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Ecological Indicators
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| An integrating approach of cellular automata and ecological network to predict the impact of land use change on connectivity | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Yun Huang, Tie-Jun LiaoAbstractAs a primary concern in biodiversity conservation, understanding the impact of land use/cover change (LUCC) on functional connectivity has the overarching significance. Yet, LUCC simulation models used in previous studies are insufficient to tackle the complex and non-linear interactions of land-use components, and thus may not be able to provide the accurate impact assessments. This paper aimed to fill this gap and to find a solution that avoids significant connectivity loss in... | ||
| Synergistic effects of warming and lower salinity on the asexual reproduction of reef-forming corals | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Marta Dias, Ana Ferreira, Raúl Gouveia, Catarina VinagreAbstractTropical storms produce competent self-regenerating coral fragments capable of originating new coral colonies. These climatic events are predicted to increase in the future due to ocean warming, the main cause of coral bleaching. Estimated increases in precipitation will affect salinity at shallow reef areas which combined with ocean warming will aggravate the effects of coral bleaching. In this study the long-term effects of increased temperature... | ||
| Comparative assessment of two proxies of fish discard survival | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Marie Morfin, Dorothée Kopp, Hugues P. Benoît, Sonia MéhaultAbstractTwo vitality index approaches have been demonstrated to be good proxies of discard survival in similar fishing and environmental conditions: Reflex Action Mortality Predictors combined with injuries (RI) scores that measure the proportion of impaired reflexes and injuries, and a simpler, quicker, but less precise approach based on ordinal categories related to fish body movements and injuries (semi-quantitative assessment, SQA). This study... | ||
| The good and the bad: Identifying homogeneous groups of municipalities in terms of separate waste collection determinants in Italy | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Massimiliano Agovino, Massimiliano Cerciello, Gaetano MusellaAbstractThe European Commission identifies separate waste collection as a primary factor in its sustainable development strategy. The EU Member States are expected to achieve a separate waste collection rate of 50% by 2020. Although Italy is not very far from such target, it features wide regional variation in the extent of separate collection. Municipal administrations are the key managerial units for the implementation of the environmental policy. By... | ||
| Effects of shoreline alteration and habitat heterogeneity on macroinvertebrate community composition across European lakes | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Gwendolin Porst, Mario Brauns, Kenneth Irvine, Angelo Solimini, Leonard Sandin, Martin Pusch, Oliver MilerAbstractHuman lake shore alterations often result in a substantial decrease of littoral and riparian habitat diversity and physical complexity, but the intensity at which shore alterations affect biodiversity may differ among European geographical regions. We tested if the response of littoral macroinvertebrate communities to human shoreline alterations is consistent among geographical regions. We compared... | ||
| Compensatory dynamics on the community structure of fruit-feeding butterflies across hyper-fragmented Atlantic forest habitats | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Bruno K.C. Filgueiras, Douglas H.A. Melo, Márcio Uehara-Prado, André Victor L. Freitas, Inara R. Leal, Marcelo TabarelliAbstractThe creation of forest edges promotes a drastic extirpation of forest-dependent species across tropical fragmented landscapes. Yet, this loss of forest-dependent species can be compensated by the proliferation of disturbance-adapted species (winner-loser replacement) maintaining community-level attributes in altered habitats. Here, we test whether this replacement reflects a sort of... | ||
| Relationships between plant species richness and soil pH at the level of biome and ecoregion in Brazil | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Natalia Crespo-Mendes, Alexis Laurent, Hans Henrik Bruun, Michael Zwicky HauschildAbstractSoil pH has been used to indicate how changes in soil acidity can influence species loss. The correlation between soil pH and plant species richness has mainly been studied in North America and Europe, while there is a lack of studies exploring Tropical floras. Here, our aim was therefore to investigate the relationships between terrestrial plant species richness and soil pH for the large Brazilian flora, with spatial... | ||
| Exploring physical wetland vulnerability of Atreyee river basin in India and Bangladesh using logistic regression and fuzzy logic approaches | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Tamal Kanti Saha, Swades PalAbstractIn spite of the immense ecological importance of the wetland, wetland habitats are losing their existence in the floodplain regions. In the present study, we have explored the nature of the physical vulnerability of wetland using logistic regression (LR) and fuzzy logic (FL) approaches for both pre and post-dam periods. LR is selected because initial vulnerable is identified and FL is used to explore the best possible alternative interwoven relation among the parameters. Seven... | ||
| Diet uncertainty analysis strengthens model-derived indicators of food web structure and function | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Jacob W. Bentley, David Hines, Stuart Borrett, Natalia Serpetti, Clive Fox, David G. Reid, Johanna J. HeymansAbstractEcological Network Analysis (ENA) can inform marine management decisions by producing indicators that describe ecosystem health and function. Reporting ENA indicators with uncertainty boundaries lets end-users draw stronger inferences and can increase confidence in model results. However, few studies developing these indicators have estimated uncertainty due to data limitations and computational... | ||
| Impacts of urbanization-induced land-use changes on ecosystem services: A case study of the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region, China | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Wei Liu, Jinyan Zhan, Fen Zhao, Haiming Yan, Fan Zhang, Xiaoqing WeiAbstractEcosystem services value has decreased rapidly caused by land use/land cover changes driven by urbanization during the past decades. Expanding urbanization not only changes the spatial distribution of areas of ecosystem service demand but it also changes the potential functions of ecosystem services. It is necessary to undertake a quantitative analysis of historical changes in land use/land cover in the context of the urban land sprawl... | ||
| Testing the regional transferability of coastal recreation values for report card application with limited data | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Jill Windle, John RolfeAbstractIncluding socio-economic indicators in aquatic health report cards is becoming more common place, with the Gladstone Harbour Report Card a pioneering example in Australia. There has been limited consensus about the selection and range of social and economic indicators applied in different aquatic report cards. However, because tourism and recreation are one of the main ways people experience and enjoy aquatic resources, particularly in coastal areas, these uses have typically been... | ||
| Sample handling and pretreatment as critical points in determining the quality of analytical data during metallothionein determination in wild animals | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Daniela Křivská, Ivana Šestáková, Jiřina Száková, Zuzana Čadková, Zora Kotíková, Iva LangrováAbstractMetallothioneins (MTs) are considered possible markers of environmental pollution, but pre-analysis handling of the tissues in which they are contained can affect their degradation. To determine MT synthesis in wild animals for the purpose of evaluating environmental pollution, the stability of MTs during animal trapping, during the transporting of samples to the laboratory, and during the storing of... | ||
| Multi-city comparison of the relationships between spatial pattern and cooling effect of urban green spaces in four major Asian cities | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Mahyar Masoudi, Puay Yok Tan, Soo Chin LiewAbstractStudies on the role of urban green spaces (UGS) in mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect demonstrate the influence of two related, but distinct attributes of UGS: the composition (amount), and configuration (spatial attributes and distribution) of UGS patches. While the positive role of UGS amount in providing cooling effect seems unequivocal, it is still not possible to develop a consensus on the role of UGS configuration from the small number of... | ||
| Indication of spatial variations in annual cycle of functional traits of periphytic ciliates to environmental heterogeneity in coastal waters | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Xiaoyun Bai, Henglong XuAbstractThe spatial variations of periphytic ciliate functional traits to environmental heterogeneity during an annual cycle were studied at functional trait resolution in a typical coastal area of the Yellow Sea. Samples were monthly collected using microscopic glass slides at four sampling sites within a gradient of pollution during 1-year cycle. The second-stage analysis was carried out to explore the interactions of annual variations in functional traits of the periphytic ciliates... | ||
| Environmental changes promote larger species of Odonata (Insecta) in Amazonian streams | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Diego Fernandes Gomes Pereira, José Max Barbosa de Oliveira Junior, Leandro JuenAbstractSpecies occurrence can be affected by the availability of environments that fit within the limits of variation of its niche and by interaction with other species. Modifications in the environment, especially those caused by mankind, are considered the leading cause for species extinction. Such a response from the species is not random, with patterns that can follow functionality and/or morphology of each taxa. In this... | ||
| Assessing the social performance of municipal solid waste management systems in developing countries: Proposal of indicators and a case study | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Valeria Ibáñez-Forés, María D. Bovea, Claudia Coutinho-Nóbrega, Hozana R. de MedeirosAbstractThis article analyses the social performance of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems in developing countries. For this purpose, a set of social impact categories, indicators and metrics capable of assessing the socio-economic and labour conditions of the different stakeholders involved in the life cycle of a MSW management system is proposed. Specifically, 12 social impact categories and 22 indicators with... | ||
| Capacity as “virtual stock” in ecosystem services accounting | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Alessandra La Notte, Sara Vallecillo, Joachim MaesAbstractInterest in ecosystem services accounting is growing exponentially. There are many un-solved issues that need to be addressed, the notion of capacity is among them. International guidelines suggest that capacity should constitute the link between the ecosystem assets accounts and the ecosystem services accounts. In order to address this issue, the authors use Supply and Use table for ecosystem services to show the relationship between (i) ecosystem assets... | ||
| Sustainability in the Brazilian pampa biome: A composite index to integrate beef production, social equity, and ecosystem conservation | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): David Santos de Freitas, Tamara Esteves de Oliveira, Juliano Morales de OliveiraAbstractThe natural grasslands of the Pampa biome (PB) are maintained by moderate grazing of large ruminants that traditionally occupy the area, offering a place where food production and natural habitat conservation may coexist. The conversion of natural grasslands (NG) into other land covers, and the consequent modifications of natural landscapes, highlights the need for better management strategies to maintain grasslands in good... | ||
| Resolving taxonomic ambiguities: Effects on rarity, projected richness, and indices in macroinvertebrate datasets | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Christy S. Meredith, Anett S. Trebitz, Joel C. HoffmanAbstractBiodiversity information is an important basis for ecological research and environmental assessment, and can be impacted by choices made in the manipulation and analysis of taxonomic data. Such choices include methods for resolving multiple redundant levels of taxonomic resolution, as typically arise with morphological identification of damaged or immature aquatic macro-invertebrates. In particular, the effects of these processing choices on number of... | ||
| The restoration feasibility of degraded Carex Tussock in soda-salinization area in arid region | ||
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| Publication date: March 2019Source: Ecological Indicators, Volume 98Author(s): Xuehong Wang, Dongjie Zhang, Qing Qi, Shouzheng Tong, Yu An, Xianguo Lu, Yan LiuAbstractIn the arid and semi-arid areas, Carex Tussock had deteriorated and disappeared as a result of water deficit and salinization due to human activities and climate changes. A green house experiment was carried out to testify the restoration feasible of Carex Tussock in salinization area. We used a factorial design with two soil conditions (degraded soil occurred salinization and undisturbed soil), two Carex Tussocks (degraded... | ||
