORESTS; LAND-USE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SPATIAL-ANALYSIS; SMALL PATCHES; RAIN-FOREST ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2013 Geography Geography WOS:000319642100021 Chile; Spain; UK Chile
60 "Improving species distribution models using biotic interactions: a case study of parasites, pollinators and plants" ECOGRAPHY English ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PREDICTION; NICHE; ABUNDANCE; NETWORKS; BIODIVERSITY; UNCERTAINTY; PROJECTIONS; MUTUALISM Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education [CAPES 3030-10-5]; European Commission through the STEP project (Status and Trends of European Bees) [244090-STEP-CP-FP] The authors are grateful to the support of the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education (CAPES 3030-10-5) to TCG and to the European Commission through the STEP project (Status and Trends of European Bees) funded under grant 244090-STEP-CP-FP (JCB). WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000319290600002 Brazil; Netherlands; UK Brazil
61 Tropical Peat Accumulation in Central Amazonia WETLANDS English Brazil; Central Amazonia; Peat; South America; Tropical peatland FLOODPLAIN FORESTS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WESTERN AMAZONIA; FORELAND BASIN; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SWAMP FOREST; LEAF-LITTER; RIVER; PEATLANDS Kone Foundation; GEOMA Modelling Network of the Brazilian Ministry of Science; Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo "We thank Joao Rocha, Isis Perdigao, Brazilian villagers and the staff of the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, INPA) for help during the field work; Kari Kortekuru, Marko Pesu and Hanna Tuomisto for field equipment; Orlando Cruz Junior, Marjut Wallner and the Department of Geology of the University of Turku for laboratory facilities; and Kalle Ruokolainen and Leif Schulman. In addition, we thank the Kone Foundation, the GEOMA Modelling Network of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and the Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo for funding. The collected peat samples belong to INPA. A portion of each sample was sent by INPA to the University of Turku, Finland, for the laboratory analyses." SPRINGER 2013 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000318797900010 Brazil; Finland Finland
62 "Assessing the micro-phytoplankton response to nitrate in Comau Fjord (42 degrees S) in Patagonia (Chile), using a microcosms approach" ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT English Diatoms; Nitrate; Chlorophyll-a; Phytoplankton structure; Patagonian fjords SOUTHERN CHILE; THALASSIOSIRA-WEISSFLOGII; LIMITATION; GROWTH; OCEAN; SEA; PRODUCTIVITY; VARIABILITY; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS FONDECYT [1080187]; Centro de Investigacion de Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP); Programa de Financiamiento Basal COPAS-Sur Austral; WAFOW/NTNU-Norwegian Research Council Latin American-Norway Programme; COPAS-Sur Austral "This research was funded by FONDECYT 1080187 (J.L. Iriarte). We thank the Huinay Foundation for providing marine laboratories and vessel facilities, as well as phytoplankton data from the Comau Fjord, and our colleagues G. Forsterra and V. Haussermann for their help at the Huinay Scientific Station. We appreciate the valuable help of Patricio Ampuero and Caroll Garcia during the experimental work and microscopic analysis, and Pirjo Huovinen for allowing us to use her submersible Ramses-ACC2-UV-VIS hyperspectral radiometer sensor (Trios Optical Sensors). This research was also partially funded by the Centro de Investigacion de Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), Programa de Financiamiento Basal COPAS-Sur Austral, and WAFOW/NTNU-Norwegian Research Council Latin American-Norway Programme. The winter experiment was part of the MSc. Thesis of Ms. Pamela Labbe at Universidad de Concepcion, who was funded by a 1-year scholarship from COPAS-Sur Austral. This is publication 55 of Huinay Scientific Field Station." SPRINGER 2013 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000318503100043 Chile; Norway Chile
63 Impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms: quantifying sensitivities and interaction with warming GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English calcification; carbonate chemistry; climate change; cumulative effects; pH CLIMATE-CHANGE; CORAL; METAANALYSIS; CARBON; TEMPERATURE; RESPONSES; EXPOSURE; FISH; PH; CALCIFICATION MedSeA project [265103]; European Community "Thanks are due to C. D. G. Harley and two reviewers for comments on an early version of this manuscript and A.-M. Nisumaa for her help with data compilation. This study is a contribution to the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) and the MedSeA project (Contract #265103), with funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. Scientific illustrations are courtesy of the Integration and Application Network (http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000318353300020 Australia; Canada; Chile; France; Spain; USA USA
64 Phlebotomine sandflies and the spreading of leishmaniases and other diseases of public health concern MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY English Carrion's disease; Chandipura virus encephalitis; leishmaniasis; phlebotomine sandflies; sandfly fever; summer meningitis; vesicular stomatitis SAND FLIES DIPTERA; VESICULAR STOMATITIS-VIRUS; AMERICAN CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS; LUTZOMYIA-LONGIPALPIS DIPTERA; CANINE ANTIBODY-RESPONSE; NORTH-CENTRAL VENEZUELA; NEW-JERSEY VIRUS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; CHANDIPURA-VIRUS; TOSCANA VIRUS "EU [FP7-261504 EDENext, INCO-CT-2005-015407]" This work was partially funded by EU grant FP7-261504 EDENext and is catalogued by the EDENext Steering Committee as EDENext022 (http://www.edenext.eu). The contents of this publication are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. MDF was supported by a grant from the EU (INCO-CT-2005-015407). WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Entomology; Veterinary Sciences Entomology; Veterinary Sciences WOS:000318114300001 France; Italy; Venezuela Italy
65 Elevational Distribution and Conservation Biogeography of Phanaeine Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in Bolivia PLOS ONE English SPECIES-RICHNESS PATTERNS; MONTANE RAIN-FOREST; RAPOPORTS RULE; BODY-SIZE; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; ALTITUDINAL GRADIENTS; DIVERSITY PATTERNS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; BERGMANNS RULE; SPATIAL SCALE PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000320362700184 Bolivia; Canada; UK; USA Bolivia
66 "The spatio-temporal colonization and diversification across the Indo-Pacific by a 'great speciator' (Aves, Erythropitta erythrogaster)" PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English island biogeography; integrative taxonomy; speciation; phylogeny; Pleistocene climate changes NORTH-AMERICAN BIRDS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES; SPECIES DELIMITATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; TAXONOMY; MAXIMUM; RATES; CONSERVATION Danish National Research Foundation; European Union under REA [PIEF-GA-2011-300924]; Swedish Research Council [621-2010-5321] "We are grateful to Johannes Erritzoe for kindly sharing his morphometric data, and to two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on this paper. We thank the following institutions for providing tissue samples: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY (Paul Sweet); Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA (Jeremiah Trimble); Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (Steven van der Mije); Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden and Hessian State Museum Darmstadt, Germany (Martin Packert); Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Jan Bolding Kristensen); Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington, DE (Jean Woods); Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Sylke Frahnert); Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia (Walter Boles); Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden (Ulf Johansson); and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Kristof Zyskowski). P.-H. F. and K.A.J. acknowledge the Danish National Research Foundation for funding to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. K.A.J. acknowledges support from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no. PIEF-GA-2011-300924. This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (grant no. 621-2010-5321 to P.G.P.E.)." ROYAL SOC 2013 Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000317482100022 Brazil; Denmark; Netherlands; Sweden; UK Sweden
67 Diverging Responses of Tropical Andean Biomes under Future Climate Conditions PLOS ONE English LAND-USE CHANGE; CHANGE IMPACTS; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; ICE-AGE; CONSERVATION; VEGETATION; FOREST; PLANTS; MIGRATION World Bank; Andean Regional Program of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development "The Project was funded by the World Bank, and the Andean Regional Program of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000319654700172 Ecuador; Peru; UK Peru
68 Invaders of pollination networks in the Galapagos Islands: emergence of novel communities PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English biological invasions; insect and vertebrate pollination; modularity; mutualistic interactions; nestedness; oceanic islands MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; GLOBAL CHANGE; ALIEN PLANTS; IMPACT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION; VISITATION; DIVERSITY; INVASIONS BBVA Foundation "We thank the staff at the Galapagos National Park, particularly Washington Tapia for logistical support and facilitating our trips between islands, and the Charles Darwin Foundation for allowing us to use their laboratories, the herbarium and the insect collections. We are especially grateful to the taxonomists who identified the insects, especially Ana Maria Ortega and Alejandro Mieles. We also thank Novarino Castillo for being our 'guardian angel' during the field trips, and Eduardo Rosero 'Vikos' (captain of Queen Mabel) and his crew for making boat trips a very interesting experience and for taking minimum risks during the often difficult disembarkations. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. We also thank Charles Novaes de Santana for his help when making figure 2. The research was financed by BBVA Foundation. This publication is contribution no. 2060 of the Charles Darwin Foundation." ROYAL SOC 2013 Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000316413700006 Denmark; Ecuador; Portugal; Spain; USA Spain
69 On the Non-Compliance in the North Sea Cod Stock SUSTAINABILITY English (Un)observed scientific advice; total allowable catches; economic value of North Sea cod (Gadus morhua) stock; Common Fisheries Policy Reform COMMON FISHERIES POLICY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GADUS-MORHUA; SUSTAINABILITY; MANAGEMENT; COLLAPSE; ATLANTIC; FISH; BIODIVERSITY; LESSONS Norwegian Research Council; Campus do Mar-International Campus of Excellence; Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID); Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia) [INCITE 09201042PR] "The authors gratefully acknowledge four anonymous reviewers for insightful comments and suggestions. The authors are also grateful to Prof. Juan Carlos Estevez (USC) for his valuable assistance in the statistical analysis of the model. The authors also acknowledge valuable discussions and suggestions during the XIII Workshop of the Latin American and the Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) (San Jose de Costa Rica, May 19-22nd 2012), and the Subregional Workshop for South America on Valuation and Incentive Measures (Santiago de Chile, May 14-17th 2012) organized by the UNEP Program and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). SV acknowledges the financial support from the Norwegian Research Council, the Campus do Mar-International Campus of Excellence, and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). MA acknowledges financial aid from Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia) through grant INCITE 09201042PR." MDPI AG 2013 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000324048800012 Argentina; Spain; Sweden Spain
70 Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR English biological invasions; ecological opportunity; habitat change; niche conservatism; temperament HOUSE SPARROWS; URBAN AREAS; GREAT TITS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; PERSONALITY-TRAITS; SOCIAL INFORMATION; INDIVIDUAL HUMANS "Spanish Government [CGL2010-1838, CSD2008-00040]; Catalan government [2009SGR481]" "We thank Andy Sih and Susan Foster for the kind invitation to participate in the symposium that prompted this special issue. We also thank Andy Sih, Georgia Mason and two anonymous referees for useful comments and suggestions, Emilie Snell-Rood, Andy Sih, Simon Reader and Louis Lefebvre for discussions about the meaning of behavioural plasticity, and Louis Lefebvre, Simon Reader, Denis Reale, Gabriel Garcia-Pena, Nacho Bartomeus, Andrea Griffin and Julie Morand-Ferron for discussions over the past years. This work has been supported by funds from the Spanish Government (CGL2010-1838, 'MONTES' CSD2008-00040) and the Catalan government (2009SGR481). Expenses of attending the ABS conference were covered by National Science" ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 Behavioral Sciences; Zoology Behavioral Sciences; Zoology WOS:000319332000027 Chile; Spain Spain
71 A Case for Crop Wild Relative Preservation and Use in Potato CROP SCIENCE English BIOGEOGRAPHIC PREDICTIVITY RESISTANCE; POLLEN-PISTIL INCOMPATIBILITY; CULTIVATED POTATO; TAXONOMIC PREDICTIVITY; SEXUAL POLYPLOIDIZATION; SOLANUM-TUBEROSUM; HOMOLOGOUS SERIES; EARLY BLIGHT; GENE BANKS; VIRUS-Y government of Norway "The Global Crop Diversity Trust is gratefully acknowledged for convening the potato crop wild relative expert workshop through the initiative ""Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives,"" which is funded by the government of Norway. Stef de Haan, Henry Juarez, Benny Ordonez, Alberto Salas, and Janny van Beem from the International Potato Center reviewed this manuscript and provided valuable input. The contributions of the following workshop participants is also acknowledged: Walter Amoros, Mathews Andrew, Arturo Brenes, Paolo Donini, Tatjana Gavrilenko, Wolfgang Grunenberg, Kazuyoshi Hosaka, Andrew Jarvis, Sandra Knapp, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Elisa Mihovilovich, Philippe Monneveux, Flor Rodriguez, Manuel Ruiz, Tiina Sarkinnen, Rena Sanetomo, Maria Scurrah, Craig Yencho, and Maria Zaharieva." CROP SCIENCE SOC AMER 2013 Agronomy Agriculture WOS:000319527000002 Argentina; Brazil; Italy; Peru; Poland; USA USA
72 Nature conservation: priority-setting needs a global change BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Proactive conservation planning; Climate change; Biodiversity; Protected areas; Interdisciplinary conservation biology; Insensa GIS CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SPECIES RICHNESS; POPULATION-GROWTH; DECISION-MAKING; RAIN-FOREST; HOTSPOTS; STRATIFICATION; DIVERSITY "Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg through Europaischen Sozialfonds; Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg through Land Brandenburg; Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Germany" "This research project is supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg through funds of the Europaischen Sozialfonds and the Land Brandenburg. This project is also funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Germany (""Biodiversity in Change"" Program). It was carried out within the framework of a) the cooperative graduate research program ""Adaptive Nature Conservation under Climate Change"" of Potsdam University, the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany and b) the early stage researchers group ""Regional Adaptation to Climate Change-Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity"". We thank the anonymous reviewers for valuable suggestions as well as Wolfgang Cramer, Gerold Kier, Jens Mutke, Monika Bertzky and Juliane Geyer for comments on drafts of this paper. We would also like to thank Bjorn Reu of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena (Germany), Michael Lefsky of the Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship of the University of Colorado (USA), Patrick Gonzalez of the National Park Service in Washington (USA), Robin Naidoo, WWF, Washington (USA) for the provision of data." SPRINGER 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000319140500009 Bolivia; Germany; UK Germany
73 JOURNEY FROM THE WEST: DID TROPICAL GRAPHIDACEAE (LICHENIZED ASCOMYCOTA: OSTROPALES) EVOLVE FROM A SAXICOLOUS ANCESTOR ALONG THE AMERICAN PACIFIC COAST? AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY English Graphidaceae; lichens; Mediterranean regions; Ostropales; Pacific Desert; rock-inhabiting; Sonoran Desert LECANOROMYCETES OSTROPALES; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; ATACAMA DESERT; RIBOSOMAL DNA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SEQUENCE DATA National Science Foundation [DEB-1025861]; Erwin Warth Stiftung; Bay and Paul Foundations "This study was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation: ATM-Assembling a taxonomic monograph: The lichen family Graphidaceae (DEB-1025861 to The Field Museum: T. Lumbsch [PI], R. Lucking [CoPI]). Herbarium curators Othmar Breuss (W), Bruno Dennetiere (PC), Peter Mansfeld (KASSEL), and Michaela Schmull (FH) are thanked for their collaboration. We are grateful to Martin Irestedt who swiftly provided laboratory assistance at Molekylarsystematiska Laboratoriet, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. The Galapagos Lichen Inventory is possible because of the long-term support by the Galapagos National Park, especially its technical director Washington Tapia. The Galapagos aspect of this study has received financial support by the Erwin Warth Stiftung and the Bay and Paul Foundations. This publication is contribution number 2057 of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands." BOTANICAL SOC AMER INC 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000318720200003 Ecuador; Sweden; USA USA
74 "Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon" OECOLOGIA English Community composition; Disturbance; Regeneration; Resource availability; Species evenness PLANT-SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FORESTS; RAIN-FOREST; RESOURCE HETEROGENEITY; SOUTHEASTERN AMAZONIA; DENSITY-DEPENDENCE; TREE DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DYNAMICS; BIODIVERSITY SPRINGER 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000317686800020 Brazil; Germany; USA USA
75 The relationship of tropical bird communities to tree species composition and vegetation structure along an Andean elevational gradient JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Andes; avian guilds; beta diversity; climate change; habitat use; montane forest; Neotropics; nestedness; species turnover CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; BETA DIVERSITY; RANGE SHIFTS; ASSEMBLAGES; TURNOVER; DISTRIBUTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; FLORISTICS "Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes to Amazon Initiative; Blue Moon Fund; American Ornithologists' Union; Asociacion para la Conservacion de la Cuenca Amazonica; Wilson Ornithological Society; Explorer's Club; University of Missouri; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Andes to Amazon Initiative; National Science Foundation [EAR 0711414, DEB-0237684]" "This paper represents work by the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group and arose through meetings supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes to Amazon Initiative and Blue Moon Fund. This study was funded by grants to J.E.J. from the American Ornithologists' Union and Asociacion para la Conservacion de la Cuenca Amazonica; to C. L. M. from the Wilson Ornithological Society, Explorer's Club, and University of Missouri; and to M.S. by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Andes to Amazon Initiative, and National Science Foundation grants EAR 0711414 and DEB-0237684. The Direccion General de Areas Naturales Protegidas y Flora y Fauna Silvestre of INRENA provided permits for research and exportation of specimens. T. Boza, R. Butron, P. Butron, L. M. Cabrera, B. Cook, R. Cruz, L. Cueto, K. Elliot, C. Edgerton, D. Farfan, J. Farfan, M. Friedman, V. Huaman, M. Jurado, M. Libsch, G. Londono, C. McAtee, D. Miranda, J. Olano, Z. Peterson, N. Raurau Quisiyupanqui, R. Quispes, S. J. Socolar, J. Ungvari-Martin, and C. Zurita assisted with data collection. Parque Nacional del Manu, ACCA, and Peru Verde offered logistical support. We thank D. Levey, S. Robinson, J. Terborgh, and two anonymous referees for comments on previous manuscript versions." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000317993000013 Canada; Peru; UK; USA Canada
76 Inter-annual dynamics of abyssal polychaete communities in the North East Pacific and North East Atlantic-A family-level study DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS English Benthic ecology; Community structure; Macrofauna; Polychaeta; Rank abundance distribution; Time series DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS; PLAIN NE ATLANTIC; LONG-TERM CHANGE; TIME-SERIES; BENTHIC COMMUNITY; ARABIAN SEA; CLIMATE; PHYTODETRITUS; ECOSYSTEMS; ABUNDANCE "National Science Foundation [OCE89-22620, OCE92-17334, OCE97-11697, OCE98-17103]; David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Natural Environment Research Council, Porcupine Abyssal-Plain Sustained Observatory; EC MAST BENGAL programme (EC) [MAS-3 950018]" "We thank the crews and shipboard technical staffs of RRS Discovery, RRS Challenger, RRS Charles Darwin, RRS James Cook for sampling at PAP, of R/V New Horizon, R/V Atlantis, R/V Revel le, R/V Melville and R/V Wecoma for sampling at Sta. M; past and present staffs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection, of the Natural History Museum, London, of the NOC Discovery Collections, the past and present member of PAP research team and Sta. M research team, Dr. B. Bett and Dr. Clarke for fruitful discussions, as well as Dr. L Lovell and three anonymous reviewers for constructive commenting on the manuscript. Funding was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant number OCE89-22620, OCE92-17334, OCE97-11697, and OCE98-17103), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Natural Environment Research Council, Porcupine Abyssal-Plain Sustained Observatory, and the EC MAST BENGAL programme (EC contract MAS-3 950018)." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2013 Oceanography Oceanography WOS:000317888800014 Chile; UK; USA UK
77 Monitoring land use and land cover change in mountain regions: An example in the Jalca grasslands of the Peruvian Andes LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING English Elevation gradient; Landscape analysis; Land use change; Object-based classification; Tropical Andes HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; TROPICAL ANDES; CONSERVATION PRIORITIES; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; VEGETATION; CLASSIFICATION; REGENERATION; CONVERSION; PATTERNS CONDESAN; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam "We would like to thank Alicia Quispe from the Regional Goverment of Cajamarca (director of ""Proyecto Zonificacion Ecologica Economica de la region Cajamarca""), Enrique Crisologo and David Rosario for their help with GIS data. Also, this work was possible thanks to the financial support of Proyecto Paramo Andino implemented by CONDESAN and the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 "Ecology; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geography, Physical; Urban Studies" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geography; Physical Geography; Urban Studies WOS:000316530900005 Netherlands; Peru UK
78 Molecular systematics and evolution of the Synallaxis ruficapilla complex (Ayes: Furnariidae) in the Atlantic Forest MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Passeriformes; Neotropics; Species tree; Plio-Pleistocene; Diversification SEMIARID NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; SPECIES TREES; NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY; BAYESIAN-INFERENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; INTRON VARIATION; MULTILOCUS DATA; ANDEAN UPLIFT; NUCLEAR-DNA; GENE TREES Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP); Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq); Danish National Research Foundation; Swedish Research Council [621-2010-5321]; USP Provost's Office for Research "We thank Alexandre Aleixo (MPEG), Fabricio R. Santos (UFMG), and Marcos Raposo (MNRJ) for providing some of the tissues used in this study. We are grateful to Santiago Claramunt who sequenced samples housed in LSU. We thank Fabio S.R. Amaral, Claydson P. Assis, Luciano M. Lima, Marcos M. Coelho, Ana C. Fazza, Tiago S. Ribeiro for their help in field work. We thank Renata Stopiglia for insightful discussions about Synallaxis systematics. We thank an anonymous reviewer for his/her comments in a previous version of this article. Luiz P. Gonzaga gently authorized the use of the illustrations of the S. ruficapilla complex. This study is part of a PhD dissertation by HBF. This work was supported by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Danish National Research Foundation (support for the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Denmark) and the Swedish Research Council (Grant Numbers 621-2010-5321 to PE). Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis (IBA-MA) and Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservacao da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) provided permits to collect the samples. This work was developed in the Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (BioComp) of the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), supported by the USP Provost's Office for Research." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2013 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000317028200010 Brazil; Denmark; Sweden Brazil
79 Temperature-dependent shifts in herbivore performance and interactions drive nonlinear changes in crop damages GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English agricultural pests; biodiversityecosystem functioning; conceptual model; crop damage; global warming; herbivore pest; species interactions; stress-gradient hypothesis; thermal stress STRESS-GRADIENT HYPOTHESIS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; TROPICAL ANDES; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; BIODIVERSITY; FACILITATION; ECOSYSTEMS; RESPONSES McKnight Foundation [C09-031] We dedicate this article in kind memory of Charlotte Mazoyer. This work was conducted within the project 'Innovative Approaches for Integrated Pest Management in changing Andes' (C09-031) funded by the McKnight Foundation. WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000315900800008 Bolivia; Ecuador; France France
80 Cryptic species and phylogeographical structure in the tree Cedrela odorata L. throughout the Neotropics JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Conservation genetics; cryptic species; dispersal; diversification; Meliaceae; Neogene; phylogeography; Pleistocene; Spanish cedar; vicariance RAIN-FOREST TREE; DNA PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; GENETIC-VARIATION; SEASONAL FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOUTH-AMERICA; COSTA-RICA; DIVERSIFICATION; QUATERNARY; MELIACEAE "European Commission [FP6-2002-INCO-DEV-1, 003708]" "This work was funded by the European Commission, as part of the 'SEEDSOURCE' project (FP6-2002-INCO-DEV-1, contract number 003708). Samples were obtained from many sources within and outside the SEEDSOURCE consortium, and particular thanks are due to Maristerra Lemes, Caroline Scotti-Saintagne, Chris Dick, David Boshier, Alan Gray, Euridice Honorio, Utrecht University Herbarium, INPA Herbarium, EMBRAPA Herbarium, IRD Cayenne, Missouri Botanical Garden and the Oxford Forestry Institute (now incorporated in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford). We thank all of those who collected and/or provided samples for the study. We also thank the editors and anonymous referees for their comments, which have substantially improved the manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000316325500010 Australia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Ecuador; Italy; UK UK
81 Spider Trait Assembly Patterns and Resilience under Fire-Induced Vegetation Change in South Brazilian Grasslands PLOS ONE English COMPLEX-STRUCTURED HABITATS; CO-INERTIA ANALYSIS; ORB-WEAVING SPIDER; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; PLANT DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL GRASSLAND; CAMPOS GRASSLANDS; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES-DIVERSITY "CNPq, Brazil [479083/2008-8, 306573/2009-1]; CAPES, Brazil; Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar (NSF, USA) [1050680]" "The project was supported by grants from CNPq, Brazil, to Valerio Pillar (479083/2008-8 and 306573/2009-1). Luciana Podgaiski and Fernando Joner received PhD Scholarships from CAPES, Brazil. The project benefitted from travel funding provided to Luciana Podgaiski and Valerio Pillar by the Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar (NSF, USA, grant 1050680 coordinated by Sandy Andelman and Julia Parrish. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000317262200097 Brazil; France; Switzerland Brazil
82 Conservation Priorities for Prunus africana Defined with the Aid of Spatial Analysis of Genetic Data and Climatic Variables PLOS ONE English SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; EQUATORIAL-GUINEA; MEDICINAL TREE; TROPICAL TREES; POPULATIONS; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST; STRATEGIES; RESOURCES Austrian Development Agency "This research was funded by the Austrian Development Agency. It is the result of a collaboration between Bioversity International and the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape in Austria, and of a partnership with research institutions in African countries: Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Silo National des Graines Forestieres, Madagascar; Tanzania Forestry Research Institute, Tanzania; Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Cameroon; Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe; National Forestry Resources Research Institute, Uganda; Coordinador Nacional de la COMIFAC Ministerio de Agricultura y Bosques, Equatorial Guinea within the framework of the project 'Development of strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of Prunus africana to improve the livelihood of small-scale farmers'. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000317480700077 Austria; Belgium; Colombia; Italy; Kenya Italy
83 Recent Demographic History and Present Fine-Scale Structure in the Northwest Atlantic Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) Turtle Population PLOS ONE English MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; SEA-TURTLES; GENETIC DIVERSITY; MARINE TURTLES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; NULL ALLELES; CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS; METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS; GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DEAL Guyane; Kwata NGO; CNPq; Fapemig; CNPq (Brazil); Agence Nationale pour la Recherche through the MIRETTE project [ANR-07-JCJC-0122] "Part of the laboratory work (processing of West Indies, Cayenne and Awala samples) was funded by DEAL Guyane and Kwata NGO (www.kwata.net). The authors thank CNPq and Fapemig for fundings for the part of the research realized in Brazil (microsatellite databank). EM, FRS and STV were supported by CNPq (Brazil). The authors' thanks go to CNPq and Fapemig for their funding of the research carried out in Brazil (microsatellite databank). EM, FRS and STV were supported by CNPq (Brazil) and to Agence Nationale pour la Recherche through the MIRETTE project (http://projetmirette.fr, ANR-07-JCJC-0122) led by JYG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000316849200029 Brazil; France; French Guiana; Guadeloupe; Italy; Martinique French Guiana
84 A revision of Heliotropium sect. Cochranea (Heliotropiaceae) KEW BULLETIN English Atacama Desert; Boraginales; Chile; Peru; taxonomy RESINOUS EXUDATE; ATACAMA DESERT; NORTHERN CHILE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; SEMISYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; FILIFOLIUM RESIN; COASTAL DESERT; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BORAGINACEAE "German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [1030813, 11085016, NSF (USA) DEB 0415573]; CESAF-Chile; European Community [GB-TAF 4514]; FP7 'Capacities' Programme [ES-TAF 136, AT-TAF 2001]" "For valuable comments and help, I thank M. Ackermann, M. Antonissen, G. Arancio, C. Becker, C. Bidart, E. Danilowicz-Luebert, M. O. Dillon, R. Gajardo, L. Kritzner, N. Garcia, M. Gardner, G. Karabascheva, A. Marticorena, C. Marticorena, D. Muller-Doblies, A. Moreira-Munoz, M. Munoz-Schick, P. Naulin, R. Pinto, P. Pliscoff, A. Salchow, N. Schulz, M. T. Serra, S. Teillier, R. Torres, M. Weigend, J. Wen, and the curators of the consulted herbaria. Information on Weberbauer's specimens provided by A. Cano (USM), M. O. Dillon (F), C. Reynel (MOL) and K. Swierkosz (WRSL) is gratefully acknowledged. I especially thank E. Wood for her patience and for answering all kinds of requests about specimens from HUH. Special thanks to Prof. Dr H. H. Hilger for his support and space at his working group. This research received support from a visiting scholar award at the Smithsonian Institution, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), grants FONDECYT (Chile) No 1030813, No 11085016, NSF (USA) DEB 0415573, CESAF-Chile, and the Synthesys project http://www.synthesys.info/ which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 'Structuring the European Research Area' Programme (GB-TAF 4514) and the FP7 'Capacities' Programme (ES-TAF 136, AT-TAF 2001). The valuable comments of Michael Frohlich and two anonymous reviewers on an earlier version of the manuscript are gratefully acknowledged. This work is dedicated to the memory of my teacher and friend, Professor Rodolfo Gajardo." SPRINGER LONDON LTD 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000323896600001 Chile; Germany Germany
85 Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change: insights from the global ILTER sites network CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY English TROPICAL DRY FOREST; BROAD-LEAVED TREES; AKKESHI-KO ESTUARY; ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOSTERA-MARINA; LEAF PHENOLOGY; NORTHERN JAPAN; SEAGRASS BED; RESILIENCE "Effect of experimental warming and nitrogen deposition on sensitive alpine meadow ecosystem [VEGA 02/0217/09]; Impacts of climate change on multiple ecosystem services: Processes and adaption options at landscape scales (CLIMES); Academy of Finland [256231]; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Helmholtz Association; Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; [RVO 67985939]; [SEP-CONACYT 83441]; [SEP-CONACYT 50955]; [SEP-CONACYT 2010-129740]" "We thank all the ILTER network country representatives for contributing their recent important publications to this paper. We want to thank following supporters and research projects for the funding: The long-term research development project no. RVO 67985939 (P.P.); Grant project VEGA 02/0217/09 Effect of experimental warming and nitrogen deposition on sensitive alpine meadow ecosystem (R.K.); Impacts of climate change on multiple ecosystem services: Processes and adaption options at landscape scales (CLIMES) funded by Academy of Finland (No. 256231) & Chinese Academy of Sciences (P.V., D.D., M.F.); Projects SEP-CONACYT 83441, SEP-CONACYT 50955 (P. B. and M.M.), and Project SEP-CONACYT 2010-129740 (P.B.); The TERENO infrastructure funded by the Helmholtz Association and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. We also acknowledge the contribution of many funding bodies (too numerous to mention) and the staff that conduct research at the ILTER sites and those that contributed articles for this paper. We thank also anonymous referees for valuable suggesting for improvements to the text." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2013 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000317326900008 Czech Republic; Finland; Germany; Japan; Latvia; Mexico; Mongol Peo Rep; Slovakia; Sweden; UK; USA Finland
86 Epidendrum (Orchidaceae) as a model system for ecological and evolutionary studies in the Neotropics TAXON English hybridization; Neotropical plant evolution; orchid pollination; orchid plant model; phylogeography; reproductive barriers; speciation MICROSATELLITE LOCI; DECEPTIVE ORCHID; DACTYLORHIZA ORCHIDACEAE; POLLINATOR SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SECUNDUM ORCHIDACEAE; PLANT SPECIATION; GLACIAL REFUGIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo [FAPESP-2009/15052-0] We thank C. Palma-Silva for valuable comments on this manuscript. Funding for this study was provided by fellowship from Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo (FAPESP-2009/15052-0) to FP. INT ASSOC PLANT TAXONOMY-IAPT 2013 Plant Sciences; Evolutionary Biology Plant Sciences; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000322750900006 Brazil; Italy Italy
87 "What is the relevance of smallholders' agroforestry systems for conserving tropical tree species and genetic diversity in circa situm, in situ and ex situ settings? A review" BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Agroforestry; Circa situm conservation; Ex situ conservation; In situ conservation; Effective population size; Genetic variation ATLANTIC FOREST TREES; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; SOUTHERN BAHIA; RAIN-FOREST; EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES; NEOTROPICAL TREES; COCOA AGROFORESTS; SPONDIAS-PURPUREA SPRINGER 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000313792200002 Australia; Indonesia; Italy; Kenya; Mali; Netherlands; Peru; UK Kenya
88 The responses of leaf litter ant communities to wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon: a multi-region assessment BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Brazil; Community ecology; Disturbance; Tropical forest; Winkler sack EXPERIMENTAL FIRE REGIMES; NORMALIZED BURN RATIO; TROPICAL FORESTS; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DOMINANT ANTS; SAVANNA; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG); Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX07AF16G]; UK National Environment Research Council [NE/G000816/1] "The lead author would like to acknowledge support from Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), who provided a post-doctoral fellowship. We are very thankful to the crew of the Instituto Chico Mendes de Biodiversidade (ICMBio) of Acre, Roraima and Para, and also to Luiz Pirani in Mato Grosso for giving permission to our research. We are also thankful to Cleber Salimon, Foster Brown, Reinaldo Barbosa and Simar Nogueira for helping to search for suitable areas. Many thanks to Sr. Antonio and to the crew of ESEC Maraca for providing the field infrastructure in Roraima. We are very grateful to the communities of Sao Jose II, Sao Jose III in Para, and to communities of RESEX Chico Mendes in Acre, for giving the permission and for helping the field work. A special thanks to Sr. Rui and family in Acre. The manuscript was improved by comments from Toby A. Gardner. This paper is part of the Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (NNX07AF16G), the UK National Environment Research Council grant (NE/G000816/1) and the Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia-Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia (CNPq 574008/2008-0)." SPRINGER 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000313792200013 Brazil; UK; USA Brazil
89 Climate Change or Urbanization? Impacts on a Traditional Coffee Production System in East Africa over the Last 80 Years PLOS ONE English HYPOTHENEMUS-HAMPEI COLEOPTERA; LAND-USE CHANGE; BERRY BORER; SHADE COFFEE; AGROFORESTRY MANAGEMENT; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ARABICA L.; BIODIVERSITY; AGRICULTURE German Research Foundation - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the CHIESA project "This research was funded by the German Research Foundation - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and partly supported by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the CHIESA project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2013 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000314759400006 Colombia; Germany; Kenya; USA Germany
90 Networking Agroecology: Integrating the Diversity of Agroecosystem Interactions ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS IN AN AGRICULTURAL WORLD English FOOD-WEB STRUCTURE; ANIMAL MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; HERBICIDE-TOLERANT CROPS; FACILITATE BIODIVERSITY MAINTENANCE; SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORKS; CLIMATE-CHANGE IMPACTS; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; BODY-SIZE; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC 2013 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000329549000002 Australia; Brazil; France; Germany; Netherlands; UK France
91 Dynamics and management alternatives of in-channel large wood in mountain basins of the southern Andes BOSQUE English large wood load; mountain streams; in-channel wood management; check dams STREAM RESTORATION; AQUATIC HABITAT; LAND-USE; DEBRIS; MORPHOLOGY; WASHINGTON; CATCHMENTS; HISTORY; STORAGE; OREGON EU [INCO-CT-2004-510735] "This research was funded by the EU Project INCO-CT-2004-510735 ""Epic force"" (Evidence-based policy for integrated control of forested river catchments in extreme rainfall and snowmelt). All colleagues and students who helped in the field are greatly thanked." "UNIV AUSTRAL CHILE, FAC CIENCIAS FORESTALES" 2013 Ecology; Forestry Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000328564800008 Chile; Italy Chile
92 Tropical high-altitude Andean lakes located above the tree line attenuate UV-A radiation more strongly than typical temperate alpine lakes PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET-RADIATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-CARBON; CONSERVATION PRIORITIES; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TRANSPARENCY; BOLIVIA International Foundation for Science (IFS) "We warmly thank ULRA and CASA staff, for their contribution in the chlorophyll-a and nutrient analyses. We express our gratitude to Juan Carlos Delgadillo Mayta for his efficient collaboration during the field trips. XA thanks the International Foundation for Science (IFS) for financially supporting this research. We are grateful to Ruben Sommaruga for his comments and suggestions on an earlier draft that greatly improved the quality of our manuscript." ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY 2013 "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biophysics; Chemistry, Physical" Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biophysics; Chemistry WOS:000323174000010 Bolivia; France Bolivia
93 Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY English agents; causes; coupled human-environment systems; coupled human and natural systems; coupled social-ecological systems; dispersal; distant interactions; effects; feedbacks; flows; globalization; investment; knowledge transfer; migration; socioeconomic and environmental interactions; species invasion; sustainability; technology transfer; teleconnection; telecoupling; trade; transnational land deals; water transfer SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; LAND-USE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; FOREST TRANSITIONS; SOLENOPSIS-INVICTA; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; NATURAL SYSTEMS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; COUPLED HUMAN National Science Foundation; Michigan State University; U.S. DOE Office of Science; Michigan AgBioResearch "We thank the National Science Foundation, Michigan State University, U.S. DOE Office of Science, and Michigan AgBioResearch for funding. We are also grateful to Anthony Janetos, Harini Nagendra, Phil Robertson, and Robert Walker for helpful input." RESILIENCE ALLIANCE 2013 Ecology; Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000321257100044 Brazil; Denmark; Netherlands; Peoples R China; USA USA
94 An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY English biodiversity; carbon; criteria and indicators; forest degradation; forest management; remote sensing TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SOIL-EROSION; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; LOGGED FORESTS; CARBON STORAGE; LAND-USE; TREE DIVERSITY; EASTERN AMAZON United Nations FAO Forestry Department; Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity; CGIAR Research Program; Global Environment Research Fund [S9] "We thank the United Nations FAO Forestry Department and especially M. Loiche-Wilkie for securing funding for two expert group meetings to discuss indicators of degradation. IDT was supported by, and worked on behalf of, the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity. MRG and RN were supported by the CGIAR Research Program, ""Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance"". KO was partly supported by the Global Environment Research Fund (S9). Valerie Kapos and two anonymous reviewers assisted in improving the manuscript." RESILIENCE ALLIANCE 2013 Ecology; Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000321257100023 Chile; Italy; Japan
95 "Effects of altitude and climate in determining elevational plant species richness patterns: A case study from Los Tuxtlas, Mexico" FLORA English Elevational gradients; Epiphytes; Ferns; Orchids; Terrestrial plants; Veracruz state MONTANE CLOUD FORESTS; VASCULAR EPIPHYTES; DIVERSITY PATTERNS; RAIN-FOREST; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; TROPICAL FORESTS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; BOLIVIAN ANDES; SPATIAL SCALE; GRADIENT Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico "We thank D. Gonzalez-Montes, A. Hernandez-Santiago, N. Malaga-Temich, E. Otto, A. Perez-Pen a, and E. Velasquez-Sinaca, as well as people at Ejido Plan Agrario and the members of Grupo Ecoturistico ""Los Clarines"" in Ruiz Cortinez for invaluable help during field work; T. B. Croat (Araceae), A. Espejo-Serna, A.R. Lopez-Ferrari, and H.E. Luther (Bromeliaceae), G.A. Salazar (Orchidaceae), G. Mathieu (Peperomia), S. Sinaca-Colin (Piper), A.R. Smith (Pteridophyta), and J.T. Mickel (Elaphoglossum, Selaginella) for species identifications; the directors of the ""Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station"" R. Coates and M. Ricker for logistical support; E.A. Ellis for conducting the GIS calculation of area, and C. Gallo-Gomez for preparing the map. This study was financed by a postdoctoral grant for TK from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico." "ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG" 2013 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000320292400005 Germany; Mexico; Switzerland Mexico
96 New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY English biodiversity; ecophysiology; ecosystem dynamics; ecosystem functions; environmental change; plant morphology DRY-MATTER CONTENT; LEAF LIFE-SPAN; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATES; MIXED DIPTEROCARP FOREST; NORTHWEST EUROPEAN FLORA; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; ANTI-HERBIVORE DEFENSE; WOOD SPECIFIC-GRAVITY "Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [CRN 2015, SGP-CRA2015]; US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325, GEO-1138881]; FONCyT [PICT 20441, 365]; CONICET [PIP 2006-2011 11220080101532]; SECYT-Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Argentina; US NSF [DEB-0620652]" "This contribution was funded, in part, by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015 and SGP-CRA2015, which were supported by US National Science Foundation Grants GEO-0452325 and GEO-1138881 The work was also funded by FONCyT (PICT 20441 and 365), CONICET (PIP 2006-2011 11220080101532), SECYT-Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Argentina, and the US NSF (DEB-0620652). The authors particularly thank Phil Grime and the UCPE-University of Sheffield, and Mark Westoby and the ARC-NZ Network of Vegetation Function-Macquarie University, for inspiring discussion and development of trait measurement. The authors also thank Marcelo Cabido, William Bond, Paula Tecco, Fernando Casanoves and Bryan Finegan for valuable discussions. The authors thank Diana Abal Solis and Juan Pablo Bellini for assistance with figures and diagrams and Valeria Falczuk for technical assistance in the laboratory. The authors appreciate helpful comments of Adrienne Nicotra, Hans Lambers and one anonymous reviewer, which greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. Many users of the previous handbook gave useful feedback on trait measurements. Finally, we thank plant species around the world for beginning to give away the secrets of their functioning and ecosystem-level impacts." CSIRO PUBLISHING 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000318568100001 Argentina; Australia; Costa Rica; France; Germany; Netherlands; Spain; Switzerland; UK; USA Argentina
97 "Systematics and ecology of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus" TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES English Rhipicephalus sanguineus; Brown dog tick; Taxonomy; Ecology; Climate MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED-FEVER; IXODES-RICINUS ACARI; DOMESTIC DOGS; RICKETTSIA-CONORII; SOUTH-AMERICA; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; MINAS-GERAIS; LIFE-CYCLES; GUINEA-PIGS; IXODIDAE Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain; [AGL2009-10797] "Parts of this work were supported by the project AGL2009-10797, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain." "ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG" 2013 Infectious Diseases; Microbiology; Parasitology Infectious Diseases; Microbiology; Parasitology WOS:000318391600001 Brazil; Ireland; Italy; Spain; USA Ireland
98 "Nonstationary effects of productivity, seasonality, and historical climate changes on global amphibian diversity" ECOGRAPHY English SPECIES-RICHNESS GRADIENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS; SCALE VARIATION; PATTERNS; ENERGY; ECOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGY CAPES; Spanish MICINN Ramon y Cajal; CNPq [400130/2010-6]; CNPq "We thank Jens-Christian Svenning for the insightful comments and careful revision of the manuscript. SFG and FASC were supported by doctorate and post-doctorate CAPES fellowships, respectively. JH was funded by a Spanish MICINN Ramon y Cajal grant and a CNPq Visiting Researcher grant (400130/2010-6). TFR and JAFDF have been continuously supported by several CNPq and CAPES grants." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000315892600009 Brazil; Spain Brazil
99 Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local and regional scales ECOLOGY English body size; context-dependency; extinction risk; extrinsic factors; fitness; functional traits; land use change; population response; Scarabaeinae; trait-based approaches EXTINCTION RISK; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; MAMMALIAN EXTINCTION; SECONDARY FORESTS; BODY-SIZE; SCARABAEINAE; DECLINE; FRAGMENTATION; VULNERABILITY; CONSEQUENCES "Scarabaeinae Research Network (National Science Foundation) [DEB-0043443]; Columbia University Faculty Fellowship; Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estadode, Mato Grosso, Brazil; Fulbright Scholar Program" "This manuscript was fostered by the Scarabaeinae Research Network (National Science Foundation Grant Number DEB-0043443). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. E. Nichols acknowledges funding from a Columbia University Faculty Fellowship. F. Z. Vaz-de-Mello, J. Louzada, E. Nichols, and S. H. Spector acknowledge support from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq). F. Z. Vaz-de-Mello acknowledges support by the Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estadode, Mato Grosso, Brazil. K. Vulinec acknowledges support from the Fulbright Scholar Program." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000316186900020 Brazil; Finland; Mexico; USA USA
100 Connections between the Atlantic and the Amazonian forest avifaunas represent distinct historical events JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY English Neotropical region; New World suboscines; Supermatrix; Worldmap; Biogeography; Miocene; Quaternary SEMIARID NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; FORELAND BASIN; SOUTH-AMERICA; PHYLOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION; TYRANT FLYCATCHERS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; MIOCENE DEPOSITS; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANDEAN UPLIFT; DIVERSIFICATION Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil); Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (Brazil); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (Brazil); Danish National Research Foundation "This study was funded by the Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (Brazil), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (Brazil), and the Danish National Research Foundation (support for the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Denmark). We thank Marcos M. Coelho and two anonymous reviewers for suggestions regarding a previous version of this manuscript. BEAST and MrBayes analyses were carried out by using the resources of the Computational Biology Service Unit from Cornell University, which is partially funded by Microsoft Corporation. This study is a result of the Research Center on Biodiversity and Computer Science of the Universidade de Sao Paulo (NAP BioComp)." SPRINGER 2013 Ornithology Zoology WOS:000314259900005 Brazil; Denmark Brazil
101 Neogene origins and implied warmth tolerance of Amazon tree species ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION English Amazon forests; comparative phylogeography; ecological niche models; global change; molecular clock; thermal tolerance; tropical trees RAIN-FOREST TREES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC HISTORY; FUNCTIONAL-GROUPS; BIOTIC ATTRITION; TROPICAL TREE; DIVERSIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; PERSPECTIVE National Science Foundation [DEB 0640379]; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Royal Society; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI); University of Michigan "We would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation (DEB 0640379), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Royal Society for financial support. We thank Y. Mendoza, C. Vergara, E. Rivera-Ocasio, I. Landires, S. Pereira H. Draheim, and Na Wei for assistance in the laboratory; and D. Neill, H. Mogollon, and K. Dexter for help in obtaining samples, and J. Megahan for doing the artwork used in Fig. 3. We thank ANAM (Panama) and the Ministerio del Medio Ambiente (Ecuador) for permits to collect and export plant material. Center for Tropical Forest Sciences (CTFS), STRI, Catholic University of Quito (PUCE) and National Herbarium of Ecuador provided assistance with permits and access to sites. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), University of Michigan, National Science Foundation (DEB 0640379 to CD) and the Royal Society (to SLL) provided financial support." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000313783900013 Panama; UK; USA USA
102 Topological properties of polar food webs MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES English Global change; Arctic; Antarctic; Trophic cascade; Complex networks ARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; NETWORK STRUCTURE; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONNECTANCE; ROBUSTNESS CSIC; PUC; FP7 program of the EU [226248]; JAE-PreDOC fellowship from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) "This is a contribution to the LINC-Global project, funded by CSIC and PUC (www.lincg.uc-csic.es), and to the ATP project, funded by the FP7 program of the EU (contract number 226248, cf. www.eu-atp.org). We thank B. Raymond, S. Allesina, and J. Dunne for providing food web data, as well as J. Cohen for making the ECOWeB compendium available to the ecological community. We thank B. Raymond, S. Allesina, J. Dunne, P. Wassmann, S. Navarrete, and J. Holding for helpful suggestions, as well as J. Piatt and 3 anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the manuscript and constructive suggestions. This manuscript was partially written at Estacion Costera de Investigaciones Marinas, Chile. C.N.S. was supported by a JAE-PreDOC fellowship from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)." INTER-RESEARCH 2013 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000314368600002 Australia; Chile; Portugal; Spain; USA Spain
103 Growth and temperature-related phenotypic plasticity in the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH English blooms; cyanobacteria; global warming; invasive species; morphology NITROGEN LIMITATION; NOSTOCALES; CYANOPROKARYOTE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CYANOPHYCEAE; MORPHOLOGY; TOLERANCE; CULTURES; WATERS "Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes, Brazil) [Bex 1098/06-3]; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil)" "The authors are grateful to Sandra Azevedo, who kindly provided us with the cyanobacteria strain. M. C. S. S. is grateful to the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes, Brazil) for a sandwich-PhD fellowship (Bex 1098/06-3). V. L. M. H was partially supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000313981500009 Brazil; Netherlands Brazil
104 "Conservation agriculture cropping systems in temperate and tropical conditions, performances and impacts. A review" AGRONOMY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT English Soil fertility; Soil biology; Biodiversity; Ecological processes; Environmental services; Cover crops; Grain production; Farming systems; Brazil; Europe SOIL ORGANIC-MATTER; NO-TILL SYSTEM; DIFFERENT LIVING MULCHES; WHEAT TRITICUM-AESTIVUM; CATCH CROPS UNDERSOWN; FESCUE FESTUCA-RUBRA; LONG-TERM TILLAGE; COVER CROP; CARBON STORAGE; BIOCHEMICAL-PROPERTIES Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-08-STRA-10] "This work was partly funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the Systerra Program: ANR-08-STRA-10 (Ecological, technical and social innovation processes in Conservation Agriculture)." SPRINGER FRANCE 2013 Agronomy Agriculture WOS:000312738100006 Brazil; France France
105 Current state of knowledge regarding the world's wetlands and their future under global climate change: a synthesis AQUATIC SCIENCES English Wetlands; Distribution; Threats; Management; Climate change ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW ASSESSMENT; FRESH-WATER; LAKES; ERA; AFRICA; TRENDS SPRINGER BASEL AG 2013 Environmental Sciences; Limnology; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000313002400010 Australia; Brazil; Canada; Czech Republic; India; Peoples R China; South Africa; USA Brazil
106 Temporal and spatial origin of Gesneriaceae in the New World inferred from plastid DNA sequences BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY English Andes; Australasia; Brazilian Atlantic forest; dispersal; historical biogeography; Lamiales; molecular dating; Neotropics; phylogeny; radiation TITANOTRICHUM-OLDHAMII GESNERIACEAE; UNTANGLING GLOXINIEAE GESNERIACEAE; TRIBE SINNINGIEAE GESNERIACEAE; ESTIMATING DIVERGENCE TIMES; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; CHLOROPLAST DNA; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL; ATLANTIC FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE "City of Geneva; Academic Society of Geneva; Swiss National Science Foundation [CRS113-125240, 3100A0-138282]; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo; International Association for Plant Taxonomy; Elvin McDonald Research Endowment Fund of the Gesneriad Society, Inc." "We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this investigation from the City of Geneva, the Academic Society of Geneva to M. P. and A. C., and the Swiss National Science Foundation grants CRS113-125240 and 3100A0-138282 to N.S. We also thank Regine Niba, Fadil Avdija and Maite Guignard for their contribution to the laboratory work; Fred Stauffer for the anatomical study of Cubitanthus; Nicolas Wyler for his help in producing the map of Figure 1; and Pierre Mattille, Yvonne Menneret, Marina Magnette and Matthieu Grillet for the propagation and maintenance of the Gesneriaceae collection in Geneva. Collection permits were granted by the CNPq in Brazil (CMC 038/03) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. Additional plant material was kindly supplied by Mauro Peixoto, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. A.O.A. acknowledges the Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Elvin McDonald Research Endowment Fund of the Gesneriad Society, Inc. for supporting her research. We also acknowledge two anonymous reviewers, Alexandre Antonelli and Daniel Hoffman for their thoughtful suggestions on this manuscript and are grateful to A. Antonelli, C. Hughes and T. Pennington for their invitation to contribute to the Special Volume on 'Neotropical plant evolution - assembling the big picture', which arose from a symposium held at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia, 2011." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000312529200004 Brazil; Switzerland Switzerland
107 Cenozoic colonization and diversification patterns of tropical American palms: evidence from Astrocaryum (Arecaceae) BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY English ancestral range reconstruction; Andean uplift; dispersal; extinction and cladogenesis (DEC) model; diversification rate shifts; Guiana Shield; middle Miocene climatic optimum; Pebas; Western Amazon NUCLEAR-DNA SEQUENCES; RAIN-FOREST TREES; SOUTH-AMERICA; LATE MIOCENE; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIVERSITY PATTERNS; DIVERGENCE TIMES; RAPID DIVERSIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION Marie Curie Intraeuropean Fellowhip program for the project Plant Speciation [PIEF-GA-2006-251702] "This work was financed through grant no. PIEF-GA-2006-251702 from the Marie Curie Intraeuropean Fellowhip program for the project Plant Speciation to J.R. and J.C.P. Collecting permits in Peru were kindly issued by INRENA (1-2003, 18-2004, 33-2005). We acknowledge the Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group of Aarhus University, Denmark, for sharing palm samples, William Baker and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on this manuscript, and Joseph Brown for writing turboMEDUSA. We are grateful to Alexandre Antonelli and R. Toby Pennington for inviting us to participate in the IBC 2011 symposium on Neotropical plant evolution and to submit a paper on this special issue." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2013 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000312529200007 France; Peru France
108 "Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the ""Taygetis clade"" (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): Towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography" MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Historical biogeography; Lepidoptera; Molecular phylogeny; Neogene; Neotropics; Quaternary LEPIDOPTERA NYMPHALIDAE; SOUTH-AMERICA; SPECIES RICHNESS; NORTHERN ANDES; FORELAND BASIN; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DIVERSIFICATION; DIVERSITY; PATTERNS; SPECIATION "Academy of Finland; Kone Foundation; Turun yliopistosaatio; Oskar Oflunds Foundation; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [04/05269-9, 11/50225-3]; Brazilian Research Council - CNPq [300282/2008-7, SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq 563332/2010-7]; RedeLep ""Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservacao de Lepidopteros""; Darwin Initiative; National Science Foundation [DEB0639861]" "The present study was funded by a grant awarded to NW from the Academy of Finland and the Kone Foundation. PM-M acknowledges the grants awarded by Turun yliopistosaatio and the Oskar Oflunds Foundation. We are very grateful to Mario A. Marin, Andrew D. Warren, Phil J. DeVries, Carlos Eduardo Giraldo, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Gerardo Lamas, Juan Jose Ramirez and Liliana Arango for kindly providing the specimens used in this study. AVLF thanks ""Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo"" (FAPESP Grant 04/05269-9, and Biota-Fapesp Grant 11/50225-3), the Brazilian Research Council - CNPq (Fellowship 300282/2008-7, and SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq 563332/2010-7), and the RedeLep ""Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservacao de Lepidopteros"". KRW thanks the Darwin Initiative and National Science Foundation (DEB0639861) for support. We thank Andrew Neild, Armando Luis Martinez, Blanca Huertas, Jorge Llorente and Mauro Costa for discussion about taxa in the ""Taygetis clade""." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2013 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000312417800005 Brazil; Finland; USA Finland
109 "Diatom ecological guilds as indicators of temporally changing stressors and disturbances in the small Torna-stream, Hungary" ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS English Diatom ecological guilds; Stressors; Disturbances; Seasonality; Torna-stream WATER-QUALITY; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION; BENTHIC DIATOMS; RUNNING WATERS; LIFE-FORMS; ALGAE; ASSEMBLAGES; PERIPHYTON; BIOMASS; USA "Hungarian National Science Foundation [K 75552, K 81599]; Otto Kinne Foundation; Hungarian Government; European Union; European Social Fund" "The project was supported by the Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA Nr. K 75552 and K 81599) and by the Otto Kinne Foundation. Present article was published in the frame of the project TAMOP 4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0025. The TAMOP project is realized with the support of the Hungarian Government and the European Union, with the co-funding of the European Social Fund." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2013 Biodiversity Conservation; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000311059900016 Brazil; Hungary Hungary
110 Areas of Climate Stability of Species Ranges in the Brazilian Cerrado: Disentangling Uncertainties Through Time NATUREZA & CONSERVACAO English Climate Change; Climatically Stable Areas; Ensemble Forecasting; Ecological Niche Models; Systematic Conservation Planning CLIMATICALLY SUITABLE AREAS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; PROJECTIONS; PREDICTION; SHIFTS "CAPES; CNPq; FAPEG [564717/2010-0, 563727/2010-1, 563624/2010-8]; BBVA foundation; MCT/CNPq in the ""Rede Clima"" research network; MBA; FG; JAFD-F; TFR [PTDC/AAC-AMB/98163/2008]" "The ideas developed in this work resulted from discussions during the I Workshop of Species Distribution Modeling, in Jatai, Goias, July/2012. Our research about the effects of climate change on Brazilian Cerrado species is part of the research network GENPAC (Geographical Genetics and Regional Planning for natural resources in Brazilian Cerrado), supported by CAPES, CNPq and FAPEG (projects n. 564717/2010-0, 563727/2010-1 and 563624/2010-8). Development of Bioensembles platform was supported by grants and fellowships from BBVA foundation and MCT/CNPq in the ""Rede Clima"" research network. Research by MBA, FG, JAFD-F, and TFR is partly supported through FCT Range Shift (PTDC/AAC-AMB/98163/2008) project. Work by JAFD-F, TFR, RGC and MPCT have been continuously supported by CNPq productivity grants." ASSOC BRASILEIRA CIENCIA ECOLOGICA E CONSERVACAO 2012 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000313845000008 Brazil; Denmark; Portugal; Spain Brazil
111 Size-dependent species removal impairs ecosystem functioning in a large-scale tropical field experiment ECOLOGY English biodiversity-ecosystem functioning; biodiversity hotspot; body size; dung beetles; spatial-temporal variation; Western Amazon; Ecuador; Yasuni National Park DUNG BEETLE COMMUNITIES; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FRESH-WATER; MASS EXTINCTION; MODEL SELECTION; BODY-SIZE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; RICHNESS; PATCHINESS "School of Biology of the PUCE; Natural Environment Research Council, UK [NE/D013305/1]" "We warmly thank Rafael Cardenas, Patricio Andino, Rodrigo Espinosa, and the students of the PUCE Master Biologia de la Conservacion (promotion 2010-2011 and 2011-2012) for their help during field work. We also thank the staff of the Yasuni Research Station, in particular the Administrative Director, David Lasso, for constant support during our stays at the station. This experiment would have been logistically impossible to perform without them. We thank Eoin O'Gorman, Tom Ings, Trond Larsen, and two anonymous reviewers for providing insightful comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript. We are grateful to the School of Biology of the PUCE for financial support through a research grant. G. Woodward was supported by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council, UK (grant reference: NE/D013305/1)." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000312892500012 Ecuador; France; UK Ecuador
112 The Spanish fishing fleet and the economic value of Southern stock of European hake fishery (Merluccius merluccius) OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT English GLOBAL FISHERIES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; MANAGEMENT "Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economic Program (LACEEP); Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (SIDA); International Development Research Center (IDRC); Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden); Campus do Mar-International Campus of Excellence (Spain); Galician Autonomous Government (Xunta de Galicia) [INCITE09201042PR]" "We thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that led to substantial improvements of the paper. The authors also acknowledge useful comments from Martin Quaas (Institut fur Volkswirtschaftslehre, CAU Kiel). We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economic Program (LACEEP), the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (SIDA), and the International Development Research Center (IDRC). S.V. is also grateful to The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden) for a Karl-Goran Maler Fellowship and the Campus do Mar-International Campus of Excellence (Spain). M.A. is grateful for financial aid provided by the Galician Autonomous Government (Xunta de Galicia) through Project INCITE09201042PR." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2012 Oceanography; Water Resources Oceanography; Water Resources WOS:000312468900009 Argentina; Spain; Sweden Spain
113 Expansion of a globally pervasive grass occurs without substantial trait differences between home and away populations OECOLOGIA English Invasion ecology; Common-environment trial; Competition; Plant functional traits; Orchard grass COCKSFOOT DACTYLIS-GLOMERATA; INTRODUCED PLANT-POPULATIONS; NONNATIVE RANGES; INVASION SUCCESS; FLOW-CYTOMETRY; NORTH-AMERICA; NEW-ZEALAND; DIFFERENTIATION; COMPETITION; POLYPLOIDY "NSERC (Canada); European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Estonian Center of Excellence FIBIR) (Estonia); FCEyN (Argentina); CONICET (Argentina); International Bureau of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Germany); New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology [C09X0502]" "Thanks to Julie Maniecki, Erin Leclair, Greg Baute, Paul Kron, Sarah Baldwin, Tannis Slimmon, Mike Mucci, Pedro Tognetti, Enrique Chaneton, WalterMartin, Karl Fiander, Jennifer Firn, Hafiz Maherali, Merritt Turetsky, John Klironomos, and Rieger-Hoffmann. Seed importation and the destruction of plant material at the end of the experiment followed the guidelines of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Funding provided by NSERC (Canada), the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Estonian Center of Excellence FIBIR) (Estonia), FCEyN and CONICET (Argentina), the International Bureau of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Germany), and by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology grant C09X0502." SPRINGER 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310999400023 Argentina; Canada; Estonia; Germany; New Zealand Canada
114 The ecosystem functioning dimension in conservation: insights from remote sensing BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Conservation planning; Ecosystem functioning descriptors; Ecosystem monitoring; Environmental change; Protected areas; Restoration ecology; Species-environment relationships NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION GROWTH; SEASONAL PATTERNS; PROTECTED AREAS; HABITAT MODELS; USE EFFICIENCY "Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (AECID); FEDER; Junta de Andalucia [RNM-6685, SEGALERT P09-RNM-5048]; Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales [066/2007]; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL2010-22314]; Fundacion MAPFRE" "We thank Jose Maria Iriondo and Francisco Lloret for their helpful comments. This paper is the result of two symposiums supported by the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (AECID) (Project ""Red tematica para la evaluacion del impacto de los cambios globales (vs locales) en el funcionamiento ecosistemico""). Financial support was also provided by FEDER funds, Junta de Andalucia (projects RNM-6685 and SEGALERT P09-RNM-5048), Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales (project 066/2007), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Proyecto CGL2010-22314) and Fundacion MAPFRE (2008 call for projects)." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310586500002 Argentina; Spain; Uruguay; USA Spain
115 Analysis of threats to South American flora and its implications for conservation JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION English Species richness; Diversity; Anthropogenic activities; Extinction; Protected areas; Populations; Agriculture VASCULAR PLANT DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION RISK; GAP ANALYSIS; LAND-USE; PRIORITIES; PATTERNS; MODELS; DISTRIBUTIONS Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) "The authors thank Daniel Amariles and Hector Tobon, from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for their valuable help on the cross-checking algorithms for the primary biodiversity data. This research was supported by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), who provided funding, support and the data. The authors thank Charlotte Lau, from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for her valuable editorial work. Grateful acknowledgments to the two anonymous reviewers for their work, encouragement, and insightful comments aimed at improving the paper. Remaining errors and omissions are the author's responsibility." "ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG" 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310696300003 Colombia; UK; USA Colombia
116 "The impact of soybean expansion on mammal and bird, in the Balsas region, north Brasilian Cerrado" JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION English Land use change; Species modeling; CLUE; LEDESS; Maranhao; Biodiversity conservation LAND-COVER CHANGE; ATLANTIC FOREST; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPATIAL SCALES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; BIODIVERSITY; MODEL; FRAGMENTATION; POPULATIONS CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior/Governmental Institute from Brazil) "Larissa Barreto conducted this research thanks to the post-doc fellowship of the CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior/Governmental Institute from Brazil), to the Fapema Foundation (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Maranhao/State Maranhao Foundation), to the Federal University of Maranhao and Wageningen University (WUR). We are grateful to the Geoprocessing Laboratory (Labgeo/UEMA/Maranhao State) for providing shape files and several maps. Thomas Pedersen improved the final tables and figures and Dr. Frans Lip (Geo Information and Remote Sensing Department of WUR) helped with Arcgis Program. Milton Ribeiro is in debt to Jean Paul Metzger's lab in Brazil, and Marie-Josee Fortin's lab in Canada for very fruitful discussions regarding applied landscape ecology modeling." "ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG" 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310696300007 Brazil; Netherlands Brazil
117 Extinctions in ancient and modern seas TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION English PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION; EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM; CLIMATE-CHANGE; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; FOSSIL RECORD; LEVEL CHANGE; RISK; ECOSYSTEMS; CORAL "National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, NSF [EF-0905606]; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; National System of Investigators of the National Research of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KI 806/7-1]" "This review is a product of the Determinants of Extinction in Ancient and Modern Seas Working Group supported by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, NSF #EF-0905606. Additional support was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to H.K.L. and S.C.A., the National System of Investigators of the National Research of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama to A.O'D., the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies to J.M.P., and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant KI 806/7-1 to C.S. This article is Paleobiology Database Publication no. 162." ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON 2012 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000313607200008 Australia; Canada; Germany; Norway; Panama; UK; USA USA
118 A Global System for Monitoring Ecosystem Service Change BIOSCIENCE English biodiversity; global change; GEO BON; trade-offs; sustainability BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; PROGRESS; SCIENCE DIVERSITAS; European Environment Agency; NASA; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation "This work has been supported by funding from DIVERSITAS, the European Environment Agency, NASA, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation." AMER INST BIOLOGICAL SCI 2012 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000311661000008 Germany; Mexico; South Africa; USA USA
119 Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest BIOTROPICA English acuminate tips; adaptation; Amazonia; functional traits; macroecology; RAINFOR LEAF CHARACTERISTICS; MINERAL-NUTRITION; COSTA-RICA; PATTERNS; SIZE; PITCHERS; CLIMATE; FASTER; GROWTH; TREES Oxford University "This paper derives from Ana Malhado's doctoral thesis, funded by an Oxford University Clarendon scholarship and Overseas Research Scheme Award (ORS). We thank the whole RAINFOR network-researchers, technicians, students, field assistants, and grants-which has collectively contributed to the success of RAINFOR. Especially, we thank Tim Baker, Chiqui Arroyo, Niro Higuchi, Tim Killeen, Abel Monteagudo, Adriana Prieto, Rafael Salomao, and Rodolfo Vasquez for contributing data. We thank the reviewers, Professor Bruno Herault and Professor Andy Gillison, for their very detailed comments that have enhanced and enriched the manuscript. We dedicate this work to our friend and co-author Samuel (Samuca) Almeida, a great Amazonian scientist." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310729200003 Australia; Brazil; Netherlands; UK; USA; Venezuela Brazil
120 Norway maple displays greater seasonal growth and phenotypic plasticity to light than native sugar maple TREE PHYSIOLOGY English Acer platanoides; Acer saccharum; biomass allocation; forest canopy gap; invasive tree species; phenology; phenotypic plasticity; phenotypic variability; root:shoot ratio; seedling growth ACER-PLATANOIDES L.; SHADE TOLERANCE; NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; INVASIVE PLANTS; STAND DYNAMICS; FOREST GAPS; SEEDLINGS; UNDERSTORY National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [261578-2008]; Center for Forest Research "This work was supported by National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant (261578-2008 to J.B.), and Center for Forest Research." OXFORD UNIV PRESS 2012 Forestry Forestry WOS:000310972100003 Canada; Colombia; Finland; Spain Canada
121 Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English Bolivia; demography; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; disturbance; functional diversity; functional traits; logging; tropical forest RICAN RAIN-FOREST; PLANT TRAITS; LAND-USE; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; GROWTH-RATES; LEAF TRAITS; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; GLOBAL CHANGE; DRY FOREST; TREE "DiverSus project through Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [CRN 2015, SGP-CRA2015]; US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325, GEO-1138881]; NUFFIC; European Community [283093]; DiverSus" "This research is part of the LTSRP of IBIF, and we would like to thank all IBIF's personal for the data, field work and for monitoring the permanent plots. We thank the personnel of La Chonta Agroindustria Forestal for permission to work in the concession and for assistance with plot establishment and monitoring. This study was partly funded by the DiverSus project through Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015 and SGP-CRA2015, which were supported by the US National Science Foundation grants GEO-0452325 and GEO-1138881. G.C.R. was funded by DiverSus and by a fellowship from NUFFIC, and L.P. and M.P. were partly funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013]) under grant agreement no 283093; Role Of Biodiversity In climate change mitigatioN (ROBIN). We appreciate the incredible assistance of field workers, especially Angel Mendez, Ricardo Mendez, Jose Iraipi, Peter Van Buuren and Benoit Chevallier. We thank Laura Pla for help with the data analysis, and Bryan Finegan, Sandra Diaz, Fabrice de Clerck and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on the manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000310336500017 Bolivia; Netherlands Netherlands
122 From Amazonia to the Atlantic forest: Molecular phylogeny of Phyzelaphryninae frogs reveals unexpected diversity and a striking biogeographic pattern emphasizing conservation challenges MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Adelophryne; Amazonia; Atlantic forest; Cryptic species; Neotropical diversity; Phyzelaphryne 6TH MASS EXTINCTION; SOUTH-AMERICA; MISSING DATA; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; BAYESIAN-INFERENCE; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; INTEGRATIVE TAXONOMY; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; GENETIC DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE "CNPq; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2003/10335-8, 2011/50146-6, 2010/51071-7, 2007/57067-9, 2010/50124-0]; Fundacao Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (FUNCAP); Universidad de los Andes; Fulbright/Spanish Ministry of Education; American Museum of Natural History; Belgian Directorate-General of Development Cooperation; King Leopold Ill Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation" "We are grateful to the many people and institutions that made this study possible and Allan Larson (MPE AE) as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their sound comments on the manuscript. Thanks to Renato Recoder, Marco A. Sena, Mauro Teixeira Jr., Jose Cassimiro da Silva, Agustin Camacho, Dante Pavan, Gabriel Skuk, Vanessa Verdade, Roberta Damasceno, Renata Amaro, Sergio Marques de Souza, Francisco dal Vechio, Jose Mario Guellere, Tami Mott, Pedro M. S. Nunes, H. Bonfim, Sonia Machado, Felipe Leite and Luciana Fusinatto for help in the field and/or for collected invaluable material. We also thank Erney Plessman de Camargo, Jose Maria da Silva, and Admilson Torres for their invaluable help during fieldwork in Amapa. We are also grateful to Manuel Antunes Jr., Sabrina Baroni and Maira Concistre (Institut de Biociencias da Universidade de Sao Paulo) who assisted with lab work. Institut Chico Mendes de Conservacao da Biodiversidade (ICM-Bio), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico and Tecnologico (CNPq DL. Doctoral fellowship 140226/2006-0) and Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipo granted collection permits and assisted in the field. Funding was provided by CNPq, Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP, 2003/10335-8, 2011/50146-6 and 2010/51071-7; A. Fouquet PD scolarship 2007/57067-9, V.D. Orrico PhD scholarship FAPESP 2007/57067-9, M.L. Lyra PD scholarship 2010/50124-0), Fundacao Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (FUNCAP) provided I.J. Roberto's scholarship. The work of S. Castroviejo-Fisher was financed by a Universidad de los Andes (2009-2010) and a Fulbright/Spanish Ministry of Education (2010-2012) post-doctoral research contracts, and J. M. Padial's research is funded by a Gerstner Post-doctoral Fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History. PJRK's fieldwork in Guyana was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Belgian Directorate-General of Development Cooperation with additional support from the King Leopold Ill Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation; specimens from Guyana were collected under Permit Numbers 030605BR006 and 160107BR068, and exported under Permit Numbers 191205SP01, 040406SP014, 040706SP0171 and 191207SP018 issued by the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2012 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000309636200017 Belgium; Brazil; French Guiana; USA French Guiana
123 Ticks and tick-borne diseases: a One Health perspective TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY English ticks; diseases; One Health; parasites; humans; control MOUNTAIN-SPOTTED-FEVER; DERMACENTOR-RETICULATUS TICKS; LONE STAR TICK; ACARI IXODIDAE; SOUTH-AMERICA; RHIPICEPHALUS-SANGUINEUS; FRANCISELLA-TULARENSIS; RICKETTSIA-MASSILIAE; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; IXODES-SCAPULARIS ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2012 Parasitology Parasitology WOS:000309848400005 Brazil; Italy; USA Brazil
124 The critical importance of considering fire in REDD+ programs BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Ecosystem services; Fire; Biodiversity; Livelihoods; Rainforests EASTERN BRAZILIAN-AMAZON; SLASH-AND-BURN; TROPICAL FORESTS; TREE MORTALITY; RAIN-FOREST; EL-NINO; RECURRENT WILDFIRES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CARBON STOCKS Darwin Initiative [17-023]; UK National Environment Research Council [NE/G000816/1]; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria - Embrapa [SEG 02.08.06.005.00]; Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia [CNPq 574008/2008-0]; Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX07AF16G]; UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/F015356/2]; Natural Environmental Research Council [NE/F01614X/1]; Lancaster University; NERC-ESRC; Fundo Vale "This work was supported by the Darwin Initiative (17-023), the UK National Environment Research Council (NE/G000816/1), Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria - Embrapa (SEG 02.08.06.005.00), the Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia (CNPq 574008/2008-0), and Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (NNX07AF16G). L.E.O.C. Aragao acknowledges the support of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Grants (NE/F015356/2). T.A.G. acknowledges support of Natural Environmental Research Council grant (NE/F01614X/1). E.B. and R.C. recognise Lancaster University and NERC-ESRC studentships, respectively. Souza Jr. acknowledges Fundo Vale for supporting forest monitoring project activities at Imazon." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000309311900001 Brazil; UK; USA UK
125 Conserving the Brazilian semiarid (Caatinga) biome under climate change BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Ensemble of forecasts; Species climatic suitability; Natural vegetation remnants; Endemic vertebrates CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; MACROECOLOGY; AREAS; DISTRIBUTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DESERTIFICATION Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [552961/2008-6]; CNPq; CAPES-Balcao [5201-09-8]; FCT [SFRH/BPD/51512/2011]; FCT "The authors are grateful to two anonymous reviewers, and to the cooperation project of Fundacao para Ciencia e a Tecnologia and Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (FCT-CAPES, Portugal-Brasil). GO is supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) doctoral fellowship (Proc. No. 552961/2008-6), and work by TFR and JAFDF on climate change and BEMs have been continuously supported by CNPq productivity grants and by the ""Rede Nacional de Mudancas Climaticas"" of INPE. GO was sponsored by CAPES-Balcao (Proc. No. 5201-09-8) while visiting the Universidade de Evora, Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, Portugal. DA was supported by a postdoctoral studentship (SFRH/BPD/51512/2011) awarded by FCT. Research by MBA, JAFDF, and TLFVBR is supported by the FCT Range Shift project." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000308544100012 Brazil; Denmark; Portugal; Spain Brazil
126 Water brownification may increase the invasibility of a submerged non-native macrophyte BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS English Invasion; Brown water; Climate change; Light availability; Macrophyte growth; Biotic resistance; Resource availability VERTICILLATA L.F. ROYLE; EGERIA-NAJAS PLANCHON; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; INORGANIC CARBON; RIVER FLOODPLAIN; ORGANIC-MATTER; LONG-TERM; LAKE; HYDROCHARITACEAE "Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agriculture and Spatial Planning (FORMAS); Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)" "This study was financed by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agriculture and Spatial Planning (FORMAS). R. P. Mormul would like to thank the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for providing his PhD scholarship. In addition, we would like to thank Sidinei Magela Thomaz, Mariana Carolina Teixeira, Eduardo Ribeiro da Cunha, Angelo Antonio Agostinho, Claudia Costa Bonecker, Reinaldo Luiz Bozelli and Francisco de Assis Esteves for critical appraisals of an earlier version of the manuscript." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000308037700011 Brazil; Sweden Brazil
127 "Corals on the slope (Aptian, Maestrat Basin, Spain)" CRETACEOUS RESEARCH English Aptian; Corals; Palaeoecology; Taxonomy; Carbonate slope; Spain REEF BUILDING CORALS; GREAT-BARRIER-REEF; CLIMATE-CHANGE; IBERIAN CHAIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; MICROBIALITE REEFS; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; EASTERN AUSTRALIA "Swiss National Science Foundation [20-121545, 20-137568]; I+D+i research project [CGL2008-04916]; Consolider-Ingenio programme [CSD 2006-0004]; Grup Consolidat de Recerca ""Geologia Sedimentaria"" [2009SGR-1451]" "Sara Tomas and Marc Aurell are acknowledged for their constructive comments. Sara Tomas is also thanked for providing a bibliography on Early Cretaceous corals. Special thanks are due to David Jaramillo-Vogel for fruitful discussions. We are grateful to Lucinda Puebla who assisted in measuring the examined samples and in compiling the fossil plates. Funding was provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation grants no. 20-121545 and 20-137568, the I+D+i research project: CGL2008-04916, the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme, under CSD 2006-0004 ""Topo-Iberia"" and the Grup Consolidat de Recerca ""Geologia Sedimentaria"" (2009SGR-1451)." ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2012 Geology; Paleontology Geology; Paleontology WOS:000306159800004 Mexico; Spain; Switzerland Switzerland
128 Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas NATURE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FRAGMENTS; DEFORESTATION; RESERVES; AMAZON; WORLD James Cook University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Australian Laureate Fellowship; NSF [RCN-0741956] "The study was supported by James Cook University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, an Australian Laureate Fellowship (to W. F. L.) and NSF grant RCN-0741956. We thank A. Bruner, R. A. Butler, G. R. Clements, R. Condit, C. N. Cook, S. Goosem, J. Geldmann, L. Joppa, S. L. Pimm and O. Venter for comments." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000308635900041 Australia; Austria; Bolivia; Brazil; Cameroon; Canada; Cent Afr Republ; Colombia; Congo; Costa Rica; Cote Ivoire; Czech Republic; Denmark; France; Germany; Guatemala; India; Indonesia; Italy; Japan; Kenya; Malaysia; Mexico; Nepal; Netherlands; Panama; Papua N Guinea; Peoples R China; Philippines; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Spain; Surinam; Taiwan; Thailand; Uganda; UK; USA; Venezuela Australia
129 Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English demographic history; hybridization; mammalian genomics; phylogenetics POPULATION-STRUCTURE; BUTYROPHILIN BTN1A1; HISTORY; SELECTION; SEQUENCE; GENE; HYBRIDIZATION; EXPRESSION; TRANSFORM; INFERENCE "Penn State University; College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo; US Geological Survey's Changing Arctic Ecosystem Initiative; US Fish and Wildlife Service; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada; Alaska Department of Fish and Game; National Institutes of Health Grant [UL1 RR033184-01]; National Science Foundation Award [DEB 0733029]; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant [55005946]; Pennsylvania Department of Health using Tobacco Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Funds" "The authors thank Anders Gotherstrom (Uppsala University), Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State University), and Victor A. Albert (University at Buffalo) for support during different stages of the project; and the Centre for Scientific Computing Aarhus (Aarhus University) for free computer time. LaVern Beier, Rod Flynn, and Neil Barten (Alaska Department of Fish and Game) and Bill Leacock (US Fish and Wildlife Service) facilitated field sampling. This study received financial support from Penn State University; the College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo; US Geological Survey's Changing Arctic Ecosystem Initiative; US Fish and Wildlife Service; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada; and Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Funding of the Galaxy tools to analyze medium-coverage sequence data from multiple individuals is supported by National Institutes of Health Grant UL1 RR033184-01 to the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Award DEB 0733029 (to W. M.), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant 55005946 (to L.H.-E.), and a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health using Tobacco Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Funds (W.M.)." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000308912600003 Canada; Denmark; Iceland; Mexico; Norway; Peoples R China; Singapore; USA Mexico
130 Impacts of climate warming on the long-term dynamics of key fish species in 24 European lakes HYDROBIOLOGIA English Climate change; Fish assemblages; Functional traits; Long-term data series; Europe VENDACE COREGONUS-ALBULA; CHARR SALVELINUS-ALPINUS; PERCH PERCA-FLUVIATILIS; FRESH-WATER FISH; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-CARBON; LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; PIKE ESOX-LUCIUS; PROLIFERATIVE KIDNEY-DISEASE; SHALLOW MEDITERRANEAN LAKE; ROACH RUTILUS-RUTILUS "EU FP-7 Theme 6 projects WISER [226273]; REFRESH [244121]; 'CLEAR' (a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence project); CIRCE; Research Council for Nature and Universe [272-08-0406]; STF project CRES; Greenland Climate Research Centre; Estonian target funding project [SF 0170006s08]; German Research Foundation (DFG) [Me 1686/5-1, Me 1686/5-2, Me 1686/5-3]; CIPAIS (International Commission for the protection of Italian-Swiss waters); CISPP (Italian-Swiss Commission for the Fishery)" "The authors thank A.M. Poulsen for editing the manuscript and Juana Jacobsen and Tinna Christensen for graphical assistance. This project was supported by the EU FP-7 Theme 6 projects WISER (Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological Status and Recovery, Contract No.: 226273) and REFRESH (Adaptive strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems, Contract No.: 244121), 'CLEAR' (a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence project) and CIRCE. The study was further supported by the Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406), the STF project CRES and the Greenland Climate Research Centre, the Estonian target funding project SF 0170006s08, the German Research Foundation (DFG, projects Me 1686/5-1, 5-2, 5-3), and CIPAIS (International Commission for the protection of Italian-Swiss waters) and CISPP (Italian-Swiss Commission for the Fishery). We are grateful to the Cofradia de Pescadores del Palmar (Valencia, Spain), Conselleria de Medio Ambiente de Valencia and AEMET for providing, respectively, fish capture data and chemical and meteorological data from Lake Albufera." SPRINGER 2012 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000306218100001 Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greenland; Iceland; Italy; Peoples R China; Spain; Sweden; UK; Uruguay Denmark
131 Continental-scale variability in browser diversity is a major driver of diversity patterns in acacias across Africa JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English diversity patterns; herbivory; plant-herbivore interactions; Quaternary climate change; resource-consumer relationships; savanna species; speciation PLANT-SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; SAVANNA; DISTRIBUTIONS; TREE; DETERMINANTS; HERBIVORES; GRADIENTS "Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences [272-07-0242]; Undesert Project, EU-FP7 [243906]; Liz Claiborne Art Ortenburg Foundation; African Conservation Centre, Nairobi; BRIC of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Belgian Technical Cooperation" "Special thanks to Denis Filer who provided assistance with databasing the herbarium records in the BRAHMS database management system for botanical data. The following are thanked for providing acacia data: the FLOTROP database (especially Philippe Daget), Roy Gereau, the West African Vegetation Database (http://www.westafricanvegetation.senckenberg.de), the South African National Biodiversity Institute; the Senckenberg Research Institute, Uppsala University, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Wageningen, and the University of Dar es Salaam Herbaria; GBIF (http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/621); the National Museums of Kenya; National Herbarium of Tanzania; National Herbarium of Namibia (specimen database: SPMNDB; National Botanical Research Institute); and National Botanical Garden of Belgium. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; London Natural History Museum; Coimbra; and Lisbon Herbaria are also thanked for providing MG access to their collections. Brett Murphy kindly provided assistance with statistical analyses. International climate modelling groups are thanked for providing their data for analysis and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement for collecting and archiving the palaeoclimate model data. Peder Klith Bocher provided assistance with GIS analyses. The following sources provided funding: the Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences, grant 272-07-0242 (JCS and MG); the Undesert Project, EU-FP7 243906 (AML and MS); the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenburg Foundation with the African Conservation Centre, Nairobi (RG and RM); and BRIC of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Belgian Technical Cooperation (JN)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000307554300005 Belgium; Brazil; Denmark; Germany; Netherlands; UK Denmark
132 Resilience to chronic defoliation in a dioecious understorey tropical rain forest palm JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English Chamaedorea palms; drought; leaf harvesting; Mexico; non-timber forest products; plant population and community dynamics CARBOHYDRATE RESERVES; ASTROCARYUM-MEXICANUM; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; LEAF HARVEST; VITAL-RATES; GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; HERBIVORY; PLANTS; SUSTAINABILITY U.S. National Science Foundation [IBN 9604030]; Packard Foundation [1999-4903]; CIECO-UNAM; Master Scholarships [CONACYT: 163218]; San Diego Zoo Global; DGAPA-UNAM; CONACYT "This study was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant IBN 9604030) and the Packard Foundation (No. 1999-4903). CIECO-UNAM provided additional financial support. LLT was supported by a Master Scholarships (CONACYT: 163218) and the Postdoctoral Program of the San Diego Zoo Global. We acknowledge logistic support from CIECO-UNAM and Chajul Field Station. We thank Jorge Rodriguez, Gilberto Jamangape and Praxedis Sinaca for help with fieldwork. MMR thanks DGAPA-UNAM and CONACYT for sabbatical fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley. Finally, we thank the Editors and anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000307554300020 Mexico; Netherlands; USA Mexico
133 Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis PLANT SCIENCE English Aquaporins; Climate change; Conductance; Diffusion; Leaf anatomy; Plant hydraulics; Photosynthesis CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION; LEAF GAS-EXCHANGE; TOBACCO AQUAPORIN NTAQP1; EVERGREEN QUERCUS-ILEX; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY; ORYZA-SATIVA L.; INTERNAL CONDUCTANCE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; PICEA-ABIES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTANCE "Estonian Ministry of Science and Education [SF1090065s07]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [BFU2008-01072, AGL2009-11310/AGR, BFU2011-23294, CGL2009-13079-C02-01]; European Commission through European Regional Fund (the Estonian Center of Excellence in Environmental Adaptation); Marie Curie project [MC-ERG-246725]; Ramon y Cajal program [RYC-2008-02050]; Swiss National Science Fellowship [PA00P3_126259]; Australian Research Council [FT0992063, FT100100024]; French government; cooperation project Tranzfor (Transferring Research between EU and Australia-New Zealand on Forestry and Climate Change) [PIRSES-GA-2008-230793]; European Union" "We thank Ichiro Terashima and Yusuke Mizokami for insightful suggestions on the MS and editor plus five additional anonymous reviewers for numerous useful improvements. The study was financially supported by the Estonian Ministry of Science and Education (grant SF1090065s07), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through projects BFU2008-01072 (MEFORE), AGL2009-11310/AGR, BFU2011-23294 (MECOME) and CGL2009-13079-C02-01 (PALEOISOTREE), and the European Commission through European Regional Fund (the Estonian Center of Excellence in Environmental Adaptation), and the Marie Curie project MC-ERG-246725 (FP7). J.P.F. is supported by the Ramon y Cajal program (RYC-2008-02050). A.G. had a Swiss National Science Fellowship (PA00P3_126259). M.M.B. and C.R.W are supported by Future Fellowships from the Australian Research Council (FT0992063 and FT100100024). C.D. was supported by a grant from the French government and by the cooperation project Tranzfor (Transferring Research between EU and Australia-New Zealand on Forestry and Climate Change, PIRSES-GA-2008-230793) funded by the European Union." ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD 2012 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Plant Sciences Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Plant Sciences WOS:000307434800008 Australia; Chile; Estonia; France; Japan; Spain Spain
134 Plant functional traits and nutrient gradients on grassland GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE English plant functional trait; soil fertility; competition; ecological niche; scale dependency; conservative vs; exploitative species; plasticity LAND-USE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; ECOLOGICAL STRATEGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; HERBAGE MASS; HOLY-GRAIL; DIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE "German Research Foundation (DFG) through Collaborative Research Centre 1501; INRA (UREP, Clermont Ferrand, France)" "This review is an updated version of an article that was first presented at the 16th Symposium of the European Grassland Federation, Gumpenstein, Austria, in August 2011 (Schellberg and Pontes, 2011). Jurgen Schellberg gratefully acknowledges the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) through financing the Collaborative Research Centre 1501, in which the functional trait approach is embedded. L. da S. Pontes gratefully acknowledges the support that she has had from INRA (UREP, Clermont Ferrand, France) when conducting her research on PFT in the Auvergne region (France), and from which some data are included in this paper." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Agronomy Agriculture WOS:000306735900001 Brazil; Germany Germany
135 Habitat stability affects dispersal and the ability to track climate change BIOLOGY LETTERS English bioclimatic envelope models; damselflies; dragonflies; freshwater; odonata; range-filling SPECIES RICHNESS PATTERNS; FRESH-WATER ANIMALS; DISTRIBUTIONS; ODONATA; EXPLAIN; RANGE; DIVERSITY; BEETLES "Danish National Research Foundation; Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts; Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas (UNAM); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia; FBBVA BIOIMPACTO project; EC-FP6-ECOCHANGE project [036866-GOCE]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-01198-E/BOS]" "Thanks to Florian Konig and Yannic Grewe for digitizing dragonfly distributions, and to David Nogues-Bravo as well as two anonymous referees for helpful comments. C. H. and C. R. acknowledge support of the Danish National Research Foundation to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. C. H. and D. M. D. acknowledge support from the research funding programme 'LOEWE-Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz' of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts. M. M. acknowledges support of the Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas (UNAM), the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia and the FBBVA BIOIMPACTO project. M. B. A. was funded by EC-FP6-ECOCHANGE project, Contract-No 036866-GOCE) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Complementary-Action-No CGL2008-01198-E/BOS)." ROYAL SOC 2012 Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000306361700044 Denmark; Germany; Mexico; Portugal; Spain Denmark
136 Generation and analysis of the 2005 land cover map for Mexico using 250 m MODIS data REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT English Land cover; Image classification; Spatial analysis; North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS); MODIS; Mexico ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL-RESOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; SURFACE; BIODIVERSITY; PRODUCTS; AMERICA; IMAGERY; MATRIX ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 2012 Environmental Sciences; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology WOS:000309496000047 Mexico; Portugal Mexico
137 Macrofungal diversity in Colombian Amazon forests varies with regions and regimes of disturbance BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Amazon forest; Biodiversity; Colombia; Ecology; Macrofungi; Plants; Productivity TREE SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FORESTS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; GEOGRAPHICAL GRADIENTS; FUNGAL DIVERSITY; ALPHA-DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; LEAF-LITTER; BIODIVERSITY "NWO-WOTRO [895.100.014, WB 84-525]; Studienstiftung Mykologie; CBS-KNAW" "The authors are greatly grateful to NWO-WOTRO for the financial support of the project (WOTRO grants 895.100.014 and WB 84-525). Logistic support was given by Tropenbos Colombia and we thank Dr. Carlos Rodriguez for this. C. L-Q and A. E. F. M. thank the University of Antioquia for giving time to collect in the Amazonas. Further financial support from the Studienstiftung Mykologie and the CBS-KNAW is greatly appreciated. Finally, we want to thank the indigenous people in Araracuara and Araracuara-Pena Roja and the workers in the Parque Natural Nacional Amacayacu for their willingness to allow us to perform the studies described." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000307295400004 Colombia; Netherlands Netherlands
138 "Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges" BIOSCIENCE English ethics; policy; law; conservation; translocation CLIMATE-CHANGE; ASSISTED COLONIZATION; CHANGING CLIMATE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; FUTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; INVASIONS "National Science Foundation [DEB 0741792, DEB 0741921]; Cedar Tree Foundation" "This article is dedicated to Stephen H. Schneider, who was a member of the Managed Relocation Working Group and a tireless advocate for careful deliberation of climate change issues involving both scientific analysis and social values. He was a giant in our field and a friend and mentor to many of the authors of this article. This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants no. DEB 0741792 and no. DEB 0741921 in support of the Managed Relocation Working Group and by a Cedar Tree Foundation grant." AMER INST BIOLOGICAL SCI 2012 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000307626100006 Australia; Canada; Mexico; Portugal; South Africa; USA USA
139 Historical changes of sediments and mollusk assemblages in the Gulf of Bataban (Caribbean Sea) in the twentieth century ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT English Geochronology; Mollusk; Pb-210; Caribbean Sea; Ecosystem reconstruction ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; ACCUMULATION RATES; BASE-LINE; PB-210; FLORIDA; RADIONUCLIDES; FISHERIES; MARINE; BAY; SHELLS International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [CUB7/006] "This work was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through the Technical Cooperation Project CUB7/006. We would like to thank the R/V ALECRIN II crew and sampling team: Miguel Gomez, Yanis Cruz, Alexander Lopeztegui, and Rafael Fuentes. Special thanks to Norberto Capetillo and Julio Baisre. We are also grateful to the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories, specially the Radiometrics Laboratory, and the Project Manager Michel Warnau." SPRINGER 2012 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000305979700007 Cuba; Monaco; Spain Cuba
140 Legume Diversity Patterns in West Central Africa: Influence of Species Biology on Distribution Models PLOS ONE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; SAMPLE-SIZE; PLANT DIVERSITY; LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE; INDICATOR GROUPS; COMMUNITY-LEVEL; ENVELOPE MODELS; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; PERFORMANCE "Spanish Juan de la Cierva grant [JCI-2009-05243]; Ministry of Science and Technology [CGL2011-28613-C03-02, CGL2009-07405-BOS]; Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain [CGL2009-09530-BOS]" "ME was funded by a Spanish Juan de la Cierva grant JCI-2009-05243 and projects CGL2011-28613-C03-02 and CGL2009-07405-BOS of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Grant CGL2009-09530-BOS also of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain funded JM's research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000306687700100 Belgium; Canada; Ecuador; Netherlands; Spain Spain
141 Evidence That Marine Reserves Enhance Resilience to Climatic Impacts PLOS ONE English ABALONE HALIOTIS-RUBRA; PROTECTED AREAS; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERY; HYPOXIA; DECLINE; MANAGEMENT; SETTLEMENT Walton Family Foundation; NSF-Biocomplexity in the Environment Grant [OCE-0410439]; MIUR [2008E7KBAE]; REEFCHECK of California "This work was supported through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, and an NSF-Biocomplexity in the Environment Grant (OCE-0410439). GDL and MR were partially supported by a MIUR PRIN2008 grant (2008E7KBAE). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.We thank REEFCHECK of California for their support and participation in the monitoring, members of the fishing cooperative Buzos y Pescadores for help in the field and in the laboratory, and L. Bourillon, J. Torre, and S. Palumbi for their advice and insights. All necessary permits were obtained for the described field studies. Collecting and research permits were obtained from SAGARPA and from the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Mexico." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000306548900054 Italy; Mexico; USA USA
142 Agroforestry landscapes and global change: landscape ecology tools for management and conservation AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS English Landscape ecology; Forest management; Agroforestry; Biodiversity conservation; Global changes SPRINGER 2012 Agronomy; Forestry Agriculture; Forestry WOS:000306585800001 Argentina; France; USA Argentina
143 Quantitative landscape management targets for biodiversity conservation: Method development with an example from the Philippines ASIA LIFE SCIENCES English landscape management; biodiversity conservation; IUCN Red List; threatened species; key biodiversity areas; Pithecophaga jefferyi; Philippine Eagle; area-demanding species IUCN RED LIST; PROTECTED AREAS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LAND-USE; PRIORITIES; CRITERIA; AFRICA; BIRDS Hotspots Alliance Seed Fund "This research was supported under the Hotspots Alliance Seed Fund between Conservation International (CI) and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), within which we particularly thank M. Bakarr, J.-M. Boffa, F. Boltz, C. Gascon, D. Hess, R. Trono and G. Wong for support. We would like to thank those institutions and people who contributed unpublished information and spatial data, notably Forest Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the International Rice Research Institute for sharing their facilities and providing us with the GLC 2000 dataset and E. Godilano for granting us permission to use the environmental land management unit dataset. Our gratitude also goes to S.H.M. Butchart (BirdLife International), who kindly explained to us the detailed assessment of P. jefferyi under the IUCN Red List criteria." ASIA LIFE SCIENCES 2012 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000306379900016 Australia; Brazil; Germany; Indonesia; Netherlands; Philippines; USA Philippines
144 The evolution of a highly speciose group in a changing environment: are we witnessing speciation in the Ibera wetlands? MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English Ctenomys; fragmented habitat; metapopulation lineages; speciation SUBTERRANEAN RODENT CTENOMYS; MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; TUCOS GENUS CTENOMYS; ESTEROS DEL IBERA; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; BANDED KARYOTYPES; OCTODONTIDAE; MITOCHONDRIAL; DIVERSIFICATION; SEQUENCES "Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica [PICT 38361, PICT 1551]; Consejo Nacional de Investigacion, Ciencia y Tecnica, Argentina [PIP 5776]" "This study was supported by Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica (PICT 38361 and PICT 1551) and Consejo Nacional de Investigacion, Ciencia y Tecnica, Argentina (PIP 5776 and International Cooperation CNRS-CONICET). We thank Vanina Raimondi, Diego Caraballo, Fernando Mapelli and Matias Mora for their incalculable help during fieldwork and also all the members of the Instituto de Genetica Veterinaria Ing. Fernando Noel Dulout (Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, UNLP) for their excellent work and assistance." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000305582200015 Argentina; France Argentina
145 Bacterial Genomes: Habitat Specificity and Uncharted Organisms MICROBIAL ECOLOGY English RARE BIOSPHERE; EVOLUTION; SIZE; LIFE; CONSORTIUM; DIVERSITY; SAMPLES "European Union; FAPESP (Foundation for Research Assistance of Sao Paulo State, Brazil) [2010/07594-5]" "This work was supported by a grant from the European Union Project Metaexplore and FAPESP (Foundation for Research Assistance of Sao Paulo State, Brazil) - Proc. n. 2010/07594-5." SPRINGER 2012 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Microbiology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Microbiology WOS:000305274900001 Brazil; Canada; Netherlands Netherlands
146 "Co-Occurrence Patterns of Common and Rare Leaf-Litter Frogs, Epiphytic Ferns and Dung Beetles across a Gradient of Human Disturbance" PLOS ONE English SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; VASCULAR EPIPHYTES; RESERVE SELECTION; TROPICAL PRIMARY; CLOUD FOREST; DIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE; TAXA GIZ GmbH through their internship programme; Wingate Foundation scholarship "Johan A. Oldekop and Niklas Tysklind thank the GIZ GmbH for financial support through their internship programme. Johan A. Oldekop acknowledges the support of a Wingate Foundation scholarship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. No additional external funding received for this study." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000305337600057 Ecuador; UK; USA USA
147 Climate change and amphibian diversity patterns in Mexico BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Amphibians; Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Climate change; Conservation biogeography; Mexico SPECIES RICHNESS; BETA-DIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; NICHE CONSERVATISM; ABSENCE DATA; DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALE; EVOLUTIONARY; IMPACTS CONACYT; US National Science Foundation [DEB-0613802] "We thank Kathleen Buckingham, Lydia Cole, Rafa de Villa Magallon, Richard Grenyer, Jeremy Kerr and two anonymous reviewers, for their helpful advice and comments. L. Ochoa's doctoral studies are supported by CONACYT. Part of the information used in this paper was financed by US National Science Foundation grant DEB-0613802, through the participation of OFV. We also wish to acknowledge the many herpetologists who helped to construct and correct the database. Museums and projects that contributed data are listed in Appendix A." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000305724100012 Denmark; Mexico; UK UK
148 "Warm-temperate, immense, and sprawling: plant diversity drivers in urban Beijing, China" PLANT ECOLOGY English Urban ecology; Urbanization; Socio-economics; Spatial; Demographic; Land-use SPECIES RICHNESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; GRADIENT; DENSITY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY; PATTERNS; ECOLOGY; CLIMATE National Natural Science Foundation of China [41030744]; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology "We are grateful to Mark Goddard for his valuable comments. We thank Zhi-Xin Zhu and Xiao-Ma Li for their help with the figure, Su Liu (Peking University) for the Appendix plant species checking and Juan-Juan Zhao, Xue-Song Meng and others for providing some original data. This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41030744) and it was supported by funding from the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology." SPRINGER 2012 Plant Sciences; Ecology; Forestry Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000305235100008 Mexico; Peoples R China; Spain Peoples R China
149 Review. Applications of ecogeography and geographic information systems in conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources SPANISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH English adaptation; ecogeographical analysis; environment; gap analysis; genotype; phenotype; species distribution models TRIFOLIUM-SPUMOSUM L.; EX-SITU COLLECTIONS; WILD CROP GERMPLASM; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PREDICTIVE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; BARLEY LANDRACES; CORE COLLECTION; ADAPTATION; TOLERANCE INIA [RF2009-00013-00-00] We thank Wendy Byrnes for her linguistic assistance. This review was supported by INIA project RF2009-00013-00-00. SPANISH NATL INST AGRICULTURAL & FOOD RESEARCH & TECHNOLO 2012 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Soil Science" Agriculture WOS:000304851000017 Colombia; Spain Spain
150 Bird community composition across an Andean tree-line ecotone AUSTRAL ECOLOGY English bird communities; ecotone specialization; ordination; Peru; tree-line NEOTROPICAL MONTANE FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ANTHROPOGENIC EDGES; ATLANTIC FOREST; BIODIVERSITY; TIMBERLINE; UNDERSTORY; FRAGMENTS; SPECIALIZATION; CONSERVATION Amazonian Conservation Association "Research at the Wayquecha Cloud Forest Research Centre was funded by a Seed Grant awarded to HL by the Amazonian Conservation Association. Permission to undertake the research was granted by INRENA (no. 369-2009-AG-DGFFS-DGEFFS). We are also grateful for the help and support of Dr Adrian Tejedor, Carmen Gusti and all the staff of the Amazonian Conservation Association." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000304389700007 Peru; UK UK
151 Experimental Incubations Elicit Profound Changes in Community Transcription in OMZ Bacterioplankton PLOS ONE English OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONES; ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; SEA-WATER; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION; NORTH-SEA; BACTERIA; NITROGEN; PATTERNS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS Agouron Institute "This work was supported by a grant from the Agouron Institute. Additional support for this study came from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (EFD), the Danish National Research Foundation (Danmarks Grundforskningsfond; BT, DEC), and the Chilean Fondap Program from CONICYT (OU). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000305341300074 Chile; Denmark; USA USA
152 Effects of Climate Change on the Potential Species Richness of Mesoamerican Forests BIOTROPICA English ecoregion; Mesoamerica; natural protected areas; regression tree; species distribution modelling; tree species richness; tropical forests GLOBAL CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPATIAL-PATTERNS; CHANGE SCENARIOS; CHANGE IMPACTS; DIVERSITY; DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSERVATION; RESPONSES Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) [E/55505]; European Commission REFORLAN [INCO-CT-2006-032132]; Spanish BIOTREE-NET [BIOCON08_44]; Fundacion BBVA "This study was financed by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) in the context of the Biodiversity International Project (E/55505), the European Commission REFORLAN project (INCO-CT-2006-032132), and the Spanish BIOTREE-NET project (BIOCON08_44) funded by Fundacion BBVA." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000303496500003 Mexico; Spain; UK UK
153 Recent Changes in Patch Characteristics and Plant Communities in the Jalca Grasslands of the Peruvian Andes BIOTROPICA English Cajamarca; fragmentation; land use change; paramo; Peru; plant species diversity; tropical Andes OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION; RAIN-FOREST FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE SPATIAL-PATTERN; REMOTE-SENSING DATA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; LAND-USE; DYNAMICS; CLIMATE; MATRIX Proyecto Paramo Andino; Universiteit van Amsterdam "We thank Fresia Chunga (CIPDER), the Instituto de Montana, Mirella Gallardo (GTZ-Rural Cajamarca), Alicia Quispe (Proyecto Zonificacion Ecologica Economica de la region Cajamarca-Gobierno Regional de Cajamarca), Cesar Regalado (Agencia Agraria de Bambamarca), Eleuterio Mejia and Esteban Campos (Municipalidad Provincial Hualgayoc-Cajamarca) and Pedro Vasquez (CDC-UNALM) for the logistical support. We are also grateful to Edwin Cabrera, Segundo Sanchez, German Alcantara, Alindor Ordonez, Wilson Salazar, Carlos Aguilar, Dagoberto Calvo, Ronal Regalado, Antero Zavaleta, Victor Briones, Laura Lucio, Manuel Peralvo, Juan Cusquisivan, Mara Deza and Nilton Deza for fieldwork assistance. David Rosario and Enrique Crisologo kindly provided GIS information. Juan Montoya and Victor Campos assisted in species identification. This study received financial support of Proyecto Paramo Andino implemented by CONDESAN and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Species were identified at the Herbarium of the Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca (Isidoro Sanchez-Vega), the Herbarium of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Oscar Tovar, Hamilton Beltran, Raquel Gonzales), the Herbarium MOL of the Universidad Agraria La Molina (Mercedes Flores, Arturo Granda) and the Smithsonian Institute (Harold Robinson). We thank all of them for their invaluable help. Finally we thank Wouter Buytaert for his help in the statistical analysis using R." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000303496500007 Netherlands; Peru Peru
154 Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English FOREST DEGRADATION; CARBON PAYMENTS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; AMAZON; DIVERSITY; MAMMALS; FUTURE; COSTS; LAND Leverhulme Trust; GEOBENE under European Community [037063]; CAPES "A.B. and R.K.T. acknowledge the support of the Leverhulme Trust's Valuing the Arc Programme. M.O., M.G. and S.F. were funded by the GEOBENE project (grant agreement 037063, GOCE) under the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme. B.B.N.S. was supported by CAPES." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2012 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000304024800019 Australia; Austria; Brazil; France; Philippines; UK; Ukraine; USA Brazil
155 Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SHRINKING GLACIERS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ALPINE STREAM; CONSERVATION; ASSEMBLAGES; RICHNESS; PATTERNS; IMPACTS; ALPS "WWF-Novozymes; Ecofondo [034-ECO8-inv1]; Natural Environment Research Council [GR9/2913, NE/E003729/1, NE/E004539/1, NE/E004148/1]; Royal Society; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); University of Copenhagen; University of Birmingham; University of Leeds" "We thank M. O. Gessner, K. Swing and J. Casas for constructive and helpful comments on earlier versions of the paper. The financial support by WWF-Novozymes (2008) to D.J., Ecofondo (034-ECO8-inv1) to O.D., Natural Environment Research Council (GR9/2913, NE/E003729/1, NE/E004539/1 and NE/E004148/1), the Royal Society, the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), and the Universities of Copenhagen, Birmingham and Leeds is greatly appreciated. Many people participated in the fieldwork and collection of data for the published papers analysed and cited here; we acknowledge the effort of these people and wish to thank them all." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2012 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000304024800021 Denmark; Ecuador; France; UK; USA Denmark
156 Multiple Quaternary Refugia in the Eastern Guiana Shield Revealed by Comparative Phylogeography of 12 Frog Species SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY English Anura; comparative phylogeography; Guiana Shield; Quaternary; refugia LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; FRENCH-GUIANA; AMPHIBIAN DECLINES; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; VOUACAPOUA-AMERICANA; POPULATION-DYNAMICS; GENE FLOW; STATISTICAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY "College of Science, University of Canterbury (UC); UC and Education New Zealand; Universite de Provence; University of Canterbury; National Geographic Society [7509-03]; National Science Foundation [DEB-0206562]" "A.F. was supported by a PhD scholarship from the College of Science, University of Canterbury (UC). Travel grant from UC and Education New Zealand supported fieldwork in Suriname and Brazil. Molecular costs were covered by internal grants from the Universite de Provence (A.G.) and University of Canterbury (N.J.G.). Fieldwork by B.P.N was supported by the National Geographic Society (7509-03) and the National Science Foundation (DEB-0206562)." OXFORD UNIV PRESS 2012 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000303336200008 Brazil; France; New Zealand; USA Brazil
157 Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Andean uplift; biodiversity hotspot; island biogeography; molecular dating; phylogenetic niche conservatism; seasonally dry tropical forest; species diversification LATE CENOZOIC UPLIFT; PLANT DIVERSITY; MOUNTAIN PASSES; CANYON INCISION; ATACAMA DESERT; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GENE FLOW; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSIFICATION; LEGUMINOSAE Osk. Huttunen Fund (Osk. Huttusen Saatio); Helsingin Sanomat Fund (Helsingin Sanomain Saatio); Ehrnrooth Fund (Ella ja Georg Ehrnroothin Saatio); Davis Expedition Fund; National Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0316614]; Royal Society "We would like to thank Stephen Harris, Isabel Sanmartin and two anonymous referees for constructive comments that much enhanced the manuscript; Alex Antonelli for data on Hedyosmum and Campanulaceae; Gwilym Lewis and Bente Klitgaard for providing samples for many Andean species used in this study; and Susana Magallon for help with data analyses. The work was funded by the Osk. Huttunen Fund (Osk. Huttusen Saatio), Helsingin Sanomat Fund (Helsingin Sanomain Saatio), Ehrnrooth Fund (Ella ja Georg Ehrnroothin Saatio), Davis Expedition Fund (T. S.), the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant 'PBI Solanum - a world treatment' DEB-0316614, and by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (C. E. H.). The authors would like to acknowledge the use of the UK National Computing Grid Service in carrying out this work." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000302910600006 Brazil; Switzerland; UK; USA UK
158 Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits SCIENCE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; RANGE SHIFTS; VEGETATION; ALPS Switzerland (OFES) [00.0184-1]; Swiss MAVA Foundation for Nature Conservation; Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research; Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Mountain Research); University of Vienna "Baseline data were collected within the European Union FP-5 project GLORIA-Europe (EVK2-CT-2000-0006) and with the support of Switzerland (OFES 00.0184-1). Resurvey was supported by the Swiss MAVA Foundation for Nature Conservation and by a number of national funding agencies, and analysis was supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research; the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Mountain Research); and the University of Vienna, where data are archived in the central GLORIA database and are available from the authors upon request. We thank the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity for ambituos discussions in the early stage, C. Klettner for data compilation, S. Laimer for administration assistance, 17 GLORIA-Europe field teams with more than 80 fieldworkers for species recording, and protected-area authorities for logistic support. We also thank three anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000302995400048 Austria; Brazil; Greece; Italy; Norway; Rep of Georgia; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; UK Austria
159 "Acanthaster planci Outbreak: Decline in Coral Health, Coral Size Structure Modification and Consequences for Obligate Decapod Assemblages" PLOS ONE English REEF FISH COMMUNITY; OF-THORNS STARFISH; SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL RUNOFF; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PACIFIC; RECRUITMENT; DIVERSITY; TRAPEZIA Partner University Fund of the French American Cultural Exchange; ANR [ANR-12-JCJC-Live]; Polynesia Mana; CRISP (Coral Reef InitiativeS for the Pacific); Total Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation "This research was supported by grants from the Partner University Fund of the French American Cultural Exchange, ANR (ANR-12-JCJC-Live and Let Die), Polynesia Mana, CRISP (Coral Reef InitiativeS for the Pacific) and Total Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.We thank volunteers from CRIOBE station in Moorea and Planete Urgence for field assistance, C. W. Osenberg, A. C. Stier, S. Lemer, M. Gil, S. C. McKeon, R. Galzin and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, G. Paulay and J. Poupin for assistance with identification of some decapod specimens, and the Moorea BIOCODE project (funded through Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) for logistical support. This study was part of M. Leray PhD research program at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) under the supervision of S.C. Mills." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000305347400053 Brazil; Fr Polynesia; France France
160 Large-Scale Changes in Community Composition: Determining Land Use and Climate Change Signals PLOS ONE English AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES; BIRD POPULATION; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HABITAT CHANGE; NETHERLANDS; BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION; RESPONSES "Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite [FABIO 054974, PHYBIO AAP-SCEN-2010-1]" "VD received financial support from the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite, http://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr (projects FABIO 054974 and PHYBIO AAP-SCEN-2010-1). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000305345000051 France; Mexico; Netherlands Netherlands
161 Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English web evolution; spider diversification; taxon sampling; molecular dating MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VAN-DER-WAALS; WEAVING SPIDERS; PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE; CAPTURE THREADS; MISSING DATA; TETRAGNATHIDAE ARANEAE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; HYGROSCOPIC FORCES; THERIDIID SPIDERS National Science Foundation [DEB-0328644]; Danish National Research Foundation; George Washington University; Generalitat de Catalunya; FONCyT [PICT-2007-01393]; NSF [EAR-0228699] "We thank C. Griswold, D. Penney and B. Farrell for discussion of ideas and for a critical evaluation of this manuscript. We also would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and Associate Editor Greg Edgecombe for their helpful comments. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant DEB-0328644 'PEET: Systematics and monography of araneoid spiders' to G.H. and G.G., and by a Danish National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship to D.D. Additional support to D.D. and G.H. was provided by a Selective Excellence grant from The George Washington University; to M.A.A. by an ICREA Academia award for excellence in research from the Generalitat de Catalunya; and to L.L. by grant FONCyT PICT-2007-01393 (to M. J. Ramirez). W. Wheeler made available sequence data collected by the ATOL Spider project (NSF grant EAR-0228699) for two of the species used in our analyses. Sequences of Eidmannella sp. were made available by C. Ribera." ROYAL SOC 2012 Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000300822400012 Denmark; Germany; Mexico; Spain; USA Denmark
162 Modeling Potential Equilibrium States of Vegetation and Terrestrial Water Cycle of Mesoamerica under Climate Change Scenarios JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY English LONG-TERM RUNOFF; TROPICAL FORESTS; SPECIES-RICHNESS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; CENTRAL-AMERICA; SOUTH-AMERICA; UNITED-STATES; RISING CO2; RESPONSES; PRECIPITATION "Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE); BBVA Foundation; Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy" "This work was funded by the MESOTERRA Project of the Mesoamerican Agro-Environmental Program at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and the Climate Change and Biodiversity Effects (CLIMBE) project financed by the BBVA Foundation. We acknowledge the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCDMI) and the WCRP's Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multimodel dataset. The creation of this dataset was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. We thank The Nature Conservancy-California and Kirk Klausmeyer for downscaling and converting the climate data to ArcGIS format. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their role in considerably improving this manuscript." AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2012 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000302483900017 Costa Rica; France; Indonesia; Morocco; UK; USA Costa Rica
163 Climate change-driven species' range shifts filtered by photoperiodism NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English PITCHER-PLANT MOSQUITO; FLOWERING TIME; DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; PROPAGULE PRESSURE; RAPID EVOLUTION; CHANGE IMPACTS; UNITED-STATES; LIFE-HISTORY; BIODIVERSITY Academy of Finland [137909] We thank S. Faeth and I. Saloniemi for invaluable comments on the manuscript and H. Ojanen for preparing the world climate map. This study was funded by the Academy of Finland (project number 137909). NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2012 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000302672800015 Argentina; Finland Finland
164 "Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central America during the last 86,000 years" QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS English Paleoclimatology; Climate change; Paleoecology; Ecological change; Central America; Last Glacial Maximum; Heinrich stadials ATLANTIC WARM POOL; POLLEN RECORD; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YUCATAN PENINSULA; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; GLACIAL MAXIMUM; YOUNGER-DRYAS; NORTH-AMERICA; COSTA-RICA; ICE-AGE US National Science Foundation [ATM-0502030]; International Continental Scientific Drilling Program; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Swiss National Science Foundation "We are grateful to H. Hooghiemstra, an anonymous reviewer, and J.S. Carrion, handling editor, whose comments strengthened the manuscript. We thank all individuals who participated in the field and laboratory work during the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. We are also grateful to the numerous agencies and individuals in Guatemala who provided assistance to the project. We also thank our many collaborators from University of Florida, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis/Duluth), Geo-forschungszentrum (Potsdam), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), Universite de Geneve, as well as the personnel of DOSECC. The cores are archived at LacCore (National Lacustrine Core Repository), Department of Geology and Geophysics. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and we thank Kristina Brady, Amy Myrbo and Anders Noren for their assistance in core description and curation. Anders Noren kindly sampled the cores for this study. This project was funded by grants from the US National Science Foundation (ATM-0502030), the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. This is publication 66 of the Florida Institute of Technology Institute for Research on Global Climate Change." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2012 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000302886700005 Colombia; Mexico; Panama; UK; USA Mexico
165 Wildfires in Bamboo-Dominated Amazonian Forest: Impacts on Above-Ground Biomass and Biodiversity PLOS ONE English RAIN-FOREST; TREE MORTALITY; TROPICAL FORESTS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RECURRENT WILDFIRES; NEOTROPICAL FOREST; BRAZILIAN-AMAZON; EASTERN AMAZON; PREDICT TREE; EL-NINO Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX07AF16G]; UK National Environment Research Council [NE/G000816/1]; Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia [CNPq 574008/2008-0] "This work was funded by the Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (NNX07AF16G), the UK National Environment Research Council grant (NE/G000816/1) and the Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia - Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia (CNPq 574008/2008-0). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000303062800053 Brazil; UK; USA UK
166 Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity ECOLOGY English beta diversity; community dynamics; community phylogenetics; functional ecology; functional traits; neutral theory; Panama; Puerto Rico; tropical forest NEOTROPICAL FOREST; LAND-USE; DIVERSITY; PATTERNS; TRAITS; MAINTENANCE; MECHANISMS; WORLDWIDE; ALIGNMENT; DYNAMICS "F. H. Levinson Fund; Center for Tropical Forest Science; Smithsonian Institution; National Science Foundation [BSR-9015961, DEB-0516066, BSR-88111902, DEB-9411973, DEB-008538]; Mellon Foundation; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Celera Foundation; National Science Foundation. [DEB-0218039, DEB-0620910, DEB-0640386, DEB-0425651, DEB-0346488, DEB-0129874, DEB-00753102, DEB-9909347, DEB-9615226, DEB-9405933, DEB-9221033, DEB-9100058, DEB-8906869, DEB-8605042, DEB-8206992, DEB-7922197, DBI-0906005]" "N. G. Swenson and J. C. Stegen contributed equally to this paper. We thank R. Condit for discussions regarding the dynamics of the BCI forest dynamics plot. The collection of plant material for DNA sequencing and trait quantification was funded by the F. H. Levinson Fund for BCI and a Center for Tropical Forest Science research grant awarded to N. G. Swenson for Luquillo. DNA barcode sequencing and analyses were supported by funds from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories project. The Luquillo forest plot has been supported by National Science Foundation grants (BSR-9015961 and DEB-0516066) and from the Mellon Foundation. National Science Foundation funds to the Luquillo Long-Term Ecology Research Site (BSR-88111902, DEB-9411973, DEB-008538, DEB-0218039, and DEB-0620910) also supported this work. The BCI forest dynamics research project was made possible by National Science Foundation grants to Stephen P. Hubbell: DEB-0640386, DEB-0425651, DEB-0346488, DEB-0129874, DEB-00753102, DEB-9909347, DEB-9615226, DEB-9615226, DEB-9405933, DEB-9221033, DEB-9100058, DEB-8906869, DEB-8605042, DEB-8206992, DEB-7922197, support from the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Celera Foundation, numerous private individuals, and through the hard work of over 100 people from 10 countries over the past two decades. Both forest plots are part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science, a global network of large-scale demographic tree plots. J. C. Stegen was supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics (DBI-0906005)." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000302957300007 Panama; UK; USA USA
167 Malaria in selected non-Amazonian countries of Latin America ACTA TROPICA English Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Malaria elimination; Epidemiology; Latin America PLASMODIUM-VIVAX MALARIA; TREATED BED NETS; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE RESISTANCE; PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; PERUVIAN AMAZON; ENDEMIC AREA; ANOPHELES-ALBIMANUS; FALCIPARUM-MALARIA; DRUG-RESISTANCE "US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) [U19 AI089702, R01 HL086488]; Colombian Research Council (Colciencias) [409-2009]" "This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) (Grant numbers U19 AI089702 and R01 HL086488) and the Colombian Research Council (Colciencias) (Grant number 409-2009) to Fundacion Centro Internacional de Vacunas. We are grateful to the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) for providing maps for Figure 1 and to Lorena Meneses for editorial support." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2012 Parasitology; Tropical Medicine Parasitology; Tropical Medicine WOS:000302668500019 Colombia; Guatemala; UK; USA Colombia
168 Projecting the effects of climate change on the distribution of maize races and their wild relatives in Mexico GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English center of origin; ecological niche modeling; global warming; impacts; Zea mays; Tripsacum; Teocinte SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; FOOD SECURITY; CHANGE IMPACTS; SAMPLE-SIZE; PREDICTION; BIODIVERSITY; ADAPTATION; CROPS; VULNERABILITY; AGRICULTURE "Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas; UNAM; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia; Instituto Nacional de Ecologia; CONACYT 'Red Complejidad Ciencia y Sociedad'; Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico" "We thank the Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas, UNAM, and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia for the scholarship provided to CU. We also thank the Instituto Nacional de Ecologia for financial support and to Francisca Acevedo, Cecilio Mota, Oswaldo Oliveros, and Patricia Koleff from the Comision Nacional para el Uso y Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad for providing the maize database and important comments and guidance throughout the study. ERAB thanks support from CONACYT 'Red Complejidad Ciencia y Sociedad' and Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000300671600022 Italy; Mexico Mexico
169 Community structure of fish in lowland streams differ substantially between subtropical and temperate climates HYDROBIOLOGIA English Size structure; Climate change; Subtropical streams; Temperate streams; Metabolic theory of ecology; Community metabolism FRESH-WATER ECOSYSTEMS; BODY-SIZE; POPULATION-DENSITY; LIFE-HISTORY; NEOTROPICAL STREAM; METABOLIC-RATE; SHALLOW LAKES; PARANA RIVER; PATTERNS; BRAZIL "SNI (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion, ANII, Uruguay); SNB (ANII, Uruguay); PEDECIBA; ANII-FCE [2009-2749]; DICyT; EU EUROLIMPACS; EU REFRESH; Research Council for Nature and Universe [272-08-0406]; STF; FNU [16-7745]; XIII Brazilian Congress of Limnology (Natal, Brazil)" "We are grateful to Anne Mette Poulsen for manuscript editing and Juana Jacobsen for graphical assistance. We deeply acknowledge the field assistance of Cesar Fagundez and Tito Olivera, the laboratory assistance of Soledad Garcia, Soledad Marroni, Juan Pablo Pacheco, and Mariana Vianna, the logistic support and generosity of the Teixeira-de Mello family and the landowners and land workers in ""Republic"" of Tacuarembo, Uruguay, and the comments of Matias Arim. FTM, MM, and NM received support from the SNI (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion, ANII, Uruguay). FTM is supported by a PhD scholarship from the SNB (ANII, Uruguay) and PEDECIBA, and MM by ANII-FCE (2009-2749) and the national award L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Uruguay (with support of DICyT). In Denmark, support was provided by EU EUROLIMPACS and EU REFRESH, the Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406), the STF project CRES, and FNU (16-7745). This paper received the Harald Sioli Prize award at the XIII Brazilian Congress of Limnology 2011 (Natal, Brazil)." SPRINGER 2012 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000300329600011 Denmark; Greenland; Peoples R China; Uruguay Uruguay
170 Phenology drives mutualistic network structure and diversity ECOLOGY LETTERS English Asymmetry; connectance; diversity-stability debate; intraguild competition; mutualistic networks; nestedness; phenology; resilience; season length PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS; COEVOLUTIONARY NETWORKS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITIES; STABILITY; SPECIALIZATION; COMPETITION; NESTEDNESS Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) "We thank David Alonso, Jofre Carnicer, Carlos J. Melian and Jordi Bascompte for insightful comments on different versions of this manuscript. We also thank three anonymous reviewers that contributed for improving this manuscript, Pedro Jordano and Diego J. Vazquez for providing us empirical data about plant and animal phenologies. FEV and RSE thank the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support through a VIDI grant awarded to RSE." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000299946200004 Netherlands; Venezuela Netherlands
171 What drives the distribution of the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Planktothrix agardhii and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii? FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY English eutrophication; shallow lakes; invasive species; Nostocales; Oscillatoriales; climate change OSCILLATORIA-AGARDHII; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES; INVASIVE CYANOBACTERIUM; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; EUTROPHIC LAKES; SHALLOW; LIGHT; TEMPERATURE; RESERVOIR; GROWTH ANII [FCE2007_353]; PEDECIBA We thank Marie-Josee Martineau for technical assistance and Warwick F. Vincent for kindly providing access to laboratory facilities. This work was financed by ANII FCE2007_353 and PEDECIBA. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments. WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Microbiology Microbiology WOS:000299257300004 Brazil; Hungary; Netherlands; Uruguay Uruguay
172 "Effects of Temperature, Salinity and Fish in Structuring the Macroinvertebrate Community in Shallow Lakes: Implications for Effects of Climate Change" PLOS ONE English SPECIES RICHNESS; MEDITERRANEAN LAKES; BRACKISH LAGOONS; AQUATIC INSECTS; FEEDING ECOLOGY; DIEL MIGRATION; CHLOROPHYLL-A; ZOOPLANKTON; BIODIVERSITY; PATTERNS European Union; Denmark from EU WISER; Denmark from Research Council for Nature and Universe [272-08-0406]; Denmark from Centre for Regional Change in the Earth System (CRES); Spain from Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [GL2008-05778/BOS]; Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA); Uruguayan Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) through the National System of Researchers (SNI) [FCE 2749]; Women in Science LOreal-UNESCO Uruguay; Marie Curie fellowship [MEIF-CT-2006-038366] "This study is a result of the project REFRESH funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. Further support was obtained in Denmark from the project EU WISER, The Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406), and the Centre for Regional Change in the Earth System (CRES), and in Spain from Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Programa de Investigacion Fundamental (GL2008-05778/BOS). M. M. was supported by the Uruguayan Programme for the Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA) and the Uruguayan Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) through the National System of Researchers (SNI) and project FCE 2749, and the national award for Women in Science LOreal-UNESCO Uruguay. D. B. held a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellowship (MEIF-CT-2006-038366). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000303003500007 Denmark; Greenland; Italy; Peoples R China; Spain; Uruguay Denmark
173 "Ancient climate change, antifreeze, and the evolutionary diversification of Antarctic fishes" PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English Notothenioidei; Icefish; Percomorpha; molecular clock; buoyancy NOTOTHENIOID FISHES; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; ICE-SHEET; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES; DIVERSITY; RADIATION; BUOYANCY; RATES; PERCIFORMES; ADAPTATION "Antarctic fishes; University of Illinois; National Science Foundation (NSF) [OPP 01-32032, ANT-0839007, DEB-0716155, DEB-1061806, ANT-0436190]" "We thank A. L. DeVries and C.-H. C. Cheng for supporting our initial studies of Antarctic fishes. Field and laboratory support was provided by H. W. Detrich, J. Kendrick, K.-H. Kock, J. A. Moore, and A. L. Stewart. A. L. DeVries and C.-H. C. Cheng (University of Illinois), G. Lecointre (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), and C. D. Roberts (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) provided critical specimens. K. L. Prudic, M. E. Alfaro, J. M. Beaulieu, M. J. Donoghue, R. I. Eytan, A. M. Near, and J. C. Oliver provided comments on previous versions of this manuscript. Fieldwork was facilitated through the United States Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program and the officers and crew of the RV Yuzhmorgeologiya, and the 2004 ICEFISH cruise aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, which was funded through National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant OPP 01-32032 (to H. William Detrich III). This research was supported by NSF Grants ANT-0839007 (to T.J.N.), DEB-0716155 (to T.J.N.), DEB-1061806 (to T.J.N.), and ANT-0436190 (to J.T.E.)." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000300828200051 Argentina; Italy; USA USA
174 Predicting Tropical Dry Forest Successional Attributes from Space: Is the Key Hidden in Image Texture? PLOS ONE English GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGERY; REMOTELY-SENSED DATA; LANDSAT TM DATA; SECONDARY FOREST; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CROSS-VALIDATION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY "CONACyT [CB-2009-01-128136]; PAPIIT [IN221503, IN220027]" "This work received funding from CONACyT (www.conacyt.mx; project number: CB-2009-01-128136) and PAPIIT (http://dgapa.unam.mx; projects IN221503 and IN220027). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000302871500010 Israel; Mexico; Netherlands Mexico
175 "Distinctiveness, rarity and conservation in a subtropical highland conifer" CONSERVATION GENETICS English Rarity; Evolutionary significant units; Conservation units; Exchangeability; Juniperus blancoi; trnC-trnD; cpDNA ALTITUDINAL GENETIC-VARIATION; CHLOROPLAST DNA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; NONCODING REGIONS; UNIVERSAL PRIMERS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SCOTS PINE; MEXICO Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT); Consejo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (CONACYT) [0201-A-1] "We thank La Preciosita and Cerro Huehuento's communities for conserving the species populations and helping us during the sampling; Pilar de la Garza, Felipe Nepamuceno and INIFAP for initial studies; Socorro Gonzalez, David Ramirez, CIDIIR- Dgo. Francisco Molina, and Jose F. Martinez for populations finding and field logistics; Oscar Rodriguez (dagger) for lab assistance; Robert Adams for taxonomic assistance and outgroup samples; David Gernandt, Juan Pablo Jaramillo, Valeria Alavez, Alyson Lumley and two anonymous reviewers for manuscript revision. Funding by Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) and Consejo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (CONACYT) project 0201-A-1 to DP is acknowledged." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Genetics & Heredity Biodiversity & Conservation; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000303475800017 Mexico UK
176 Fertile ground? Options for a science-policy platform for land ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY English Land degradation; Desertification; Science-policy interface; Global environmental change BOUNDARY ORGANIZATIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; DESERTIFICATION; CHALLENGES; AGRICULTURE; EXPERIENCES; DEGRADATION; MANAGEMENT; CONVENTION; GOVERNANCE Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); CST Bureau "We thank the Convention Project to Combat Desertification (CCD Project) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for sponsoring the e-forum, Marcel Hild for establishing up the e-forum according to our requirements, Gerhard Muche from the University of Hamburg, Germany and Harriet Bigas from UNU-INWEH for facilitating and monitoring the e-forum, Jens Oldeland from eco-systems Germany for the statistical analyses, and the CST Bureau for their continued interest and support of the process. This work was coordinated by DesertNet International and UNU-INWEH. Harriet Bigas is thanked for her editing skills. We are grateful to Zafar Adeel, Pam Chasek, Simone Quatrini, Stephen Twomlow, Jessica Smith and Luca Perez for commenting on an earlier draft of this document." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2012 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000301217000012 Argentina; Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; UK Canada
177 Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE English ALPINE PLANTS; BIODIVERSITY; 21ST-CENTURY European Commission; Austrian Academy of Sciences; University of Vienna; MAVA foundation (Switzerland) "We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (http://eca.knmi.nl). We thank the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity for stimulating discussions, G-R. Walther, S. Dullinger, K. Green and T. Stuessy for internal reviewing,C. Klettner for data compilation, S. Laimer for project administration, R. Tochterle for help with Fig. 3 and approximately 80 co-workers for performing field recording. The study was financed by the European Commission, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, the MAVA foundation (Switzerland) and many other national authorities of the partner groups." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2012 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000300520100023 Austria; Brazil; Cyprus; Greece; Italy; Norway; Rep of Georgia; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; UK Austria
178 DNA multigene sequencing of topotypic specimens of the fascioliasis vector Lymnaea diaphana and phylogenetic analysis of the genus Pectinidens (Gastropoda) MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ English Lymnaea diaphana; Lymnaeidae; nuclear rDNA; mtDNA; phylogeny; fascioliasis vectors NORTHERN BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO; RIBOSOMAL-SUBUNIT RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; HIGH-ALTITUDE; EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS; SCHISTOSOMA-MANSONI; INTERMEDIATE HOST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ENDEMIC AREAS; BASE-LINE "MICINN, Spain [SAF2006-09278, SAF2010-20805]; RICET, FIS, Spain [PI030545, RD06/0021/0017]; AIEA, Austria [RLA5049]; Secretar a de Ciencia; Tecnica y Posgrado; UNCU; Area de Investigacion; UMaza, Argentina" "SAF2006-09278, SAF2010-20805 (MICINN, Spain), PI030545, RD06/0021/0017 (RICET, FIS, Spain), RLA5049 (AIEA, Austria), Secretar a de Ciencia, Tecnica y Posgrado, UNCU, Area de Investigacion, UMaza, Argentina" FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ 2012 Parasitology; Tropical Medicine Parasitology; Tropical Medicine WOS:000300062500016 Argentina; Spain Spain
179 Can amphibians take the heat? Vulnerability to climate warming in subtropical and temperate larval amphibian communities GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English amphibian decline; global warming; species extinction risk; upper thermal tolerance; warming tolerance THERMAL LIMITS DEPEND; EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS; DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER; METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT; ONTOGENETIC CHANGE; VERTICAL ZONATION; ANURAN AMPHIBIANS; TOLERANCE; LATITUDE; ACCLIMATION "Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion y Desarrollo (AECID); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL2009-12767-C02-02, CGL2008-04814-C02-02]; Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture [MEC2007-0944]; Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion" "For their help during the field work and logistic support, special thanks to J.L. Acosta, R. Cajade, M. Dure, A. I. Kehr, J.J. Neiff, N. Oromi, R. Reques and E. Shaefer at the CECOAL-CONICET, UNNE and FCEQyN-UNaM//CONICET (Argentina); D. Alvarez, M. Benitez, J. Bosch, M. Chirosa, D. Donaire, A. G. Nicieza and R. Reques (Spain); A. Laurila, G. Orizaola and B. Rogell (EBC, Uppsala University, Sweden). Special thanks to Z.P. Sousa do Amaral for introducing in the analysis of CTmax in larval amphibians, and E. Martin-Lorente for designing and building all thermal devices. Raymond B. Huey, Carlos A. Navas, Jason Rohr, David B. Wake and four anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. All species were sampled and analysed with the permission of the Ministerio de Ecologia de la provincia de Misiones (Argentina), Consejeria de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Medio Ambiente del Principado de Asturias, (Spain), Lansstyrelsen Uppsala Lan (Uppsala County, Sweden). This project has been funded by Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion y Desarrollo (AECID) and by the grant CGL2009-12767-C02-02 from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion to MT and CGL2008-04814-C02-02 to JFB. ARB was supported by a Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture postdoctoral grant (MEC2007-0944). AGV was funded by a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000299042500002 Argentina; Spain; Sweden Spain
180 Global patterns of stream detritivore distribution: implications for biodiversity loss in changing climates GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English Detritus; diversity; guild; latitudinal gradient; leaf litter; shredders; species richness; stream ecosystems; trophic diversity LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT; ADULT AQUATIC INSECTS; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; SPECIES-RICHNESS; LEAF-LITTER; REGIONAL DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FRESH-WATER; HEADWATER STREAMS; TROPHIC LEVELS National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration [7980-06] "The study was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration (grant number 7980-06 to Luz Boyero) and various national funding sources. C. Canhoto, Z. Dewson, G. Cabarcas, M. Dunfee, B. Gao, Y. Gonzalez, M. Hirose, P. Lisle, N. Mochizuki, D. Nawa, L. C. Y. Ng, P. Rosa, R. Sawnchez-Arguello and K. Schmidt assisted with field work. J. Hortal provided statistical advice. We thank M. Jonsson, who provided latitudes for the Swedish sites, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Monitoring and Non-tidal Assessment Division for the provision of data." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000298912900004 Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; France; India; Kenya; Malaysia; Panama; Peoples R China; Portugal; Spain; Switzerland; USA Spain
181 Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands SCIENCE English DIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY; PRODUCTIVITY; GRASSLAND; DESERTIFICATION; COMMUNITIES European Research Council under the European Community [242658]; The Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo program (CYTED) [407AC0323] "We thank all the technicians that assisted with field and laboratory work; T. Navarro and Z. Noumi for their help with plant species identification; and J. Bascompte, J. F. Reynolds, K. J. van Groenigen, W. van der Putten, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. This research was funded by the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement 242658 (BIOCOM). The Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo program (CYTED) funded networking activities (EPES, Accion 407AC0323). The data used in the primary analyses are available in the supporting online material. The authors declare no competing financial interests. F. T. M. and A. E. designed the study. Field data were collected by all authors except A. E., A. G., N.J.G., B. G., E. V., and M. B. Laboratory analyses were done by V.O., A. G., M. B., M. D. B., E. V., and B. G. Data analyses were done by F. T. M., assisted by N.J.G. The paper was written by F. T. M., and all authors contributed to the subsequent drafts." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000299033100052 Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Chile; Ecuador; Iran; Israel; Mexico; Morocco; Peoples R China; Peru; Spain; Tunisia; USA; Venezuela Spain
182 Mapping Genetic Diversity of Cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill.): Application of Spatial Analysis for Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources PLOS ONE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; GERMPLASM COLLECTION; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE GENETICS; ALLELIC RICHNESS; SAMPLE-SIZE; SEED BANKS; MARKERS; WILD; ANGIOSPERM European Commission [015100]; Spanish Ministry of Education [AGL2010-15140]; Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) from Spain [RF2009-00010]; Junta de Andalucia [FEDER AGR2742]; INIA-Spain "This study has been carried out within the context of the CHERLA project funded by the International Cooperation with Developing Countries (INCO-DEV) Sixth Framework Programme (Contract 015100) of the European Commission. Additional financial support was provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education (Project Grants AGL2010-15140), the Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) from Spain (RF2009-00010), Junta de Andalucia (FEDER AGR2742) and by the INIA-Spain financed project 'Strengthening Regional Collaboration in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Genetic Resources in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.' The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000311900100001 Belgium; Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Kenya; Peru; Spain Colombia
183 Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard PLOS ONE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; SCIENCE "U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF-9808739, DBI-0345448, DBI-0108161]; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF" "The U.S. National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/) funded three individual projects that contributed to Darwin Core: Species Analyst Project (NSF-9808739), ORNIS (DBI-0345448), and MaNIS (DBI-0108161). The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided individual grants to the BioGeomancer Project and to TDWG, both of which had influence on the Darwin Core (http://www.moore.org/). Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF, sponsored a workshop to prepare Darwin Core for the standards track, in February 2009 (http://www.gbif.org/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000301188800029 Brazil; Denmark; USA USA
184 Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning "ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, VOL 46, PT 1" English FOOD-WEB STRUCTURE; N-P STOICHIOMETRY; ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION; FRESH-WATER ECOSYSTEMS; PLANT-SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOMASS SIZE SPECTRUM; POPULATION ENERGY-USE; LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; BODY-SIZE; METABOLIC-RATE ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000319706500001 Canada; Chile; France; Germany; Japan; Netherlands; Panama; Spain; UK; USA Netherlands
185 "Biodiversity, Species Interactions and Ecological Networks in a Fragmented World" "ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, VOL 46, PT 1" English PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS; FOOD-WEB STRUCTURE; ANIMAL MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; AMAZONIAN FOREST FRAGMENTS; FRUIT-FRUGIVORE INTERACTIONS; LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; PREY BODY-SIZE; POPULATION GENETIC CONSEQUENCES; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTIONS; NEOTROPICAL MONTANE FOREST ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC 2012 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000319706500002 Brazil; Denmark; Ireland; New Zealand; Spain; UK Denmark
186 CHALLENGES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF BENTHIC POPULATIONS AND BIODIVERSITY AS A RESULT OF RHYTHMIC BEHAVIOUR: VIDEO SOLUTIONS FROM CABLED OBSERVATORIES "OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY: AN ANNUAL REVIEW, VOL 50" English NEPHROPS-NORVEGICUS DECAPODA; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS; ARISTEUS-ANTENNATUS RISSO; FISH SPECIES RECOGNITION; KRILL EUPHAUSIA-SUPERBA; RECENT CLIMATE-CHANGE; NORTH PACIFIC-OCEAN; SEA DEMERSAL FISHES; FAN ACTIVITY RHYTHM; COD GADUS-MORHUA CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP 2012 Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000309143700005 Argentina; Canada; Italy; Japan; Spain; UK; USA Spain
187 "Pseudo-absences, pseudo-models and pseudo-niches: pitfalls of model selection based on the area under the curve" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE English species distribution modelling; model selection PREDICTING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RESERVE-SELECTION; SAMPLE-SIZE; BIODIVERSITY; PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY; NUMBERS; RECORDS; MUSEUM TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2012 "Computer Science, Information Systems; Geography; Geography, Physical; Information Science & Library Science" Computer Science; Geography; Physical Geography; Information Science & Library Science WOS:000311086500003 Mexico; Spain; UK Mexico
188 "Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity" SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY English biodiversity; bioinformatics; biomimicry; biosphere; conservation; cyberinfrastructure; ecology; evolution; international collaboration; organization of science; origins; species; sustainability; systematics; taxonomy; team work SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY; RED SWEAT; TAXONOMY; LIFE; CONSERVATION; TREE; INFRASTRUCTURE; HIPPOPOTAMUS; CHALLENGES; QUESTIONS "Arizona State University (Office of the President, International Institute for Species Exploration and Global Institute of Sustainability); US National Science Foundation [DEB-1102500]; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University; NSF [DEB-0316614]" "Funds for the 'Sustain What?' workshop were provided by Arizona State University (Office of the President, International Institute for Species Exploration and Global Institute of Sustainability) and a grant from the US National Science Foundation (DEB-1102500 to QDW). Further support was provided by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University and NSF (DEB-0316614 to SK). We thank the New York Botanical Garden, New York Academy of Sciences and the Explorers Club for meeting locations and Rebecca Albrecht and Carol Hughes for event planning and media relations." TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Biology Biodiversity & Conservation; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000305512500001 Austria; Brazil; Germany; Spain; UK; USA USA
189 Differences in morpho-physiological leaf traits reflect the response of growth to drought in a seeder but not in a resprouter Mediterranean species FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY English Cistus ladanifer; climate change; Erica arborea; relative growth rate; shoot water potential; specific leaf area; water stress WATER RELATIONS; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; SHOOT GROWTH; CARBON; MASS; EFFICIENCY; DYNAMICS; SHRUBS; AREA; FREQUENCY Spanish Education and Science Ministry [CGL2006-06914]; European Community (FUME) [GA 243888]; Caja de Guadalajara [CONV080174]; European Social Fund "Funding was provided by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry (CGL2006-06914; SECCIA project) and by the European Community (FUME project, GA 243888). AP received a Formacion de Personal Investigador grant from the Spanish Education and Science Ministry, and VRD was partly funded by Caja de Guadalajara (contract number: CONV080174 to JMM) and by the European Social Fund. We thank the 'Quintos de Mora' staff, particularly C. Rodriguez and J. M. Sebastian, for their continuous support to set up the water manipulation experiment. We also thank to A. Velasco, A. Vazquez, L. Diaz and A. Pardo for their technical support." CSIRO PUBLISHING 2012 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000303165200006 Spain Peru
190 Biogeography in the air: fungal diversity over land and oceans BIOGEOSCIENCES English ICE NUCLEATION ACTIVITY; SUBMODEL SYSTEM MESSY; TECHNICAL NOTE; OPTICAL-PROPERTIES; AEROSOL-PARTICLES; AMAZON BASIN; ATMOSPHERE; NUCLEI; FOREST; BIODIVERSITY "Max Planck Society (MPG); LEC Geocycles in Mainz; state Rheinland-Pfalz [596]; German Research Foundation [DE1161/2-1, PO1013/5-1, FOR 1525 INUIT]" "The corresponding authorship for this article is shared by J. Frohlich-Nowoisky and V. R. Despres (despres@uni-mainz.de). We thank H. Bauer, R. Burgess, A. L. Clements, R. M. Garland, A. Hoffer, K. Ibarra, D. Rose, H. Yang, and J. Z. Yu for providing filter samples, J. Cimbal, C. Frohlich, I. Muller-Germann, and N. Knothe for technical assistance, A. K. Bertram, W. Elbert, S. Gunthe, M. Gysel, D. I. Haga, C. Morris, H. Paulsen and A. Wollny for discussions and support. Financial support was provided by the Max Planck Society (MPG), the LEC Geocycles in Mainz funded by the state Rheinland-Pfalz (Contribution No. 596), and the German Research Foundation (DE1161/2-1, PO1013/5-1, FOR 1525 INUIT). The United States Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development partially collaborated in the research described here under assistance agreement number 83404901 to Arizona State University. It has been subjected to Agency review and approved for publication." COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2012 "Ecology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geology WOS:000302179500019 Brazil; Germany; Peoples R China; Taiwan; USA Germany
191 "Protective shade, tree diversity and soil properties in coffee agroforestry systems in the Atlantic Rainforest biome" AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English "Coffee; Agroforestry; Tree biodiversity; Climate change adaptation; Soil quality, Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest" BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; TROPICAL AGROECOSYSTEMS; LAND-USE; MANAGEMENT; BRAZIL; QUALITY; IMPACT; DECOMPOSITION; SMALLHOLDER CAPES (Coordenacao de Pessoal de Ensino Superior) "We thank the farmers for unconditional sharing of their knowledge on agroforestry; Maria Ivanilda de Aguiar for the soil texture data of A1 farm; Prof. Dr. Rogerio Ferreira Ribas, Carolina Marotta, Livia Constancio Siqueira and Jose Martins Fernandes for the botanical surveys; Prof. Dra. Andreza Viana Neri (UFV) for help with the botanical analysis and interpretation; Eliana de Souza for the map (Fig. 1); and CAPES (Coordenacao de Pessoal de Ensino Superior) for a scholarship to the first author. The research was carried out in one of the eight benchmark areas of the agroBIODIVERSITY network of DIVERSITAS, the International Organization for Biodiversity Science (http://www.agrobiodiversity-diversitas.org/)." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2012 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000300204000020 Brazil; Netherlands Brazil
192 "Structure, composition and dynamics of a calcareous grassland metacommunity over a 70-year interval" JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English biodiversity; conservation; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; environmental change; extinction; floristic tracking; taxonomic homogenization PLANT-SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOTIC HOMOGENIZATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; VEGETATION CHANGE; CHALK-GRASSLAND; NATIONAL-SCALE; BETA DIVERSITY; SAMPLING ERROR; FRAGMENTATION WILEY-BLACKWELL 2012 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000298014400018 Mexico; UK UK
193 Higher plasticity in ecophysiological traits enhances the performance and invasion success of Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) in alpine environments BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS English Altitudinal gradient; Competition; Fluorescence; Light intensity; Photoprotective pigments; Xanthophyll cycle PLANT PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; LEAF SENESCENCE; CENTRAL CHILE; RESPONSES; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; HETEROGENEITY; AVAILABILITY "Spanish Government [CGL2006-04025/BOS, CGL2010-17172, BFU2009-06045-E]; Consolider-Ingenio Montes [CSD2008-00040]; Catalan Government [SGR 2009-458]" "This research was supported by Spanish Government grants CGL2006-04025/BOS, CGL2010-17172, BFU2009-06045-E and Consolider-Ingenio Montes CSD2008-00040 and the Catalan Government grant SGR 2009-458. M.A.M-M. thanks the MECESUP UCO 0214 project and Leon A. Bravo for providing climatic data." SPRINGER 2012 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000298646200004 Chile; Spain Chile
194 Phylogenetic patterns in zopherine beetles are related to ecological niche width and dispersal limitation MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English climate change; dispersal; niche conservatism; past climates; speciation; species distribution models LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT; SPECIATION MECHANISMS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CONSERVATISM; SALAMANDERS; PLETHODONTIDAE; CAUDATA; EVOLUTIONARY; MEXICO; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY "Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-10111, CGL2010-15786]; [UC-MEXUS 022043]" "We thank David B. Wake and James Hanken for their companionship and support during field trips in the mountains of Mexico, and to the late Marina Alcobendas for her invaluable assistance and collaboration in the laboratory. Research for this study was funded by grants CGL2009-10111 to A.B and CGL2010-15786 to M.G.-P. (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation), and grant UC-MEXUS 022043 to G.P.-O. Collecting permits were provided by SEMARNAT (Mexico)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000297915700020 Mexico; Spain Spain
195 Using species co-occurrence networks to assess the impacts of climate change ECOGRAPHY English BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; GLOBAL CHANGE; FOOD WEBS; MODELS; DISTRIBUTIONS; COMMUNITIES; EVOLUTION; PATTERNS; POLLINATION CSIC-PUC International Laboratory for Global Change (LINC-Global); EC FP6 ECOCHANGE [036866-GOCE]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-01198-E/BOS]; Danish National Research Foundation; FONDECYT-FONDAP [1501-0001]; ICM [P05-002]; CONICYT [PFB-23] "This study is part of a broader research program sponsored by the CSIC-PUC International Laboratory for Global Change (LINC-Global); MBA is also funded by EC FP6 ECOCHANGE project (036866-GOCE) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2008-01198-E/BOS); CR thanks the Danish National Research Foundation for its support of the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. PAM acknowledges support from FONDECYT-FONDAP 1501-0001, ICM P05-002 and CONICYT PFB-23." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000297738200001 Chile; Denmark; Portugal; Spain Spain
196 The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Fire and culture; fire management; fire regime; global environmental change; landscape fire; palaeoecology; prehistoric human impacts; pyrogeography WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; NORTH-AMERICA; UNITED-STATES; FOREST-FIRE; NEW-ZEALAND; AUSTRALIA; MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; ANTHROPOCENE National Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0553768] "We thank G. Sanders for assistance with preparing the figures, and Sam Wood and William D. Gosling for commenting on an earlier draft. This work was conducted as part of the remit of the Pyrogeography Working Group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant DEB-0553768, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the State of California, with additional support for J. Balch, a postdoctoral associate at NCEAS." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000297850500001 Australia; Brazil; Singapore; South Africa; UK; USA Australia
197 Modelling biome shifts and tree cover change for 2050 in West Africa JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Africa; bioclimatic envelope models; climate change; desertification; forest degradation; generalized additive model; human impact; species distribution modelling GLOBAL VEGETATION MODEL; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE-MODELS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; LAND-COVER; GRASS COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY-LEVEL; SAHARA DESERT; BIODIVERSITY; IMPACTS "Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts" "The present study was funded by the research funding programme 'LOEWE - Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz' of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts. We thank Jaime R.G. Marquez for critical reading of the manuscript and R.B. O'Hara for improving the writing style." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000297850500003 Brazil; Germany Germany
198 The extraordinary journey of Peperomia subgenus Tildenia (Piperaceae): insights into diversification and colonization patterns from its cradle in Peru to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Amotape-Huancabamba Zone; Central Andes; Great American Interchange; Isthmus of Panama; Mexican Transition Zone; Neotropics; refuge theory; Sierra Madre ANGIOSPERM FAMILY LACTORIDACEAE; VASCULAR PLANT DIVERSITY; AMOTAPE-HUANCABAMBA ZONE; SOUTH-AMERICA; DIVERGENCE TIMES; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; NEOGENE STRATIGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC RANGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; NORTHERN PERU "Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) [FWO G.0172.07]; German Science Foundation [DFG NE681/5-1, DFG NE681/5-2]; Department of Biology, Ghent University; the Friends of the Botanical Garden Ghent; Gesellschaft der Freunde und Forderer der TU Dresden; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD PPP Colombia)" "We thank the authorities of Bolivia (permit number MDRAy-MA-VBRFMA-DGBAP-UAVPS no. 046/08), Mexico (permit numbers SGPA/DGGFS/712/1397/07 and SGPA/DGGFS/712/2486/09) and Peru (permit number 009-2009-AG-DGFFS-DGEFFS) for permission to collect material; Joaquina Alban, Hilda Arreola, Carlos Bambaren, Roberto Bolanos, Brian Bates, Stephan Beck, Alvaro Campos, Asuncion Cano, Rosamund Coates, Daniel De Leon, Carmen Deza, Rodolfo Diaz, Gregorio Espiritu, Hilda Flores, Abel Garcia, Favio Gonzalez, Socorro Gonzalez, Carolina Granados, Luisa Infante, Roobert Jimenez, Nilson Julcarima, Guido P. Lombardi, Esteban Martinez, Marco Martinez, Guido Mathieu, Masoliver Matos, Juan Mendoza, Rosaisela Meneses, Betty Millan, Juan F. Montoya, Victor Morales, Helga Ochotorena, Yocupitzia Ramirez, Alberto Reyes, Gloria Rebaza, Leyda Rimarachin, Jerzy Rzedowski, Alfredo Ruiz, Merli Saavedra, Gerardo Salazar, Isidoro Sanchez-Vega, Gustavo Silva, Susanne Sivila, Victoria Sosa, Victor Steinmann, Anselmo Turpo and Sergio Zamudio for assistance with fieldwork and logistics; Pieter Asselman, Elisabeth Elschner and Cindy Thomas for lab work; Karel Otten for database work; Robert Maijer and Mario Veliz for providing samples; and the curators of the herbaria AAU, B, BH, BIGU, BM, BOLV, BR, C, CIB, CHDIR, CM, CORU, CPUN, E, EBT, F, G, GB, GENT, GH, GOET, HEID, HUA, HUT, IBUG, IEB, ILL, INB, ISC, JE, K, L, LPB, LY, M, MA, MEXU, MICH, MO, NY, P, PH, PR, PRC, QCNE, S, SEL, TCD, U, UC, UPS, US, USM, VT, W, XAL and ZSS for the loan of, or permission to study, material. This work was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen; FWO G.0172.07; FWO travel grants to M.-S.S.); the German Science Foundation (DFG NE681/5-1, DFG NE681/5-2); the Department of Biology, Ghent University; the Friends of the Botanical Garden Ghent; the 'Gesellschaft der Freunde und Forderer der TU Dresden', and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD PPP Colombia). Comments from Eric Tepe, Mark Bush and an anonymous referee are gratefully acknowledged." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000297850500011 Belgium; Chile; Germany; Peru; USA Germany
199 Coupled Atmosphere-Biosphere Models as a Tool for Conservation Planning and Policy NATUREZA & CONSERVACAO English Climate Change; Land Use; Environmental Governance; Scale; Amazon AMAZON RAIN-FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CARBON-CYCLE; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; PROTECTED AREAS; VEGETATION; FEEDBACKS; DYNAMICS; DIEBACK; SCALE ASSOC BRASILEIRA CIENCIA ECOLOGICA E CONSERVACAO 2011 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000298975600002 Brazil; UK Brazil
200 Testing the Water-Energy Theory on American Palms (Arecaceae) Using Geographically Weighted Regression PLOS ONE English PLANT-SPECIES RICHNESS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; DIVERSITY PATTERNS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; SCALE VARIATION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ECOLOGY; DETERMINANTS; BIODIVERSITY "Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences [272-07-0242, 10-083348]; European Community [212631]; faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Aarhus" "This work was supported by the Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences (grant# 272-07-0242 to JCS, #10-083348 to HB) and the European Community (FP7 grant #212631 to HB). The faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Aarhus supported SB's PhD studies. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000297197000023 Brazil; Denmark Denmark
201 The Influence of Climatic Seasonality on the Diversity of Different Tropical Pollinator Groups PLOS ONE English RAIN-FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; BRAZILIAN CERRADO; BUTTERFLIES; PATTERNS; LEPIDOPTERA; BIODIVERSITY; HYMENOPTERA Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung; DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); University of Zurich; National Herbarium at La Paz; Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado at Santa Cruz; Ministry of the Environment of Bolivia "This study was funded by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the University of Zurich. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.We thank T. Delhotal for assistance in the field, A. Schmidt-Lebuhn, B. Bembe and G. Gerlach for information during field work preparation, C. Hamel, S. K. Herzog, D.N. Karger, C. Bomblat, V. Sandoval and J.Q. Vidoz for their support and advice during field work as well as D. Cicuzza for their help during data analysis, M. Schwerdtfeger for providing odour baits, B. Steudel for his help with organization, S. Willinghofer, S. Stiegel, M. C. Vargas Karger, P. Buschhorn, P. Gottleuber for identifying and preparing euglossine bees, C. Taylor, M. H. Nee, R. Vasquez, and J.R.I. Wood for their support with plant identification, O. Mielke, K. Willmott, R. K. Robbins for the identification of butterflies, and R. W. Soria-Auza for providing the climatic data and the precipitation map. We are grateful to the Botanical Garden in Santa Cruz, the University of Cochabamba, Prometa, the municipal governments of Villa Tunari and Rio Seco, and R. Clarke Gemuseus for the permission to work on their land, and to the National Herbarium at La Paz, the Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado at Santa Cruz, as well as the Ministry of the Environment of Bolivia for supporting our study." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000297154900080 Bolivia; Germany; Switzerland Switzerland
202 Plant Invasions in Mountains: Global Lessons for Better Management MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT English Biosecurity; climate change; cross-scale learning; invasive alien plants; prevention SOUTH-AFRICA; KASHMIR HIMALAYA; WATER-RESOURCES; ALIEN FLORA; LAND-USE; PATTERNS; VEGETATION; GRADIENTS; ELEVATION; BENEFITS "Programa de Fondos Basales; CONICYT; Initiciativa Cientifica Milenio, ICM [P05-002]; [PFB-23]" "The article builds on ideas from and discussion among members of the Mountain Invasion Research Network Consortium (http://www.miren.ethz.ch/people/index.html). Karsten Rohweder (ETHZ) kindly produced Figure 1. Anibal Pauchard received funding from Programa de Fondos Basales, CONICYT, PFB-23, and Initiciativa Cientifica Milenio, ICM P05-002." MOUNTAIN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 2011 "Environmental Sciences; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000298349900014 Australia; Chile; India; South Africa; Switzerland; USA Australia
203 Testing the accuracy of non-experts in biodiversity monitoring exercises using fern species richness in the Ecuadorian Amazon BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Community; Monitoring; Training; Biodiversity; Ferns; Ecuador DANIELSEN ET-AL; LOCAL PEOPLE; CONSERVATION; FORESTS; OPPORTUNITIES; DIVERSITY; KNOWLEDGE Wingate Foundation We thank all of the participants for their enthusiasm and the residents of Babaoyo who provided us with space and land to deliver the workshops. We also extend our gratitude to Rocio Paz y Mio and the Grupo Sumaco for logistical support. JAO acknowledges the financial support of a Wingate Foundation postgraduate scholarship. We kindly acknowledge the comments from the editor and one anonymous reviewer. SPRINGER 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000297200000005 Ecuador; Germany; UK; USA UK
204 Development of Gene Expression Markers of Acute Heat-Light Stress in Reef-Building Corals of the Genus Porites PLOS ONE English GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; MONTASTRAEA-FAVEOLATA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SCLERACTINIAN CORAL; RELATIVE QUANTIFICATION; ACROPORA-MILLEPORA; CARIBBEAN CORALS; THERMAL-STRESS; PIGMENTS "National Science Foundation [DEB-1054766]; Title V-Graduate programs/ELITE Graduate program [MA-91697601]; WIOMSA MARG III; Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky; Anat Krauskopf Fund Travel Award; NSF [IOS-0747205]; University of Mississippi; National Science Council; Academia Sinica, Taiwan; NSF GRF; Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC); Roche; Applied Biosystems/Ambion; Takara Biosciences/Clonetech; Thermo-Fisher/Nanodrop; Rainin" "The authors would like to acknowledge the following funding agencies: National Science Foundation grant DEB-1054766 to MVM; Title V-Graduate programs/ELITE Graduate program: Event Travel Request program to LBS and JAH; Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunity Graduate Fellowship to KAK (MA-91697601); WIOMSA MARG III to PHM and RB; Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Student Travel Fellowships and Anat Krauskopf Fund Travel Award to AA; NSF IOS-0747205 and funding from the University of Mississippi ORSP to TLG; Grants from both the National Science Council and Academia Sinica, Taiwan to KS; NSF GRF to RNS; Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) studentship to CVP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.A major portion of this work was carried out as part of the ""QPCR for coral biologists'' workshops taught by MVM and CDK at Mote Tropical Research Laboratory. The qPCR workshops are sponsored by Roche, Applied Biosystems/Ambion, Takara Biosciences/Clonetech, Thermo-Fisher/Nanodrop, and Rainin. These companies donated equipment and reagents. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000296519600078 Australia; Colombia; France; Israel; Kuwait; Mauritius; South Africa; Taiwan; UK; USA USA
205 Quantifying Responses of Dung Beetles to Fire Disturbance in Tropical Forests: The Importance of Trapping Method and Seasonality PLOS ONE English RAIN-FOREST; COLEOPTERA SCARABAEIDAE; INSECT CONSERVATION; RECURRENT WILDFIRES; PLANTATION FORESTS; AMAZONIAN FORESTS; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; ABUNDANCE; ASSEMBLAGES Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate [NNX07AF16G]; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso; Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa de Minas Gerais "Biological Diversity Program of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (NNX07AF16G); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso; Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa de Minas Gerais. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000296186900033 Brazil; UK; USA USA
206 Estimating carbon stock in secondary forests: Decisions and uncertainties associated with allometric biomass models FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT English Carbon; Tree allometry; Biomass; Secondary succession; Tropical forest ABOVEGROUND TREE BIOMASS; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; WOOD DENSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL-GROUPS; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; LANDSCAPE-SCALE; LAND-USE; DEFORESTATION; EQUATIONS "HSBC; STRI; ACP; Frank Levinson Family Foundation; Motta Family Foundation; Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (SENACYT) of Panama" "This paper is a scientific contribution to the Agua Salud Project (ASP), collaboration among the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and the National Environmental Authority of Panama (ANAM). The ASP is supported by the HSBC climate partnership, STRI, the ACP, the Frank Levinson Family Foundation and the Motta Family Foundation. This study was supported by an Anonymous Donor and the Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (SENACYT) of Panama. We thank Daniela Weber and Federico Davis for logistical support, Yuriza Guerrero, Johana Balbuena, Miguel Nunez, Guillermo Fernandez, Fernando Garcia, Carlos Diaz, Anabel Rivas, Jenny Calvo, Manuel Valdes and Gregorio Sala for their help in the collection of field data, Christian Salas and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and Joe Wright for providing data on wood specific gravity. Finally, JR thanks Michele Abene, Adriana Cromer and Gillian Paul for their support and companionship during the field work period." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2011 Forestry Forestry WOS:000295297300034 Denmark; Netherlands; Panama; USA Panama
207 A new baseline for fascioliasis in Venezuela: lymnaeid vectors ascertained by DNA sequencing and analysis of their relationships with human and animal infection PARASITES & VECTORS English NORTHERN BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO; HIGH-ALTITUDE; EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS; INTERMEDIATE HOSTS; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; GALBA-TRUNCATULA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ENDEMIC AREAS; SNAIL HOSTS; 1ST RECORD "Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Innovation, Madrid [BOS2000-0570-C02-02, BOS2002-01978, SAF2006-09278, 2010-20805]; Red de Investigacion de Centros de Enfermedades Tropicales - RICET [C03/04, ISCIII2005-PI050574, ISCIII-RETIC RD06/0021/0017]; FIS, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain; Consejo de Desarrollo Cientifico Humanistico, Tecnologico y de las Artes, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela [FA-464-09-03-C]; Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional (AECI); Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, Spain; International Atomic Energy Agency (Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA Headquaters Vienna, Austria) [RLA5049]" "Studies funded by Projects No. BOS2000-0570-C02-02, No. BOS2002-01978, No. SAF2006-09278 and SAF No. 2010-20805 of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Innovation, Madrid; and by the Red de Investigacion de Centros de Enfermedades Tropicales - RICET (Projects No. C03/04, No. ISCIII2005-PI050574 and No. ISCIII-RETIC RD06/0021/0017 of the Programa de Redes Tematicas de Investigacion Cooperativa RETICS/FEDER), FIS, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain. Research activities in the ""El Joque"" Experimental Farm Station funded by Project No. FA-464-09-03-C of the Consejo de Desarrollo Cientifico Humanistico, Tecnologico y de las Artes, Universidad de Los Andes (C.D.C.H.T.A.-ULA), Merida, Venezuela.Part of this work was made possible thanks to personal fellowships funded to P. Artigas and C. Gonzalez by the Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional (AECI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, Spain. Research stay of C. Gonzalez in Parasitology Department of Valencia University additionally funded by the Universidad de los Andes-CONICIT, Venezuela. Thanks are given to Dr. A.M. Perez (Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela) for furnishing lymnaeids from Falcon State and and Dr. J.P. Pointier (Perpignan, France) for those from Aragua State, Carabobo State and Laguna Mucubaji of Merida State.Field work activities performed within the worldwide initiative of WHO (Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland) against human fascioliasis. Joint coordination activities carried out within Project No. RLA5049 of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA Headquaters Vienna, Austria). Technical support provided by the Servicio Central de Secuenciacion para la Investigacion Experimental (SCSIE) of the Universidad de Valencia (Dr. A. Martinez)." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2011 Parasitology Parasitology WOS:000296857400001 Spain; Venezuela Spain
208 "Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity" PLOS ONE English ANIMAL MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; POLLINATION NETWORKS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS; GLOBAL CHANGE; WEST-INDIES; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY; COMMUNITIES; ENDEMISM "Frimodt-Heineke Foundation; Augustinus Foundation; Knud Hojgaard Foundation; Aarhus University; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge; The Danish Council for Independent Research verbar Natural Sciences; Center for Massive Data Algorithmics; Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate; Svend Fiedler & Wife Foundation; Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences and Novozymes/World Wildlife Foundation-Denmark; British Ecological Society; Idea Wild; The Biodiversity Trust; The Anglo Peruvian Society; The Leslie Church Bursary Fund; The United States National Science Foundation; The California Alliance for Minority Participation; The Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAEP); The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); British Ornithologists' Union; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia; FAPESB; Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences [272-07-0242]; World Wildlife Foundation; Novozymes; CEA; CNRS; EU [EVK2-CT-2002-00153]; Programme National d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (PNEDC)" "Funding for BD was supported by Frimodt-Heineke Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Knud Hojgaard Foundation, a PhD fellowship by Aarhus University, Weis-Fogh Fund at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and The Danish Council for Independent Research vertical bar Natural Sciences. EM was supported by the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics, a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence. JF and CR thank the Danish National Research Foundation for its support of the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. AMG was supported by Svend Fiedler & Wife Foundation, J.Olesen by the Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences and Novozymes/World Wildlife Foundation-Denmark, J.Ollerton and SW by the British Ecological Society, Idea Wild, The Biodiversity Trust, The Anglo Peruvian Society and The Leslie Church Bursary Fund, RA by The United States National Science Foundation's Predoctoral Fellowship Program and The California Alliance for Minority Participation, ACA by The Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAEP) and The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), PC by the British Ornithologists' Union, CL by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, CM by FAPESB and CNPq, IS and MS by FAPESP and CNPq, AT by Aarhus University, and J-CS by the Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences (grant 272-07-0242). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.J.Olesen was awarded a grant jointly by the World Wildlife Foundation and Novozymes. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.Thanks to Nico Bluthgen and Thiago Fernando Rangel for their advice regarding calculation of specialization indices and the use of SAM, respectively. Thanks to Anders H Madsen for helping with the figures, to Silvana Buzato for providing data and insight, and to Anna Traveset, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury and two anonymous reviewers providing useful comments improving the manuscript. The PMIP2 Data Archive is supported by CEA, CNRS, the EU project MOTIF (EVK2-CT-2002-00153) and the Programme National d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (PNEDC). The analysis was using version 05-26-2010 of the database. More information is available on http://pmip2.lsce.ipsl.fr/. RA thanks the US Forest Service and The Wildlands Conservancy and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for access to the field sites in CA and CO, respectively, and SW thanks the National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA) for research permits (permit numbers: 008799 and 0001982) in Peru" PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000295966900069 Brazil; Denmark; Israel; Mexico; UK; USA UK
209 "Using species distribution models in paleobiogeography: A matter of data, predictors and concepts" PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English Biogeography; Geographic range dynamics; Extinction; Grinnellian niche; Fossil record; Bias in occurrence data; Biodiversity databases; Uncertainty; Scenopoetic variablles LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FOREST; NICHE FACTOR-ANALYSIS; PSEUDO-ABSENCE DATA; TRANSFER SCHEME LSX; ECOLOGICAL-NICHE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; HABITAT SELECTION; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia de Castilla-La Mancha [POIC10-0311-0585]; Spanish MICINN; Brazilian CNPq [400130/2010-6] "We want to thank Raul Garcia, Maria Trivino, Silvia Calvo and two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions and fruitful debate, Manolo Salesa and Jan van der Made for scientific and technical advice, and Sally Raskin for helping us with the English. SV was funded by a research project of the Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia de Castilla-La Mancha (POIC10-0311-0585). JH was funded by a Spanish MICINN Ramon y Cajal grant and by a Brazilian CNPq Visiting Researcher grant (400130/2010-6)." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2011 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000296125900024 Brazil; Spain Spain
210 "Diversification in the Andes: Age and origins of South American Heliotropium lineages (Heliotropiaceae, Boraginales)" MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Andean orogeny; Boraginaceae; Neotropics; Tournefortia LATE MIOCENE RISE; DISPERSAL-VICARIANCE ANALYSIS; RELAXED MOLECULAR CLOCKS; ITS1 SEQUENCE DATA; ATACAMA-DESERT; NORTHERN CHILE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; CHLOROPLAST DNA; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY "NSF [DEB 0415573253]; CESAF (Chile); Fondecyt [11085016]; US National Museum of Natural History; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); European Community [GB-TAF-4514, ES-TAF-136]" "The authors thank M. Antonissen, C. Becker, R. Gajardo, N. Garcia, L. Kritzner, and R. Torres for field assistance, S. Teillier, J. Wen, M.O. Dillon and M. Ackermann for plant material and comments, M.W. Frohlich and A. Graham for valuable comments, L. Bennett and B. Proppe for help at the High Performance Computing of the FU Berlin, and the curators of the herbaria A, MU, B, BM, BSB, CONC, DR, EIF, F, G, G-DC, GH, GOET, K, LL, M, MA, MSB, NY, QCA, SGO, TEX, ULS, US, USM for permitting access to their collections. Fieldwork was supported by the NSF Grant DEB 0415573253 (to M.O. Dillon and J. Wen), CESAF (Chile) and Fondecyt Grant 11085016 to A. Moreira-Munoz. FL acknowledges the support of a Smithsonian Institution Visiting Scholar Award at the US National Museum of Natural History, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). This research received support from the SYNTHESYS project, which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 ""Structuring the European Research Area"" (Grant GB-TAF-4514) and the FP7 ""Capacities"" (Grant ES-TAF-136) Programmes. The valuable suggestions of two anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2011 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000293810000008 Chile; Germany Germany
211 How Reproductive Ecology Contributes to the Spread of a Globally Invasive Fish PLOS ONE English GUPPIES POECILIA-RETICULATA; GENETIC DIVERSITY; POPULATION BOTTLENECKS; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; LARVIVOROUS FISH; CLIMATE-CHANGE; AQUARIUM FISH; WATER; EVOLUTION Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (UK); European Research Council "The work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (UK) and the European Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000295257900014 Trinid & Tobago; UK UK
212 Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English environmental heterogeneity; trait diversity; evolutionary history; niche conservatism SPECIES RICHNESS; NICHE CONSERVATISM; BODY-SIZE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ASSEMBLY RULES; BIODIVERSITY "CNPq [475 886/2009-7, 300 762/94-1, 300 367/96-1, 400 381-97.4]; CAPES [012/09]" "We are grateful to Kate Jones and Bob Ricklefs for lively discussions and suggestions on the topic of comparing diversity measures. Natalie Cooper and an anonymous reviewer have provided insightful suggestions on earlier versions of the manuscript. The research of R. D. L. was supported by CNPq (project # 475 886/2009-7) and CAPES (project # 012/09) M. V. C. by CAPES (project # 012/09) and J.A.F.D.F. by CNPq (projects # 300 762/94-1, 300 367/96-1, 400 381-97.4) and CAPES (project # 012/09)." ROYAL SOC 2011 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000293338700007 Brazil; Germany; UK Brazil
213 Representativeness of terrestrial ecosystems in Chile's protected area system ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION English Chile; gap analysis; protected areas; representativeness; vegetation types; vegetation formations BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PRIORITIES; GAP ANALYSIS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GLOBAL CONSERVATION; RESERVE NETWORKS; NATURAL AREAS; ECOREGIONS; DIVERSITY; FRAGMENTATION; ADAPTATION CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000296086500004 Chile; Switzerland Switzerland
214 Meiotic Recombination Dramatically Decreased in Thelytokous Queens of the Little Fire Ant and Their Sexually Produced Workers MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION English parthenogenesis; thelytoky; recombination; inbreeding; biological invasion; Wasmannia auropunctata APIS-MELLIFERA-CAPENSIS; WASMANNIA-AUROPUNCTATA; CLONAL REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; LAYING WORKERS; CENTRAL FUSION; PARTHENOGENESIS; EVOLUTION "French ""Ministere de l'Ecologie et du Developpement Durable""; CNPq" "We would like to thank Patrice David, Tatiana Giraud, and Fabrice Vavre for their comments on the manuscript and Ashraf Tahey for support. We thank the ""Laboratoire Environnement de Petit Saut, Hydreco"" and ""Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau"" (CEPEC/CEPLAC) for allowing us to use their equipment and laboratory facilities. This work was supported by a grant from the French ""Ministere de l'Ecologie et du Developpement Durable""-for the ECOTROP call for proposals, awarded to A. E. and J.O. and a grant from CNPq awarded to J.H.C.D. Some of the data analyzed here were generated at the molecular genetic analysis technical facilities of the Environment and Biodiversity IFR119 at Montpellier." OXFORD UNIV PRESS 2011 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000294552700019 Brazil; France; Niger France
215 Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns ECOLOGY English global distribution pattern; latitudinal diversity gradient; leaf litter quality; shredder detritivores; stream ecosystems LEAF-LITTER BREAKDOWN; TROPICAL STREAMS; DECOMPOSITION RATES; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; FOOD WEBS; SHREDDERS; RICHNESS; GRADIENTS; MACROINVERTEBRATES National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration [7980-06] "Z. Dewson, G. Cabarcas, W. Cardona, M. Dunfee, B. Gao, L. Giraldo, Y. Gonzalez, M. Hirose, A. O. Y. Li, P. Lisle, N. Mochizuki, D. Nawa, L. C. Y. Ng, P. Rosa, R. Sanchez-Arguello, and K. Schmidt assisted with field work. N. Connolly designed the penetrometer, which was constructed by R. Gegg at James Cook University (Australia). The study was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration (grant number 7980-06; P. I., L. Boyero; funds went to sites in Latin America [except Puerto Rico], Africa, and Asia [except Hong Kong]) and various national funding sources." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000294152800015 Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Ecuador; France; India; Malaysia; Panama; Peoples R China; Portugal; Spain; Switzerland; USA Spain
216 TRY - a global database of plant traits GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English comparative ecology; database; environmental gradient; functional diversity; global analysis; global change; interspecific variation; intraspecific variation; plant attribute; plant functional type; plant trait; vegetation model RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; HAWAIIAN METROSIDEROS-POLYMORPHA; LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATES; LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM; OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION; SUB-ARCTIC FLORA; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; WIDE-RANGE; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE "DIVERSITAS; IGBP; Global Land Project; UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB); GIS 'Climat, Environnement et Societe' France" "We would like to thank the subject editor, the publisher for caution and patience, two anonymous reviewers for supportive comments. The TRY initiative and database is hosted, developed and maintained at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) in Jena, Germany. TRY is or has been supported by DIVERSITAS, IGBP, the Global Land Project, the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its programme QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System), the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), and GIS 'Climat, Environnement et Societe' France. We wish to thank John Dickie and Kenwin Liu for making the data from the KEW Seed Information Database available in the context of the TRY initiative, Alastair Fitter, Henry Ford and Helen Peat for making the Ecological Flora of the British Isles available, and Andy Gillison for the VegClass database. We wish to thank Brad Boyle and the SALVIAS project for building and making available a global checklist of plant species names, and GBIF (Andrea Hahn) for making the species occurrence data available. The authors thank the NSF LTER program DEB 0620652 and the NSF LTREB program DEB 0716587 for making data on plant traits available." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000293399000011 Argentina; Australia; Austria; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Costa Rica; Denmark; Estonia; France; Germany; Iran; Japan; Netherlands; Panama; Peoples R China; Poland; Russia; South Africa; Spain; UK; USA Germany
217 Variation in Community Structure across Vertical Intertidal Stress Gradients: How Does It Compare with Horizontal Variation at Different Scales? PLOS ONE English CORAL-REEF FISH; ROCKY SHORES; ENVIRONMENTAL-STRESS; SPATIAL SCALES; RECRUITMENT LIMITATION; SESSILE ASSEMBLAGES; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; MARINE-ALGAE; MID-SHORE Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program; Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Biologische Anstalt Helgoland; Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico of Chile (FONDECYT) [3100014] "Research was supported by grants from the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Discovery Grant) to RAS, by funds from Biologische Anstalt Helgoland to NV and MM, and by a grant from the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico of Chile (FONDECYT, grant #3100014) to NV. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000295832000090 Canada; Chile; Germany Chile
218 Assessing the vulnerability of traditional maize seed systems in Mexico to climate change PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English adaptation; crop diversity; landraces; genetic resources; food security POPULATION-STRUCTURE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; LANDRACES; ENVIRONMENTS; CONSERVATION; ADAPTATION; COUNTRIES; COMMUNITY; EXCHANGE; ETHIOPIA "Rockefeller Foundation [FS013, FS185]" "We thank David Lobell, Carlos Barahona, Carlos Perez, Xavier Scheldeman, Francisca Acevedo, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier version. The fieldwork for this study was financed by Grants FS013 and FS185 from the Rockefeller Foundation." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000293895100023 Italy; Mexico Italy
219 Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea PLOS ONE English GULF-OF-MEXICO; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; NATURAL IRON FERTILIZATION; CORAL LOPHELIA-PERTUSA; BAY CANYON CALIFORNIA; OXYGEN-MINIMUM ZONES; FINAL GLOBAL SINK; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE-CHANGE Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Census of Marine Life Synthesis; Fondation Total (France) "Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Census of Marine Life Synthesis grant for the SYNDEEP project, Fondation Total (France), grant for the ChEss-Census of Marine Life Programme. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000293511200013 France; Mexico; New Zealand; Norway; Spain; UK; USA Spain
220 "Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles" ECOLOGY LETTERS English Biodiversity gradients; climate variability; community assembly; current climate; Europe; geographically weighted regressions; phylogenetic structure; Pleistocene glaciations; spatial stationarity SPECIES RICHNESS; BETA DIVERSITY; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT ALPHA; SCARABAEINAE; COMPONENTS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY; WATER "UK Natural Environment Research Council; Spanish MICINN; CNPq [400130/2010-6]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-10111, CGL2010-22119]; Danish National Research Foundation" "We thank Robert Ricklefs for his critical review of a former version of this manuscript, and Townsend Peterson, Jose C. Carvalho and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, which led to significant improvements in our paper. This work was conducted as part of a working group on Current and past determinants of Western Palearctic biodiversity, supported by the NERC Centre for Population Biology, a centre funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council. JH was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, by a Spanish MICINN Ramon y Cajal grant, and by a CNPq Visiting Researcher grant (400130/2010-6). AB and MAR are funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grants CGL2009-10111 and CGL2010-22119, respectively). DNB acknowledges the Danish National Research Foundation for support to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000292864400003 Brazil; Denmark; Spain; UK; USA UK
221 "Is the alpine divide becoming more permeable to biological invasions? - Insights on the invasion and establishment of the Walnut Husk Fly, Rhagoletis completa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Switzerland" BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH English Rhagoletis completa; Tephritidae; invasive alien species; invasion ecology; Switzerland CRESSON DIPTERA; FRUIT-FLY; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; UNITED-STATES; GLOBAL CHANGE; STONE FRUITS; NEW-ZEALAND; HOST STATUS; PEST-FREE; CONSEQUENCES "Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) [79449]; Aline Schunemann; Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil ACW; Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.; [CB 2005-25889-50008Q]" "We thank all walnut tree owners that granted us permission to collect samples throughout Switzerland and gratefully acknowledge Patrizia and Tobias Eichelberg, Christina Marazzi, Rahel and Peter Uberschlag, Barbara and Steve Leib and Betty Benrey for facilitating the identification of collection sites and arranging permissions by walnut-tree owners to collect samples. We also thank Luigi Colombi (LC), Mauro Genini (MG) and Patrick Kehrli (PK) for helping us collect samples in the entire Ticino (LC), the middle and lower Valais (MG) and Nyon and Geneva (PK). We thank Neil Villard for guiding us through the Jura region and Kathrin Annaheim, Hans Ulrich Hopli and Elizabeth Razavi for expert technical support and Alberto Anzures Dadda and Suzzette Tamez-Cruz for helping us prepare the final version of this manuscript. Financial support was furnished by the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) through a competitive Sabbatical Year Fellowship to MA (Reference No. 79449), and a competitive Research Grant to JR (Reference No. CB 2005-25889-50008Q), by Aline Schunemann who provided a rental car to travel throughout most of Switzerland, by Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil ACW (internal funds managed by JS) and by the Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. (salaries of MA and LG). MA would like to thank the Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil ACW for allowing him and his family to live in the guest house and for providing laboratory facilities and administrative support during his Sabbatical. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for constructive comments." CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2011 Entomology Entomology WOS:000292612600010 Mexico; Switzerland Mexico
222 "Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, asexual fungus-growing ant" PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English Attini; clonality; Formicidae; thelytoky; mutualism APIS-MELLIFERA-CAPENSIS; MYCOCEPURUS-SMITHII HYMENOPTERA; THELYTOCOUS-PARTHENOGENESIS; FIRE ANT; CLONAL REPRODUCTION; BAYES FACTORS; RECOMBINATION; FORMICIDAE; EVOLUTION; SELECTION "Museum of Comparative Zoology; Harvard University; National Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0808164, DEB-0949689, DEB-0431330, DEB-0639879, DEB-0110073, DEB-998379]; Explorer's Club Exploration Fund; Lewis and Clark Field Scholarship; Section of Integrative Biology; University of Texas at Austin; Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Program; Smithsonian Restricted Endowments Fund; Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo [2008/54386-9]; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [476250/2008-0, 304661/2009-0]; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Conselho National de Pesquisa e Tecnologia [BMBF01LT0014/CNPq 690018/00-2, ENV52-2]; Wheeler Lost Pines Endowment" "We thank the following scientists for generously contributing specimens and institutions for providing permission and access to study sites: G. Alpert, C. Brandao, S. Cappellari, J. Carpenter, S. Cover, R. Feitosa, F. Fernandez, J. Fontenla, A. Harada, A. Henriques, A. Himler, J. Lattke, J. Longino, W. Mackay, J. Maes, J. Martins, B. Merz, N. Pitman, R. Poggi, V. Raineri, C. Samper, S. Sanchez-Pena, J. Santisteban, R. Silva, the late R. Snelling, J. Sosa-Calvo, H. Vasconcelos, P. Ward, and E. Wilson; the Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico and the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis; the Forestry Division and Wildlife Section of Trinidad; the Minesterio del Ambiente y Energia, Costa Rica; and the Office of the President of Guyana. P. Armstrong and E. Okonski kindly provided assistance in the laboratory. L. Hayek and S. Arnaud-Haond provided valuable advice on statistical analyses. D. Bolnik, S. Brady, D. Gotzek, D. Hillis, M. Singer, P. Ward, and two anonymous reviewers improved the manuscript with helpful comments. C.R. gratefully acknowledges financial support from Ernst Mayr grants (Museum of Comparative Zoology) and the Green Fund (Harvard University), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DEB-0808164), the Explorer's Club Exploration Fund, a Lewis and Clark Field Scholarship, and research grants from the Section of Integrative Biology and a Miller Endowed University Continuing Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin; T.R.S. was supported by the NSF (DEB-0949689 and DEB-0431330), the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Program, and the Smithsonian Restricted Endowments Fund; M.B. received support from the Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (2008/54386-9) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (476250/2008-0 and 304661/2009-0); M.V.B.G. and M.V. acknowledge the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and the Conselho National de Pesquisa e Tecnologia (BMBF01LT0014/CNPq 690018/00-2) for kindly providing funding for SHIFT Project ENV52-2; U.G.M. was funded by grants from the NSF (DEB-0639879, DEB-0110073, and DEB-998379) and the Wheeler Lost Pines Endowment. This study is a chapter of C.R.'s doctoral dissertation." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000293129900038 Brazil; Germany; USA USA
223 A proposal to define vulnerability of cetacean areas to human development: variables and analysis procedures applied to the Gulf of California AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS English multivariate analysis; spatial modelling; large marine areas; principal component analysis; cetacean fragility; anthropogenic risks and damage; cetacean vulnerability BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHINS; TURSIOPS-TRUNCATUS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BALAENOPTERA-ACUTOROSTRATA; HUMPBACK WHALES; MARINE MAMMALS; MINKE WHALES; FLORIDA; BAY; IMPACTS "World Wildlife Fund-Telcel Alliance; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico; Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas, Costa Rica" "The authors thank the governmental and research institutions in Mexico and the United States that provided the databases for this work, and the World Wildlife Fund-Telcel Alliance, the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico, and the Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas, Costa Rica, for the financial support provided. We thank also, the Centre into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, Scotland, for the technical and logistical support given during the development of this publication." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Water Resources Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Water Resources WOS:000294180600005 Mexico; UK Mexico
224 Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS English Aridity; biodiversity; biogeography; Formicidae; species richness; temperature AVIAN SPECIES RICHNESS; GEOGRAPHIC RANGE SIZE; LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY; ARID AUSTRALIA; NORTH-AMERICA; PATTERNS; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; GRADIENTS; PRODUCTIVITY "DOE-NICCR; DOE-PER [DE-FG02-08ER64510]; NASA [ROSES-NNX09AK22G]; NSF [NSF -0953390, 05-41680, 06-20443, OISE-0854259]; U.S. National Sciences Foundation [NSF DEB-0541936]; U.S. Department of Energy [022821]; [DOE-PER DE-FG02-08ER64510]" "C. Jenkins, M. Weiser, R. Dunn and N. Sanders were supported by a DOE-NICCR, DOE-PER DE-FG02-08ER64510 and a NASA Biodiversity Grant (ROSES-NNX09AK22G). R. Dunn was also supported by an NSF Career grant (NSF -0953390). AME was supported by DOE-PER DE-FG02-08ER64510 and NSF grants 05-41680 and 06-20443. NJG was supported by the U.S. National Sciences Foundation (NSF DEB-0541936) and the U.S. Department of Energy (022821). C. Parr thanks the Trapnell Fund. T.P. McGlynn was supported by NSF grant OISE-0854259. We thank Joaquin Hortal, Phil Lester and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000293138400007 Australia; Brazil; Denmark; Germany; Spain; UK; USA; Venezuela USA
225 Phosphorylation is the major mechanism regulating isocitrate lyase activity in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells FEBS JOURNAL English enzymatic activity; glyoxylate cycle; isocitrate lyase; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; phosphorylation GLUCOSE-INDUCED INACTIVATION; ASPERGILLUS-NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; GLYOXYLATE CYCLE; MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS; HOST INTERACTION; GENE FACB; ACETATE "Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [CNPq-472524/2006-2, 481600/2007-8]; Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos [FINEP-0104077500, 0106121200]; International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden [IFS-F/3417]; CAPES; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [BR2216/1-4]; Hans Knoell-Institute" "This work at Universidade Federal de Goias was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq-472524/2006-2; 481600/2007-8), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP-0104077500; 0106121200) and International Foundation for Science (IFS-F/3417), Stockholm, Sweden, through a grant to M.P. Additionally, A.H.S.C. and L.K.S.S. were supported by a fellowship from CAPES and R.F.T. was supported by a fellowship from CNPq. Work of M.B. was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; BR2216/1-4) and funding by the Hans Knoell-Institute. The authors thank Christielly Rodrigues da Silva, on a fellowship from CNPq, for help to perform the two-dimensional gels." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology WOS:000292527500010 Brazil; Germany Brazil
226 Discordant patterns of geographic variation between mitochondrial and microsatellite markers in the Mexican black iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata) in a contact zone JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Contact zones; Ctenosaura pectinata; cytonuclear discordance; hybridization; introgression; Mexico; Mexican Volcanic Belt; reptiles; Squamata SPINY-TAILED IGUANA; MALE-BIASED DISPERSAL; DNA-SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; GENETIC-STRUCTURE; LIZARD; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR; HISTORY; MTDNA CONACyT "We thank R. Martinez, A. Diaz, G. Garcia and J. Pelayo for fieldwork assistance, V. Aguirre for kindly providing samples and four anonymous reviewers for useful comments on the manuscript. This work was funded by CONACyT through a PhD grant awarded to E. Zarza. Samples were collected under the permits SGPA/DGVS/03563/06." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000292695200014 Mexico; Spain; UK Germany
227 Extinction risk assessment of the world's seagrass species BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Seagrass; Red List; Extinction; Threatened; Endangered; Biodiversity SUBMERSED AQUATIC VEGETATION; IUCN RED LIST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE; FISH; IMPACTS; MEADOWS; ENRICHMENT ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000292489100005 Australia; Bangladesh; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Mexico; Mozambique; Netherlands; Philippines; Thailand; USA USA
228 Local and regional palm (Arecaceae) species richness patterns and their cross-scale determinants in the western Amazon JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English climatic stability; diversity; environmental filtering; Neotropical rain forests; plant community ecology; spatial scale; species pool effects; topography GLOBAL PATTERNS; RAIN-FORESTS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; BETA-DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; TREE; ECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-06-0476]; WWF/Novozymes; European Community [212631]; Faculty of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University "We gratefully acknowledge permission from Rodrigo Bernal (Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia) to use data from Rio Guaviare, which were collected with permission front the Corporacion para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Norte y el Oriente Amazonico (CDA). We thank the two anonymous referees whose comments greatly improved the manuscript. Our palm research is funded by the Danish Natural Science Research Council with a grant to H.B. (272-06-0476), a WWF/Novozymes Research Grant to H.B., and the European Community FP7 programme (grant agreement 212631). T.K.'s PhD study is supported by the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000292419800013 Denmark; Peru Denmark
229 "An experimental test of the role of environmental temperature variability on ectotherm molecular, physiological and life-history traits: Implications for global warming" COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY English Ectotherm; Global climate change; Heat shock proteins; Life-history; Metabolic rate; Temperature variability HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LAEVIS LATREILLE ISOPODA; RECENT CLIMATE-CHANGE; TERRESTRIAL ISOPOD; PORCELLIO-LAEVIS; STRESS RESPONSES; SIZE TRAITS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY; IMPACTS "FONDAP [1501-0001]; Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain [BFU2008-00484, CGL2008-03517/BOS]; CASEB" "Funded by FONDAP 1501-0001 (program 1) to FB, the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (projects BFU2008-00484 to MDP and CGL2008-03517/BOS to XB), and by LINC-Global to MD P, XB and FB. GF acknowledge a post-doc fellowship from CASEB." ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 2011 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Physiology; Zoology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Physiology; Zoology WOS:000291381500005 Chile; Spain Chile
230 "Legume genetic resources: management, diversity assessment, and utilization in crop improvement" EUPHYTICA English Genetic resources and human health; Genetic stocks and mutants; Genetic erosion; Biodiversity loss; Global conservation strategies; Germplasm exchange; Core collection; FIGS; Population structure and diversity; Wild relatives; Introgression libraries CICER-ARIETINUM L.; PISUM CORE COLLECTION; GLOBAL LAND AREAS; FIELD PEA PISUM; WILD RELATIVES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PHASEOLUS-VULGARIS; CULTIVATED PIGEONPEA; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; DISEASE RESISTANCE Czech Ministry of Education [MSM 2678424601] Author's thanks to the anonymous reviewers for making useful suggestions that helped to improve the original submission. Sangam Dwivedi highly appreciates the support and encouragement of William Dar and the ICRISAT library staff for assistance in literature searches and sourcing reprints. Petr Smykal acknowledges to the Czech Ministry of Education for providing support through project MSM 2678424601. SPRINGER 2011 Agronomy; Plant Sciences; Horticulture Agriculture; Plant Sciences WOS:000291170100003 Australia; Colombia; Czech Republic; France; India; Nigeria; UK India
231 "The high Andes, gene flow and a stable hybrid zone shape the genetic structure of a wide-ranging South American parrot" FRONTIERS IN ZOOLOGY English WILD BURROWING PARROTS; CYANOLISEUS-PATAGONUS; BREEDING SUCCESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; COMPLEX SQUAMATA; BODY CONDITION; BUENOS-AIRES "World Parrot Trust; German Ornithologists' Society (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft); Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation; Wildlife Conservation Society; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany [QU148-1]" "We wish to thank the following persons for helping with sample collection: Orlando Amaya, Brent Barrett, Julio Bufelli, Mirta Carbajal, Gabriel Cortez, Francesca Cunninghame, Miguel Escobar, Esteban Fernandez, Victor Fratto, Pablo Giovine, Patricia Gonzalez, Anna Grasse, Guillermo Luna Jorquera, Mariano Linares, Fabian Llanos, Walter Marcial, Gabriela Murga Velasco, Enrique Narvaes, Juanjo Navarro, Sandra Rivera, Oscar Saa, Sergio Sanchez, Lorenzo Sympson, Adalberto Taux, Ricardo Torres, and Luis Valenzuela Riquelme. We also would like to thank the following curators for their help: Friederike Woog and Iris Heynen (Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart), Jean-Louis Martelli (Musee des Confluences, Centre de Conservation et d'Etude des Collections, Lyon), Sylke Frahnert (Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin), Marie-Dominique Wandhammer and Dominique Nitka (Musee zoologique de Strasbourg), Alexander Haas and Jakob Hallermann (Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg), Bernd Nicolai (Museum Heineanum, Halberstadt) and Dietrich Heidecke (Zoologisches Sammlungen Halle, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle Wittenberg). This project was partially supported by the World Parrot Trust, the German Ornithologists' Society (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft), the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (QU148-1, Germany). We wish to thank Ann Michels for helping with the application for the necessary permits in Chile. We especially thank Jamie Gilardi, Graham Harris and Bill Conway for crucial support. In Argentina, the present study was carried out under permission of the Direccion de Fauna de la Provincia de Rio Negro, Argentina (Exp. no. 143089-DF-98), and the Direccion de Fauna Silvestre, Secretaria de Ambiente de la Nacion, Argentina (CITES permits)." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2011 Zoology Zoology WOS:000293060700001 Argentina; Austria; Chile; Germany Germany
232 "Complex evolutionary history of the Mexican stoneroller Campostoma ornatum Girard, 1856 (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)" BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA VARIATION; FRESH-WATER FISH; POPULATION-GROWTH; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; NORTHWESTERN MEXICO; GENETIC-STRUCTURE; UNITED-STATES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; TELEOSTEI "Chester Zoo Garden, PROMEP [PTC-232]; University of A Coruna; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) [195290]" "We thank Rosa Garcia and Lourdes Alcaraz for their valuable help in the lab. We appreciate the comments and corrections suggested by two anonymous referees and Prof. Miguel Vences. This investigation was financially supported by grants from Chester Zoo Garden, PROMEP PTC-232 for ODD and the University of A Coruna to MV. RPR is grateful to Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) for a PhD scholarship (No. 195290)." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2011 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000292927100001 Mexico; Spain Mexico
233 "Late Quaternary (24-10 ka BP) environmental history of the Neotropical lowlands inferred from ostracodes in sediments of Lago Peten Itza, Guatemala" JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY English Non-marine ostracodes; Training set; Transfer function; Late Pleistocene; Lago Peten Itza; Guatemala; Environmental change YUCATAN PENINSULA; FRESH-WATER; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CENTRAL-AMERICA; CRUSTACEA; MEXICO; LAKES; RECONSTRUCTION; ASSEMBLAGES; DIVERSITY Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [Schw 671/3]; Technische Universitat Braunschweig "We thank all those who facilitated fieldwork in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Special thanks to: Andreas Muller and other participants in the Peten Itza Scientific Drilling Project, Aaron Lewis (University of Belize), the Forestry and Fisheries Departments (Belize), Margarita Palmieri, Margaret Dix, Roberto Moreno, Eleonor de Tott (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala), Rodrigo Morales, Franklin Herrera (CONAP, Guatemala), Ismael Ordonez (AMSCLAE, Guatemala), Julio Morales Cancino (AMPI, Guatemala), Roderico Pineda, Mario Buch (Trifinio, Guatemala), Gerald Islebe (ECOSUR-Chetumal, Mexico), Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE, Mexico), Comision Nacional de Acuacultura y Pesca (CONAPESCA, Mexico), Alberto de Jesus Navarrete (ECOSUR-Chetumal, Mexico), the National Lacustrine Core Repository (LacCore, University of Minnesota), Julia Lorenschat, Rita Bugja, Rita Lohr, Benjamin Gilfedder, Yvonne Hermanns, Harald Biester (Institut fur Umweltgeologie, Braunschweig), Dietmar Keyser (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg), Steffen Mischke (Freie Universitat Berlin), Douglas Schnurrenberger, Dustin Grzesik, David Klassen, Luciana Mitsue, Jose Harders, Carmen Herold, Bessie Oliva, Alma Quilo, Gabriela Alfaro, Jacobo Blijdenstein, Melisa Orozco, Silja Ramirez, Luis Toruno, Mario Cruz, Javier Perez y Perez, and Carolina Alvarado de Perez. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, grant Schw 671/3) and the Technische Universitat Braunschweig provided financial support." SPRINGER 2011 "Environmental Sciences; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Limnology" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000293144700005 Germany; Panama; USA Germany
234 Late quaternary environmental changes in Patagonia as inferred from lacustrine fossil and extant ostracods BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY English autoecology; non-marine ostracods; ostracods; Pleistocene to Recent sequences; Southern South America LAGO-CARDIEL BASIN; ARGENTINA 49-DEGREES-S; SOUTHERN-HEMISPHERE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BUENOS-AIRES; CALIBRATION; RECORD; WATERS; STRATIGRAPHY; EVOLUTION "USA National Science Foundation [NSF-EAR-9709145, NSF-ATM-008267, NSF-ATM-0081279]; Swiss National Science Foundation [21-5086297]; CONICET [PIP 00819]; Universidad Nacional del Comahue [B001]; SECYT-DAAD [AO731]; DAAD [D/07/09565, FKZ 01 LD 003]" "The core from Lago Cardiel was retrieved by projects funded by the USA and Swiss National Science Foundations (US National Science Foundation grants NSF-EAR-9709145, NSF-ATM-008267, and NSF-ATM-0081279 to Vera Markgraf and Kerry Kelts; and the Swiss National Science Foundation grant No. 21-5086297 to the ETH Limnogeology Group). G. C. thanks CONICET (Project PIP 00819) and Universidad Nacional del Comahue (project B001) for support of this work and SECYT-DAAD project AO731 for a travel grant to Gabriela Cusminsky and Antje Schwalb, as well as their team members. A. S. thanks the German Climate Research Program (DEKLIM E: PROSIMUL III, FKZ 01 LD 003) the DAAD (PROALAR D/07/09565). We thank Jorge Rabassa, Eduardo Tonni, Alfredo Carlini, and Daniel Ruzzante for participation in the Symposium of wPalaeogeography and Palaeoclimatology of Patagonia Biodiversity, held in La Plata Museum in Argentina, in May 2009." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000291162800012 Argentina; Germany; Sweden; Switzerland; UK; USA Argentina
235 "Priority areas for amphibian conservation in a neotropical megadiverse country: the need for alternative, non place based, conservation" BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Amphibians; Bolivia; Endemism richness; Ex situ conservation; Habitat destruction; Non place-based; Place based PREDICTING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; POPULATION DECLINES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DIVERSIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; GRADIENTS; BIRDS; COINCIDENCE; EXTINCTIONS Embassy of Netherlands; EU [220714] "The project was supported by funds provided by The Embassy of Netherlands to the Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN, Project: Identifying centers of species richness, rarity and endemism of Bolivia). JM Padial was funded by the EU Marie Curie Mobility and Training Program (FP7, proposal 220714). We thank Humberto Gomez, Denisse Quiroga and Boris Rios for their valuable comments and technical assistance during the whole project." SPRINGER 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000290726200013 Bolivia; Germany; Sweden Germany
236 Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY English agricultural intensification; Arabica and Robusta coffee; boom-and-bust cycles; cacao yield; ecological-economic trade-offs; ecological resilience; functional biodiversity; household vulnerability LAND-USE SYSTEMS; CENTRAL SULAWESI; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS; FOREST CONVERSION; COFFEE CERTIFICATION; CACAO AGROFORESTRY; HABITAT GRADIENT; THEOBROMA-CACAO German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG); Endeavour International Postgraduate Scholarship; University of Adelaide "Author sequence follows the 'sequence-determines-credit' (from T.T. to Y.C.) and the 'equal-contribution' norm (from S.A: B. to T.C.W.) (see Tscharntke et al. 2007). Financial support by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG), helpful comments by Stacy M. Philpott, the editor and two anonymous reviewers, and support by Wolfram Lorenz, Melanie Grosse and Susanne Schiele are gratefully acknowledged. TCW was supported by an Endeavour International Postgraduate Scholarship and a University of Adelaide scholarship." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000290587100014 Australia; Brazil; Germany; Indonesia; Switzerland; UK; USA Germany
237 Leaf economics traits predict litter decomposition of tropical plants and differ among land use types FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY English chlorophyll; decomposition; functional traits; global change; land use; leaf economics spectrum; nitrogen; phosphorus; specific leaf area; tropical forest OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION; RAIN-FOREST; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; CENTRAL ARGENTINA; GRASSLANDS; RATES; ECOSYSTEMS; WORLDWIDE; SPECTRUM "Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [CRN 2015, GEO-0452325]; Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds; Stichting Nijmeegs Universiteitsfonds; Stichting Het Kronendak and Stichting Fonds; Wageningen graduate school Production Ecology and Resource Conservation" "We would like to thank staff and personal of the Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal for logistic support, La Chonta Ltda and the local farmers for access to their sites, Ricardo Mendez for help with the decomposition experiment and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This study was partly funded by the DiverSus project through Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015, which is supported by the US National Science Foundation (Grant GEO-0452325). M.B. was financially supported by Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, Stichting Nijmeegs Universiteitsfonds, Stichting Het Kronendak and Stichting Fonds Dr. Christine Buisman, and L.P. was supported by a grant from the Wageningen graduate school Production Ecology and Resource Conservation." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000290174500005 Bolivia; Netherlands Netherlands
238 Invasive species can handle higher leaf temperature under water stress than Mediterranean natives ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY English Thermal tolerance; Heat stress; Drought; Ecophysiological traits; Invasiveness; Mediterranean-type ecosystems PHOTOSYSTEM-II; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; THERMAL-STABILITY; XANTHOPHYLL-CYCLE; HEAT TOLERANCE; QUERCUS-ILEX; ALIEN PLANTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PATTERNS; TRAITS Spanish CONSOLIDER MONTES [CSD2008-00040]; network REMEDINAL2 [CM S2009/AMB-1783]; Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) "We are grateful to Jesus Martinez for his help with spatial analysis to estimate PET. We are also grateful to ""Fundacion Biodi versidad"" and to ""Banco de Datos de la Biodiversidad"" of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment for providing access to the biodiversity distribution species maps. Financial support was provided by the Spanish grant CONSOLIDER MONTES (CSD2008-00040) and the network REMEDINAL2 (CM S2009/AMB-1783). JPLF received a fellowship from the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) and Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2011 Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000288728000012 Brazil; Chile; Spain Spain
239 Phylogenetic Relationships in Pterodroma Petrels Are Obscured by Recent Secondary Contact and Hybridization PLOS ONE English ISLAND; MODEL; AVES; DNA Natural Environment Research Council; Zoological Society of London; University of London; CAPES Foundation "This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, The Zoological Society of London and a grant from the University of London Central Research Fund. Leandro Bugoni received funding from the CAPES Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000291097600049 Brazil; Mauritius; New Zealand; UK UK
240 Current and Future Patterns of Global Marine Mammal Biodiversity PLOS ONE English EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ANTARCTIC SEA-ICE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HABITAT SELECTION; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; CETACEAN HABITATS; BALEEN WHALES; OCEAN; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM Sloan Foundation; Future Oceans Cluster Project [D 1067/88]; IFM-Geomar Kiel "This research was supported by the Sloan Foundation (Census of Marine Life, Future of Marine Animal Populations Project). Partial funding for the main author was provided through the Future Oceans Cluster Project D 1067/88 ""Winners and Losers in the Future Oceans'' project, IFM-Geomar Kiel. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000291005200008 Brazil; Canada; Germany; USA Germany
241 Re-Structuring of Marine Communities Exposed to Environmental Change: A Global Study on the Interactive Effects of Species and Functional Richness PLOS ONE English ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; STABILITY; ASSEMBLAGES; INVASION; REDUNDANCY; SYSTEMS; COMPLEMENTARITY "Mercator Stiftung (Essen, Germany)" "This study was run as part of the international research and training programme GAME (Global Approach by Modular Experiments) of IFM-GEOMAR which was generously funded by the Mercator Stiftung (Essen, Germany). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000290720200011 Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Finland; France; Germany; Italy; Japan; Malaysia; New Zealand; Portugal; UK Germany
242 Modeling of the species distribution and ecosystems in time and space: an review of new available tools and approaches REVISTA DE GEOGRAFIA NORTE GRANDE Spanish Distribution models species/ecosystems; ecological niche; conservation biogeography; climate change CLIMATE-CHANGE; PRESENCE-ABSENCE; CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY; THRESHOLD CRITERIA; NICHE CONSERVATISM; CHANGE PROJECTIONS; ENVELOPE MODELS; SAMPLE-SIZE; PREDICTION; ECOLOGY "PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA" 2011 "Geography; Geography, Physical" Geography; Physical Geography WOS:000290598700005 Chile; Switzerland Switzerland
243 Landscape Structural Complexity of High-Mountain Polylepis australis Forests: A New Aspect of Restoration Goals RESTORATION ECOLOGY English Argentina; forest mosaics; forest structure; forest succession; land use; livestock CENTRAL ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOUTH-AMERICA; REGENERATION; TREES; WOODLANDS; LIVESTOCK; PATTERNS Volkswagen Foundation Germany "We are very grateful to the Volkswagen Foundation Germany for funding this study, and to M. Cacelles, E. Galli, R. Torres, and H. Zimmermann who assisted in the field surveys. To Ana M. Cingolani, Laura Bellis, and especially to the two anonymous reviewers for so many helpful comments and suggestions that greatly improved our manuscript. Maximo Lobo provided a photo of the mature forest (Fig. 2, cluster 4). Danny McCluskey kindly checked our English. National Parks authorities, J. Nores, N. Bazan, A. Moreno, J. Cuello, G. Estrada de Ponce, M. Lopez, and R. Graph provided permits to carry out the study in their lands. First author is a researcher of CONICET (Argentina)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000289893200011 Argentina; Germany Argentina
244 Meta-analysis of phenotypic selection on flowering phenology suggests that early flowering plants are favoured ECOLOGY LETTERS English Flowering phenology; flowering synchrony; flowering time; mutualisms; natural selection; phenotypic selection PHYLOGENETICALLY CONTROLLED METAANALYSIS; POLLINATED TROPICAL ORCHID; FLORAL DISPLAY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; NATURAL-POPULATIONS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; ARABIDOPSIS-LYRATA; TIME; NUCLEAR; SIZE CONACYT; University of Northampton "The first author thanks CONACYT for the fellowship given to perform this research. VP-T thanks CONACYT for funding a sabbatical leave at the University of Northampton during this study. MM-R and VP-T are also grateful to the Santander Award at the University of Northampton for providing additional funding during their stay in the UK. We acknowledge the large set of unpublished data given by S.H. Bullock, J.A. Solis-Magallanes and L. Salinas-Peba. Thanks also to M.M. Ferrer-Ortega for access to the plant compatibility database and to three anonymous referees for their useful comments. D. Adams and A. Traveset give us some advice about phylogenetic meta-analysis." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000289474700010 Mexico; UK Mexico
245 "Human-environment interactions in mountain rainforests: archaeobotanical evidence from central Sulawesi, Indonesia" VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY English Indonesia; Archaeology; Vegetation history; Climate change; Fire history; Nature conservation PACIFIC WARM POOL; LATE PLEISTOCENE; HOLOCENE POLLEN; SWAMP FOREST; NEW-GUINEA; WEST-JAVA; RECORD; VEGETATION; SEDIMENT; CLIMATE "DFG, Germany; EU [NL-TAF-3869]" "Research was carried out as part of subproject C7 of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 552 ""Stability in Rainforest Margins"" (STORMA), at Gottingen University and was funded by DFG, Germany. We gratefully acknowledge logistic support from STORMA's Indonesian partner universities in Bogor and Palu, Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) and Universitas Tadulako (UN-TAD), the Ministry of Education in Jakarta (DIKTI), the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), the authorities of Lore Lindu National Park, our Indonesian counterparts Ir Iskandar (IPB) and Johannis Mogea (Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor). We are grateful to Mr Iksam, State Museum Central Sulawesi, Palu, Indonesia, for his introduction to the megalithic sites in the Lore Lindu National Park's area. Stefan Erasmi, Gottingen University, provided the basic map of Fig. 1, while Corinna Kortemeier and Ines Reese, Kiel University, assisted with the detailed map of the Besoa valley (Fig. 2). We thank Sander van der Kaars, Gottingen University, and Raymond van der Ham, National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden, for advice in pollen morphology. Material for the modern reference collection was collected at the Herbarium Bogoriense, Indonesia, and at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden, the latter with support by an EU Synthesis travel grant, NL-TAF-3869. Finally, we would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for useful comments on the manuscript and James Greig for improving the English." SPRINGER 2011 Plant Sciences; Paleontology Plant Sciences; Paleontology WOS:000289578700001 Brazil; Germany Germany
246 "Genetic differentiation in the Trinidad endemic Mannophryne trinitatis (Anura: Aromobatidae): Miocene vicariance, in situ diversification and lack of geographical structuring across the island" JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH English Divergence; Mannophryne trinitatis; vicariance; Trinidad; mtDNA; speciation INDIAN TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES; CARIBBEAN BIOGEOGRAPHY; VENEZUELA; FROG; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; DISPERSAL; ANTILLES; ZONE Microsoft Corporation; UK Natural Environmental Research Council; Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL2008-04271-C02-01/BOS]; Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha "We thank the Wildlife Section of the Trinidad Government for permission to carry out this work. This study was aided by several members of the University of Glasgow Trinidad Expedition 2002-2004, in particular Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Graham Stirling, Damian Tobin and Celia Langhorne. We are grateful to Timothy Page for advice and guidance given with the population structure analyses and to Mario Garcia Paris, Ernesto Recuero and David Buckley for comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Part of this work was carried out using the resources of the Computational Biology Service Unit from Cornell University, which is partially funded by Microsoft Corporation. MJJ was supported by a UK Natural Environmental Research Council studentship. IMS is a 'Ramon y Cajal' postdoctoral fellow supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and the Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha. Partial funds for this project were provided by a grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Ref.: CGL2008-04271-C02-01/BOS, PI: IMS)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Evolutionary Biology; Zoology Evolutionary Biology; Zoology WOS:000289157300005 Spain; UK; Venezuela UK
247 Climatic drivers of plant-plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities ALPINE BOTANY English Biodiversity drivers; Competition; Facilitation; Latitudinal biodiversity gradient; Stress-gradient hypothesis; Water-energy balance hypothesis SPECIES-RICHNESS; POSITIVE INTERACTIONS; VARIANCE TEST; FACILITATION; VEGETATION; PATTERNS; COMPETITION; INCREASE; GRADIENTS; STRESS Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Science Foundation (USA); National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA); National Geographic Society (USA) "The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation (USA), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (USA), and the National Geographic Society (USA) supported this work. We are grateful to Christian Rixen for his valuable comments." SPRINGER BASEL AG 2011 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000289414200007 Canada; Chile; France; Japan; Spain; UK; USA Japan
248 At the heart of REDD+: a role for local people in monitoring forests? CONSERVATION LETTERS English Climate change; co-benefits; community-based management; governance; locally based monitoring; forest degradation; REDD CHALLENGES; EMISSIONS; DEFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DEGRADATION; TANZANIA; AMAZON; PLUS Netherlands Development Cooperation; Danida "We thank the approximately 120 community members at the study sites for sharing with us their measurements of forest condition and we thank Netherlands Development Cooperation and Danida for financial support. A. Chhatre, M. Enghoff, M. Funder, M. McCall, and six anonymous reviewers provided comments on a draft." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000289301900009 Denmark; India; Madagascar; Mexico; Nepal; Netherlands; Tanzania; UK; USA Denmark
249 A generic structure for plant trait databases METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION English ancillary data; bio-informatics; covariates; dimensional data model; eco-informatics; functional biodiversity; hierarchical data structure; relational database; star-scheme NORTHWEST EUROPEAN FLORA; LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; ECONOMICS SPECTRUM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; BOREAL FORESTS; MODEL; WORLDWIDE; NITROGEN; CLIMATE "National Science Foundation (NSF) [0630119, EPS-0447681]" "The authors wish to thank Jens Nieschulze and Brian McGill for essential input in the context of eco-informatics, the anonymous referees and the handling editor for valuable comments that helped to substantially improve the manuscript. K.O. and K.S. were supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants awarded to K.O. in 2003 and 2006 (#0630119) and by NSF grant #EPS-0447681. The FET database was supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG) through the BEAM project of C.W. within the Biodiversity Exploratories. The development of the TRY database was supported by IGBP, GLP, DIVERSITAS, QUEST and the French GIS Climate Environment and Society consortium." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000289149000008 Argentina; Australia; France; Germany; USA Germany
250 Aridity changes in the Temperate-Mediterranean transition of the Andes since ad 1346 reconstructed from tree-rings CLIMATE DYNAMICS English South-central Andes; Climatic transition; Palmer Drought Severity Index; Tree-rings; Austrocedrus chilensis; Climate change; AAO EQUILIBRIUM-LINE ALTITUDE; HEMISPHERE CLIMATE-CHANGE; NORTHERN PATAGONIA; CENTRAL CHILE; SOUTH-AMERICA; TIME-SERIES; VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION; FOREST; CIRCULATION "US National Science Foundation [2047, GEO-0452325]; Universidad Austral de Chile [DID-UACh D-2007-07]; Chilean Research Council (FONDECYT) [1050298, PDA-24]; Chilean Ministry of Planning (ICM) [P04-065-F]; Argentinean Agency for Promotion of Science (PICTR) [02-186]" "This work was carried out with the aid of grants from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN II # 2047 supported by the US National Science Foundation (GEO-0452325), Universidad Austral de Chile (DID-UACh D-2007-07), Chilean Research Council (FONDECYT 1050298 and FONDECYT PDA-24), Chilean Ministry of Planning (ICM project P04-065-F), and the Argentinean Agency for Promotion of Science (PICTR 02-186). We are grateful to D. Shea from the NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Division for providing the Nino-3.4 region SST record extracted from Hurrell et al. (2008). The AAO data were obtained from Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO; http://jisao.washington.edu/data/aao/). Other than the first author, order of authorship is alphabetical. D. C. is grateful to M a Paz Pena, Natalia Carrasco and Mauricio Fuentes for their great help during fieldwork and Jonathan Barichivich for helpful discussion about this research. We acknowledge Chilean Forest Service CONAF, Juan Manquepi, Lito Caceres, and Comunidad Pehuenche Ralko-Lepoy for permission to collect A. chilensis samples." SPRINGER 2011 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000289105300019 Argentina; Chile; Germany; USA Chile
251 Acknowledging Conservation Trade-Offs and Embracing Complexity CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English conservation policy; decision theory; politics; REDD; politica; politicas de conservacion; teoria de decision; REDD ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "This essay derives from the research and experience of the authors as part of a multiyear initiative called Advancing Conservation in a Social Context (ACSC): Working in a World of Trade-Offs. The ACSC initiative is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through a grant to the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. We are grateful to T. McShane and S. O'Connor for creating the space in which people from a variety of countries, organizations, and disciplinary perspectives could come together anddevelop these ideas, and to our colleagues in the ACSC initiative for ongoing and rich discussions that stimulated and shaped development of these ideas. We are grateful to the editors of Conservation Biology and to anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000288460000009 Peru; UK; USA USA
252 Upslope migration of Andean trees JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Andes; climate change; climatic envelope; cloud forest; extinction; forest plots; global warming; monitoring; Peru; species migration RECENT CLIMATE-CHANGE; AMAZON RAIN-FOREST; BIOTIC ATTRITION; TROPICAL FORESTS; MOUNTAIN PASSES; EXTINCTION RISK; SEED DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; TRENDS; SHIFTS "Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (NSF) [DEB-0237684, BCS-0216607]; Blue Moon Fund; Amazon Conservation Association; FTBG's Center for Tropical Plant Conservation" "This paper is a product of the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research Group consortium (ABERG; http://www.andesconservation.org). The data presented here represent an exceptional effort on the part of botanists and field assistants in Peru, particularly those from the Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad, Cusco, and Luis Imunda Gonzales. Identifications for the species were aided by more than 20 specialists, and we particularly thank the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the New York Botanical Garden. Support came from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes to Amazon initiative, NSF DEB-0237684 and NSF BCS-0216607, the Blue Moon Fund, the Amazon Conservation Association, and the FTBG's Center for Tropical Plant Conservation. We thank the GBIF and all contributing institutions for making collection data publicly available. We especially thank INRENA and the personnel of Manu National Park, Peru, for their gracious help in logistics and permission to work in the protected area. The Amazon Conservation Association and the Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge provided logistical support throughout the project." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000288463000014 Peru; UK; USA USA
253 Comparative genomics reveals diversity among xanthomonads infecting tomato and pepper BMC GENOMICS English CAMPESTRIS PV.-VESICATORIA; HRP PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; UTILIZATION GENE-CLUSTER; BACTERIAL SPOT DISEASE; III EFFECTOR PROTEINS; GYP DOMAIN PROTEIN; C-DI-GMP; PSEUDOMONAS-SYRINGAE; 2-COMPONENT SYSTEM; HD-GYP USDA-NIFA [T-STAR]; USDA [2006-34135-17569] "This research was supported by USDA-NIFA special grant T-STAR (J. B. Jones, J. F. Preston and M. T. Momol, USDA 2006-34135-17569). We thank IMG-JGI for providing genome annotation pipeline and interface for the comparative genomic analyses. Special thanks to Kostantinos Mavromatis in helping preparation of Genbank files." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2011 Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Genetics & Heredity Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000289206900001 Brazil; France; India; Ireland; USA USA
254 Bioclimatic constraints to Andean cat distribution: a modelling application for rare species DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS English Andes; biogeographical barriers; biogeography; climatic niche; species distribution models AMOTAPE-HUANCABAMBA ZONE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; NORTHERN PERU; MOUNTAIN CAT; SAMPLE-SIZE; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; ARGENTINA; RESPONSES; PERFORMANCE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000287448100012 Argentina; Bolivia; Canada; Chile; Switzerland; UK UK
255 "Emergence, biodiversification and extinction of the chitinozoan group" GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE English Chitinozoa; palaeobiodiversity; extinction events; Early Palaeozoic VASE-SHAPED MICROFOSSILS; ORDOVICIAN CHITINOZOA; FRASNIAN/FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; GRAND-CANYON; CHUAR GROUP; SILURIAN BOUNDARY; ALGERIAN SAHARA; TESTATE AMEBAS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GRAPTOLITES Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [PQ 309751/2007-1] "Yngve Grahn thanks the Faculty of Geology at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and Dr C. S. Valladares, head of the post-graduate progam at the Faculty of Geology for access to the facilities, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, PQ 309751/2007-1) which made his work possible through grants. Oliver Chang Paris improved and updated the database (CHITINOVOSP) used by Florentin Paris for the evaluation of the chitinozoan biodiversity at species level. The authors are greatly indebted to Theresa Winchester-Seeto (Sydney, Australia) for scientific and linguistic improvements of the manuscript. We are indebded to Aicha Achab (Quebec, Canada) for updated information on the range of the Late Ordovician chitinozoans in Laurentia. The reviewers, Thijs Vandenbroucke (Lille University, France) and Olle Hints (Tallinn Technical University, Estonia), are warmly acknowledged for helpful comments on the manuscript and for extensive discussions on the palaeooceanological distribution of the chitinozoans." CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2011 "Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Geology WOS:000287561200003 Brazil; France Brazil
256 Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS English Andes; conservation prioritization; ecological modeling; Ecuador; evolutionary process; generalized dissimilarity modeling; landscape genetics; species distribution CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; PLACE PRIORITIZATION; SOUTH-AMERICA; MODIS DATA; DIVERSITY; SELECTION; ECUADOR; AREAS; DISTRIBUTIONS "NSF [IRCEB9977072]; NASA [IDS/03-0169-0347, NNG05GB37G]" "For help in the field we thank Fernando Alaya, Diego Almeida-Reinoso, Italo Tapia, Juan Fernando Freile, Tatiana Santander, Jaime Chaves, Gabriela Castaneda, Brandt T. Ryder, Daniela Gross, Juan Diego Ortiz, Orfa Rodriguez, Maria Fernanda Salazar, Suzanne Tomassi, John McCormack, Brenda Larison, Luis Carrasco, Marcelo Tobar, Jordan Karubian, and the Timpe family. We also thank Martin R. Bustamante, Santiago R. Ron, and Juan Manuel Guayasamin for frog specimen identification and locality data; Elisa Bonaccorso for facilitating molecular laboratory work on the frogs; Nestor Acosta-Buenano and Pablo Menendez-Guerrero for frog locality data; Monica Paez and Andrea Teran for assistance in frog identification; Luis A. Coloma (Museo de Zoologia at Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (PUCE)) for tissue loans; and the Kansas University of Natural History for access to the collection. We are grateful to Dr. M. Kinnison and two anonymous reviewers for thoughtful comments on a previous version of this manuscript. For assistance on woodcreeper work in the laboratory, we thank Navi Timber and Daniel Greenfield. Funding was provided by grants from NSF (IRCEB9977072 to TBS, RKW, and CJS) and NASA (IDS/03-0169-0347 to TBS, RKW, and CJS; NNG05GB37G to CHG)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000287451800017 Ecuador; Spain; USA USA
257 "Climate change effects on nitrogen loading from cultivated catchments in Europe: implications for nitrogen retention, ecological state of lakes and adaptation" HYDROBIOLOGIA English Climate change; Nitrogen loading; Lakes; Ecological state; Modelling; Streams; Subtropics; Temperate; Warm arid SHALLOW MEDITERRANEAN LAKES; FRESH-WATER; PHOSPHORUS LIMITATION; DANISH LAKES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; MODEL STRUCTURE "EU; Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries; Research Council for Nature and Universe [272-08-0406]; MONITECH, CRES; BAP-METU; OYP-METU; TUBITAK; CAYDAG [105Y332]" "We are grateful to A. M. Poulsen for manuscript editing. The project was supported by the EU-WISER and EU-REFRESH projects, ""CLEAR'' (a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence Project), the BUFFALO-P project funded by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries under the programme ""Animal Husbandry, the Neighbours and the Environment'', the IMPACT project funded by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, The Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406), MONITECH, CRES, the BAP-METU and OYP-METU funds, TUBITAK, CAYDAG. 105Y332." SPRINGER 2011 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000286393300001 Denmark; Turkey; Uruguay Denmark
258 The socio-ecology of zoonotic infections CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION English Climate changes; ecology; emergence; outbreak; review; zoonotic infections CLIMATE-CHANGE; EMERGING ZOONOSES; PUBLIC-HEALTH; DISEASES; BRUCELLOSIS; IMPACT; LEPTOSPIROSIS; VARIABILITY; CHALLENGE; EMERGENCE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Infectious Diseases; Microbiology Infectious Diseases; Microbiology WOS:000287197200004 Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Venezuela Greece
259 "Temporal shifts and niche overlapping in Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) communities reared in cactus species in a central Mexican scrubland" ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH English Biodiversity; Diversity partitioning; Hoverflies; Saprophagous larvae; Xeric habitats IMMATURE STAGES; DIVERSITY; ASSEMBLAGES; CACTACEAE AECID [A/020305/08)]; FOMIX CONACYT-Hidalgo [95828]; SEP-CONACYT [84127]; Albetaan programme; European Union [E07D401138MX]; CONACYT [207522] "This research was supported by AECID (project A/020305/08), FOMIX CONACYT-Hidalgo (project 95828) and SEP-CONACYT (project 84127). We extend our gratitude to the management of the Barranca de Metztitlan Biosphere Reserve for assisting us in this research. We are grateful to Chris Thompson of the Smithsonian Institution for making available the unpublished manuscript keys. We appreciate discussions with Dr. Graham Rotheray, Dr. Catherine Numa, R. Briones, and P.E. Cruz-Do-minguez. C. Aguilar-Miguel, M.C. Garcia-Chavez, and P. Carbo assisted with the fieldwork. A.P.M. acknowledges the scholarship provided by The Al beta an programme, the European Union Programme of High Level Scholarships for Latin America, no. E07D401138MX and CONACYT program (207522) for doctoral fellowship." SPRINGER TOKYO 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000288552900012 Mexico; Spain Spain
260 The Response of Vegetation on the Andean Flank in Western Amazonia to Pleistocene Climate Change SCIENCE English Open University; Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh; Santander; British Ecological Society; University Utrecht "We thank M. Hall (Instituto Geofisico, Quito, Ecuador), A. Correa-Metrio and M. Bush (Florida Institute of Technology), and Erazo residents. We also thank the reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was supported by funding from The Open University, Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, Santander, British Ecological Society, and University Utrecht." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000287699000060 Ecuador; UK UK
261 In vitro and cryogenic preservation of plant biodiversity in Brazil IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT English Cryopreservation; Seed storage; Endangered species; Forestry; Tissue culture; Brazil; Micropropagation; Recalcitrance FISSILIS VELLOZO MELIACEAE; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; COFFEA-ARABICA; WATER-CONTENT; SEEDS; CULTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; MICROPROPAGATION; GERMINATION "International Foundation for Science (Sweden); British Council (UK); Capes (Ministry of Education, Brazil); CNPq (National Research Council, Brazil)" "The authors acknowledge the support of the International Foundation for Science (Sweden), The British Council (UK), Capes (Ministry of Education, Brazil), and CNPq (National Research Council, Brazil)." SPRINGER 2011 Plant Sciences; Cell Biology; Developmental Biology Plant Sciences; Cell Biology; Developmental Biology WOS:000290845500009 Brazil; UK Brazil
262 HOW IS LAND DEGRADATION ASSESSED? A GLOBAL AND LOCAL OVERVIEW INTERCIENCIA Spanish CLIMATE-CHANGE; LATIN-AMERICA; DESERTIFICATION; CHINA; KNOWLEDGE; DROUGHT; AFRICA; COMBAT; TRENDS; ZONE INTERCIENCIA 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000287639600003 Mexico; Netherlands Mexico
263 Hydrometeorology and structure of tropical montane cloud forests under contrasting biophysical conditions in north-western Costa Rica HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES English canopy throughfall; environmental gradients; epiphytes; horizontal precipitation; Monteverde; soil water RAIN-FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIOMASS; FOG; PRECIPITATION; DISTURBANCE; PATTERNS; DRIVEN; GROWTH "German Research Foundation (DFG) [DO 474/5-1, DO 474/5-2]" "We thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for financial support (Grants DO 474/5-1 and DO 474/5-2) and the Tropical Science Center for friendly cooperation. Przemyslaw Walotek provided invaluable help in the field. Julio Calvo, Dagoberto Arias, Conrado Tobon and Arnoud Frumau supported the project in Costa Rica in many ways, and Robert Lawton helped locating the study sites. We further wish to thank Robert Lawton, Arnoud Frumau, Fred Scatena, Sampurno Bruijnzeel and one anonymous reviewer for their valuable input which greatly helped to improve earlier versions of this manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Water Resources Water Resources WOS:000287377100008 Costa Rica; Germany Costa Rica
264 Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LAND-USE; SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE; VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS; RESPONSE DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; TRAITS; CONSEQUENCES; CONSERVATION; AGROBIODIVERSITY "US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325]; Fondo Nacional para la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de Argentina; US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy" "This is a contribution of Nucleo DiverSus that is endorsed by DIVERSITAS and the International Geosphere and Biosphere Programme's Global Land Project and supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) CRN 2015, which is supported by US National Science Foundation Grant GEO-0452325. S.D., F.Q., D.M.C., and N.P.-H. are also supported by Fondo Nacional para la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de Argentina. S.F.T. is supported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2011 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000286310300007 Argentina; Bolivia; Costa Rica; Netherlands; USA Argentina
265 Woody vegetation structure of Brazilian Cerrado invaded by Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon (Dennstaedtiaceae) FLORA English Biotic invasion; Bracken; Diversity; Manova; Rarefaction curves; Species density AQUILINUM L KUHN; INVASION SUCCESS; BRACKEN; BIODIVERSITY; FIRE; RESTORATION; FLORA; CONSEQUENCES; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY Fundacao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2006/61570-5] "We thank A.E. Magurran for help with the statistical analysis, V. Pivello for allowing us to join the research group at IBGE; M.A.L.P. Batalha, G. Durigan and M.L.F. Resende for assistance in species identification, and to P. Dodonov, C.S. Goncalves, M. Inatomi, M.B. Leite, N. Martins, M.L. Moitas, R.F. Ramos, R.O. Xavier and C.B. Zanelli for help with field work. We also thank Fundacao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) for funding the project at IBGE (2006/61570-5)." "ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG" 2011 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000293496500010 Brazil; UK Brazil
266 Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: What scope for payments for environmental services? CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT English adaptation; ecosystem-based adaptation; payments for environmental services COSTA-RICA; CONSERVATION PAYMENTS; DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; VULNERABILITY; BIODIVERSITY; RESILIENCE; GOVERNANCE; IMPACTS; HABITAT TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2011 Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000292080700005 Brazil; France; Indonesia; Mozambique Mozambique
267 Environmental filtering and plant functional types on Mexican foredunes along the Gulf of Mexico ECOSCIENCE English coastal dune; environmental filters; functional diversity; plant traits; sedimentary dynamics; species diversity COASTAL SAND DUNES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ELYMUS-FARCTUS; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND-USE; DIVERSITY; PATTERNS; TRAITS; BURIAL "Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs [AECI A/4712/06, A/9127/07]; SEMARNAT-CONACYT [23669]" This project was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AECI A/4712/06 and A/9127/07) and SEMARNAT-CONACYT (23669). We are very thankful for the detailed revision by two anonymous referees and Associate Editor D. Gagnon. Their comments greatly improved the manuscript. UNIVERSITE LAVAL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000289116500007 Mexico; Spain Spain
268 Evolutionary pathways among shallow and deep-sea echinoids of the genus Sterechinus in the Southern Ocean DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY English Sea urchins; Coastal zone; Deep water; Phylogeny; Biogeography; Evolutionary patterns; COI ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; MARINE ECTOTHERMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DRAKE PASSAGE; POLAR FRONT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIVERSITY PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2011 Oceanography Oceanography WOS:000288470800020 Chile; France Chile
269 "Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota" BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Africa; Asia-Pacific; Biodiversity; Climate change; Elevational range; Endemism; Extinction; Global warming; Montane areas; Neotropics; Thermal tolerance; Tropical ecosystems CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FORESTS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WET TROPICS; AMPHIBIAN EXTINCTIONS; HIGH-TEMPERATURES; MOUNTAIN PASSES; PUERTO-RICO; COSTA-RICA; DIVERSITY Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; James Cook University; Australian Research Council "D. Bickford, R.K. Colwell, R. Condit, S.J. Wright, and two anonymous referees offered many useful comments and discussion. We thank the many investigators who provided insights or access to unpublished data, especially R. Gradstein, H. Kurschner, T. Nakashizuka, and the Missouri Botanical Garden and TEAM initiative. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, James Cook University, and Australian Research Council provided support. Appendices listing the studies used in this analysis, and describing the study area and sampling methods for each, are available from the lead author upon request." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000287168100059 Australia; Austria; Bolivia; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ethiopia; Germany; Mexico; Netherlands; Panama; Poland; Reunion; South Africa; Switzerland; Uganda; UK; USA Australia
270 The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology CLIMATE RESEARCH English Satellite; Primary productivity; Remote sensing; Environmental change; NDVI LEAF-AREA INDEX; GAZELLES PROCAPRA-GUTTUROSA; SPECIES RICHNESS PATTERNS; BUFFALO SYNCERUS-CAFFER; MOOSE BODY-MASS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; HABITAT QUALITY; PLANT PHENOLOGY; AFRICAN BUFFALO; POPULATION-DYNAMICS "National Science Foundation [EF-0553768]; University of California, Santa Barbara; State of California" "This work is the result of a symposium entitled 'The use of satellite-based data in assessing ecological responses to environmental change' organized by N.P. during the 10th International Mammal Conference in Mendoza, Argentina. N.P. was supported by the Royal Society to attend the conference. S.R. worked on this study as a postdoctoral associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant #EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. The authors are grateful to Jim Tucker and 2 other anonymous referees for their valuable inputs." INTER-RESEARCH 2011 Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000287204200002 Chile; Norway; Poland; Sweden; UK; USA UK
271 Admiralty Bay Benthos Diversity-A census of a complex polar ecosystem DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY English Antarctica; King George Island; Admiralty Bay; Benthos; Biodiversity; Community ecology KING-GEORGE-ISLAND; SOUTH-SHETLAND-ISLANDS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; MARTEL-INLET; BRANSFIELD STRAIT; NEARSHORE ZONE; SPONGES PORIFERA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ANNUAL CYCLE PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2011 Oceanography Oceanography WOS:000288470800004 Belgium; Brazil; Poland Poland
272 Biodiversity change after climate-induced ice-shelf collapse in the Antarctic DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY English Antarctic Peninsula; Benthos; Krill; Apex predators; Pioneer species; Deep-sea species WESTERN WEDDELL SEA; DEEP-SEA; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; 1ST INSIGHTS; ROSS SEA; PENINSULA; IMPACT; AGGREGATIONS; BIOGEOGRAPHY PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2011 Oceanography Oceanography WOS:000288470800008 Belgium; Chile; France; Germany; Spain; UK; USA Germany
273 Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventive measures against plant invasions DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS English Altitude; biological invasions; invasion pathways; land use history; mountain ecosystems; non-native plant invasion SOUTH-AFRICA; TREELESS VEGETATION; AUSTRALIAN ALPS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PATTERNS; IMPACTS; ISLANDS; RISK; INVASIVENESS; PATHWAYS "Fondecyt [1040528]; USDA NRI Cooperative Research, Education, and Extension Service [2006-35320-17360]; CCES [0-21214-07]; Universitat Bayern; [PFB-23-Conicyt]; [ICM P05-002]" "We are grateful to Trevor Edwards for providing us with raw data from his paper on flora of the Drakensberg area in South Africa (Carbutt & Edwards, 2003) and to those involved in data provision to and development of the Alaskan and southwestern USA invasive plant databases. A.P. was funded by Fondecyt 1040528, PFB-23-Conicyt and ICM P05-002. C. K. was supported by USDA NRI Cooperative Research, Education, and Extension Service Grant no. 2006-35320-17360. J.A. was funded by CCES through the ""BioChange"" project (0-21214-07). S. H. was funded by graduate scholarships from Universitat Bayern e. V. and the HWP program. Our thanks also to David Richardson and Bethany Bradley and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments which greatly improved our paper." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000285246700010 Australia; Chile; Germany; Switzerland; USA Australia
274 Shallow freshwater ecosystems of the circumpolar Arctic ECOSCIENCE English Arctic ponds; bacteria; climate change; primary producers; zooplankton PERIPHYTIC DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-MATTER; PERMAFROST THAW PONDS; HIGH-LATITUDE LAKES; BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; DAPHNIA-PULEX; FOOD WEBS; LIMNOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NORTHWEST-TERRITORIES; BOREAL LAKES "Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Canada Research Chair program; le Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies; International Polar Year projects MERGE; CiCAT, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; Network of Centres of Excellence program ArcticNet; Danish Research Council; Nordic Council of Ministers; University of Copenhagen; Finnish Academy of Science" "We thank our graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, technicians, research associates, and other colleagues for their excellent contributions, including J. Andersson, J. Breton, M. Cazzanelli, C. Dupont, L. Fishback, L. Forsstrom, G. Gauthier, J. Gibson, M. Kainz, M. Lionard, H. Mariash, M-J Martineau, A. Quesada, L. Retamal, T. Roiha, A. Rouillard, V. Roy, D. Sarrazin, N. M. Schmidt, K. Swadling, Y. Vadeboncoeur, and I. Zellmer. Our research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chair program, le Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies, International Polar Year projects MERGE and CiCAT, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Network of Centres of Excellence program ArcticNet, the Danish Research Council, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the University of Copenhagen, and the Finnish Academy of Science, with logistics and infrastructure support from Polar Shelf (Natural Resources Canada), Parks Canada, Toolik Field Station, Zackenberg Logistics, Kangerlussuaq Science Support Center, Arctic Station (Disko), Kilpisjarvi Biological Station, and Centre d'etudes nordiques (CEN). We also thank the anonymous referees for their insightful review comments on the manuscript." UNIVERSITE LAVAL 2011 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000297478200004 Canada; Denmark; Uruguay Canada
275 Potential impacts of climate change on the environmental services of humid tropical alpine regions GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English Biodiversity; climate change; ecosystem services; hydrology; soil properties; Tropical alpine regions LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SOIL ORGANIC-CARBON; SOUTH-EASTERN HIGHLANDS; ECUADORIAN ANDES; VEGETATIONAL HISTORY; TOPOGRAPHIC ASPECT; PLANT DIVERSITY; BALE MOUNTAINS; NORTHERN PERU; GLOBAL CHANGE EU W.B. was funded by an EU Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Lancaster University during much of the research. We also thank the Proyecto Paramo Andino and CONDESAN for enabling many of the field trips that preceded this review. WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000285109200002 Colombia; Ecuador; UK UK
276 "What prevents phenological adjustment to climate change in migrant bird species? Evidence against the ""arrival constraint"" hypothesis" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY English Phenology; Migration; Breeding; Laying date; Ficedula hypoleuca PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; MIGRATORY BIRDS; PIED FLYCATCHER; CLUTCH SIZE; LAYING DATE; REPRODUCTION; POPULATIONS; TRENDS; TITS Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society; British Trust for Ornithology We thank the RSPB and Nagshead nestbox monitors for providing data and the three individuals who reviewed an earlier draft of this paper for their helpful and constructive comments. This research was partially funded by the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society and the British Trust for Ornithology. SPRINGER 2011 Biophysics; Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Physiology Biophysics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Physiology WOS:000286353000007 Brazil; UK UK
277 Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH English bleaching; ecosystem goods and services; ocean warming and acidification GREAT-BARRIER-REEF; FIXATION ACETYLENE-REDUCTION; BLACK BAND DISEASE; US VIRGIN-ISLANDS; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; PHASE-SHIFTS; ACROPORA-PALMATA; BLEACHING EVENT; BUILDING CORALS; RED-SEA GEF Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management Project (CRTR); German Research Foundation [Wi 2677/2-1] We thank the GEF Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management Project (CRTR) for support. Coordination and development of this review was also supported by German Research Foundation grant Wi 2677/2-1 to C. W. We would also like to explicitly thank editor Prof. Andrew Boulton and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive help in improving this manuscript. CSIRO PUBLISHING 2011 Fisheries; Limnology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Fisheries; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000287667500011 Australia; Germany; Israel; Kenya; Mexico; Monaco; UK; USA Germany
278 "Southward Pleistocene migration of Douglas-fir into Mexico: phylogeography, ecological niche modeling, and conservation of 'rear edge' populations" NEW PHYTOLOGIST English cpDNA; cpSSR; ecological niche modeling; Mexico; mtDNA; phylogeography; Pseudotsuga menziesii; rear edge PSEUDOTSUGA-MENZIESII; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; CHLOROPLAST DNA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; MICROSATELLITE LOCI; GENETIC DIVERSITY; QUATERNARY VEGETATION; NATURAL-POPULATIONS; GLACIAL REFUGIA; NDH GENES NSF; American Philosophical Society; Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid; University of Minnesota; Carolyn Crosby Fellowship; SEMARNAT-CONACyT [23728]; Microsoft Corporation "We thank: C. Acosta-Gomez for assistance collecting samples; O. Almonte-Dominguez, K. Oyama-Nakagawa and V. Rocha-Ramirez for laboratory support; M. B. Bowen and the Cornell University Computational Biology Service Unit for computing resources; the Global Climate Data database (WorldClim) and the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase II for providing their data for analysis; and A. Center, G. Quiram, J. Savage, R. Shaw, R. Zink, and two anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments. PFG was funded by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Lewis and Clark Field Grant (American Philosophical Society), Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid, and the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Carolyn Crosby Fellowship, Thesis Research Grant, and Dayton Research Fellowship. AGR was funded by SEMARNAT-CONACyT grant no. 23728. The Computational Biology Service Unit is partly funded by Microsoft Corporation." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000286940500028 Estonia; Mexico; USA USA
279 Cross-Scale Analysis of the Region Effect on Vascular Plant Species Diversity in Southern and Northern European Mountain Ranges PLOS ONE English BETA-DIVERSITY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; DECIDUOUS FORESTS; INDICATOR VALUES; GAMMA DIVERSITY; GLOBAL PATTERNS; DISTANCE DECAY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LAND-USE; RICHNESS Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-07-0242]; European Commission [GOCE-CT-036866 ECOCHANGE] "The authors gratefully acknowledge grants from the Danish Natural Science Research Council (grant #272-07-0242 to J-C.S.) and from the European Commission (grant #GOCE-CT-036866 ECOCHANGE to S. D., A. G., P. V., and N.E.Z.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000285578000050 Austria; Chile; Denmark; Finland; France; Norway; Switzerland Denmark
280 Patterns of Spatial Variation of Assemblages Associated with Intertidal Rocky Shores: A Global Perspective PLOS ONE English SPECIES-DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PACIFIC COAST; SOUTH-AFRICA; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; ZONATION PATTERNS; HUMAN IMPACT; TIME-SCALES "Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Chevron (Venezuela) through a LOCTI (Ley Organica de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion); Decanato de Investigaciones (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela)" "Funding for this study was given by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Chevron (Venezuela) through a LOCTI (Ley Organica de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion) scheme and Decanato de Investigaciones (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000285381200008 Argentina; Canada; Colombia; Italy; Japan; Mexico; South Africa; Trinid & Tobago; USA; Venezuela Venezuela
281 Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century SCIENCE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; LAND-USE; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; CHANGING CLIMATE; RANGE SHIFTS; FUTURE; MODELS; EXTINCTIONS; DISTRIBUTIONS; VULNERABILITY "Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK; European Commission; UNEP; Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PTDC/AMB/73901/2006]" "This work was developed in the context of a scenarios synthesis coordinated by DIVERSITAS and UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with financial support from the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK, the European Commission, and UNEP. We thank L. Simpson for organizing a workshop. H. M. P. was supported in part by grant PTDC/AMB/73901/2006 from Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000285153500053 Canada; France; Mexico; Netherlands; Portugal; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; UK; USA Portugal
282 The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates SCIENCE English GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; EXTINCTIONS; DECLINES; BENEFITS; FUTURE; INDEX AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000285153500055 Argentina; Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Iran; Italy; Japan; Kenya; Madagascar; Mexico; New Zealand; Norway; Peoples R China; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Russia; Singapore; South Africa; South Korea; Switzerland; Taiwan; Tanzania; U Arab Emirates; UK; USA; Venezuela UK
283 How can ecologists help realise the potential of payments for carbon in tropical forest countries? JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY English Amazonia; climate change; deforestation; ecosystem services; monitoring; Peru; PES; REDD LAND-USE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; AMAZON BASIN; DEFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; BIOMASS; DEGRADATION; SERVICES; DROUGHT "NERC; ESRC; DfiD, UK; RCUK" "We thank all contributors to the project 'Capacity building for carbon-and biodiversity-based payments for ecosystem services in the Peruvian Amazon' (NE/G00840X/1, http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/espa/index.html) and particularly those who provided project cost data: Madreacre SAC (Nelson Kroll), CIMA-Cordillera Azul (Tatiana Pequeno), ACCA (Cesar Moran-Cahusac, Augusto Mulanovitch) and AMPA. We acknowledge funding for this project from NERC, ESRC and DfiD, UK, through the Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme. T.R.B. also acknowledges support from an RCUK Academic Fellowship. J.P.G.J. acknowledges the Leverhulme Trust. Finally, we thank three anonymous reviewers who provided valuable comments on earlier versions of this manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000283983200001 Peru; Spain; UK UK
284 Coiling dimorphism within a genetic type of the planktonic foraminifer Globorotalia truncatulinoides MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY English Planktonic foraminifera; Genetic type; Coiling direction; Population NORTH-ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA; WATER; RECONSTRUCTION; QUATERNARY; DIVERSITY; ECOLOGY "Swiss National Science Foundation [3100A0-112645]; CNRS; French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-05-BIODIV-004, JCJC06_136763]; NOAA [NA06OAR4600091]; Sloan Foundation" "We thank all crew and scientists of the CMarZ cruise on board the R/V Ronald H. Brown, in particular Hui Liu (Rutgers University) for her help in sampling, and Nancy Copley (WHOI) for providing hydrographic data. Jan Pawlowski (University of Geneva) is acknowledged for providing support through the Swiss National Science Foundation grant 3100A0-112645, to help VU attend the CMarZ cruise and collaborate with CdV. We also thank Takahiro Asami (Shinshu University) for discussion and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript; Michal Kucera, Ellen Thomas, and one anonymous reviewer whose insights helped to improve our manuscript. VU was supported by a CNRS post-doc ATIP fellowship (CdV). This study is part of the projects BOOM-Biodiversity of Open Oceans Microalcifiers (grant ANR-05-BIODIV-004 to CdV) and Paleo-CTD (grant JCJC06_136763 to TdG-T), funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche. Support for R/V Ronald H. Brown cruise was provided by the NOAA Ocean Exploration Program Grant #NA06OAR4600091 and the Sloan Foundation grant for the Census of Marine Life Zooplankton (CMarZ) Program office." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2010 Paleontology Paleontology WOS:000285233100006 Argentina; France; Japan; USA Japan
285 "A stochastic, evolutionary model for range shifts and richness on tropical elevational gradients under Quaternary glacial cycles" PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English biogeography; extinction; mid-domain effect; simulation; speciation; stochastic model SPECIES-RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; BIOME RECONSTRUCTIONS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; BIOTIC ATTRITION; EARLY-ONSET; NULL MODEL; PATTERNS "Danish National Research Foundation; National Science Foundation (USA) [DEB-0639979, DBI-0851245]; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS, USA); Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut (USA); Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior/Fulbright Fellowship (CAPES, Brazil); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil)" "The comments of R. Burnham, D. Nogues-Bravo, G. Brehm, J. Fjeldsa, C. Rahbek and two anonymous reviewers greatly improved the manuscript. We are grateful to G. Brehm, C. Cardelus, A. Gilman and J. Longino for sharing their Barva Transect data. We acknowledge the Danish National Research Foundation for support to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the National Science Foundation (USA, DEB-0639979 and DBI-0851245) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS, USA). T.F.R. was supported by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut (USA), the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior/Fulbright Fellowship (CAPES, Brazil); and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil)." ROYAL SOC 2010 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000283665200010 Brazil; Denmark; USA USA
286 Response of vascular epiphyte diversity to different land-use intensities in a neotropical montane wet forest FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT English Beta diversity; Deforestation; Fragmentation; Human disturbance; Isolated trees; Land-use change; Microclimate; Secondary forest; Species richness; Species turnover SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; BROMELIAD COMMUNITIES; CONFIDENCE-INTERVALS; ANDEAN FORESTS; BETA DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; NICHE BREADTH; OAK FORESTS; RANGE SIZE CARE Proyecto SUBIR (USAID); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; EcoCiencia; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) "We thank the CARE Proyecto SUBIR (USAID) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, EcoCiencia, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for funding. Thanks to Peter Feinsinger for his help with study design and to Veronica Benitez for excellent field assistance. Harold Greeney provided valuable site information, William Phillips and the staff at Sierrazul permitted access to the reserve and provided logistical support. Comments by Glenda Mendieta and an anonymous reviewer helped improve the manuscript. This is publication no. 277 of the Yanayacu Natural History Research Group." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2010 Forestry Forestry WOS:000284393700003 Ecuador; Germany Germany
287 "Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity" SCIENCE English AMERICAN BIOTIC INTERCHANGE; LATE MIOCENE ONSET; RAIN-FOREST TREES; SEA FAN EVIDENCE; MARINE INCURSIONS; SOUTH-AMERICA; RAPID DIVERSIFICATION; NEOTROPICAL FISHES; WESTERN AMAZONIA; RIVER Osk. Huttunen Foundation; Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Fund; Helsingin Sanomain Saatio; Academy of Sciences of Finland "We thank all colleagues who shared their data; M. F. Tognelli for mammal richness data; and B. P. Kohn, M. Bernet, P. van der Beek, R. T. Pennington, S. B. Kroonenberg, B. Bookhagen, C. Uba, and three anonymous reviewers for constructive comments on the manuscript. Supported by the Osk. Huttunen Foundation, the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Fund, and the Helsingin Sanomain Saatio (T.S.) and by the Academy of Sciences of Finland (F.P.W.)." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000284118000031 Brazil; Colombia; Netherlands; Panama; Spain; Switzerland; UK; USA; Venezuela Netherlands
288 Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation SCIENCE English THERMAL MAXIMUM; CERREJON FORMATION; CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE; DISCRIMINATION; COLOMBIA; CANOPY; FOREST; TREE; CO2 "Banco de la Republica; National Geographic; Smithsonian Women's Club; Instituto de Colombiano de Petroleo (ICP)-Ecopetrol SA; NSF [EAR-0628358, ATM-0902882]; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; Smithsonian" "Supported by Banco de la Republica, National Geographic, Smithsonian Women's Club, Instituto de Colombiano de Petroleo (ICP)-Ecopetrol SA, and Smithsonian, M.P. was supported by NSF EAR-0628358 and ATM-0902882. S.S. was supported by a VISI grant from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Thanks to PDVSA for access to Mar 2X and the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural of Venezuela for allowing us to sample in Riecito Mache. Thanks to Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos, A. Pardo, J. Sanchez, C. Guerrero, M. Carvalho, and the Colombian Armed Forces for logistic support. Thanks to the biostratigraphic team at ICP. Patrice Brenac did preliminary palynological analysis of Gonzales. N. Atkins provided editing support. A. Mets (NIOZ) is thanked for analytical assistance. K. Winter, H. Muller-Landau, J. Wright, and S. Punyasena and three anonymous reviewers provided comments on the manuscript. Special thanks to M. I. Barreto for continuous support and sources of ideas." AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000284118000041 Canada; Colombia; France; Germany; Netherlands; Panama; USA; Venezuela Panama
289 Polylepis woodland remnants as biodiversity islands in the Bolivian high Andes BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Andes; Animal diversity; Climate vs. species richness; Growth form; Plant diversity; Polylepis; Species richness; Subalpine forest; Trophic niche BIRD SPECIES RICHNESS; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT; CENTRAL ARGENTINA; HUMAN IMPACT; ROSACEAE; MOUNTAINS; FORESTS; SCALE; CONSERVATION; LIVESTOCK Centro de Biodiversidad y Genetica We thank all the researchers who have worked in the Bolivian Polylepis woodlands. E. Gareca thanks the staff of the Centro de Biodiversidad y Genetica for their help and support. Gonzalo Navarro checked the biogeographic province column of Table 1. Christa De Troeyer helped in the plant data base construction. Modesto Zarate checked the plant species list and helped with data of growth form of plants for Appendix 1 in Supplementary Material. Jose Antonio Balderrama helped with the data of trophic niche for birds in Appendix 2 in Supplementary Material. Teresa Tarifa made valuable observations and comments for the mammals in Appendix 2 in Supplementary Material. One anonymous reviewer improved the quality of the manuscript. SPRINGER 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282824300002 Belgium; Bolivia; Denmark Belgium
290 Long-term monitoring of tropical bats for anthropogenic impact assessment: Gauging the statistical power to detect population change BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Biodiversity monitoring; Chiroptera; Population decline; Population trends; Power analysis; Sampling design PRESENCE-ABSENCE; FRUGIVOROUS BATS; POINT COUNTS; ABUNDANCE; TRENDS; FOREST; DESIGN; CONSERVATION; INVENTORY; ASSEMBLAGES "Conservation International (CI); MacArthur Foundation; Wildlife Trust; German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD; German Science Foundation - DFG [KA 1241/6-1, Vo 890/7]; Leverhulme Trust; National Geographic Society; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF [01LC0017, 01LC0411, 01LC0617E1]; Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Boston University; Lubee Bat Conservancy; US National Science Foundation; Landesgraduiertenforderung Baden-Wurttemberg; Darwin Initiative; Rufford Foundation; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia [168990]; University of Aberdeen; Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa - CNPq; Electricite de France [CQZH 1294]; Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico" "We wish to thank Conservation International (CI) for funding. The authors further acknowledge support from the following organizations for funding of the studies included in this work: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (LFA, IM), The Wildlife Trust (LFA, IM), German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD (KGJ, CFJM, JF), German Science Foundation - DFG (CFJM, EKVK [KA 1241/6-1], CCV [Vo 890/7]), The Leverhulme Trust (FMC), The National Geographic Society (RKBJ), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF (JF, EKVK [BIOTA program, Project 01LC0017, 01LC0411 & 01LC0617E1]), The Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Boston University (THK, RH, KR, CCV), Lubee Bat Conservancy (THK, RH, TK), US National Science Foundation (THK, TK), Landesgraduiertenforderung Baden-Wurttemberg (JF), The Darwin Initiative (NF, RKBJ), The Rufford Foundation (NF), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (MCMG [No. 168990]), The University of Aberdeen (MCMG), Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa - CNPq (LMSA), Electricite de France (MH, JFC, JMP [Convention Museum/EDF CQZH 1294]), and Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (KES)." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000283412300044 Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; France; Germany; Madagascar; Mexico; Panama; UK; USA Portugal
291 "Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland-Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru" ECOSYSTEMS English Peru; Manu National Park; treeline; puna; upper tropical montane cloud forest; carbon stocks MONTANE CLOUD FORESTS; TROPICAL MOUNTAIN FORESTS; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; PINE PLANTATIONS; ORGANIC-CARBON; CLIMATE-CHANGE; WATER YIELD; RAIN-FOREST Blue Moon Fund "We thank the Blue Moon Fund for support. We especially thank Manu National Park and the Peruvian Instituto Nacional de Recusos National (INRENA) and the Amazon Conservation Association (ACCA) for permission to work in Manu National Park and at the Wayquecha field station, respectively. The guards at Manu National Park and Luis Imunda provided essential logistical support and advice. Five hard-working undergraduate students from Wake Forest University and Flor Zamora, Percy Chambi and Nelson Cahuana from Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, were essential for the completion of this project." SPRINGER 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282699200011 Peru; UK; USA UK
292 Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English Adaptation; Amazonia; Fabaceae; functional traits; geographical ecology; Neotropical forests; permanent plots; phylogeny; RAINFOR; spatial autocorrelation SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; LEAF CHARACTERISTICS; PATTERNS; BIOMASS; DENSITY; MEXICO; TREES; SIZE Oxford University; Overseas Research Scheme (ORS) award "This paper derives from A. M.'s doctoral thesis, funded by an Oxford University Clarendon scholarship and Overseas Research Scheme (ORS) award. We thank Ingolf Kuhn for advice about spatial analyses and Mike Ladle for comments and copy-editing and wish to acknowledge the whole RAINFOR network researchers, technicians, students, field assistants, and grants - who have collectively contributed to the success of RAINFOR." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000282982300009 Bolivia; Brazil; Netherlands; Peru; UK; USA; Venezuela Brazil
293 The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY English Farming; food security; global agriculture; horizon scanning; policy; research questions GREEN-REVOLUTION; SUSTAINABILITY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; MANAGEMENT; SCIENCE; UK UK Government; Arcadia "We are grateful to the UK Government's Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project for funding this research. The Foresight Programme is part of the UK's Government Office for Science. It helps the government think systematically about the future and uses the latest scientific and other evidence to provide signposts for policy makers in tackling future challenges. The views expressed here remain those of the authors and do not represent those of GO Science or HM Government. We are also grateful to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for their input and assistance, particularly in the organization of a workshop in Rome during the early stages of this research. W. A. Sutherland was funded for this work by Arcadia." TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2010 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary" Agriculture WOS:000287011300001 Argentina; Canada; Colombia; Cuba; Fiji; France; Ghana; India; Ireland; Italy; Kenya; Laos; Netherlands; New Zealand; Peoples R China; Philippines; Switzerland; Thailand; UK; USA UK
294 Phylogeography of the Marine Otter (Lontra felina): Historical and Contemporary Factors Determining Its Distribution JOURNAL OF HEREDITY English climatic change; conservation; fragmented habitat; phylogeny; phylogeography; otter MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA VARIATION; GREAT AMERICAN INTERCHANGE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; CENTRAL CHILE; LUTRA-FELINA; POPULATION-GROWTH; HABITAT USE; MOLINA 1782; SEA OTTERS; ICE AGES Universidad Andres [Bello-DI-06-06/R]; Nature Conservation and Earthwatch Institute; CONICYT [AT-23070034] "Universidad Andres Bello-DI-06-06/R, Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation and Earthwatch Institute. J.A.V was supported by a CONICYT Doctoral Fellowship, CONICYT Thesis Project AT-23070034." OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC 2010 Genetics & Heredity Genetics & Heredity WOS:000283691400002 Chile; Peru; UK Chile
295 A Gap Analysis Methodology for Collecting Crop Genepools: A Case Study with Phaseolus Beans PLOS ONE English SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; WILD RELATIVES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SAMPLE-SIZE; DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSERVATION; PERFORMANCE; DIVERSITY; BIAS; PREDICTION Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC); System-wide Genetic Resources Program (SGRP) of Bioversity International; World Bank "The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC, http://www.grdc.com.au/), provided the initial funding that allowed the development of the methodology, and the gathering of input data. Global Public Goods Phase 2 of the System-wide Genetic Resources Program (SGRP) of Bioversity International (http://www.sgrp.cgiar.org/), provided part of the funding for the final phase of the project. The World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/), likewise, provided part of the funding for the final phase of the project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000283216400012 Colombia; Denmark; Italy Colombia
296 Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Amazonia; Andes; Biodiversity; Deforestation; Forest disturbance; Human-dominated landscapes; Land use TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LAND-USE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SEED DISPERSAL; EASTERN AMAZON; DEFORESTATION FRONTIER; QUATERNARY VEGETATION; DROUGHT SENSITIVITY Brazilian Science and Research Council (CNPq); UK Government Darwin Initiative; UK Natural Environment Research Council; Wildlife Conservation Society; National Geographical Society; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation "Our collective work in several Amazonian countries over the last two decades has been supported by several organizations, particularly the Brazilian Science and Research Council (CNPq), the UK Government Darwin Initiative, the UK Natural Environment Research Council, Wildlife Conservation Society, National Geographical Society, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This paper began with discussions held at a symposium on Biodiversity Conservation in Human-Dominated Tropical Forest Landscapes that CAP, JB and TAG organized in late 2007. We are grateful to Navjot Sodhi and two referees for comments on the manuscript. This is publication number 20 of the Land-Use Change and Amazonian Biodiversity project." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282076800008 Brazil; UK; USA UK
297 Variety matters: adaptive genetic diversity and parasite load in two mouse opossums from the Brazilian Atlantic forest CONSERVATION GENETICS English Neotropical marsupials; Marmosops incanus; Gracilinanus microtarsus; Mata Atlantica; Major histocompatibility complex; Pathogen-driven selection MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POSSUM TRICHOSURUS-VULPECULA; MARSUPIAL MONODELPHIS-DOMESTICA; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION; DRB REGION CONFIGURATIONS; CLASS-II DIVERSITY; RAIN-FOREST; GRACILINANUS-MICROTARSUS; DIDELPHID MARSUPIALS; APODEMUS-FLAVICOLLIS "BMBF Germany, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [01 LB 0202]; Brazilian Council for Research and Technology (CNPq) [590041/2006-1]" "Many thanks to Tamara Munkemuller for steady and patient advice in statistical questions. Further, we thank Fabiana Umetsu, Christoph Knogge, and Klaus Henle for scientific and logistic support. We are grateful to Birgit Bieber and Anke Schmidt for assistance in the genetic laboratory and to many field assistants for supporting field work. Financial support for this study was provided by the BMBF Germany within the BIOCAPSP project (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, project ID: 01 LB 0202). This study is part of a cooperation supported by the Brazilian Council for Research and Technology (CNPq) (Project 'Biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes on the Atlantic Plateau of Sao Paulo', No. 590041/2006-1)." SPRINGER 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Genetics & Heredity Biodiversity & Conservation; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000281907000033 Brazil; Germany Germany
298 Do community-level models describe community variation effectively? JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Bioclimatic envelope models; biotic interactions; community-level modelling; ecological niches; Europe; species distribution modelling; trees SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGES; BETA-DIVERSITY; RICHNESS; EUROPE; BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; DETERMINANTS; PERSISTENCE "EC [044399, 036866-GOCE]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-10111/BOS, CGL2008-01198-E/BOS]" "Digital species distribution data were kindly supplied by Raino Lampinen and pre-processed by the late Chris Humphries and Paul Williams. We thank Simon Ferrier and one anonymous referee for valuable comments and suggestions. Research by A.B. and M.B.A. was originally funded by the EC FP6 MACIS (Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change: Impacts on Biodiversity, contract no. 044399) project. A.B. is currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project CGL2009-10111/BOS). M.B.A. is currently funded by the EC FP6 ECOCHANGE project (Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe, contract no. 036866-GOCE) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (complementary action no. CGL2008-01198-E/BOS)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000282183900002 Chile; Portugal; Spain Spain
299 Predicting the occurrence of rare Brazilian birds with species distribution models JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY English Cerrado; Ensemble forecasting; Geographic distribution; Range prediction; Sampling CLIMATE-CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; UNCERTAINTY; CERRADO; RANGE; BIODIVERSITY; PERFORMANCE; ACCURACY; PATTERNS; SAVANNA CAPES; FAPEMIG "M.A.M. was supported by a Post-doctorate fellowship from CAPES, and L. E. L. by a doctorate fellowship from FAPEMIG. We thank W. Thuiller for providing the updated version of BIOMOD and A. T. Peterson for providing the topographical layers." SPRINGER 2010 Ornithology Zoology WOS:000281859400013 Brazil; France Brazil
300 Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English artisanal fishing; ecosystem services; human dimensions; social-ecological systems; window of opportunity ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HUMAN-EXCLUSION; MANAGEMENT; FISHERIES; COMANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; RIGHTS; BIODIVERSITY; COLLAPSE; SCIENCE "Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Excelencia en Investigacion (FONDAP) [1501-0001]; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; Mellon Foundation; Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (CSIC-PUC); Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (FONDECYT) [3503-89, 11070034]; Australian Research Council" "We thank many friends, colleagues, research assistants, fishers, managers, and local officials for making possible the governance transformation and successive events that have taken place in Chile. Funding was provided by Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Excelencia en Investigacion (FONDAP) 1501-0001, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, The Mellon Foundation, an Italy-Chile cooperation grant, Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (CSIC-PUC) and Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (FONDECYT) Project nos. 3503-89 and 11070034. This article is an output from the Santa Rita meeting held in Chile and funded by the Australian Research Council." NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000282211700014 Australia; Chile; Netherlands; Spain; Sweden; Uruguay; USA Spain
301 Spatial Relationships between Polychaete Assemblages and Environmental Variables over Broad Geographical Scales PLOS ONE English NEIGHBOR MATRICES PCNM; TAXONOMIC SUFFICIENCY; BETA DIVERSITY; ROCKY SHORES; RUN-OFF; CLIMATE; IMPACTS; BIODIVERSITY; RESOLUTION; COMMUNITY Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Nippon Foundation; History of Near Shore (HNS) "This work is part of the Census of Marine Life program and the authors would like to express their sincerest gratitude to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for funding. Additional support was provided by a PRIN Project from the Italian Ministry of University and Research and by the University of Pisa to LBC. Nippon Foundation provided financial support to YS for carrying out sampling in the western Pacific. Suffolk University provided generous financial support for sampling in Maine and data processing. The Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring program provided funds for sampling in Alaska to BK and KI. The History of Near Shore (HNS) initiative provided financial support for field collections in South Africa, and Maine, USA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000282091100043 Argentina; Canada; Italy; Japan; South Africa; USA; Venezuela Italy
302 Challenges and opportunities for integrating lake ecosystem modelling approaches AQUATIC ECOLOGY English Aquatic; Food web dynamics; Plankton; Nutrients; Spatial; Lake; Freshwater; Marine; Community; Population; Hydrology; Eutrophication; Global change; Climate warming; Fisheries; Biodiversity; Management; Mitigation; Adaptive processes; Non-linear dynamics; Analysis; Bifurcation; Understanding; Prediction; Model limitations; Model integration FRESH-WATER ECOSYSTEMS; OF-THE-ART; DAPHNIA POPULATION-DYNAMICS; TROPHIC STATE INDICATORS; PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM; CAUSES REGIME SHIFTS; LIBRARY SALMO-OO; SHALLOW LAKES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES "Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [047.017.012, 817.01.007]; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR); EU; CRES" "WM, RG, IP, SG, PV and AD were supported by grant 047.017.012 of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). LDSD was supported by NWO grant 817.01.007. DT and EJ were supported by EU-REFRESH, EU-WISER, CLEAR (a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence Project on lake restoration) and CRES. We thank Prof. Andre De Roos for his insightful comments and Dr. Tom Andersen for his contribution to the text. JJ wishes to thank Drs. T. Aldenberg, Dr. L. Van Liere, Mr. M.J. 't Hart, Ir. M.H.J.L Jeuken, Ing. S. van Tol, Ir. J.S. Sloot and many others including the many people who provided lake data, for their contributions to PCLake. This is publication 4838 of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)." SPRINGER 2010 Ecology; Limnology; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000285338600012 Australia; Brazil; Canada; Denmark; Germany; Greenland; Israel; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Russia; Sweden; Tanzania; UK; USA Netherlands
303 Woody species diversity in temperate Andean forests: The need for new conservation strategies BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Biodiversity; Hotspot; Natural protected areas; Species richness; Spatial modelling SOUTH-CENTRAL CHILE; WATER-ENERGY DYNAMICS; TREE DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FORESTS; RICHNESS; PATTERNS; SCALE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY "MECESUP project [AUS 0103]; BIOCORES (Biodiversity conservation, restoration, and sustainable use in fragmented forest landscapes) [ICA-CT-2001-10095]; FORECOS Scientific Nucleus [PO4-065-F]" "This research was made possible by funding from MECESUP project AUS 0103; BIOCORES (Biodiversity conservation, restoration, and sustainable use in fragmented forest landscapes) project ICA-CT-2001-10095; and the FORECOS Scientific Nucleus PO4-065-F (MIDEPLAN). We are grateful to Andres Rivera from Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS) for the acquisition of the ASTER image needed to develop the research. Thanks to Raul Bertin and Renato Rivera for assistance with the field work, and Jonathan Barichivich for species identification, all from Universidad Austral of Chile." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000281125400018 Chile; Spain; UK Chile
304 Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS English "environmental changes; estuarine ecosystem; eutrophication; fish ecomorphology; functional divergence; functional evenness; functional richness; human disturbance; seagrass; Terminos Lagoon, Gulf of Mexico" ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; SPECIES TURNOVER; ASSEMBLY RULES; COASTAL LAGOON; ECOLOGY; TRAITS; MEXICO; BIODIVERSITY; POPULATIONS; EXTINCTIONS PICS-CNRS; ANR; CONACYT "We are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers for comments on the first version of this paper. This study was partially funded by a PICS-CNRS project and by the ANR ""BIODIVNEK."" J. Ramos Miranda and D. Flores Hernandez were supported by a CONACYT grant." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2010 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000281278500004 France; Mexico France
305 Evolutionary response of landraces to climate change in centers of crop diversity EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS English adaptation; agriculture; centers of crop origin; climate change; crop genetic resources; in situ conservation; landraces; phenotypic plasticity PLANT GENETIC-RESOURCES; IN-SITU CONSERVATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; MAIZE LANDRACES; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; FLOWERING TIME; GREAT-PLAINS; CHAMAECRISTA-FASCICULATA; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; CULTIVATED SUNFLOWER "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000281311700008 Italy; Mexico; USA USA
306 Origins and colonization history of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in South America MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English climate change; invasive species; MLVA; Population Ecology; Population Genetics-empirical; waterborne diseases LOCUS VARIABLE-NUMBER; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; GENETIC-STRUCTURE; UNITED-STATES; MICROSATELLITE; STRAINS; O3-K6; EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE; CLONE "Direccion Xeral de Cooperacion Exterior, Xunta de Galicia [2007/CP381]" "This study was funded by project 2007/CP381 from the Direccion Xeral de Cooperacion Exterior, Xunta de Galicia." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000281797400011 Chile; Spain Spain
307 Pollen-based differentiation of Amazonian rainforest communities and implications for lowland palaeoecology in tropical South America PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English Amazon Basin; Rainforest communities; Pollen-vegetation relationships; Multivariate analysis; Quaternary palaeoecology; Riparian; Terra firme LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; QUATERNARY VEGETATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; BOLIVIAN AMAZON; CARBON STORAGE; TREE; ECOSYSTEMS; CLIMATE; RECORD; PATTERNS University of Edinburgh; Davis Expedition Fund; Quaternary Research Association; Carnegie Trust; Royal Society; National Geographic Society "This study was supported by a University of Edinburgh PhD studentship for MB. We thank the Davis Expedition Fund (MB), the Quaternary Research Association (MB), and the Carnegie Trust (FM) for providing funds to collect surface samples from NKMNP and the Beni basin in June 2006, and the 'Noel Kempff Mercado' Natural History Museum (NKMNHM), Santa Cruz, Bolivia (in particular Mario Saldias and Patricia Herrera), and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (in particular Toby Pennington and Jim Ratter) for supplying herbarium material. Thanks are also extended to the Royal Society (FEM) and the National Geographic Society (FEM) for fieldwork funds to install and collect pollen trapping equipment and samples between 1998 and 2001. We are especially grateful to Ezequiel Chavez, Lupita Sanchez, and Marcelo Sites from the NKMNHM and Bronwen Whitney and Huw Jones from the University of Edinburgh for their help in the field. We thank our local field guide Juan Surubi and the residents of the community of Florida at NKMNP for their generous hospitality. Finally, we thank the two reviewers, Mark Bush and Keith Bennett, for their constructive comments which improved the manuscript." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2010 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000281228800001 Bolivia; Jamaica; UK; USA Jamaica
308 Brazilian Agriculture and Environmental Legislation: Status and Future Challenges ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY English LAND-COVER CHANGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ETHANOL-PRODUCTION; AMAZON; DEFORESTATION; BIOFUELS; CERRADO; EXPANSION; SUGARCANE; PROSPECTS Esalq-USP; Chalmers University of Technology; Swedish Energy Agency "The authors thank Sylvia Preiler, IIASA, and three anonymous reviewers for constructive comments Support from Esalq-USP, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Swedish Energy Agency is gratefully acknowledged." AMER CHEMICAL SOC 2010 "Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences" Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000280727400011 Brazil; Sweden Brazil
309 "A Census of Marine Biodiversity Knowledge, Resources, and Future Challenges" PLOS ONE English CLIMATE-CHANGE; SEA; INVENTORY; OCEAN; FISH "Estonian Ministry of Education and Research [SF0180005s10]; European Commission [FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF]; Dalhousie University, Canada; EU; MIUR, Italy; Decanato de Investigacion y Desarrollo, Universidad Simon Bolivar" "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The contribution of HO was financed by research grant from the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (no. SF0180005s10). MC was supported financially by the European Commission Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship through the International Outgoing Fellowships (Call FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF) for the ECOFUN project and by Dalhousie University, Canada. RD was supported by the projects HERMIONE (EU-FPVII), VECTOR and OBAMA (MIUR, Italy). PM was supported by the Decanato de Investigacion y Desarrollo, Universidad Simon Bolivar." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000280520400019 Canada; Estonia; Italy; New Zealand; Spain; USA; Venezuela New Zealand
310 UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION WITH GROUND COVER COLOR IMAGES AGROCIENCIA English classification; RGB color model; Otsu method; segmentation; thresholding; artificial vision ALGORITHM COLEGIO DE POSTGRADUADOS 2010 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary" Agriculture WOS:000282257900010 Mexico; Spain Mexico
311 "Hieracium pilosella invasion in the Tierra del Fuego steppe, Southern Patagonia" BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS English Autocorrelation; Grasslands; Geostatistics; Hawkweed; Plant invasions; Sheep grazing; Spatial statistics EXOTIC PLANT INVASIONS; NEW-ZEALAND; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; TUSSOCK GRASSLANDS; SIMULATION-MODEL; GLOBAL CHANGE; PROPAGULE PRESSURE; BIOTIC RESISTANCE; MYRICA-FAYA; MOUSE-EAR CONICET; CFI; Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica [BID-PICT 14198] "We thank to E. Livraghi, R. Cerezani, V. Canalis, M. Jacob, H. Pico, C. Garcia Sampedro and M. E. Gallego for the logistic and technical assistance during the project; Mr. Jose Bonilla for fieldwork assistance; and Brandon E. Lang Morris and one anonymous referee for useful comments on our manuscript. We also thank the ranchers of Tierra del Fuego, especially Mr. Errol O'Byrne from Cullen Ranch. O. Bruzzone and A. Sosa made valuable suggestions at early stages of this project. The studies reported in this manuscript comply with the ethics guidelines and current laws of the Republic of Argentina. This work was supported by a grant from the CFI. R. B. R. and C. E. were supported by a doctoral fellowship from CONICET. K. B. was supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica, BID-PICT 14198." SPRINGER 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000279682800014 Argentina; Germany Germany
312 National Red Listing Beyond the 2010 Target CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English 2010 biodiversity target; biodiversity indicators; Convention on Biological Diversity; conservation priorities; gap analysis; Millennium Development Goals; national red lists; regional red lists; threatened species CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; CRITERIA; INDEX; CATEGORIES; WORLDWIDE Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation "We thank all the NRL contacts who contributed data to the centralized database and website and whose communication helped inform the ideas in this paper. Financial support was provided in part by the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation (T.J.Z., B.C.). Provita is a member of the Wildlife Trust Alliance." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000280148600013 UK; Venezuela Canada
313 Ensemble forecasting shifts in climatically suitable areas for Tropidacris cristata (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Romaleidae) INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY English Climate change; ensemble forecasting; niche models; Orthoptera; Tropidacris; variance partition SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTINCTION RISK; RANGE SHIFTS; NICHE; PREDICTION; UNCERTAINTIES; BIODIVERSITY; PROJECTIONS BBVA Foundation; CNPq; CAPES; Danish National Research Foundation; CAPES-Fullbrigt; NSF; University of Connecticut; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-01198-E/BOS] "This paper is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr A. Mesa, for his lifelong dedication to insect genetics, systematic and evolution. This work was developed under the project 'Bioimpacto' supported by BBVA Foundation. Work by JAFDF, LMB, RDL and JCN in macroecology and biodiversity has been continuously supported by CNPq and CAPES. DNB thanks the Danish National Research Foundation for support to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, whereas TFR has been supported by CAPES-Fullbrigt, NSF and University of Connecticut fellowships. MBA is also funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2008-01198-E/BOS)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Entomology Biodiversity & Conservation; Entomology WOS:000279739400006 Brazil; Denmark; Portugal; Spain; USA Brazil
314 Monitoring land cover change of the dryland forest landscape of Central Chile (1975-2008) APPLIED GEOGRAPHY English Deforestation; Mediterranean; Sclerophyllous forest; Remote sensing; Vegetation recovery MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE REGIONS; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ABANDONMENT; ECOSYSTEMS; PATTERNS; CLASSIFICATION; DEFORESTATION ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Geography Geography WOS:000278542200011 Chile; Spain Spain
315 Reinforcing and expanding the predictions of the disturbance vicariance hypothesis in Amazonian harlequin frogs: a molecular phylogenetic and climate envelope modelling approach BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Atelopus; Bayesian inference; Bioclimate; MaxEnt; Maximum likelihood; Ripley's K function; South America SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; NICHE SHIFT; SAMPLE-SIZE; CONSERVATISM; EVOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; DIVERSIFICATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIATION Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT); Graduiertenforderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; FAPESP; CNPq; FCT [SFRH/BPD/48042/2008] "We are grateful to all collaborators who supported us with their knowledge on amphibian communities in Amazonia and the Guiana region (see Appendix), as well as to curators of scientific collections reviewed (E. Ahlander, W. Bohme, B. T. Clarke, J.H. Cordova, W. E. Duellman, L. Ford, J.D. Lynch, I. Sazima, H. Zaher). This project benefited from grants by the Wilhelm-Peters-Fonds of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT) to S. Lotters and M. Veith and by the Graduiertenforderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen to D. Rodder. C. F. B. Haddad thanks FAPESP and CNPq for financial supports. For tissue samples processed in this paper, we thank D. Bernauer, M. Blanc, R. Boistel, L. A. Coloma, I. De la Riva, R. Ernst and E. Lehr. A. van der Meijden was supported by FCT postdoctoral grant SFRH/BPD/48042/2008. Special thanks to B. P. Noonan for helpful comments on a previous version of this paper." SPRINGER 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000279682600001 Brazil; Germany; Netherlands; Portugal; Venezuela Germany
316 Climate cooling promoted the expansion and radiation of a threatened group of South American orchids (Epidendroideae: Laeliinae) BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY English biogeography; Cerrado; climate changes; molecular dating; Neotropics; Orchidaceae; secondary contact model EVOLUTION; POLYPLOIDY; VEGETATION; PATTERNS; COMPLEX; DACTYLORHIZA; CONSERVATION; INFERENCE; BRAZIL "Carl Tryggers Stiftelse; Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paul (FAPESP) [02/08707-1, 02/08706-5]; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [471742/03-1]" "We would like to thank Joao Semir at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) for providing advice and assistance during the early phases of this project, and the Instituto Brazileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis (IBAMA) and Instituto Estadual de Florestas (IEF-MG) for collection permits. This study was supported by grants from Carl Tryggers Stiftelse and Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse to AA, and Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP, # 02/08707-1 and 02/08706-5) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, # 471742/03-1) to C.F.V. and Joao Semir. Part of this work was subject of the PhD thesis of C.F.V. in ecology, developed at the Botanical Institute at UNICAMP, Brazil." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000279401800010 Brazil; Norway; Switzerland Sweden
317 Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire ECOLOGY LETTERS English Abrupt shift; fractal; global warming; macroecology; percolation; power-law distribution; self-organized criticality; tropical rainforest; tropical savanna; wildfire SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; POWER LAWS; ECOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY; MODEL; BIODIVERSITY; POPULATIONS; DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs "We thank the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Catalogo de Imagens CBERS and BDQueimadas), the Global Land Cover Facility and NASA for the remote-sensing data. The access to and processing of the CBERS images was carried out in the context of the MAP initiative, under an agreement between the NGO Herencia and the Universidade Federal do Acre. We are also grateful to J.F. Reyes, R. Scoles, X. Roca, X. Rodo and M.A. Rodriguez-Arias for their help. This work was supported in part by a MAEC-AECI fellowship to S.P. from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000278798100002 Bolivia; Brazil; Spain Spain
318 Habitat patch size modulates terrestrial mammal activity patterns in Amazonian forest fragments JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY English Amazon forest; anthropogenic change; behavior; Dasyprocta leporina; Dasypus novemcinctus; Didelphis marsupialis; diel activity; habitat loss; terrestrial mammal ARMADILLO DASYPUS-NOVEMCINCTUS; DIDELPHIS-MARSUPIALIS; 9-BANDED ARMADILLOS; CATHEMERAL ACTIVITY; SOUTHERN AMAZONIA; PREDATION RISK; COMMON OPOSSUM; UNITED-STATES; HOME-RANGE; CONSERVATION Natural Environment Research Council; United States Agency for International Development [NT 746/2003]; Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES); Conservation International "This study was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the World Wide Fund for Nature Brazil (United States Agency for International Development grant NT 746/2003) and Conservation International. FM was funded by a Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES) Ph.D. studentship. We are deeply indebted to all landowners in Alta Floresta, particularly R. Silva and V. Riva, for providing access to their properties. G. Araujo and A. Araujo provided invaluable assistance during fieldwork." ALLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP DIVISION ALLEN PRESS 2010 Zoology Zoology WOS:000279130300002 Brazil; UK Brazil
319 "Reassessing the temporal evolution of orchids with new fossils and a Bayesian relaxed clock, with implications for the diversification of the rare South American genus Hoffmannseggella (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae)" BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English DIVERGENCE TIMES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; ABSOLUTE RATES; SEQUENCES; LINEAGES; ORIGIN; DNA; CALIBRATIONS; BEGONIACEAE; ANGIOSPERMS Swedish Research Council; Carl Skottbergs foundation "We thank Santiago Ramirez for providing us with the molecular data set for Orchidaceae; Bengt Oxelman, Christian Parisod, Bente Eriksen, Anne-Cathrine Scheen, Vivian Alden, Mats Topel, Magnus Popp and Kaiser Schwarcz for their various help during this project; Andrew Rambaut for advice using BEAST; Maria do Rosario de Almeida Braga, Tim Moulton and Glauco Batalha Altman for their kind help in Petropolis, Brazil; Herve Sauquet, two anonymous reviewers and the associate editor for constructive criticism; and the Swedish Research Council (grant to Claes Persson) and the Carl Skottbergs foundation (travel grant to ALSG) for financial support." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2010 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000280368000001 Brazil; Sweden Sweden
320 "Using ecological niche modelling to infer past, present and future environmental suitability for Leiopelma hochstetteri, an endangered New Zealand native frog" BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Pepeketua; Leiopelma; New Zealand; Conservation; Climate change; Niche modelling SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; AMPHIBIAN DECLINES; GLOBAL PATTERNS; SLIDER TURTLE; CONSERVATION; DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTINCTIONS; HABITAT; BIODIVERSITY Universite de Provence; University of Milano-Bicocca "Thanks to Tony Beauchamp, Laurence Barea, Tertia Thurley, Phil Bishop and Frank Drost for their useful comments on the manuscript and personal communications about the ecology of Leiopelma hochstetteri. We thank D. Rodder and one anonymous reviewer for comments on an early version of the manuscript. This work was supported by Universite de Provence who employed AF as ATER in 2009. G.F.F. was funded by a scholarship of University of Milano-Bicocca." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000278572300007 Brazil; France; Italy; New Zealand Brazil
321 DNA barcoding for conservation and management of Amazonian commercial fish BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Amazon River; Conservation; DNA barcoding; Fisheries; Genetic identification; Mitochondrial DNA FRESH-WATER BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; IDENTIFICATION; SEAFOOD; MARKERS; FUTURE; REGION; HAKE AECI [D/9475/07] "This study has been financially supported by the project AECI D/9475/07. We are grateful to Angel Rosales, Gema E. Adan, Vanessa Comes, lone Ginuino and Eduardo del Rosal for precious help in market sampling. Ivan G. Pola helped with laboratory work. We are grateful to Dr. A. Gill and to four anonymous reviewers of Biological Conservation who kindly helped to improve our manuscript." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000278572300014 Brazil; Spain Spain
322 Random walk simulations of fossil proxy data HOLOCENE English environmental change; forcing factors; interpreting proxy data; quasi-cyclicities; random walk; simulations FOREST BIODIVERSITY; STABILITY; DYNAMICS; HISTORY; EVENTS; MODELS SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2010 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000278435600014 Mexico; Sweden; UK UK
323 Impacts of climate warming on lake fish community structure and potential effects on ecosystem function HYDROBIOLOGIA English Aquatic food webs; Sub-tropical lakes; Piscivory; Planktivory; Benthivory; Eutrophication; Salinisation; Biomanipulation LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; PROLIFERATIVE KIDNEY-DISEASE; ROACH RUTILUS-RUTILUS; FOOD-WEB STRUCTURE; FRESH-WATER FISH; SHALLOW LAKES; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLASS STRENGTH; TROPICAL RESERVOIR; PERCA-FLUVIATILIS SPRINGER 2010 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000276660100007 Belgium; Denmark; France; Iceland; Peoples R China; Spain; Sweden; Uruguay Denmark
324 Ecological and genetic divergence between two lineages of Middle American tungara frogs Physalaemus (=Engystomops) pustulosus BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; SPECIES GROUP; ALLELE FREQUENCIES; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; SEXUAL SELECTION; CONTROL REGION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; F-STATISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY German Science Foundation [PR 626/2-1]; NSF [IBN-981654]; SENACYT [PI-C08-0000470] "We thank the Costa Rican (MINAE) and Panamanian (ANAM) authorities for research permits (232-2000-OFAU, 160-2001-OFAU, 259-2002-OFAU, 169-2003-OFAU, DNAPVS-01-2000, DNPN-001-2002), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for logistical help, C. Salaz, I. Meuche and C. Avila for help during field work and R. A. Koshy for help in the lab. R. Bruning prepared Figure 1 and Figure 5. HP was funded by a research grant from the German Science Foundation (PR 626/2-1), MJR by NSF IBN-981654, and SRR by SENACYT (PI-C08-0000470)." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2010 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000279828100001 Ecuador; Germany; Panama; USA Germany
325 Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area BIOTROPICA English abundance; climate; liana communities; tropical forest DRY EVERGREEN FORESTS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; NEOTROPICAL FORESTS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; NATIONAL-PARK; TREE; ABUNDANCE; DYNAMICS; INDIA "NCEAS; NSF [EF-0553768]; University of California; Santa Barbara; State of California; HSBC Climate Partnership; NSF, National Science Foundation of China; Wageningen University; Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India; World Wildlife Fund (Brazil); USAID; Organization for Tropical Studies, British Ecological Society; CONACyT (Mexico); European Commission; Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza; BOLFOR; PAPIIT-UNAM; Center for Tropical Forest Science; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School; International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups; Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme-Cameroon; Ministry of Environment and Forests-Cameroon; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; UNESCO; University of Miami; Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; REPSOL-YPF; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation" "This work was conducted as a part of the Lianas and Tropical Forest Dynamics Working Group supported by the NCEAS, a Center funded by NSF ( Grant #EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. Data collection and management were funded by many organizations including the HSBC Climate Partnership, NSF, National Science Foundation of China, Wageningen University, Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, World Wildlife Fund (Brazil), USAID, Organization for Tropical Studies, British Ecological Society, CONACyT (Mexico), European Commission, Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza, BOLFOR, PAPIIT-UNAM, Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School, International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups, Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme-Cameroon, Ministry of Environment and Forests-Cameroon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNESCO, University of Miami, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, REPSOL-YPF, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. D. Zoellner helped create the map of study sites. We appreciate comments on the manuscript by M. Pena-Claros, G. van der Heijden, and an anonymous reviewer and discussions with L. Poorter." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000277289400006 Brazil; Cameroon; Congo; Ecuador; France; India; Mexico; Netherlands; Panama; Peoples R China; Spain; USA; Zaire USA
326 Mammalian Densities in a Neotropical Wetland Subject to Extreme Climatic Events BIOTROPICA English deforestation; floodplain; frugivores; line-transects; mammal assemblages; Pantanal PANTANAL WETLAND; LARGE HERBIVORES; BRAZIL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOLOGY; FOREST; CONSEQUENCES; CONSERVATION; FRAMEWORK European Union; Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) "This work was a collaboration between the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and EMBRAPA-Pantanal. This study was part of a PhD thesis of A. L. J. D. who received funding from the European Union INCO PECARI Project. The last year of fieldwork was funded by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS). We are very grateful to the owners of Porto Alegre, Dom Valdir, Campo Dora, Ipanema and Alegria ranches for allowing research on their properties and the people living on the EMBRAPA-Pantanal Nhumirim ranch for their help and support. We would like to thank P. Lima Borges for his assistance walking trails in the floodplain as well as G. Mourao, D. Eaton and L. Aguirre for providing valuable comments to this manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000277289400014 Brazil; UK UK
327 Biodiversity targets after 2010 CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY English CLIMATE-CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; REGIME SHIFTS; FORESTS; CHALLENGES; DIVERSITY; SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; CONVENTION; MANAGEMENT DIVERSITAS "This paper arose from discussions led by DIVERSITAS. We thank the funding agencies, which through core support to DIVERSITAS made these discussions possible at meetings of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS. We also thank David Cooper for constructive and informative discussions." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282613400002 Argentina; Australia; Canada; France; Germany; South Africa; Taiwan; UK; USA UK
328 "EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY IN BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE, CONSERVATION, AND POLICY: A CALL TO ACTION" EVOLUTION English Contemporary evolution; eco-evolutionary dynamics; evolutionary applications; rapid evolution; systematics; taxonomy WEST-NILE-VIRUS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAPID EVOLUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GENE FLOW; CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION Yale University; Kyushu University; EDIT; FAPESP; Universidade de Sao Paulo; CNPq; DIVERSITAS "For helpful insighis at a critical juncture, we thank all participants in the broGENESIS Scoping Meeting (Pans. 27-30 April 2006) For financial support, we thank DIVERSITAS Yale University, and Kyushu University For support of bioGENESIS meetings in Japan, Paris, and Brazil, we thank Yale University, Kyushu University, EDIT, FAPESP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, and CNPq For support of many kinds, we thank the staff of DIVERSITAS For the encouragement to prepare this article we thank T Meagher. For additional help with the manuscript, we thank N Johnson and C Leblond For data used in the redrawing of figures. we thank W Law and D Coltman" "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2010 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000277096400028 Australia; Brazil; Canada; France; Germany; Japan; Mexico; Spain; Switzerland; USA Canada
329 "Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) calcareous nannofossils from the Peniche section (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal): A clue for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions" MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY English Early Jurassic; Pliensbachian; Calcareous nannofossils; Palaeoenvironment; Lusitanian Basin; Portugal OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; SOUTH ATLANTIC-OCEAN; SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC; NUTRICLINE DYNAMICS; WESTERN-AUSTRALIA; AMMONITE FAUNAS; NORTHERN SPAIN; SURFACE-WATER; PACIFIC-OCEAN PRIN-COFIN [2004-2006]; UMR-CNRS [5125]; ECLIPSE II Project; [PDCTE/CTA/44907/2002] "Funding was provided to L.R. by the PRIN-COFIN Project 2004-2006 entitled 'The evolution of Ionian and Atlantic rift systems through the events recorded in the sedimentary sequences' to Prof. Leonsevero Passeri, and by the team ""Quantification of Productivity in the Mesozoic"" of the UMR-CNRS 5125, PEPS. E.M. and B.P. were funded by the ECLIPSE II Project. L.V.D. was funded by the project PDCTE/CTA/44907/2002. We warmly thank Gloria Ciarapica and Leonsevero Passeri for their encouraging comments and suggestions. We also would like to thank Guillaume Suan for his help in laboratory work, Fabienne Giraud for constructive discussions, and Massimo Lorenzoni for his help in biological diversity analysis. The English of this manuscript was improved thanks to the careful revision by Jenny Brittain. We acknowledge the accurate reviews by Nicola Perilli and an anonymous reviewer. This work is dedicated to Serge Elmi for his precious help in ammonite stratigraphy and interpretations." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2010 Paleontology Paleontology WOS:000278627800001 Brazil; France; Italy; Portugal; Spain; UK Italy
330 "Biogeographic history of the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)" ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA English PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; NORTH-AMERICA; SEQUENCE DATA; EASTERN ASIA; DIVERSIFICATION; PATTERNS; EVOLUTION; DISPERSAL; LEVEL; ANDES "Amazon Conservation Asociation; IDEA WILD; Swedish Research Council; Academy of Finland [118369]; FAPESP [00/01484-1, 04/05269-9]; Brazilian CNPq [300282/2008-7]; National Science Foundation [0527441]" "This work has been supported in part by funding from Amazon Conservation Asociation and IDEA WILD to CP, from the Swedish Research Council to SN and NW, as well as from the Academy of Finland to NW (grant #118369). AVLF acknowledges FAPESP (grants #00/01484-1 and #04/05269-9), the Brazilian CNPq (fellowship #300282/2008-7) and the National Science Foundation (DEB grant #0527441). We are grateful to Alex Grkovich, Andrew Warren, Angelico Asenjo, Chris Muller, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Darrell Kemp, Dave A. Edge, Jose Bottger, Juan Grados, Keith R. Willmott, Mario Marin, Minna Miettinen, Nick Haddad, P.-O. Wickman, Roger Grund, Sandra Uribe and Torben B. Larsen for providing specimens used in this study. We acknowledge an anonymous referee for valuable comments on the manuscript." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Evolutionary Biology; Zoology Evolutionary Biology; Zoology WOS:000276661200003 Brazil; Finland; Sweden Peru
331 Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems CONSERVATION LETTERS English Biodiversity; climate change; deforestation; REDD; cobenefits; biological conservation; carbon stocks; UNFCCC; CBD; ecosystem services AMAZON RAIN-FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; TROPICAL FORESTS; DIVERSITY; LAND; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTIONS; EMISSIONS; STABILITY; THREAT CAPES/Brazilian Ministry of Education "We are grateful to the thousands of experts who contributed to the IUCN Global Mammal Assessment, to the IUCN Global Amphibian Assessment, and to the Red List assessment of bird species (coordinated by BirdLife International). We thank two anonymous referees for comments. B. S. thanks CAPES/Brazilian Ministry of Education for the financial support received." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000279224000005 Brazil; France; UK; USA Brazil
332 Extinction debt on oceanic islands ECOGRAPHY English INSECT EXTINCTIONS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; NATURAL FORESTS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY; AZORES; CONSERVATION; ARTHROPODS Marie Curie Intra-European [041095]; FCT [SFRH/BPD/44306/2008]; NERC Centre for Population Biology; DRCT [M2.1.2/I/017/2007]; EU "KAT, PAVB, RG and RJW designed the research, PAVB, CG, FD, LMAS, RG, AMCS, IRA, PC, SPR, J4, ARMS, JAQ gathered the data, KAT, PAVB, EM, RJW and PC analysed the date, KAT, RJL, JH, PC, PAVB and RJW wrote the paper. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript. We thank G. Mace, V. Brown, J. Sadler, S. Bhagwat, J. Lobo, A. Jimenez-Valverde, A. Parmakelis, S. Sfenthourakis, S. Meiri, attendees of the 2009 International Biogeography Society meeting in Merida, and especially Albert Phillimore and Andy Purvis for discussions and comments on previous drafts. We also thank Helmut Hillebrand, Robert Dunn and two anonymous referees for valuable comments on the manuscript. KAT was supported in this work by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Program (project ""SPAR"", 041095) held in the OUCE, by a FCT Fellowship (SFRH/BPD/44306/2008) and from the Academic Visitors Program of the NERC Centre for Population Biology. PAVB and RG worked on this project under the DRCT project M2.1.2/I/017/2007 and the EU projects INTERREGIII B ""ATLANTICO"" (2004-2006) and BIONATURA (2006-2008)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000279073000009 Brazil; Denmark; Portugal; UK UK
333 Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate ECOGRAPHY English SWISS ALPS; SPECIES RICHNESS; POSITIVE INTERACTIONS; PLANT INTERACTIONS; ALPINE VEGETATION; CHANGING CLIMATE; VASCULAR PLANTS; UPHILL SHIFTS; COMMUNITIES; COMPETITION National Inst. for Agricultural Research; EU [GOCE-CT-036866]; Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-07-0242] "We are thankful to the numerous people who collected data and to people who managed and provided the databases for use, particularly Ingrid Seynave and Patrice de Ruffray. We thank Romain Bertrand and Urs Treier for inspiring discussions. Three anonymous referees and Robert K. Colwell provided many helpful comments and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge grants from the National Inst. for Agricultural Research (to J. Lenoir), the FP6-ECOCHANGE project of the EU commission (grant GOCE-CT-036866 to S. Dullinger, A. Guisan and N. E. Zimmermann), and the Danish Natural Science Research Council (grant #272-07-0242 to J.-C. Svenning)." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000279073000010 Austria; Chile; Denmark; France; Switzerland Denmark
334 Evaluation of gamma diversity of reef corals (Scleractinia) in the Mexican Pacific REVISTA MEXICANA DE BIODIVERSIDAD Spanish biodiversity; non-parametric methods; maximum likelihood; bootstrap SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES; EASTERN PACIFIC; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; COMPLETENESS; PATTERNS; HOTSPOTS; HISTORY "INST BIOLOGIA, UNIV NACIONAL AUTONOMA MEXICO" 2010 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000276971000016 Mexico; UK Mexico
335 Ecophysiology of the invader Pennisetum setaceum and three native grasses in the Canary Islands ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English Leaf nitrogen; Phenotypic plasticity; Photosystem II; Photosynthetic pigments; Specific leaf area; Tenerife C-4 GRASSES; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; CONSTRUCTION COST; INVASIVE PLANTS; HAWAIIAN GRASS; WATER-STRESS; GROWTH; FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS Canarian Government [P12002/087]; FEDER This research was supported by Canarian Government Project P12002/087 and co-financed by FEDER. GAUTHIER-VILLARS/EDITIONS ELSEVIER 2010 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000276055000015 Spain; Venezuela Venezuela
336 Senda Darwin Biological Station: Long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL Spanish biodiversity; education; long-term socio-ecological research; private protected area; temperate rainforests TEMPERATE RAIN-FORESTS; MICROBIOTHERIID DROMICIOPS-GLIROIDES; TAILED RAYADITO FURNARIIDAE; NORTHERN CHILOE ISLAND; SOUTHERN CHILE; LIVING FOSSIL; PSEUDALOPEX-FULVIPES; SEMIARID CHILE; ENDEMIC BIRDS; CORRIDOR USE SOC BIOLGIA CHILE 2010 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000278692100007 Chile; Germany; New Zealand Chile
337 Freshwater fish's spatial patterns in isolated water springs in North-eastern Mexico REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL English endemic fishes; threatened fishes; Media Luna spring; spatial association; tourism impact AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HABITAT; CONSERVATION; POPULATIONS; COMPETITION; DIVERSITY; NICHE; ASSEMBLAGES; COEXISTENCE "AECID, Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo; Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo [A-1870/04, A-1870/05]; MAE-AECID [32342]; Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus San Luis Potosi" "We thank J. Jesus Enriquez who collaborated in field research. This study was partially supported by the AECID, Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (PCI projects A-1870/04, A-1870/05), a grant MAE-AECID to J. Palacio-Nialez (No. 32342) and also by institutional resources of Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus San Luis Potosi." REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL 2010 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000276859100030 Mexico; Spain Mexico
338 Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park PLOS ONE English FOREST BIRD COMMUNITY; VASCULAR PLANT DIVERSITY; NEOTROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; UPPER AMAZONIAN FORESTS; TREE ALPHA-DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM-DENDROBATIDIS; PRIMATE COMMUNITY "Blue Moon Fund; Conservation, Food & Health Foundation; Forrest and Frances Lattner Foundation; US National Science Foundation [DBI-0434875]; Texas State University-Department of Biology; TADPOLE; US National Science Foundation; L.S.B. Leakey Foundation; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Primate Conservation, Inc." "The Blue Moon Fund, the Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, and the Forrest and Frances Lattner Foundation funded MF. The US National Science Foundation (Graduate Research Fellowship Program), Texas State University-Department of Biology, and TADPOLE funded SM. The US National Science Foundation, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Primate Conservation, Inc. funded AD. Establishment of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station supported by the US National Science Foundation-DBI-0434875 (Thomas H. Kunz, PI, with Laura M. MacLatchy, Christopher J. Schneider, and C. Kelly Swing, Co-PIs). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript." PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2010 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000273778900011 Ecuador; Germany; UK; USA USA
339 "Ecosystem functioning of protected and altered Mediterranean environments: A remote sensing classification in Donana, Spain" REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT English Albedo; Donana; Ecological classification; Evapotranspiration; fPAR; Land use change; Landsat; NDVI; Primary production; Protected areas DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; US GREAT-PLAINS; LAND-USE CHANGE; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE ALBEDO; SOUTH-AMERICA; GLOBAL CHANGE; CLIMATE; BIODIVERSITY "Direccion General de Investigacion, Tecnologia y Empresa of junta de Andalucia [01288]; Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Junta de Andalucia" "Funding was provided by the Direccion General de Investigacion, Tecnologia y Empresa of junta de Andalucia (Proyecto de Excelencia #01288) and the Donana, 2005 Program (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Junta de Andalucia). Satellite images were provided by the LAST at the Donana Biological Station. We thank Mayra Milkovic, Mercedes Vasallo and Luciana Porfirio for helping with the data processing and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier manuscript." ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 2010 Environmental Sciences; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology WOS:000271688700016 Argentina; Spain Spain
340 The Wagner Parsimony using morphological characters: a new method for palaeosynecological studies ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE English Fossil record; Insecta; Odonatoptera; Thripida; cladistics; phylogeny PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; FRANCE ODONATOPTERA; DRAGONFLIES INSECTA; ARGENTINA INSECTA; ODONATA; FAMILY; ZYGOPTERA; DAMSELFLIES; BASIN; REVISION "National Museum of Natural History of Paris (MNHN) [PIP 6393, PIP 00377]; National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET); National Science Foundation of USA (NSF) [DEB-0345750, DEB-0919071]; Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [205/09/J019]; Ministry of Schools MSM [0021620828]" "We sincerely thank Dr Pierre Rasmont and Dr E.A. Jarzembowski for their useful comments on the first version of this paper. The third author (JFP) thanks for the invitation to the National Museum of Natural History of Paris (MNHN) and the funds provided for this research: grant PIP 6393, PIP 00377 and BEJI from the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET); grants DEB-0345750 and DEB-0919071 from the National Science Foundation of USA (NSF). The fifth author OP) acknowledges the research support from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (No. 205/09/J019) and Ministry of Schools MSM (0021620828)." SOC ENTOMOLOGIQUE FRANCE 2010 Entomology Entomology WOS:000279499500034 Argentina; Czech Republic; France; Lebanon France
341 Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS English Arctic-alpine ecosystems; boreal ecosystems; critical loads; diversity; ecoregions; mediterranean ecosystems; nitrogen deposition; species richness; temperature ecosystems; terrestrial ecosystems; tropical ecosystems SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; ARCTIC POLAR SEMIDESERT; WESTERN UNITED-STATES; LONG-TERM; N-DEPOSITION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; CRITICAL LOADS; RACOMITRIUM-LANUGINOSUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre "Partial support for the sessions at the Fourth International Nitrogen Conference (N2007) on the topics of nitrogen deposition, critical loads, and biodiversity was kindly provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2010 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000275358100004 Brazil; Germany; Italy; Netherlands; Sweden; UK; USA Netherlands
342 THE RUDDY-CAPPED NIGHTINGALE-THRUSH (CATHARUS FRANTZII) IN EL SALVADOR: NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF TWO ISOLATED POPULATIONS ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL English Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush; Catharus frantzii; apparent survival; breeding biology; capture probability; Central America; cloud forest; molt; population trend TROPICAL BIRDS; FOREST BIRD; ABUNDANCE; MEXICO; REPRODUCTION; DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; CHIAPAS; MOLT; FOOD United States Agency for International Development; Institute for Bird Populations; United States Fish & Wildlife Service; BirdLife International; government of the Netherlands "This research would not have been possible without the financial support to the SalvaNATURA bird monitoring program by the following organizations: United States Agency for International Development, through its Improved Management and Conservation of Critical Hydrographic Watersheds project, the Institute for Bird Populations (including funds from the United States Fish & Wildlife Service), BirdLife International, the government of the Netherlands, donors to the SalvaNATURA annual birdathon, and sponsois of the 2007 and 2008 bird calendars, including Banco Cuscatlan, Grupo Roble, Consejo Salvadoreno del Cafe, Dizucar, Humane Society International, Mapfre (La Centroamericana), Plan Trifinio, and Telecom." "NEOTROPICAL ORNITHOLOGICAL SOC, USGS PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CTR" 2010 Ornithology Zoology WOS:000280658200006 El Salvador UK
343 PALAEODIVERSITY OF CARIBBEAN ECHINOIDS INCLUDING NEW MATERIAL FROM THE VENEZUELAN NEOGENE PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA English Echinoidea; Neogene; palaeoecology; diversity; Venezuela; Caribbean COSTA-RICA; EXTINCTION; CLYPEASTEROIDA; ECOLOGY; FAUNA; SEA Palaontologisches Institut und Museum of Zurich University MRS-V and OA thank R. Sanchez (Urumaco) and A. Pulgar (Taima Taima) for permission to work in the field in Venezuela. We thank W. Etter (Naturhistorisches Museum Basel) for access to echinoid material and A. B. Smith (London) and R. Portell (Gainesville) for commenting on early versions of the manuscript and for the discussion of ideas and access to important literature. This work was financially supported by the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum of Zurich University. COQUINA PRESS 2010 Paleontology Paleontology WOS:000284649500006 Switzerland; Venezuela Switzerland
344 Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants YEAR IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English global change; phenotypic plasticity; natural selection; invasive plants; adaptive; constraints; novel environment CONVOLVULUS-ARVENSIS CONVOLVULACEAE; CONTRASTING ECOLOGICAL BREADTH; SHADE-AVOIDANCE RESPONSES; LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION; VINE IPOMOEA-PURPUREA; RECENT CLIMATE-CHANGE; REACTION NORMS; ELEVATED CO2; ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA; IMPATIENS-CAPENSIS WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010 Evolutionary Biology; Multidisciplinary Sciences Evolutionary Biology; Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000283626300003 Chile; Spain; USA USA
345 Major current and future gaps of Brazilian reserves to protect Neotropical savanna birds BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Cerrado; Climate change; Conservation planning; Representation; Species distribution models; Ensemble forecasting MODELING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; LAND-USE CHANGE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; EXTINCTION RISK; AREA NETWORK; SAMPLE-SIZE; CONSERVATION; CERRADO; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY CAPES; FAPEMIG "M.A.M. was supported by a Post-doctorate fellowship from CAPES, and L.E.L. by a doctorate fellowship from FAPEMIG. We thank W. Thuiller for providing the updated version of BIOMOD and ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservacao da Biodiversidade) and IBAMA/CSR (Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto) for the units of conservation shape." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000272100100027 Brazil; France Brazil
346 Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land-Use Change CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English extinction vulnerability; range shifts; species traits; tropical forest species RAIN-FOREST; AMAZONIAN FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; EXTINCTION PRONENESS; SECONDARY FORESTS; SEED DISPERSAL; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT WILEY-BLACKWELL 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000272163100016 Australia; Panama; UK; USA Australia
347 Predicted Climate-Driven Bird Distribution Changes and Forecasted Conservation Conflicts in a Neotropical Savanna CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English BIOMOD; Cerrado; climate change; conservation planning; ecological-niche modeling; ensemble forecasting; maximum entropy BIOCLIMATE ENVELOPE MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; CERRADO VEGETATION; BRAZILIAN CERRADO; RANGE; FOREST; SHIFTS; UNCERTAINTIES CAPES; FAPEMIG M.A.M. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from CAPES and L. E. L. by a doctoral fellowship from FAPEMIG. We thank W. Thuiller for providing the updated version of BIOMOD. "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000272163100029 Brazil; France Brazil
348 "Determinants of biodiversity in subtropical shallow lakes (Atlantic coast, Uruguay)" FRESHWATER BIOLOGY English fish; lake area; plankton; species richness; submerged macrophytes AQUATIC MACROPHYTE RICHNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NATURAL-WATERS; DANISH LAKES; TOP-DOWN; DIVERSITY; GRADIENT; ZOOPLANKTON; PHOSPHORUS CONICYT - Fondo Clemente Estable [7027]; WOTRO Netherland foundation; PEDECIBA; SNI (ANII) "The authors thank J.M., Clemente, L. Boccardi, A. Borthagaray, V. Hein, C. Clavijo, D. McKee, Aguas de la Costa S.A. personnel, H. Caimaris, R. Ballabio, G. Meerhoff, V. Hein, and Mr Caceres from Santa Teresa for their help during the sampling campaign, and to F. Teixeira de Mello also for helpful comments. The landowners and managers are acknowledged for their kind permission to enter the lakes (MGAP, OSE, Aguas de la Costa S.A., Cabana Tropicalia S.A., Rossi family). The authors also thankful to Editor A. Hildrew and two anonymous but perceptive reviewers whose comments helped us improve the original submission, and to S. Declerck for sharing data from temperate lakes. The authors are grateful to D. Antoniades for editorial suggestions. This project was funded by CONICYT - Fondo Clemente Estable 7027. CK was also funded by the WOTRO Netherland foundation for the advance of tropical research. NM and MM were supported by PEDECIBA. CK, NM, MM, LRG and GL were also supported by SNI (ANII)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000271710100014 Argentina; Denmark; Netherlands; Uruguay Uruguay
349 "Range-wide patterns of nuclear and chloroplast DNA diversity in Vriesea gigantea (Bromeliaceae), a neotropical forest species" HEREDITY English bromeliad; Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest; marginal populations; microsatellite; population genetics; biodiversity BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FOREST; ALCANTAREA-IMPERIALIS; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; GENETIC-STRUCTURE; SOUTH-AMERICA; F-STATISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION CNPq; CAPES; Andrew W Mellon Foundation; Weston Foundation "We thank Silvia Richter, Jamilla Sampaio, Jeffrey Joseph, Laura Kelly and Rhian Smith for their help in the laboratory, Simon Mayo and Jon Bridle for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper and IBAMA for processing of collection/export permits. We are grateful to all colleagues who helped us during the field work. This work was supported by CNPq, CAPES and by awards from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to CPS and GMP and by Weston Foundation to TB." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2009 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000271911800010 Brazil; Switzerland; UK Switzerland
350 "Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales" JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Anthropogenic effects; Bergmann's rule; body size; Carnivora; climate; Cope's rule; human footprint; phylogenetic effects; phylogenetic eigenvector regression BERGMANNS RULE; SPECIES RICHNESS; EXTINCTION RISK; NORTH-AMERICA; COPES RULE; GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL; SPATIAL VARIATION; PATTERNS; BIOGEOGRAPHY Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2006-03000/BOS]; FPU [AP2005-0636]; UK Natural Environment Research Council; CAPES "We thank Kate Jones, Shai Meiri, Gavin Thomas, Jordi Bascompte, Walter Jetz, Robert Freckleton, Thomas Lewinsohn, Rob Whittaker and two anonymous reviewers for discussions and suggestions that improved previous versions of the manuscript. We also thank the Paleoclimatic Modelling Intercomparison Project II (PMIIP) for allowing access to the ECHAM3 palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Work by J.A.F.D.-F. and L.M.B. has been continuously supported by many CNPq fellowships and grants, whereas work by M.A.R. and M.A.O.-T. was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant CGL2006-03000/BOS and FPU fellowship AP2005-0636, respectively). J.H. was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council. J.C.N. received a doctoral scholarship from CAPES." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2009 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000271902200001 Australia; Brazil; Spain; UK; USA Brazil
351 "Evidence of a genetic bottleneck in an El Nino affected population of South American fur seals, Arctocephalus australis" JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM English South American fur seal; Arctocephalus australis; bottleneck; microsatellite; El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ALLELE FREQUENCY DATA; MICROSATELLITE LOCI; PERU; CONSERVATION; DIFFERENTIATION; VITULINA; EVENTS Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2007/58728-9] "The authors would like to thank the Instituto del Mar de Peru (IMARPE), Proyecto Especial de Promocion del Aprovechamiento de Abonos Provenientes de Aves Marinas (PROABONOS) and Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales (INRENA) for the permission to conduct the study (022-2004 INRENA-IFFS-DCB). We are also grateful to: M. Borges-Martins, D. Danilewicz, M. Tavares, P.H. Ott, R. Machado, S.B. Nakashima and C.C. Trigo for collaborating in necropsies on the Brazilian coast; to the research team (1997 and 2003) of the Punta San Juan Project (Peru) N.A. Rueda, G. Battistini, R. Paredes, C. Zavalaga, A. Kurowia, M.A. Cardena, M. Roca, S.A. Cardenas, A. Valdes-Velasquez, H. Cabrera, M. Apaza and P. Llerena for collecting samples in Peru; to P. Johnson, R. Waldick and K. Acevedo-Whitehouse from the Molecular Ecology Laboratory (University of Cambridge, UK) for much laboratory advice; to I.B. Moreno, who kindly prepared Figure 1 and helped during field work in Brazil and to W. Amos (University of Cambridge, UK) for laboratory facilities. To the anonymous referees who provided valuable criticism to improve this article. To Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), which provided the postdoctoral fellowship to L.R.O. (FAPESP 2007/58728-9). This paper is GEMARS contribution No. 33." CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2009 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000273904100022 Brazil; Peru; UK Brazil
352 "Paleobiogeography, biostratigraphy and systematics of the Hoplophorini (Xenarthra, Glyptodontoidea, Hoplophorinae) from the Ensenadan Stage (early Pleistocene to early-middle Pleistocene)" QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL English PAMPEAN REGION ARGENTINA; SOUTH-AMERICA; BUENOS-AIRES; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES; PROVINCE ARGENTINA; CHACO PROVINCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMALIA; QUATERNARY; AREA "ANCyT [PICT R 074, ICTO-UNNE 00164]" "The authors wish to express their gratitude to Dr. E.P. Tonni and Dr. J. Rabassa for their thorough reviews and helpful suggestions. Finally, we also thank the curators of the different collections we have studied for granting access to the materials. This work was partially funded by grants PICT R 074 and PICTO-UNNE 00164 from ANCyT." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2009 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000272331700011 Argentina; Switzerland Argentina
353 The High-Lakes Project JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES English LIGHT DOSIMETER NETWORK; ULTRAVIOLET-RADIATION; MERIDIANI-PLANUM; UV-RADIATION; VERTICAL-DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN-HEMISPHERE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MARS; ZOOPLANKTON; ALTIPLANO SERNAP; Direction of Park Rangers of the Reserva Eduardo Avaroa in Bolivia; CONAF; Universidad Catolica del Norte in Antofagasta in Chile; NASA Ames Extreme Environment Research Review Board; NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)/SETI team [NNA04CC05A]; NASA Ames Directorate Discretionary Funds (DDF); Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP); Planetary Biology Program (PBP); Lewis and Clark Foundation; National Geographic Research Grant; Wings WorldQuest; AquaLung; Specialized; Eventscope; ARISE "The authors thank SERNAP and the Direction of Park Rangers of the Reserva Eduardo Avaroa in Bolivia, CONAF and the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Antofagasta in Chile, and NASA Ames Extreme Environment Research Review Board for their support to this project. The High-Lakes Project is funded through the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)/SETI team grant NNA04CC05A. Other financial support to the High Lakes Project has been provided over the years by the NASA Ames Directorate Discretionary Funds (DDF), Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP), Planetary Biology Program (PBP), the Lewis and Clark Foundation, the National Geographic Research Grant, Wings WorldQuest, AquaLung, Specialized, Eventscope (Carnegie Mellon University), and ARISE. Some of the data were collected using the GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) as part of the NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC). The High Lakes Project is also particularly grateful to the Biological Sciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge (UK) for allowing the use of their UV database for the Rother Research Station, Antarctica. Last but not least, the High Lakes Project team expresses its deepest gratitude to all those who made each of the high-altitude expeditions possible, including our guides, porters, the Laguna Blanca refuge personnel, and the logistical team in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, and La Paz, Bolivia." AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2009 "Environmental Sciences; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geology WOS:000271580900001 Australia; Chile; France; Germany; USA USA
354 Climate Signatures in the Morphological Differentiation of Worldwide Modern Human Populations ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English Fst; craniometrics; adaptation; population history; human variation; Neanderthals CRANIOMETRIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; NATURAL-SELECTION; GLOBAL PATTERNS; CRANIAL REGIONS; GENETIC DRIFT; NEANDERTHAL; DIVERSITY; FACE; APPORTIONMENT FONDECYT [11070091]; Marie Curie Research Training Network [MRTN-CT-019564]; Max Planck Gesellschaft "Grant sponsor: FONDECYT, Grant number: 11070091; Grant sponsor: Marie Curie Research Training Network; Grant number: MRTN-CT-019564; Grant sponsor: Max Planck Gesellschaft." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2009 Anatomy & Morphology Anatomy & Morphology WOS:000271589200005 Chile; Germany; Japan Germany
355 Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT English NONNATIVE TARAXACUM-OFFICINALE; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CENTRAL CHILE; ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; PROPAGULE PRESSURE; ALPINE VEGETATION; EXOTIC PLANTS; INDIAN-OCEAN; HIGH-ANDES "Swiss SNF-NCCR; ""Consejeria de Educacion, Cultura y Deportes, Gobiemo de Canarias"" [PI042004/096]; USDA CSREES [2006-35320-17360]; CCES [0-21214-07]; Universitat Bayern eV; Swiss Academy of Sciences; Ruebel Foundation" "AP and LAC were supported by ICM 05-002, Conicyt-Chile PFB-23, and Fondecyt 1070488. AG benefited from support provided by the Swiss SNF-NCCR ""Plant Survival"". JRA was funded by ""Consejeria de Educacion, Cultura y Deportes, Gobiemo de Canarias"" through the project PI042004/096. CK was funded by USDA CSREES grant # 2006-35320-17360 to CCD. JA was funded by CCES through the ""BioChange"" project (0-21214-07). SH was funded by a graduate scholarship from Universitat Bayern eV. The Mountain Invasion Research Network received funding from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Ruebel Foundation. Thanks to R Mack and P Bocaz for editing." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2009 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000271559000016 Australia; Chile; Germany; Spain; Switzerland; USA Chile
356 Entomology in Ecuador: Recent developments and future challenges ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE English Insect taxonomy; Ecology and evolution; Pests; Monitoring; Global changes MONTANE RAIN-FOREST; GEOMETRID MOTHS LEPIDOPTERA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANDES; PATTERNS; ECOLOGY; INSECTS SOC ENTOMOLOGIQUE FRANCE 2009 Entomology Entomology WOS:000276252800003 Ecuador; France Ecuador
357 Conservation of the Unique Neotropical Vascular Flora of the Guayana Highlands in the Face of Global Warming CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English RAPID CLIMATE-CHANGE; ASSISTED COLONIZATION; TROPICAL BIODIVERSITY; MIGRATION CAPACITY; ELEVATION; SCIENCE; DEBATE; RATES; RISK Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Banco de Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation [BIOCON 2004-90/05]; Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain [CGL2006-00974/BOS] This research has been supported by the Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Banco de Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation (project BIOCON 2004-90/05) and the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (project CGL2006-00974/BOS). We thank J.P. Rodriguez for fruitful discussions. WILEY-BLACKWELL 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000269802200036 Italy; Spain; Venezuela Spain
358 "Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services" CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY English EXTINCTION RISK; CHANGE IMPACTS; FOOD WEBS; PHENOLOGY; CONSERVATION; COMMUNITIES; ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; DYNAMICS; DECLINE ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282413600007 Australia; Brazil; France; Japan; South Africa; Sweden; UK; USA USA
359 Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY English SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL FORESTS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOOD PRODUCTION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PLANT TRAITS; RAIN-FOREST; DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; DECOMPOSITION FONCyT; CONICET; Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina); Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325] "This article is a contribution of Nucleo Diversus, endorsed by DIVERSITAS EcoSERVICES and the IGBP Global Land Project. SD was supported by FONCyT, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina), and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (CRN 2015 II, supported by the US National Science Foundation Grant GEO-0452325) while carrying out research leading to this article." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000282413600008 Argentina; Sweden; Switzerland Argentina
360 Selective logging and fire as drivers of alien grass invasion in a Bolivian tropical dry forest FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT English Chiquitania; Cynodon nlemfuensis; Disturbance; Invasive exotics; Megathyrsus maximus; Panicum maximum; Poaceae; Savanna; Sorghum halepense; Urochloa brizantha PRECAMBRIAN SHIELD REGION; EASTERN LOWLAND BOLIVIA; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EXOTIC GRASSES; RAIN-FORESTS; SANTA-CRUZ; AMAZON; GROWTH; BAMBOO National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant; Garden Club of America "We thank INPA Parket Ltd. for the use of their forest and for providing logistical support. Thanks to C. Pinto for planning and management of the controlled burn. J. Alvarez, J.C. Alvarez, M. Hoyle, and the late J. Pesoa assisted with field sampling. L. Poorter provided guidance on experimental design and analysis, and we received helpful suggestions from two anonymous reviewers. This work was funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a grant from the Garden Club of America." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2009 Forestry Forestry WOS:000270152300071 Bolivia; Netherlands; USA USA
361 Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology ECOLOGY LETTERS English Biogeography; geographical range; macroecology; mechanistic simulation modelling; mid-domain effect; species richness WATER-ENERGY DYNAMICS; LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; SPATIAL-PATTERNS; BIOLOGICAL RELATIVITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL; GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY "National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis; NSF [DEB-0553768, DEB-0541936, DEB-0072702]; University of California, Santa Barbara and the State of California; Australian Research Council Environmental Futures Network" "This study is a contribution of the Synthetic Macroecological Models of Species Diversity Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (Grant #DEB-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara and the State of California. Additional funding for group meetings was provided by the Australian Research Council Environmental Futures Network. Gotelli was supported by NSF DEB-0541936, and Colwell and Rangel were supported by NSF DEB-0072702. We thank D. Nogues-Bravo, W. Thuiller and two anonymous referees for comments that improved the manuscript." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000268969100002 Australia; Canada; Denmark; Mexico; New Zealand; Norway; Taiwan; UK; USA USA
362 Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative: Avoiding emissions by keeping petroleum underground ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT English Yasuni-ITT Initiative; Ecuador; Petroleum; Climate change; Biodiversity; Deforestation; Poverty; Kyoto Protocol; CDM; REDD; Environmental justice Elsevier Energy for Sustainable Development "We would like to thank Gautam S. Dutt, editor of Elsevier Energy for Sustainable Development, and anonymous reviewers of Elsevier for editing, commenting, reviewing and supporting this article." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2009 Energy & Fuels Energy & Fuels WOS:000208284800011 Ecuador Netherlands
363 Genetic diversity and phylogeographic analysis of Pinus leiophylla: a post-glacial range expansion JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Chloroplast microsatellites; expansion; Mexico; montane plants; phylogeography; Pinus leiophylla; Quaternary CHLOROPLAST MICROSATELLITE MARKERS; EASTERN NORTH-AMERICA; ALLELIC RICHNESS; CENTRAL MEXICO; PINASTER AIT.; QUATERNARY HISTORY; POPULATION-GROWTH; PLANT-POPULATIONS; COMPUTER-PROGRAM; LATE PLEISTOCENE Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [CONACYT 2002-C01-40221] "The authors thank Roberto Reyes Bonilla Beas and Jorge Perez de la Rosa, and co-workers in Laboratory of Variaicion y Evolucion-IPN for assistance in needle collection and Christopher Dick and Stephen Cavers for revising the manuscript. The final manuscript was significantly improved by the comments of two anonymous referees. The study was supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), project CONACYT 2002-C01-40221, and by a scholarship awarded to A.R.-B." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000269138000017 Italy; Mexico Mexico
364 "PEAT BOGS OF THE SERRA DO ESPINHACO MERIDIONAL - MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL. I - CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION" REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIA DO SOLO Portuguese Organosols; soil organic matter; von Post scale; heavy metals ATMOSPHERIC METAL-DEPOSITION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL; PB; CARBON; ZN; CD SOC BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIA DO SOLO 2009 Soil Science Agriculture WOS:000273582400030 Brazil; Spain Brazil
365 An evaluation of methods for modelling distribution of Patagonian insects REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL English Expert opinion; model evaluation; Patagonia; pseudo-absence data; species distribution modelling SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; GLOBAL LAND AREAS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HABITAT MODELS; SAMPLE-SIZE; PREDICTION; ACCURACY SOC BIOLGIA CHILE 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000271335500003 Argentina; Spain Spain
366 "The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources" JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY English Sahel; AMMA; Mali; Gourma; Vegetation; Rainfall WIND SCATTEROMETER DATA; DYNAMICS MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; WEST-AFRICA; NDVI DATA; SAHEL; DESERTIFICATION; SAHARA; REINTERPRETATION; PRODUCTS European Community's Sixth Framework Research Programme "This work was performed within the framework of the AMMA project. Based on a French initiative, AMMA has been constructed by an international group and is currently funded by large number of agencies, especially from France, the UK, the US and Africa. It has been the beneficiary of a major financial contribution from the European Community's Sixth Framework Research Programme. Detailed information on the scientific coordination and funding is available on the AMMA international web site (http://www.amma-eu.org/)." ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2009 "Engineering, Civil; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Water Resources" Engineering; Geology; Water Resources WOS:000270472000003 Chile; France; Mali; UK; USA France
367 "Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges" BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Freshwater crabs; IUCN Red List; Conservation assessment; Threatened species; Endangered species; Endemism; Potamoidea TROPICAL ASIAN RIVERS; POTAMONAUTES-PERLATUS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOUTH-AFRICA; SRI-LANKA; BRACHYURA; DECAPODA; EXTINCTIONS; STREAMS; PARAGONIMIASIS Esmee Fairbairn Foundation; European Union [EuropeAid/ENV/2004-81917] "We thank the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for their generous support of the IUCN Freshwater Crab Red List Assessment as part of the Sampled Red List Index, and the Zoological Society of London for coordinating this project. We also thank the following for help and support: K Smith, C. Hilton-Taylor, and C. Pollock. This document has been produced in part with the financial assistance of the European Union under Project EuropeAid/ENV/2004-81917. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000267409300013 Brazil; Colombia; Ghana; Mexico; Senegal; Singapore; South Africa; UK; USA USA
368 Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English Odonata; Global assessment; Conservation status; Biodiversity indicators; IUCN; Threatened species; Freshwater (health/environment) EXTINCTION RISK; DRAGONFLIES ODONATA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; FRESH-WATER; CONSERVATION; DIVERSITY; FUTURE "BMBF (German Ministry for Science and Education) [01LC0025, 01LC0404, 01LC0024]; DFG; SYNTHESIS; Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation; European Union [EuropeAid/ENV/2004-81917]" "We would like to thank the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for funding the sampled approach to the Red List Index. Parts of the study were funded by grants from the BMBF (German Ministry for Science and Education) BIOLOG programme (01LC0025, 01LC0404, V. Clausnitzer; 01LC0024, F. Suhling), the Aquashift core-programme of DFG (F. Suhling), SYNTHESIS (K.-D.B. Dijkstra, K. Schotte) and the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation (B. Collen). jean Legrand helped during collection work in MNHN (K. Schutte) and The National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden provided working facilities for K.-D.B. Dijkstra. This document has been produced in part with the financial assistance of the European Union under project EuropeAid/ENV/2004-81917." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000267409300034 Argentina; Australia; Germany; Japan; Netherlands; Philippines; Russia; UK; USA Germany
369 Remote sensing and the future of landscape ecology PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY English biodiversity conservation; ecosystem services; Landsat; spatial dynamics; theory TROPICAL MONTANE FORESTS; LASER-SCANNING DATA; HABITAT QUALITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; CANOPY STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN CHILE; TREE DIVERSITY; LAND-COVER; LIDAR DATA; FRAGMENTATION "European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6); ReForLan project [032132]; FONDECYT [1080408, 1085877]" "This paper was produced with financial support from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), ReForLan project, contract number 032132. The views presented do not necessarily represent the opinion of the European Community, and the Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. CE acknowledges the financial support of FONDECYT (projects no. 1080408 and 1085877)." SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2009 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000270545000006 Chile; Spain; UK UK
370 Phytogeography of the Pacific Coast of North America ANALES DEL JARDIN BOTANICO DE MADRID Spanish Biodiversity; Biogeography; floristic element; floristic provinces; Geoflora; Palaeobiogeography BAJA-CALIFORNIA; PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY; FLORISTIC DIVERSITY; PLANT GEOGRAPHY; SOUTH-AMERICA; PART I; VEGETATION; ASSOCIATIONS; TERTIARY; COMMUNITIES CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS 2009 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000272524600001 Mexico; Spain; USA Spain
371 Conservation of Vascular Epiphyte Diversity in Shade Cacao Plantations in the Choco Region of Ecuador BIOTROPICA English agroforests; biodiversity; cacao culture; epiphytic plants; Johansson zones; land uses; phorophyte; shade tree 2 CONTRASTING LANDSCAPES; RAIN-FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; COFFEE PLANTATIONS; ATLANTIC FOREST; SOUTHERN BAHIA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; COSTA-RICA; BIODIVERSITY "Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany" "We thank the landowners of Cabo San Francisco who allowed us to work on their lands. N. Castano and M. Arboleda assisted with fieldwork. J. Putz, T. Kromer, and S. R. Gradstein provided assistance and advice. Z. Pearson, M. Knowles, M. Lopez, M. J. Endara, E. Carrion, G. Haro, D. Alvarado, and B. Pico provided useful help. Species identifications were provided by T. B. Croat, R. Moran, J. M. Manzanares, N. Williams and his research group, and L. Jost. G. Onore provided field equipment. This project is part of the BioTEAM research program sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000267538200016 Ecuador; Germany USA
372 How did environmental disturbances affect carnivoran diversity? A case study of the Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of the North-Western Mediterranean EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY English Carnivora; Pliocene; Pleistocene; Diversity; North-Western Mediterranean LARGE-MAMMAL FAUNAS; OF-THE-ART; ITALIAN PENINSULA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; TURNOVER PATTERNS; EASTERN AFRICA; EVOLUTION; BIOCHRONOLOGY "CNR-CSIC [2005-2006 2004IT-0004, CGL2004-00400/BTE]" "The English version was revised by Stefan Gabriel. Work supported by CNR-CSIC agreement 2005-2006 2004IT-0004, and CGL2004-00400/BTE DGCYT Project ( Spain)." SPRINGER 2009 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000266910700007 Argentina; Italy; Spain Spain
373 How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production ANNALS OF BOTANY English Agricultural production; biotic pollination; crop diversity; cultivated area; developed world; developing world; FAO; randomization ECONOMIC VALUE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; UNITED-STATES; HONEY-BEES; CONSERVATION; DECLINE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; CRISIS; YIELD National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis; NSF [DEB-0072909]; Argentina National Council for Research [PIP 5066]; National University of Comahue [B126/04]; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation "We thank Natacha Chacoff, Lawrence Harder and three anonymous reviewers for useful comments and suggestions. This work was conducted partly within the framework provided by the Restoring Pollination Services Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a centre funded by NSF (grant no. DEB-0072909). Additional funding by the Argentina National Council for Research (PIP 5066) and the National University of Comahue (B126/04) is acknowledged. M. A. A. is a career researcher of the Argentina National Council for Research and L. A. G. holds a fellowship from the same agency. A. M. K. is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation." OXFORD UNIV PRESS 2009 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000266497800021 Argentina; Australia; Germany; USA Argentina
374 One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English biodiversity; conservation; horizon scanning; policy; priority setting; research agenda; research questions; agenda de investigacion; biodiversidad; conservacion; definicion de prioridades; escaneo del horizonte; politicas; preguntas de investigacion CLIMATE-CHANGE; IMPLEMENTATION; OPPORTUNITIES; BIODIVERSITY; FRAMEWORK; SCIENCE; TRENDS; UK Arcadia Fund "We are grateful to the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council and Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for funding this exercise. We thank the numerous individuals from a wide range of organizations who contributed questions. The on-line appendix attributes the questions to individuals and their organizations. S. Carrizo, I. Cooke, H. Eager, and R. Smith helped with the scientific coordination of the meeting. A. Maltby helped collate Institute of Zoology's questions. J. Robinson made useful comments and E. Main improved the manuscript. M. Spencer and G. Meffe made it possible for the paper to be published as an open-access article and so available to a wide community. W.J.S. is supported by the Arcadia Fund." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000266071200010 Australia; Canada; Indonesia; Kenya; Mexico; Netherlands; New Zealand; Singapore; South Africa; Switzerland; UK; USA; Venezuela UK
375 Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world ECOLOGY LETTERS English Agriculture; biodiversity; conservation; disturbance; forestry; landscapes; modified lands; species losses; species persistence; tropical forests RAIN-FOREST; LAND-USE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; COSTA-RICA; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; PLANTATION FORESTS; BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC FOREST; COUPLED HUMAN Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais; N.S.S. the Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellowship; U.S. National Science Foundation [DEB-0639393] "We thank Renata Pardini, Julio Louzada, Julieta Benitez-Malvido, Lian Pin Koh, Jason Tylianakis, Richard Bardgett, Ben Phalan and two anonymous referees for valuable comments that helped improve earlier versions of this manuscript. T.A.G. thanks Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais, N.S.S. the Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellowship, and R.L.C. the U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-0639393) for funding while writing this manuscript." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000266111200009 Brazil; Singapore; UK; USA UK
376 Substantial differences in littoral fish community structure and dynamics in subtropical and temperate shallow lakes FRESHWATER BIOLOGY English climate warming; free-floating plants; omnivorous fish; space for time substitution; submerged plants LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; PERCA-FLUVIATILIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; CHLOROPHYLL-A; FOOD WEBS; ZOOPLANKTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHOSPHORUS; PREDATION Research Council for Nature and Universe [272-08-0406] "We thank N. Mazzeo, J.M. Clemente, C. Iglesias, R. Ballabio, L. Boccardi, A. Borthagaray, C. Bruzzone, H. Caymaris, L. Cavada, C. Fosalba, G. Goyenola, W. Noordoven, T. Olivera and the personnel of Aguas de la Costa S.A. (Uruguay), and M. Bramm, T. Buchaca, L.S. Hansen, E. Jensen, K. Jensen, T.B. Kristensen, F. Landkildehus, T. Larsen, T.L. Lauridsen, K. Stefanidis, J. Stougaard-Pedersen, K. Thomsen and Y.S. Tunali (Denmark) for their help during the sampling campaigns. Thanks also to A.M. Poulsen and J. Jacobsen for editorial and graphical assistance, and to Romi L. Burks, Colin R. Townsend and two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions. The landowners and managers are acknowledged for their permission to enter the lakes (IMM, MGAP, OSE, Aguas de la Costa S.A., Cabana Tropicalia S.A. and Rossi family). This work was funded by the Danish Research Agency. EJ was supported by the projects 'Conwoy' (Danish Natural Science Research Council), 'Clear' (Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence Project), 'Eurolimpacs' and 'Wiser' (EU), and the Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000265934700005 Denmark; Finland; Uruguay Uruguay
377 "Reducing emissions from deforestation-The ""combined incentives"" mechanism and empirical simulations" GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS English Reducing emissions from deforestation; RED; REDD; Climate change; Deforestation; Incentive mechanism GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; SATELLITE-OBSERVATIONS; HUMAN APPROPRIATION; CARBON EMISSIONS; NATURAL-PRODUCTS; FOREST; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Leverhulme Trust; Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) "We thank Takuya Iwamura and Robin Naidoo for kindly sharing their data, Annabel Kelly for her help in plotting the graphs and Ralph Ashton, Andrew Balmford, Anna Creed, Rhys Green, Val Kapos, Thelma Krug, Lera Miles, Jim Penman, Jeff Price, Ana Rodrigues, Robert T. Watson and three anonymous reviewers for useful comments. We are also grateful to the Brazilian and British governments and the World Bank for financial support." ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2009 Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Geography Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geography WOS:000266539000014 Brazil; UK UK
378 Lifecycle assessment of fuel ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT English Acidification; Ecotoxicity; Fuel ethanol; Global warming; Human toxicity; Lifecycle assessment (LCA); Nutrient enrichment; Ozone formation; Renewable energy; EDIP; Environmental impacts; Brazil State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation; Institute Factory of Millennium The authors wish to thank State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation and Institute Factory of Millennium for inspiring and funding the research. SPRINGER HEIDELBERG 2009 "Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences" Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000266050200005 Brazil; Denmark Brazil
379 Baseline characterization of major Iberian vegetation types based on the NDVI dynamics PLANT ECOLOGY English AVHRR/NOAA; Ecosystem functioning; Iberian Peninsula; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Regional analysis; Remote sensing ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONAL TYPES; NORTH-AMERICAN SHRUBLANDS; SOUTH-AMERICA; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; UNITED-STATES; INDEX; PATTERNS; GRASSLANDS; IMAGES; CLASSIFICATION "Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia; FEDER; Junta de Andalucia [RNM1288, RNM1280]; Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales; Ecologia de Zonas Aridas Research Group; University of Almeria; Proyecto Estrategico of the University of Buenos Aires; CONICET; FONCYT" "The authors are grateful to the editor and two anonymous referees for their suggestions that improved the manuscript. P. Escribano, P. Durante, and M. Torres helped compositing the Spanish Forest Map. Financial support was given by Postdoctoral program of Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, FEDER funds, Junta de Andalucia (projects RNM1288 and RNM1280), Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales (project 066/2007), Ecologia de Zonas Aridas Research Group, University of Almeria, Proyecto Estrategico of the University of Buenos Aires, CONICET, and FONCYT. Satellite data were provided by the EOS-DAAC at Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-NOAA). CORINE land-cover database was provided by the EIONET-European Environmental Agency." SPRINGER 2009 Plant Sciences; Ecology; Forestry Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000264842200002 Argentina; Spain; USA USA
380 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE BUENOS AIRES PAMPA REGION DURING HISTORICAL TIMES BASED ON OSTRACODS: THE HYDROLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE LAGUNA CHASCOMUS AMEGHINIANA Spanish Chascomus; Paleohydrology; Ostracods; Historical records; Pampa RIVER DRAINAGE-BASIN; LOWER STREAM BED; POND ARGENTINA ASOCIACION PALEONTOLOGICA ARGENTINA 2009 Paleontology Paleontology WOS:000267996700007 Argentina; Spain Argentina
381 Dynamics of range margins for metapopulations under climate change PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English range limits; global warming; extinction risk; population dynamics; elevation; latitude MODELING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL CHANGE; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; POPULATION-SIZE; CHANGE IMPACTS; EXTINCTION; DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; BOUNDARIES UKPopNet [NERC R8-H12-01]; English Nature; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-01198-E]; EC FP6 MACIS [044399]; EcoChange(Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe [066866] "Thanks to David Roy (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology/Biological Records Centre) for help with the British distribution data regarding the European mountain hare and Yvonne Collingham (University of Durham) for help with the British climate data. We thank Andrew Smith for providing information on the volcano rabbit. Thanks to Ralf Ohlemuller, Aldina Franco, Chris Thomas, Georgina Mace, Steve Willis, Richard Pearson and Kevin Gaston for their useful discussion. B.J.A. was funded by UKPopNet (NERC R8-H12-01) and English Nature, and M. B. A. is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2008-01198-E). M.B.A. and W.T. also received support from the EC FP6 MACIS (Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on Biodiversity no. 044399) and EcoChange (Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe, no. 066866 GOCE) projects. This study is the result of two workshops on 'Modelling species extinctions risk under climate change' that took place at the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, London, and at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid ( the latter workshop was funded by the EC FP6 MACIS project). This work complies with UK law. B.J.A. obtained the L. timidus GB data and did the GIS, final figures, climate suitability modelling and lead writing. H.R.A., B.W.B. and D.A.F. did the RAMAS metapopulation modelling. B.W.B. conceived the manuscript. M.B.A. provided data on L. timidus. E.M.-M. provided data and information on R. diazi and generated the historic distribution model. W.T. provided the European climate data and assisted with the climate suitability modelling. All authors assisted with and commented on the manuscript." ROYAL SOC 2009 Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000264351900004 Australia; France; Mexico; Spain; UK; USA Australia
382 Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale NATURE English GRASS SUBFAMILY DANTHONIOIDEAE; GENUS OREOMYRRHIS APIACEAE; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; PLASTID DNA-SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; CHLOROPLAST DNA; NEW-ZEALAND; SCLERANTHUS CARYOPHYLLACEAE; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; STYPHELIEAE ERICACEAE Australian Research Council-New Zealand Research Network for Vegetation Function; US National Science Foundation We thank the Australian Research Council-New Zealand Research Network for Vegetation Function for facilitating this collaboration. Participation by M. A. G. and P. W. was supported in part by a grant from the US National Science Foundation. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2009 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000265193600039 Australia; Chile; New Zealand; Switzerland; USA Australia
383 Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness ECOLOGY LETTERS English Biodiversity; climate change; Eocene; Formicidae; latitudinal gradient LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT; EASTERN NORTH-AMERICA; METABOLIC THEORY; NEW-WORLD; BIODIVERSITY; ENERGY; SCALE; PRODUCTIVITY; EVOLUTION; DIVERSIFICATION DOE-NICCR; DOE-PER [DE-FG02-08ER64510]; National Science Foundation [DEB-0640015] "This work was supported by a DOE-NICCR grant to RR Dunn and NJ Sanders and, in addition, a DOE-PER grant DE-FG02-08ER64510 to RR Dunn, NJ Sanders, AE Ellison and NJ Gotelli. Original data collection at respective field sites was sponsored by diverse funding agencies from many different countries. JTL was supported by the National Science Foundation grant DEB-0640015 during the writing of this manuscript." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000264067600006 Australia; Brazil; Czech Republic; Germany; Spain; UK; USA USA
384 Ecophysiological differences of betaproteobacterial populations in two hydrochemically distinct compartments of a subtropical lagoon ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY English IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVING BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-MATTER; CATALYZED REPORTER DEPOSITION; ESTUARINE SALINITY GRADIENT; LEUCINE INCORPORATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; MARINE-BACTERIA; NATURAL-WATERS; SURFACE WATERS University of Zurich; Uruguayan government "We would like to thank Paola Gomez for helping during the sampling, Tito Olivera for providing the field work logistics, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments which substantially contributed to the improvement of an earlier version of this manuscript. This work was funded by the University of Zurich and the PDT program of the Uruguayan government." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Microbiology Microbiology WOS:000264881300013 Switzerland; Uruguay Switzerland
385 Co-declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade OIKOS English TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; AMAZONIAN FORESTS; LOS-TUXTLAS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ALOUATTA-PALLIATA; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPECIES LOSS; COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE; FRAGMENTATION National Science Foundation [DEB-0043443] "This review was fostered by the Scarabaeinae Research Network (ScarabNet), of which the authors are members. ScarabNet is a collaborative group of dung beetle taxonomists, biogeographers, ecologists and conservation biologists dedicated to developing the use of the Scarabaeinae as an invertebrate biodiversity focal taxon. The following additional ScarabNet members contributed to this effort: Keith Philips, Karen Bell. ScarabNet is supported by the National Science Foundation's Research Coordination Network program under Grant DEB-0043443 to S. Spector (P.I.)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000264785400001 Brazil; UK; USA USA
386 Climate change impact predictions on Pinus patula and Pinus tecunumanii populations in Mexico and Central America FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT English Adaptive ability; Climate change; Climate envelope models; Model validation; Provenance trials; Species distribution ranges GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; TREE; RESPONSES; MODELS; BIODIVERSITY; MIGRATION; CONSERVATION; SCENARIOS; HABITAT ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2009 Forestry Forestry WOS:000264921000003 Colombia; Germany; USA Colombia
387 Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English Bolivia; biomass allocation; drought-tolerance; root morphology; shade-tolerance; seedlings; trade-offs; tropical dry and moist forest DRY FOREST; RAIN-FOREST; WOOD DENSITY; MOIST FOREST; GROWTH-RATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION; PLANT-COMMUNITIES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; WATER-STRESS Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal (IBIF); Wageningen graduate school; Production Ecology and Resource Conservation (PERC); LP "Authors express their gratitude to the Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal (IBIF) for their support for this study. Authors further thank Jose Iraipi, Angel Mendez, Juan Carlos Alvarez and Turian Palacios for their assistance in harvesting the seedlings in the field and their help in measuring seedling traits; authors are grateful that INPA Parket Ltda. and La Chonta allowed to conduct study in their forest sites. Comments of Rien Aerts, Frans Bongers, Horacio Paz, and two anonymous referees improved the manuscript significantly. Authors finally thank Joseph Veldman for proofreading the final version of the article. This study was supported by fellowships from the Wageningen graduate school, Production Ecology and Resource Conservation (PE&RC) to LM and LP." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000263302000012 Bolivia; Netherlands Netherlands
388 MULTIVARIATE DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN TWO CRYPTIC HAEMAGOGUS SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION OF YELLOW FEVER VIRUS IN THE AMERICAS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION English Haemagogus; morphometry; Culicidae; vectors MORPHOMETRIC DISCRIMINATION; LEUCOCELAENUS DIPTERA; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; JANTHINOMYS DIPTERA; DIFFERENT REGIONS; FEEDING PATTERNS; NORTH-AMERICA; WING SHAPE; CULICIDAE; CAPRICORNII AMER MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOC 2009 Entomology Entomology WOS:000264664300003 Brazil; France Brazil
389 Individualistic vs community modelling of species distributions under climate change ECOGRAPHY English ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; ET-AL. 2007; BETA-DIVERSITY; RANGE SHIFTS; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; IMPROVE PREDICTION; HABITAT MODELS; BIODIVERSITY; VEGETATION; TRANSFERABILITY Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change: Impacts on Biodiversity [044399]; Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe [036866-GOCE]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-01198-E/BOS] "Species distributions data was kindly supplied by Raino Lampinen. We also thank Thomas Yee for support on the use of the VGAM package, Jeremy Kerr and three anonymous referees for their comments. Research is funded by the EC FP6 MACIS (Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change: Impacts on Biodiversity, contract number 044399) project. MBA was also funded by EC FP6 ECOCHANGE project (Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe, Contract No 036866-GOCE) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Complementary Action No CGL2008-01198-E/BOS)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000264880300007 Chile; Portugal; Spain Spain
390 "Home Gardens Sustain Crop Diversity and Improve Farm Resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico" HUMAN ECOLOGY English Home gardens; Socioecological systems; Farmers' experimentation; Farmers' knowledge; Agrobiodiversity LAND-USE; HOMEGARDENS; SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE; VULNERABILITY; CONSERVATION; HOUSEHOLDS; GUATEMALA; VILLAGE; YUCATAN SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS 2009 Anthropology; Environmental Studies; Sociology Anthropology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Sociology WOS:000265441000005 Mexico; Norway Norway
391 Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales BIOGEOSCIENCES English NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; WATER-VAPOR EXCHANGE; SOIL RESPIRATION; CARBON-DIOXIDE; EUROPEAN FORESTS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; PINE FOREST; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; MODEL INTERCOMPARISONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY "CarboEuropeIP; FAOGTOSTCO; iLEAPS; Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; National Science Foundation; University of Tuscia; U.S. Department of Energy; National Environmental Research Council (UK); Marie Curie European Incoming International Fellowship [237348, TSURF]; U.S. National Science Foundation RCN FLUXNET; Department of Energy Terrestrial Carbon Program (DOE/ TCP) [DE-FG02-04ER63911]; EU-FP6" "We would first and foremost like to acknowledge the FLUXNET data providers, and the organizers of the FLUXNET database. This work is an outcome of the La Thuile FLUXNET workshop 2007, which would not have been possible without the financial support provided by CarboEuropeIP, FAOGTOSTCO, iLEAPS, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, National Science Foundation, University of Tuscia, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The Berkeley Water Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Microsoft Research eScience, Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided databasing and technical support. The AmeriFlux, AfriFlux, AsiaFlux, CarboAfrica, CarboEuropeIP, ChinaFlux, Fluxnet-Canada, KoFlux, LBA, NECC, OzFlux, TCOS-Siberia, and USCCC networks provided data. PCS and ADR conceived of the study and wrote the manuscript with DDB, GGK, MDM, MR and coauthors. JS assisted with the statistical analyses. PCS acknowledges funding from the National Environmental Research Council (UK) and the Marie Curie European Incoming International Fellowship (project number 237348, TSURF). DDB is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation RCN FLUXNET project and by the Department of Energy Terrestrial Carbon Program (DOE/ TCP). MR acknowledges support from the EU-FP6 project CIRCE. BEL is supported by the AmeriFlux Research grant supported by DOE/ TCP (DE-FG02-04ER63911)." COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2009 "Ecology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geology WOS:000271354900023 Austria; Brazil; Canada; Finland; Germany; Italy; Switzerland; UK; USA UK
392 Use of Descriptors of Ecosystem Functioning for Monitoring a National Park Network: A Remote Sensing Approach ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT English Global changes; Land-surface phenology; Iberian Peninsula; Monitoring; National parks management; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Reference conditions; Seasonality; Spain CLIMATE-CHANGE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; VEGETATION INDEX; TIME-SERIES; NOAA-AVHRR; NE SPAIN; NDVI; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY "Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain, University of Almeria (Becas Puente); Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales [066/2007]; Junta de Andalucia [RNM1288, RNM1280]; Ecologia de Zonas Aridas Research Group; University of Buenos Aires; CONICET; FONCYT" "Financial support was provided by the postdoctoral program of Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain, University of Almeria (Becas Puente), Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales (project 066/2007), Junta de Andalucia (projects RNM1288 and RNM1280), Ecologia de Zonas Aridas Research Group, University of Buenos Aires, CONICET, and FONCYT. The source for the satellite data was the Global Land Cover Facility. CORINE land-cover-1990 database was supplied by the EIONET European Environmental Agency. We thank C. S. Grubbs and L. Paruelo for their revisions of the English grammar and to E. Liras for her useful comments on the manuscript." SPRINGER 2009 Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000261762900004 Argentina; Spain; USA USA
393 Threats to sandy beach ecosystems: A review ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE English sandy shores; threats; climate change; human impacts; global change OFF-ROAD VEHICLES; CLAM MESODESMA-MACTROIDES; PLOVER CHARADRIUS-MELODUS; ALGA CAULERPA-TAXIFOLIA; COPPER MINE TAILINGS; SOUTH-CENTRAL CHILE; EXXON-VALDEZ OIL; HUMAN DISTURBANCE; COASTAL EROSION; NEW-ZEALAND ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2009 Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000262565600002 Australia; Italy; Oman; South Africa; Spain; Uruguay; USA Uruguay
394 Ecological networks - beyond food webs JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY English mutualistic networks; host-parasitoid interactions; metabolic theory of ecology; ecological stoichiometry; foraging theory ANIMAL MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS; PLANT-POLLINATOR NETWORK; BODY-SIZE; INTERACTION STRENGTH; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; RAIN-FOREST; COEVOLUTIONARY NETWORKS; APPARENT COMPETITION; PARASITOID COMMUNITY "NERC [NE/D012813/1, NE/D013305/1, NE/C002105/1]" "We would like to thank The British Ecological Society for supporting the Thematic Topic on ecological networks at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Glasgow. We would also like to thank Dave Raffaelli, Christian Mulder, and Andrew Beckerman, whose insightful comments on an earlier version of the MS helped us to improve it considerably, and the NERC for financial support for TI (NE/D012813/1), GW (NE/D013305/1) and JM (NE/C002105/1)." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 Ecology; Zoology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Zoology WOS:000261620800029 Chile; Denmark; Germany; Spain; UK UK
395 Comparative phylogeography of pitvipers suggests a consensus of ancient Middle American highland biogeography JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Atropoides; Bothriechis; Cerrophidion; Mexico; Miocene; montane forests; Neotropics; Pleistocene; speciation; Viperidae PHYLOGENETIC TREE SELECTION; MEXICAN TRANSITION ZONE; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE TIMES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARIBBEAN REGION; ABSOLUTE RATES; SPECIES STATUS; SEQUENCE DATA "University of Oklahoma, obtained through NSF [DEB-9200779, DEB-9505518]; UCF; Bioclon; NSF Collaborative Research [DEB-0613802, DEB-9705277]; NIH [LM009451]; LOEWE programme of the state government of Hessen" "We thank the many people who over the years have contributed insight and suggestions that have added to this study, including: B. Crother, T. Doan, J. Meik, B. Noonan, J. Reece, W. Schargel and C. Spencer. Andrew Crawford is also thanked for constructive advice and conversation, including discussion of his unpublished work. Manuel Iturralde-Vinent provided critical literature and insights regarding Caribbean palaeogeography. Several researchers provided tissues under their care and obtained during sponsored research, including Laurie Vitt (University of Oklahoma, obtained through NSF grants DEB-9200779 and DEB-9505518), Cesar Jaramillo (Circulo Herpetologico de Panama), William Duellman, Linda Trueb and Eli Greenbaum (University of Kansas), Robert Murphy (Royal Ontario Museum), Marcio Martins (Universidad de Sao Paulo) and Gunther Kohler (Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg). This research was supported by a UCF startup package to C.L.P., a grant from Bioclon to E.N.S., an NSF Collaborative Research grant to C.L.P., E.N.S. and J.A.C. (DEB-0416000, 0416160), as well as NSF grants DEB-0613802 and DEB-9705277 to J.A.C. T.A.C. was also supported by an NIH training grant (LM009451) while finalizing this project, and U.K. by the LOEWE programme of the state government of Hessen." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2009 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000261620400010 Costa Rica; Germany; USA USA
396 "Related changes in biodiversity, insolation and climate in the Atlantic rainforest since the last interglacial" PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English Atlantic rainforest; Precession; Glacial; Interglacial; Biodiversity; Tropics ICE CORE RECORDS; SOUTH-AMERICA; CENTRAL BRAZIL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL; BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO; DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION; VEGETATION; GREENLAND ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2009 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000262801000013 Brazil; Ecuador; France Ecuador
397 "Species distribution modeling in the tropics: problems, potentialities, and the role of biological data for effective species conservation" TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE English Collecting effort; Biodiversity conservation; Data shortage; Geographical bias; Niche-based models; Statistical modeling "Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) [E/555050]; European project REFORLAN [INCO-CT-2006-032132]; Andalusian Regional Government [P06-RNM-1890]; CONABIO; Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality [BO-10-003-01]" "We are indebted to Bradford A. Hawkins, Joaquin Hortal, Jorge M. Lobo and three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on the manuscript. This study was financed by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) in the context of the Biodiversity International project (E/555050). LC was supported by the European project REFORLAN (INCO-CT-2006-032132) and the Andalusian Regional Government project GESBOME (P06-RNM-1890). MK was supported by CONABIO. EJMMA was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Project BO-10-003-01). This research was initiated in a working group at Managua, Nicaragua." TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE 2009 Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation WOS:000208241700005 Mexico; Netherlands; Nicaragua; Spain; UK Spain
398 "Predicting the potential distributions of two alien invasive Housegeckos (Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus frenatus, Hemidactylus mabouia)" NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY English Bioclim; Climate Envelope Modelling; Climate change; Exotic species; Maxent HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; GECKOS HEMIDACTYLUS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; DISPLACEMENT; PERFORMANCE; MECHANISMS; DIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; PACIFIC Graduiertenforderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen "The work of DR was funded by the ""Graduiertenforderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen""." UNIV ORADEA PUBL HOUSE 2008 Zoology Zoology WOS:000262207500004 Brazil; Germany Germany
399 WHAT GROUNDS SOME BIRDS FOR LIFE? MOVEMENT AND DIVING IN THE SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC GALAPAGOS CORMORANT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS English diving; Galapagos; Galapagos Cormorant; Phalacrocorax harrisi; sexual differences; thermal constraints PHALACROCORAX-CARBO-SINENSIS; EL-NINO; FLIGHTLESS CORMORANT; NANNOPTERUM-HARRISI; BODY-SIZE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GREAT CORMORANTS; MARINE PREDATOR; ENERGETIC COSTS; EUROPEAN SHAGS Darwin Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Swarovski and Co.; SeaWorld; Rufford Ph. D. Grant; Galapagos Conservation Trust "We are grateful to Susana Cardenas for assistance in deployment of devices and to Carlos Vinueza, Juan Carlos Valarezo, Carolina Larrea, Agustin Masaquiza, Andy Torrez, Marlon San Miguel for field assistance. Carlos Fonseca and Washington Llerena assisted in managing the GIS database, Akiko Kato and Ken Yoda helped with statistics, and Carlos Valle gave valuable general advice relating to the peculiarities of the Galapagos Cormorant. This study was financed by the Darwin Initiative for the Conservation of Biodiversity and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Complementary funding was provided by Swarovski and Co., SeaWorld, the Rufford Ph. D. Grant, the Galapagos Conservation Trust (thanks to Leonor Stjepic), and the Friends of Galapagos Switzerland (thanks to Henrick Hoeck). Finally, we are grateful to Bryan Wilson for checking that we have done no injustice to Archimedes, Boyle, or Newton." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2008 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000260310400008 Ecuador; France; Germany; UK UK
400 Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English climate decomposition index; decomposition; litter; mesofauna; soil biodiversity; soil carbon; soil fauna LITTER DECOMPOSITION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; BIODIVERSITY; QUALITY; DIVERSITY; FOREST; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS; SYSTEMS "DIVERSITAS International Biodiversity Observation Year; Winslow Foundation; National Science Foundation [DEB 980637, 0344834]; Soil Science Society of America Outreach Program; DOE [4000060456]" "We thank H. A. Mooney, D. A. Wardle, and R. D. Bardgett, and the following for their assistance and advice throughout the project: G. Adams, B. J. Adams, A. I. Breymeyer, E. J. Broos, V. K. Brown, M. Chauvat, D. C. Coleman, R. K. Colwell, N. M. DeCrappeo, A. N. Gillison, J. R. Gosz, J. Green, D. Gustine, M. E. Harmon, S. W. James, M. Lane, A. N. Parsons, K. L. Prior, S. D. Salvo, P. Smilauer, G. W. Yeates, X. Yang, and A. S. Zaitsev. GLIDE research was a project of the DIVERSITAS International Biodiversity Observation Year and supported by funding to D. H. W. from the Winslow Foundation, the National Science Foundation DEB 980637 and 0344834, and the Soil Science Society of America Outreach Program. Funding to W. J. P. from DOE 4000060456 contributed to publication cost." WILEY-BLACKWELL 2008 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000260307100016 Australia; Brazil; Burkina Faso; Canada; Colombia; Czech Republic; France; Germany; Kenya; Malaysia; Namibia; New Zealand; Peoples R China; Russia; Taiwan; UK; USA USA
401 Temperature as a key driver of ecological sorting among invasive pest species in the tropical Andes ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS English agricultural landscapes; cohort dynamic model; Ecuador; elevational distribution limits; Gelechiidae; Phthorimaea operculella; population dynamics; potato tuber moth; Symmetrischema tangolias; Tecia solanivora; temperature OPERCULELLA ZELLER LEPIDOPTERA; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; PHTHORIMAEA-OPERCULELLA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; POTATO TUBERWORM; NEW-ZEALAND; DYNAMICS; NICHE; INSECTS McKnight Foundation [C14-026] "The authors are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their stimulating comments on a prior version of the manuscript. This work was part of the research conducted within the project ""Biopesticide development and diffusion for the control of potato moths'' (C14-026) funded by the McKnight Foundation. We thank Claire Nicklin from the McKnight Foundation for the linguistic revision of the manuscript and P.-F. Duyck for stimulating discussions. Authors are grateful to all Ecuadorian farmers who kindly collaborated on the pheromone-trapping monitoring. They thank Belen Liger, Silvia Fusaro, and Jeaneth Padilla from the PUCE; Fausto Yumisaca from the INIAP-Chimborazo; and Mercy Villares from the INIAP-Bolivar for their technical assistance during the study." ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2008 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000259555900019 Ecuador; France Ecuador
402 Zooplankton research off Peru: A review PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY English Zooplankton; Review; ENSO; Time series; Humboldt Current; Peru HUMBOLDT CURRENT ECOSYSTEM; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; COASTAL UPWELLING SYSTEM; SARDINE SARDINOPS-SAGAX; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; EL-NINO; NORTH PACIFIC; OXYGEN-MINIMUM; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ENGRAULIS-RINGENS EU [511071] "We would like to thank the Area de Evaluacion Produccion Secundaria team at IMARPE for their invaluable cooperation in building up the necessary references for this work. Thanks to Mark Taylor, Francisco Chavez, David Mackas, and two anonymous reviewers for improving the original text with important comments and suggestions. This work is a contribution of the Zooplankton Study Group at IMARPE, and was conducted in the frame of the EU-project CENSOR (Climate variability and El Nino Southern Oscillation: impact for natural resources and management, contract 511071). It is CENSOR publication no. 87. This paper forms part of the Ph.D. Thesis of the second author at Bremen University." PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2008 Oceanography Oceanography WOS:000262124400013 Brazil; Germany; Peru Peru
403 Flowering patterns in a seasonal tropical lowland forest in western Amazonia BIOTROPICA English flowering frequency; phenology; photoperiod; plant habits; proximate factors; Tinigua National Park; tropical seasonal forest TINIGUA NATIONAL-PARK; RAIN-FOREST; REPRODUCTIVE PHENOLOGY; FRUITING PHENOLOGY; LIFE-FORMS; BREEDING SYSTEM; SEED PRODUCTION; WOOLLY MONKEYS; TREE PHENOLOGY; CLIMATE-CHANGE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2008 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000258581100005 Colombia; Spain; USA Colombia
404 "Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change" TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION English LONG-TERM CHANGE; OCEAN PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NORTHEAST PACIFIC-OCEAN; DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; BODY-SIZE; EPIBENTHIC MEGAFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar); A.P. Sloan Foundation; CAPES/Fullbright; CAPES/PDEE; CNPq; Hawaii Sea Grant Program "This synthesis was supported by the Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar) and the A.P. Sloan Foundation. We thank Philip Boyd for comments on the iron fertilization box. F.C.D.L. and A.F.B. were supported in part by Brazilian scholarships from CAPES/Fullbright (F.C.D.L.), CAPES/PDEE and CNPq (A.F.B.), and A.K.S. by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hawaii Sea Grant Program. This is contribution 7477 from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa." ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON 2008 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000259283600011 Brazil; Germany; Norway; USA USA
405 Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests: A review AQUATIC BOTANY English simulation model; tree growth; regeneration; mortality; hurricane; sea-level rise; FORMAN; KIWI; MANGRO BELOW-GROUND PROCESSES; NEIGHBORHOOD COMPETITION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; AVICENNIA-MARINA; TERMINOS LAGOON; TREE MORTALITY; FRENCH-GUIANA; RIVER ESTUARY ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2008 Plant Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology Plant Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000257964200014 Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Germany; Netherlands; USA Germany
406 Asymmetrical local adaptation of maize landraces along an altitudinal gradient EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS English agriculture; Chiapas; climate change; crops; elevation; G x E; landraces; Mexico; traditional varieties IN-SITU CONSERVATION; LOWLAND TROPICAL MAIZE; DIVERSE CULTIVARS; CENTRAL MEXICO; GENE FLOW; SELECTION; RACES; TEMPERATURE; HIGHLAND; CHIAPAS "Ecosur, CONACYT [0538/ A-1]; Fulbright-Garcia Robles" "We would like to thank Ecosur, CONACYT grant 0538/ A-1 to HRP, and Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship for KLM for funding this research. We appreciate fieldwork assistance from Fernando Perez Perez and Gaspar Santiz Lopez, as well as statistical assistance from Chris Holloman." "WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC" 2008 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Biology WOS:000262783600006 Italy; Mexico; USA USA
407 Climate change and animal diseases in South America REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE-OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DES EPIZOOTIES English animal health; biodiversity; climate change; conservation medicine; ecosystem; emerging disease; forecasting; risk; South America; vector-borne disease WEST-NILE-VIRUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS; INFECTIOUS-DISEASES; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; WILDLIFE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EMERGENCE; VECTORS; IMPACT OFFICE INT EPIZOOTIES 2008 Veterinary Sciences Veterinary Sciences WOS:000259353700024 Chile; Italy; Peru Italy
408 Hopping hotspots: Global shifts in marine Biodiversity SCIENCE English INDO-PACIFIC; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; CORAL-REEFS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIVERSITY; DIVERSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PATTERNS; ORIGINS; ECOSYSTEMS AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2008 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000258077700033 Australia; Malaysia; Netherlands; Panama; Spain; UK; USA Netherlands
409 Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English carbon sequestration; climate change; reducing emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation (REDD); marginal cost; tropical forest TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION; CLIMATE; PAYMENTS; LEAKAGE; AMAZON NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2008 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000258211600008 Austria; Brazil; USA USA
410 Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English PHYLOGENETIC TREE SELECTION; DNA-SEQUENCES; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; ANCIENT DNA; URSUS-ARCTOS; MULTIPLEX AMPLIFICATION; SUBSTITUTION RATES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MIXED MODELS; BROWN BEARS Max Planck Society; AMNH Conservation Genetics Research Fellowship; NIH [R01-GM40282] "SB and AC were supported by the ARC, and gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Canadian Museum of Nature, and D. Harington for the sample of the Arctodus specimen. We thank S. Giesser for help with the species distribution map design. JK, TU, AN, MS, AWB, SP and MH thank the Max Planck Society for financial support. SOK was supported by an AMNH Conservation Genetics Research Fellowship. ASM and MSlatkin were supported by NIH grant R01-GM40282." BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2008 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000259096500001 Argentina; Australia; Austria; Germany; UK; USA Germany
411 Grassland species composition and morpho-functional traits along an altitudinal gradient in a Mediterranean environment: Relationship with soil water availability and evaporative dynamic ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English climate change; geomorphology; plant functional traits; plant community distribution; temperature; water stress CLIMATE-CHANGE; PLANT TRAITS; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; ARIDITY GRADIENT; ORGANIC-MATTER; RAINFALL; CARBON; COMMUNITIES; DIVERSITY; PATTERNS GAUTHIER-VILLARS/EDITIONS ELSEVIER 2008 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000259001700005 Chile; Spain Spain
412 4200 years of pine-dominated upland forest dynamics in west-central Mexico: Human or natural legacy? ECOLOGY English drought cycles; fire; forest management; human disturbance; long-term climate trends; paleoecology; pine dynamics; Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve; solar forcing; upland forest; west-central Mexico HOLOCENE CLIMATIC-CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; TREE DIVERSITY; LAKE PATZCUARO; BASIN; LOWLANDS; FIRE; CONSERVATION; MESOAMERICA ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2008 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000258007500012 Mexico; Norway; UK Mexico
413 Positioning fisheries in a changing world MARINE POLICY English governance; public and private benefits SUSTAINABILITY; FUTURE ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2008 Environmental Studies; International Relations Environmental Sciences & Ecology; International Relations WOS:000256611000010 Argentina; Australia; Canada; Chile; France; Iceland; Italy; Japan; Peoples R China; Switzerland; USA Australia
414 Diversification in the northern neotropics: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogeography of the iguana Ctenosaura pectinata and related species MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English coalescent; demography; hybridization; Mexico; population structure; speciation MEXICAN TRANSITION ZONE; CLADISTIC-ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC ASSOCIATIONS; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; GEOGRAPHICAL-DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; INFERRING PHYLOGENIES; POPULATION HISTORY; STATISTICAL-METHOD WILEY-BLACKWELL 2008 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000257706500005 Mexico; UK UK
415 The effect of climate change on crop wild relatives AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English crop wild relatives; climate change; conservation; cowpea; distribution model; peanut; potato INDUCED RANGE SHIFTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTINCTION RISK; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; RESISTANCE; MODELS; UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIONS; PROJECTIONS ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2008 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000255694700003 Colombia; Italy; Philippines Colombia
416 Grafting the molecular phylogenetic tree with morphological branches to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the genus Zaprionus (Diptera : Drosophilidae) MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Africa paleobiogeography; Amyrel; CO-II; drosophilidae; morphological grafting; supermatrix; supertree; Zaprionus SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; SPECIES DIPTERA; MELANOGASTER; SUBGENUS; REVISION; REGION; CLASSIFICATION; POPULATIONS; MADAGASCAR ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2008 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000257128900003 Brazil; France France
417 The changing Amazon forest PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English ecological change; growth; mortality; biomass; carbon sink LONG-TERM PLOTS; TROPICAL FORESTS; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; CARBON-DIOXIDE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FORESTS; LARGE LIANAS; TREE; DYNAMICS; GROWTH ROYAL SOC 2008 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000254577500014 Brazil; UK UK
418 "Evolutionary history of the endangered fish Zoogoneticus quitzeoensis (Bean, 1898) (Cyprinodontiformes : Goodeidae) using a sequential approach to phylogeography based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data" BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English FRESH-WATER FISHES; MEXICAN TRANSITION ZONE; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; MOLECULAR VARIANCE; STATISTICAL TESTS; COMPUTER-PROGRAM; WESTERN MEXICO; NORTH-AMERICA; NESTED CLADE BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2008 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000257462200001 Mexico; Spain Mexico
419 Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English community dynamics; diversity; ecosystem responses; effect and response framework; functional traits; global change; leaf-level scaling; physiology LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGIES; TREE SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; ELEVATED CO2; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; EXTINCTION RISK; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2008 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000255463600015 Argentina; France; Netherlands; USA USA
420 Growth modelling indicates hurricanes and severe storms are linked to low coral recruitment in the Caribbean MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH English tropical storms; cyclones; climate change; global warming; coral growth DISCOVERY BAY; MONTASTRAEA-ANNULARIS; SKELETAL EXTENSION; ACROPORA-PALMATA; SE SULAWESI; ST-CROIX; REEF; RATES; REPRODUCTION; MORTALITY ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2008 Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Toxicology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Toxicology WOS:000254785800008 Belize; UK UK
421 Ancient associations of aquatic beetles and tank bromeliads in the Neotropical forest canopy PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English aquatic arthropods; evolution MULTIPLE-SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; DIVING BEETLES; ATLANTIC FOREST; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DYTISCIDAE; BRAZIL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COPELATINAE NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2008 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000255534100027 Brazil; Germany; Spain; UK; Venezuela Singapore
422 Trophic controls of jellyfish blooms and links with fisheries in the East China Sea ECOLOGICAL MODELLING English the East China Sea; Ecopath modelling; jellyfish bloom; trophic control; feedbackloop MARINE FOOD WEBS; ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; FISH; TEMPERATURE; POPULATIONS; INCREASES; MORTALITY ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2008 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000254667500026 Mexico; Peoples R China; UK Peoples R China
423 Biomization and quantitative climate reconstruction techniques in northwestern Mexico - With an application to four Holocene pollen sequences GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE English biomes reconstruction; quantitative climate reconstruction; Younger Dryas; monsoon; Holocene variability; NW Mexico "GULF-OF-CALIFORNIA; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED-STATES; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; EL-NINO/SOUTHERN-OSCILLATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; YOUNGER DRYAS EVENT; PAST 21,000 YEARS; C-14 YR BP; NORTH-AMERICA; LATE-QUATERNARY" ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2008 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000255825900009 France; Mexico France
424 Phylogenetic analysis and evolutionary diversification of Heliotropium sect. Cochranea (Heliotropiaceae) in the Atacama Desert SYSTEMATIC BOTANY English arid environments; Boraginaceae; chloroplast DNA; divergence times; ITS; phylogeny ITS1 SEQUENCE DATA; NORTHERN CHILE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOUTH-AMERICA; BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; CHARACTER EVOLUTION; LIKELIHOOD APPROACH; VEGETATION HISTORY; DIVERGENCE TIMES AMER SOC PLANT TAXONOMISTS 2008 Plant Sciences; Evolutionary Biology Plant Sciences; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000256507700017 Chile; Peoples R China; USA Germany
425 Influence of continental history on the ecological specialization and macroevolutionary processes in the mammalian assemblage of South America: Differences between small and large mammals BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English PLEISTOCENE MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTIONS; BIOMIC SPECIALIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC RANGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; LAND MAMMALS; BODY-SIZE; INTERCHANGE; EVOLUTION; FAUNAS BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2008 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000255712600004 Argentina; Spain Spain
426 Applying climatically associated species pools to the modelling of compositional change in tropical montane forests GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English Chiapas; climate change; climatic envelopes; conservation; disturbance; diversity; species distribution modelling CLIMATE-CHANGE; TREE DIVERSITY; GLOBAL 200; CHIAPAS; MEXICO; HIGHLANDS; FRAGMENTATION; DISTRIBUTIONS; ECOREGIONS; VEGETATION BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2008 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000252966000012 Mexico; Netherlands; Spain Mexico
427 "Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation" BMC BIOLOGY English CYTOCHROME-B GENES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERGENCE TIMES; NORTH-AMERICA; LATE-MIOCENE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; LIKELIHOOD APPROACH; AFRICAN CLIMATE; IRISH MUSTELIDS BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2008 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000254618400002 Argentina; France; USA USA
428 A stochastic model for ecological systems with strong nonlinear response to environmental drivers: application to two water-borne diseases JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE English nonlinear; cholera; leptospirosis; seasonality; disease dynamics; extrinsic forcing VIBRIO-CHOLERAE; URBAN EPIDEMIC; CLIMATE-CHANGE; POPULATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; DYNAMICS; RESERVOIR; RAINFALL; NOISE; SHEEP ROYAL SOC 2008 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000251628300009 Brazil; Canada; UK; USA Brazil
429 Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians ECOGRAPHY English PLANT-SPECIES RICHNESS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; SCALE PATTERNS; NORTH-AMERICA; ENERGY THEORY; RANGE-SIZE; DISTRIBUTIONS; EVOLUTIONARY; BIODIVERSITY WILEY-BLACKWELL 2008 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000253477500003 Brazil; Denmark; Spain; UK Spain
430 "Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon" SCIENCE English TROPICAL FORESTS; RAIN-FOREST; BIOMASS; BASIN; FIRE; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCULATION; RESPONSES; NORTHERN; TRENDS AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2008 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000252246400030 Brazil; UK; USA UK
431 Global diversity of aquatic macrophytes in freshwater HYDROBIOLOGIA English aquatic macrophyte; aquatic weeds; macroalgae; diversity; distribution; composition; lakes; rivers RANUNCULUS-TRICHOPHYLLUS CHAIX.; CHLOROPLAST GENOME SEQUENCE; MOUNT-EVEREST REGION; HIGH-ALTITUDE LAKES; LAND PLANTS; LOWLAND STREAMS; PATTERNS; PROLIFERATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITIES SPRINGER 2008 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000252253300003 Brazil; Canada; UK Canada
432 The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English climate; eigen analysis; Gentry transect data; Neotropics; plant diversity; precipitation; temperature; tropical forest composition TROPICAL FOREST BIODIVERSITY; AFRICAN RAIN-FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT; COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; RANGE SIZE; TREE; ECOLOGY; TRENDS; 20TH-CENTURY WILEY-BLACKWELL 2008 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000251587500008 Ireland; USA Panama
433 Ecology and distribution of soft-sediment benthic communities off Viti Levu (Fiji) MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES English Benthic communities; Marine biodiversity; Community structure; Spatial patterns; Uniques; Spot endemism CORAL-REEF LAGOON; SPECIES RICHNESS; MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITIES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; CONTINENTAL-SHELF; CENTRAL PACIFIC; NEW-CALEDONIA; BIODIVERSITY; PATTERNS "French Embassy (Suva, Fiji)" "This study was made possible by funding from the French Embassy (Suva, Fiji). We thank P. Newell, B. Richer de Forges, colleagues at IRD (Noumea, New Caledonia) and from the RV 'Alis'. Many thanks also go to T. Schlacher, J. Seeto, and P. Hutchings for their assistance in identification of fauna and data analysis." INTER-RESEARCH 2008 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000261797800009 Fiji; Panama; UK Fiji
434 Effects of temporal variability of disturbance on the succession in marine fouling communities in northern-central Chile JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY English disturbance; fouling community; succession; temporal variability MEAN INTENSITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; VARIABLE PREDATION; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARVAL PREDATION; SPATIAL VARIANCE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RECRUITMENT; PATTERNS ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2007 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000252015200002 Chile; Germany Chile
435 Plant-trait-based modeling assessment of ecosystem-service sensitivity to land-use change ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS English central French Alps; climate change; ecosystem management; LAMOS (landscape modeling shell); land-use change scenarios; leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme (LHS); subalpine grasslands SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; LANDSCAPE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION; GRASSLAND; CONSEQUENCES ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2007 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000251739800020 Australia; France Argentina
436 Interactive effects of plant species diversity and elevated CO2 on soil biota and nutrient cycling ECOLOGY English biodiversity; Bromus erectus; carbon isotopes; CO2 x H2O interactions; global change; N-15 isotope dilution; nitrogen and phosphorus; soil aggregation; soil enzymes FATTY-ACID ANALYSIS; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; ORGANIC-MATTER; CARBON-DIOXIDE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; EXTRACTION METHOD; BIOMASS NITROGEN; FOOD-WEB ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2007 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000251965200020 Germany; Mexico; Switzerland Switzerland
437 Coral reef development drives molluscan diversity increase at local and regional scales in the late Neogene and Quaternary of the southwestern Caribbean PALEOBIOLOGY English TROPICAL AMERICAN MOLLUSKS; PANAMA LAND-BRIDGE; BOCAS-DEL-TORO; SPECIES RICHNESS; CONTINENTAL-SHELF; WESTERN ATLANTIC; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE RECORD; COSTA-RICA; DEEP-SEA PALEONTOLOGICAL SOC INC 2007 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology WOS:000244803800002 Panama; UK; USA UK
438 National and sub-national assessments of soil organic carbon stocks and changes: The GEFSOC modelling system AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English soil organic carbon; models; spatial data; regional scale; GEFSOC modelling system LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; SEQUESTERING CARBON; SUBTROPICAL SOILS; SIMULATING TRENDS; PROJECTED CHANGES; REGIONAL-SCALE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SEQUESTRATION; AGRICULTURE ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2007 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000246320300002 Brazil; France; India; Jordan; Kenya; Netherlands; UK; USA USA
439 An increased understanding of soil organic carbon stocks and changes in non-temperate areas: National and global implications AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English The GEFSOC Modelling System; soils; soil organic carbon; soil organic carbon stock change; land use; non-temperate BRAZILIAN AMAZON; REGIONAL-SCALE; GREAT-PLAINS; MATTER; SEQUESTRATION; CULTIVATION; FOREST; MODEL; GIS ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2007 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000246320300013 Brazil; France; India; Jordan; Kenya; Netherlands; UK; USA USA
440 Sandy beaches at the brink DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS English sandy beaches; human impacts; coastal conservation; biodiversity; global change PRESTIGE OIL-SPILL; TALITRUS-SALTATOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; WATER FILTRATION; INTERTIDAL ZONE; NOURISHMENT; IMPACTS; SEA; POPULATIONS; MACROFAUNA BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2007 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000248967400008 Australia; Italy; Oman; South Africa; Spain; Uruguay; USA Australia
441 Phylogeographic patterns of trans-Amazonian vicariants and Amazonian biogeography: the Neotropical rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus complex) as an example JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English amazonia; Crotalus durissus; molecular phylogeny; Neotropical biogeography; phylogeography; Pleistocene; trans-Amazon vicariance BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FOREST; DNA-SEQUENCE DATA; RAIN-FOREST; CLADISTIC-ANALYSIS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; STATISTICAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPIC ASSOCIATIONS; PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE; QUATERNARY VEGETATION BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2007 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000248851000004 Brazil; UK Mexico
442 Creative use of mountain biodiversity databases: The Kazbegi research agenda of GMBA-DIVERSITAS MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT English MOUNTAIN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 2007 "Environmental Sciences; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000249183200016 Austria; Chile; Denmark; Germany; Peoples R China; Poland; Switzerland; USA Switzerland
443 Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION English RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA; SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENT; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; RAIN-FOREST; ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON EMISSIONS; FOOTPRINT LIDAR; GLOBAL CHANGE; TERRA MODIS ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON 2007 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000248638100006 Brazil; UK; USA USA
444 Shallow lake restoration by nutrient loading reduction - some recent findings and challenges ahead HYDROBIOLOGIA English recovery; lake restoration; nitrogen; climate change; resilience; regime shifts ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATES; LONG-TERM DATA; EUTROPHIC LAKES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; EXTERNAL PHOSPHORUS; TEMPERATE LAKES; FLORIDA LAKES; BIOMANIPULATION SPRINGER 2007 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000246583500023 Denmark; Uruguay Denmark
445 Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development SCIENCE English SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY; AFRICA; CHALLENGES; FEEDBACKS; KNOWLEDGE; LESSONS; ECOLOGY; COMMONS; SYSTEMS AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2007 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000246369800027 Argentina; Australia; Belgium; Canada; Honduras; Mexico; Netherlands; Spain; UK; USA USA
446 Restoration of shallow lakes by nutrient control and biomanipulation-the successful strategy varies with lake size and climate HYDROBIOLOGIA English lake restoration; large lakes; recovery; nutrient loading reduction; climate EUTROPHIC LAKE; PARANOA RESERVOIR; FISH COMMUNITIES; DANISH LAKES; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; HORIZONTAL MIGRATION; MESOCOSM EXPERIMENT; PHOSPHORUS RELEASE; SPECIES RICHNESS; COASTAL LAGOONS SPRINGER 2007 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000244992800028 Brazil; Denmark; Uruguay Denmark
447 Protected area needs in a changing climate FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT English EXTINCTION RISK; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY; CAPE; DISPERSAL; SCENARIOS; PATTERNS; RESERVES; THREATS; AFRICA ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2007 Ecology; Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000245655800018 Mexico; South Africa; Spain; USA USA
448 Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English Isthmus of Panama; paleoenvironments; time-lag; macroevolution; paleocommunities DEL-TORO ARCHIPELAGO; PANAMA; EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; CLOSURE; OCEAN; CIRCULATION; NUTRIENTS; ATLANTIC NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2007 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000245331700045 Panama; UK; USA Panama
449 Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter? DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS English Chile; density; forest birds; latitudinal range; macroecology; rarity TEMPERATE RAIN-FORESTS; BODY-SIZE; RANGE SIZE; AVIAN DIVERSITY; BRITISH BIRDS; RESOURCE USE; MANTEL TEST; ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION; COMMUNITIES BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2007 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000244608800007 Chile; Germany Chile
450 "Late Quaternary vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on the southern Brazilian highland and their implication for conservation and management of modern Araucaria forest and grassland ecosystems" PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English Late Quaternary; Araucaria forest; Campos ( grassland); palaeoecology; conservation; management MULTIVARIATE-ANALYSIS; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; SAO-FRANCISCO; CHARCOAL; HISTORY; REGION; POLLEN; CAMPOS; TIMES; CORE ROYAL SOC 2007 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000243976000008 Brazil; Germany Germany
451 Long-term forest-savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English conservation; Quaternary; palaeoecology; forest-savannah ecotone; Bolivia; Amazon LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERCADO-NATIONAL-PARK; CARBON-CYCLE; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; SANTA-CRUZ; DECIDUOUS FOREST; CHANGING CLIMATE; ORIENTED LAKES; MODEL ROYAL SOC 2007 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000243976000012 Mexico; UK UK
452 Plant trait responses to grazing - a global synthesis GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English dynamic global vegetation models; functional traits; global plant functional types; grazing history; grazing models; ungulate herbivores LIFE-HISTORY ATTRIBUTES; STIPA-BOUTELOUA PRAIRIE; TREE-GRASS INTERACTIONS; NEW-SOUTH-WALES; LONG-TERM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN GRASSLAND; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SEMIARID GRASSLAND; SHORTGRASS STEPPE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2007 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000244003700001 Argentina; Australia; Canada; France; Israel; New Zealand; Norway; USA Argentina
453 "Distribution, phylogeny, and growth of cold-adapted picoprasinophytes in arctic seas" JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY English Arctic Ocean; biogeography; climate change; phytoplankton; picoeukaryotes; picoplankton; pigments; polar; prasinophytes; psychrophiles MICROMONAS-PUSILLA PRASINOPHYCEAE; SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL-RNA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS ECOTYPES; EUKARYOTIC PICOPLANKTON; WATER POLYNYA; OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; DIVERSITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; ABUNDANCE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2007 Plant Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology Plant Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000244004300009 Canada; Spain; Uruguay Canada
454 Spatiotemporal segregation regulates species richness along biomass gradients in estuarine fish assemblages MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES English terminos lagoon; co-occurrence; C-score index; randomization; species segregation METAZOAN PARASITE COMMUNITIES; NULL MODEL ANALYSIS; SITE SUITABILITY; COASTAL LAGOON; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DIVERSITY; COOCCURRENCE; SELECTION; DIVERSIFICATION; DISTRIBUTIONS INTER-RESEARCH 2007 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000248895700019 France; Mexico France
455 Prey landscapes help identify potential foraging habitats for leatherback turtles in the NE Atlantic MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES English leatherback turtle; Dermochelys coriacea; Bergmann's rule; gelatinous prey; climate change; habitat preference; jellyfish; niche DERMOCHELYS-CORIACEA; SEA-TURTLES; NORTH-SEA; CLIMATE-CHANGE; THERMAL NICHE; JELLYFISH; MOVEMENTS; ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIOR; IMPACT INTER-RESEARCH 2007 Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000247105100020 Brazil; UK UK
456 The Humboldt Current System of northern and central Chile "OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY, VOL 45" English SCALLOP ARGOPECTEN-PURPURATUS; OXYGEN-MINIMUM-ZONE; KELP LESSONIA-NIGRESCENS; COASTAL UPWELLING SYSTEM; 1997-1998 EL-NINO; ANCHOVETA ENGRAULIS-RINGENS; TUNICATE PYURA-PRAEPUTIALIS; HAKE MERLUCCIUS-GAYI; DEL-SUR BAY; GASTROPOD CONCHOLEPAS-CONCHOLEPAS CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP 2007 Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography WOS:000252476600006 Chile; Germany; USA Chile
457 Anthropogenic drivers of ecosystem change: An overview ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY English ecosystem services; drivers of change; direct drivers; indirect drivers; demographic drivers; economic drivers; sociopolitical drivers; cultural and religious drivers; scientific and technological drivers; physical and biological drivers; climate change; plant nutrient use; land conversion; diseases; invasive species SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; LAND-COVER CHANGE; FERTILITY TRANSITION; DRIVING FORCES; GLOBAL CONCERN; POPULATION; WORLD; COUNTRIES; FRAMEWORK; PATTERNS RESILIENCE ALLIANCE 2006 Ecology; Environmental Studies Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000243280800028 Argentina; Austria; Canada; USA USA
458 Phylogeography of the Bothrops jararaca complex (Serpentes : Viperidae): past fragmentation and island colonization in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest MOLECULAR ECOLOGY English Bothrops alcatraz; Bothrops insularis; Bothrops jararaca; Brazilian Atlantic Forest; island speciation; phylogeography MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; DIVERGENCE TIMES; HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; RATTLESNAKE SERPENTES; STATISTICAL TESTS; POPULATION-GROWTH; GENETIC-STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; SPECIES LIMITS BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2006 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000241388800009 Brazil; Germany Brazil
459 Production of giant marine diatoms and their export at oceanic frontal zones: Implications for Si and C flux from stratified oceans GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES English CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ANTARCTIC POLAR FRONT; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; ATLANTIC SECTOR; DEEP-SEA; CHLOROPHYLL MAXIMUM; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ETHMODISCUS OOZE; BIOGENIC SILICA; NORTH-ATLANTIC AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2006 "Environmental Sciences; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences WOS:000241296000002 Australia; Chile; UK UK
460 "Biodiversity and its conservation in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil" AQUATIC SCIENCES English Pantanal; seasonal wetland; floodplain; neotropics; Paraguay River DRY CLIMATIC ZONE; SEASONAL SUCCESSION; VOCHYSIA-DIVERGENS; TRYPANOSOMA-EVANSI; BIOTIC COMMUNITIES; SOUTH-AMERICA; MARSH DEER; WETLAND; POCONE; REGION SPRINGER BASEL AG 2006 Environmental Sciences; Limnology; Marine & Freshwater Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000241604900004 Brazil; Germany Germany
461 Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English bioclimate envelope modelling; biodiversity; Cape Flora; climate change; conservation biogeography; distribution modelling; environmental niche modelling; proteaceae; South Africa; species biodiversity ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIOCLIMATE ENVELOPE MODELS; ECOLOGICAL NICHES; EXTINCTION RISK; PLANT DIVERSITY; PRESENCE-ABSENCE; DISTRIBUTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; PROJECTIONS WILEY-BLACKWELL 2006 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000240367800003 France; Mexico; Portugal; Spain; UK; USA USA
462 "Determinant variables of iberian peninsula aphodiinae diversity (Coleoptera, scarabaeoidea, aphodiidae)" JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Aphodiinae; climatic variables; diversity patterns; dung beetles; environmental factors; historic factors; Iberian Peninsula; spatial structure SPECIES RICHNESS DISTRIBUTION; POSTGLACIAL COLONIZATION ROUTES; CHLOROPLAST DNA VARIATION; DUNG-BEETLE COMMUNITIES; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; COPROPHAGOUS BEETLES; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; FOSSIL COLEOPTERA; AREA RELATIONSHIP; GENE FLOW WILEY-BLACKWELL 2006 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000237352500007 Spain Mexico
463 Colombian dry moist forest transitions in the Llanos Orientales - A comparison of model and pollen-based biome reconstructions PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English biome; Colombia; environmental change; Llanos Orientales; pollen; vegetation modelling LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION; TROPICAL SOUTH-AMERICA; CENTRAL PERUVIAN ANDES; HOLOCENE HISTORY; RAIN-FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ICE-CORE; YR BP; BIOSPHERE MODEL ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2006 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000237610800003 Colombia; Germany; Netherlands; UK UK
464 Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data ECOGRAPHY English CLIMATE-CHANGE; LOGISTIC-REGRESSION; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; HABITAT-SUITABILITY; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PREDICTION; ENVELOPE MODELS; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; PLANT BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2006 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000236767000001 Australia; Brazil; Canada; Denmark; Mexico; New Zealand; Switzerland; USA Australia
465 Identification of current ecosystem functional types in the Iberian Peninsula GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English AVHRR/NOAA; classification; ecosystem functioning; land-use change; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); regional analysis; remote sensing DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NDVI TIME-SERIES; PHENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; BASE-LINE; CLIMATE; CLASSIFICATION; SEASONALITY WILEY-BLACKWELL 2006 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000235694300009 Argentina; Spain Spain
466 Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS English area effects; edge effects; habitat fragmentation; habitat loss; invertebrate; isolation; matrix; shape index; synergies; time lags AMAZONIAN FOREST FRAGMENTS; WING-DIMORPHIC INSECT; RANDOM SAMPLE HYPOTHESIS; EXTINCTION RISK; RAIN-FOREST; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS; PATCH SHAPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2006 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000236101600005 New Zealand; Panama UK
467 Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY English biological invasions; degradation; ecosystem transformation; land abandonment; novel ecosystem PUERTO-RICO; BIOTIC HOMOGENIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TUSSOCK GRASSLANDS; EARTHS ECOSYSTEMS; COLORADO RIVER; SEA OTTERS; PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITIES BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2006 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000234412300001 Australia; Brazil; Estonia; France; New Zealand; South Africa; Spain; Switzerland; USA Australia
468 "Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sites" NEW PHYTOLOGIST English climate gradients; leaf nitrogen; leaf lifespan; photosynthesis; plant metabolism; specific leaf area TRAIT RELATIONSHIPS; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; THERMAL-ACCLIMATION; ROOT RESPIRATION; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; SIERRA-NEVADA; LIFE-SPAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; NITROGEN WILEY-BLACKWELL 2006 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000234482900010 Australia; Chile; UK; USA Australia
469 "Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared" CRETACEOUS RESEARCH English Lower Cretaceous; coralgal reefs; corals; microbialite; palaeoecology; eastern Spain PROVENCE SE FRANCE; STRATIGRAPHY; SCLERACTINIA; LIMESTONES; EVOLUTION ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2005 Geology; Paleontology Geology; Paleontology WOS:000234168700004 Germany; Mexico Germany
470 Evidence of history in explaining diversity patterns in tropical riverine fish JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY English Central America; freshwater fish; historical factors; last glacial maximum; net primary productivity; rain forest refuge; South America; species richness; tropics; West Africa AVIAN SPECIES RICHNESS; EASTERN NORTH-AMERICA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SCALE PATTERNS; HABITAT HETEROGENEITY; AFRICAN RIVERS; WEST-AFRICA; ENERGY; COMMUNITIES; WATER BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2005 "Ecology; Geography, Physical" Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Physical Geography WOS:000232493500004 Bolivia; France; Venezuela France
471 Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape proteaceae CONSERVATION BIOLOGY English area-selection algorithms; bioclimatic modeling; biodiversity conservation; connectivity; habitat suitability; species persistence RESERVE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; FLORISTIC REGION; SOUTH-AFRICA; PLANT MIGRATION; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; PROTECTED AREAS; CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY; DISTANCE; DISTRIBUTIONS BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2005 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000231118600013 Canada; Mexico; South Africa; UK; USA UK
472 Life history strategies of cladocerans: comparisons of tropical and temperate taxa HYDROBIOLOGIA English demography; competition; predation; food quality; threshold concentration; Daphnia; Moina; Diaphanosoma; lifespan POLYUNSATURATED FATTY-ACIDS; CHLORELLA-VULGARIS DENSITY; EXOTIC DAPHNIA-LUMHOLTZI; FOOD QUALITY; MOINA-MACROCOPA; BODY-SIZE; POPULATION-DYNAMICS; CERIODAPHNIA-DUBIA; ZOOPLANKTON ASSEMBLAGES; MACROTHRIX-TRISERIALIS SPRINGER 2005 Marine & Freshwater Biology Marine & Freshwater Biology WOS:000231879200030 Mexico; Netherlands Mexico
473 Challenging the cold: Crabs reconquer the Antarctic ECOLOGY English Antarctic; biodiversity; climate change; crabs; evolution; marine ecosystems; temperature adaptation LECITHOTROPHIC LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LITHODES-AEQUISPINUS ANOMURA; LA MESETA FORMATION; SOUTHERN KING CRAB; PARALOMIS-GRANULOSA; PARALITHODES-CAMTSCHATICA; DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES; CHEMICAL-COMPOSITION; DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS; SANTOLLA MOLINA ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER 2005 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000227659700011 Argentina; Germany Germany
474 Non-structural carbohydrate pools in a tropical forest OECOLOGIA English biodiversity; carbon balance; global change; seasonality; wood reserves ELEVATED CARBON-DIOXIDE; NITROGEN NUTRITION; CLIMATE TREES; CO2; RESPONSES; STORAGE; GROWTH; PLANTS; LEAF; WATER SPRINGER 2005 Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000227369700002 Panama; Switzerland Switzerland
475 Insects on plants: Diversity of herbivore assemblages revisited ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS English herbivory; insect-plant interactions; tropical insects; local and regional richness; species diversity PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA; TROPICAL RAIN-FORESTS; SPECIES RICHNESS; PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECTS; HOST-PLANT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GLOBAL PATTERNS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DRY FOREST; FOOD-WEB ANNUAL REVIEWS 2005 Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology WOS:000234684900025 Brazil; Czech Republic; Panama Brazil
476 Effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes on riverine fish assemblages: a framework for ecological assessment of rivers BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES OF BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY English biological indices; fish community; environmental parameters; habitat BENTHIC STREAM FISHES; NORTH-WESTERN FRANCE; FRESH-WATER FISH; BIOTIC INTEGRITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COASTAL STREAMS; FLOW REGIME; BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; HABITAT GRADIENTS INST TECNOLOGIA PARANA 2005 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000226807300013 Bolivia; Brazil; France Brazil
477 Ecological and agricultural significance of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY English polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA); poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB); bacterial survival; PHA metabolism; PHA synthase; PHA depolymerase; phylogeny POLY-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; AZOSPIRILLUM-BRASILENSE CD; RALSTONIA-EUTROPHA H16; PSEUDOMONAS-OLEOVORANS; AZOTOBACTER-VINELANDII; PARACOCCUS-DENITRIFICANS; SUBSTRATE-SPECIFICITY; BACILLUS-MEGATERIUM; MICROBIAL SYNTHESIS; HYDROGENOMONAS H16 INFORMA HEALTHCARE 2005 Microbiology Microbiology WOS:000229612900001 Israel; Uruguay Israel
478 Chloroplast and total genomic diversity in the endemic Costa Rican tree Lonchocarpus costaricensis (J.D. Smith) Pittier (Papilionaceae). SILVAE GENETICA English AFLPs; chloroplast DNA; genetic differentiation; genetic diversity; Lonchocarpus costaricensis; spatial genetic structuring GENETIC-VARIATION; SWIETENIA-MACROPHYLLA; NONCODING REGIONS; UNIVERSAL PRIMERS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; DNA MARKERS; DRY FOREST; POPULATIONS; AMPLIFICATION; CONSERVATION J D SAUERLANDERS VERLAG 2005 Forestry; Genetics & Heredity Forestry; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000235239400007 Australia; Belgium; Costa Rica; UK Costa Rica
479 UV effects that come and go: a global comparison of marine benthic community level impacts GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY English climate change; community resilience; global assessment; marine benthic diversity; UV radiation URCHIN STRONGYLOCENTROTUS-DROEBACHIENSIS; SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET-RADIATION; B RADIATION; AMINO-ACIDS; MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY; ABSORBING COMPOUNDS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; DEPTH-ZONATION; GRADIENT BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD 2004 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000225487900001 Australia; Canada; Chile; Germany; Israel; Kenya; Norway; Peoples R China; UK Germany
480 Geographic variation of metric properties within the neotropical sandflies INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Allometry; Altitude; Epidemiology; Medical entomology; South America; Taxonomy ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2004 Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases WOS:000208826200008 Bolivia; France France
481 "Feeding ecology, dispersal, and extinction of south American pleistocene gomphotheres (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea)" PALEOBIOLOGY English OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ELEPHANT SKELETAL PHOSPHATE; MAMMALIAN TOOTH ENAMEL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LATE MIOCENE; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION; HERBIVORE TEETH; BONE PHOSPHATE; NORTH-AMERICA PALEONTOLOGICAL SOC INC 2004 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology WOS:000188974000008 Argentina; Spain Spain
482 Genetic variation coincides with geographic structure in the common bush-tanager (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus) complex from Mexico MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION English Chlorospingus ophthalmicus; cloud forest; mesoamerica; phylogeography; mtDNA GLOBAL CLIMATE-CHANGE; ANDEAN BIRDS; COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; POPULATION-STRUCTURE; SPECIATION PROCESS; DIVERGENCE TIMES; CENTRAL-AMERICA; SPECIES LIMITS ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2004 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000224047400014 Germany; Mexico; USA Germany
483 Landscape diversity patterns and endemism of Araceae in Ecuador BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION English Andes; Araceae; diversity patterns; Ecuador; endemism; GIS; lowland rain forest; predictive distribution modelling; species richness; variation partitioning TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; TREE SPECIES RICHNESS; SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS; AMAZONIAN ECUADOR; PLANT GROUPS; GRADIENTS; CLIMATE; BIODIVERSITY; ABUNDANCE; VARIABLES SPRINGER 2004 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000221688100008 Denmark; Ecuador Denmark
484 "El Nino induced local extinction of coral reef bryozoan species from Northern Bahia, Brazil" BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION English ENSO; bryozoa; environmental impact; global warming COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MORTALITY ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2004 Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000221997500006 Brazil; UK UK
485 Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers of ecosystem processes in heathland and boreal forest biomes CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE BOTANIQUE English carbon sequestration; peatlands; C/N ratios; carbon and nutrient cycles EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME-ACTIVITIES; ACID-PHOSPHATASE-ACTIVITY; PINUS-MURICATA FOREST; BEECH LEAF-LITTER; FREE AMINO-ACIDS; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; HYMENOSCYPHUS-ERICAE; PAXILLUS-INVOLUTUS; ORGANIC NITROGEN; AXENIC-CULTURE NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA 2004 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000223859200019 Mexico; UK UK
486 Soil macrofaunal communities in permanent pastures derived from tropical forest or savanna AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT English tropical savannas; tropical forests; pasture establishment; soil macrofauna; earthworms; soil biodiversity PURE GRASS PASTURES; EASTERN PLAINS; EARTHWORM CASTS; LAND MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SAVANNA; COLOMBIA; CONVERSION; STABILITY; AMAZONIA; DYNAMICS ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2004 "Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Ecology; Environmental Sciences" Agriculture; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000222490600005 Brazil; Colombia; France; Mexico France
487 Modeled climate change effects on distributions of Canadian butterfly species CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE English EUROPEAN HIGHER-PLANTS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; BIOSPHERE MODEL; NICHE; CONSEQUENCES; PREDICTION; DIVERSITY; RESPONSES; PATTERNS; RANGES NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA 2004 Zoology Zoology WOS:000223983200003 Mexico; UK; USA USA
488 The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE English Argentina; comparative ecology; England; functional; diversity; Iran; plant functional types; recurrent patterns; of specialization; Spain; specific leaf area RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; DECOMPOSITION RATES; MINERAL-NUTRITION; LEAF STRUCTURE; GLOBAL CHANGE; WILD PLANTS; DIVERSITY; PRODUCTIVITY; STRATEGIES WILEY-BLACKWELL 2004 Plant Sciences; Ecology; Forestry Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Forestry WOS:000221705200001 Argentina; Iran; Netherlands; Spain; UK Argentina
489 Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY English ESTIMATING DIVERGENCE TIMES; 3 NUCLEAR GENES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; EUTHERIAN EVOLUTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; MITOCHONDRIAL; DATES; DASYPODIDAE; ARMADILLOS BIOMED CENTRAL LTD 2004 Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity WOS:000221636100001 Argentina; France; New Zealand France
490 Historical climate change and speciation: neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English seasonally dry tropical forests; Pleistocene refugia; Amazon; speciation; cladistic biogeography LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SOUTH-AMERICA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; BAYESIAN-INFERENCE; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; BRAZILIAN CERRADO; DIVERGENCE TIMES; LEGUMES FABACEAE; LOWLAND AMAZONIA ROYAL SOC 2004 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000220545100015 Argentina; UK; USA UK
491 "Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001" PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES English recruitment; mortality; tree turnover; dynamics; Amazonia; forest ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS; TROPICAL RAIN-FORESTS; CARBON-DIOXIDE; ELEVATED CO2; EVALUATING TURNOVER; SPECIES RICHNESS; DYNAMICS; DIVERSITY; GROWTH; DISTURBANCE ROYAL SOC LONDON 2004 Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics WOS:000220545100007 Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; France; Germany; Italy; Panama; Peru; UK; USA; Venezuela UK
492 Multiple origins of crassulacean acid metabolism and the epiphytic habit in the Neotropical family Bromeliaceae PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA English SUBFAMILY PITCAIRNIOIDEAE BROMELIACEAE; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; TILLANDSIOIDEAE BROMELIACEAE; PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY; NDHF SEQUENCES; CO2 FIXATION; EVOLUTION; CAM; CLASSIFICATION NATL ACAD SCIENCES 2004 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000220163800068 Australia; Panama; UK UK
493 Extinction risk from climate change NATURE English ELEVATED CO2; BIODIVERSITY; IMPACTS; DEFORESTATION; PLANTS; VULNERABILITY; SCENARIOS; FORESTS NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2004 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000187863900033 Australia; Brazil; Mexico; Netherlands; South Africa; UK; USA UK
494 The last 7500 cal yr BP of westerly rainfall in Central Chile inferred from a high-resolution pollen record from Laguna Aculeo (34 degrees S) QUATERNARY RESEARCH English mid-Holocene; westerlies; Central Chile; Laguna Aculeo; climate change OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; EL-NINO; SOUTHERN-OSCILLATION; MILLENNIAL TIMESCALES; CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; VARIABILITY; MIDHOLOCENE; COAST; MILANKOVITCH ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 2003 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary" Physical Geography; Geology WOS:000187180800005 Chile; Switzerland Chile
495 In situ fossil forest from the upper Fremouw Formation (Triassic) of Antarctica: paleoenvironmental setting and paleoclimate analysis PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY English plant paleoecology; paleoclimatology; Triassic; Antarctica; tree rings; fossil wood; fossil forest; taphonomy; paleoenvironment CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; ALEXANDER ISLAND; LEAF LITTER; NEW-ZEALAND; VEGETATION; CLIMATE; PALEOBOTANY; GYMNOSPERMS; COMMUNITIES; HEIGHT ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2003 "Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology" Physical Geography; Geology; Paleontology WOS:000185037300005 Argentina; Germany; USA Argentina
496 "Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs" SCIENCE English GREAT-BARRIER-REEF; MARINE RESERVES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVOLUTION; FUTURE; PERSPECTIVES; DISTURBANCE; MORTALITY; DIVERSITY AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2003 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000184755900027 Australia; Panama; Sweden; UK; USA Australia
497 Biodiversity meets the atmosphere: A global view of forest canopies SCIENCE English TROPICAL FOREST; ELEVATED CO2; HERBIVOROUS INSECTS; TREES; PLANTS; DIVERSITY; RESPONSES; PATTERNS; ECOLOGY; GROWTH AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2003 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics WOS:000184056200032 Australia; Brazil; Japan; Panama; Switzerland; UK; USA UK
498 Forecasting plant migration rates: managing uncertainty for risk assessment JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY English spread rate; climate change; range shift; seed dispersal; long-distance dispersal LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; EUROPEAN HIGHER-PLANTS; SEED DISPERSAL; INVADING ORGANISMS; REDUCED DISPERSAL; RANGE EXPANSION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; RAIN-FOREST; SPREAD; TREE WILEY-BLACKWELL 2003 Plant Sciences; Ecology Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences & Ecology WOS:000183144700001 Argentina; France; Germany; Israel; USA Germany
499 "Last Glacial Maximum in an Andean cloud forest environment (Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia)" GEOLOGY English Andes; lacustrine sediments; palynology; Last Glacial Maximum; cloud forest; Bolivia CLIMATE-CHANGE; TROPICAL ANDES; ICE-AGE; ALTIPLANO; PRECIPITATION; HISTORY; CIRCULATION; LAKE "GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC" 2003 Geology Geology WOS:000181199100001 Brazil; France France
500 A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY English RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; LEAF LIFE-SPAN; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; PHYLOGENETICALLY INDEPENDENT CONTRASTS; CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION; LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATE; DRY-MATTER CONTENT; SEED SIZE; WIDE-RANGE; FRACTURE PROPERTIES CSIRO PUBLISHING 2003 Plant Sciences Plant Sciences WOS:000184733000001 Argentina; Australia; France; Germany; Netherlands; Spain; USA Netherlands