Publications related to Patch dynamics

Past and future landscape dynamics in pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under climate change

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Thomas Spiegelberger, Joël Chételat, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

Silvopastoral systems are traditional components of the landscape in the Swiss Jura Mountains, and are promising approaches for the sustainable management of mountain areas worldwide. Due to complex vegetation dynamics, pasture-woodlands are very vulnerabl ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

Andrea Rinaldo, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Biological communities often occur in spatially structured habitats where connectivity directly affects dispersal and metacommunity processes. Recent theoretical work suggests that dispersal constrained by the connectivity of specific habitat structures, s ...

2012

Assessing long-term land-use legacies in subalpine grasslands using a plant-trait based generic modelling framework

Aurélie Thébault

Background: In European mountains, where semi-natural grasslands have high cultural and nature conservation value, land-use legacies from past ploughing are associated with distinct floristic compositions and ecosystem properties. It remains unknown if the ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2011

Effects of Colonization Asymmetries on Metapopulation Persistence

Olivier Lévêque, Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Ocean currents, prevailing winds, and the hierarchical structures of river networks are known to create asymmetries in re-colonization between habitat patches. The impacts of such asymmetries on metapopulation persistence are seldom considered, especially ...

Elsevier2010

Effect of dung deposition on small-scale patch structure and seasonal vegetation dynamics in mountain pastures

Alexandre Buttler, Charlotte Vandenberghe, François Gillet

Cattle activity greatly influences plant species composition and biomass production of grassland ecosystems. Dung deposition by cattle together with grazing and trampling can be considered as one of the important factors driving vegetation dynamics in past ...

Elsevier2010

River Networks as Ecological Corridors: a Complex Systems Perspective for Integrating Hydrologic, Geomorphological and Ecologic Dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

This paper synthesizes recent works at the interface of hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology under an integrated framework of analysis with an aim for a general theory. It addresses a wide range of related topics, including biodiversity of freshwater fish ...

American Geophysical Union2009

Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in an agricultural countryside: barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Flavio Zanini, Anna Klingemann

Species movement and occupancy of habitat patches are dependent on landscape permeability. Some land-use types (e.g., roads) may be barriers to animal movement. Analyses of the effect of landscape structure on patch occupancy usually use circular buffers a ...

2008

How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Disturbances affect metapopulations directly through reductions in population size and indirectly through habitat modification. We consider how metapopulation persistence is affected by different disturbance regimes and the way in which disturbances spread ...

Elsevier2007

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Patch dynamics

Past and future landscape dynamics in pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under climate change

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

Establishment patterns in a secondary tree line ecotone

Assessing long-term land-use legacies in subalpine grasslands using a plant-trait based generic modelling framework

Ecohydrological Footprints

Effects of Colonization Asymmetries on Metapopulation Persistence

Effect of dung deposition on small-scale patch structure and seasonal vegetation dynamics in mountain pastures

River Networks as Ecological Corridors: a Complex Systems Perspective for Integrating Hydrologic, Geomorphological and Ecologic Dynamics

Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in an agricultural countryside: barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers

How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence

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Assessing long-term land-use legacies in subalpine grasslands using a plant-trait based generic modelling framework

Past and future landscape dynamics in pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under climate change

Establishment patterns in a secondary tree line ecotone

Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in an agricultural countryside: barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence

Ecohydrological Footprints

Effects of Colonization Asymmetries on Metapopulation Persistence

River Networks as Ecological Corridors: a Complex Systems Perspective for Integrating Hydrologic, Geomorphological and Ecologic Dynamics

Effect of dung deposition on small-scale patch structure and seasonal vegetation dynamics in mountain pastures