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Nutrient pollution enhances productivity and framework dissolution in algae- but not in coral-dominated reef communities
Nils Rädecker, Hal Hunt Jones II
Ecosystem services provided by coral reefs may be susceptible to the combined effects of benthic species shifts and anthropogenic nutrient pollution, but related field studies are scarce. We thus investigated in situ how dissolved inorganic nutrient enrich ...
2021A minimalist model of extinction and range dynamics of virtual mountain species driven by warming temperatures
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Damiano Pasetto, Jonathan Giezendanner
A longstanding question in ecology concerns the prediction of the fate of mountain species under climate change, where climatic and geomorphic factors but also endogenous species characteristics are jointly expected to control species distributions. A sign ...
2019Effects of altered river network connectivity on the distribution of Salmo trutta: Insights from a metapopulation model
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Luca Carraro, Alexia Maria Gonzalez Ferreras
Network connectivity is a key feature of rivers that affects patterns and processes in lotic ecosystems. Few studies have considered how changes in river reach connectivity might affect ecosystem attributes at a whole river network scale. The use of popula ...
WILEY2019Persistence of butterfly populations in fragmented habitats along urban density gradients: motility helps
Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer
In a simulation study of genotypes conducted over 100 generations for more than 1600 butterfly’s individuals, we evaluate how the increase of anthropogenic fragmentation and reduction of habitat size along urbanisation gradients (from 7% to 59% of impervio ...
Nature Publishing Group2017How do subordinate and dominant species in semi-natural mountain grasslands relate to productivity and land-use change?
Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Thomas Spiegelberger
Changes in agricultural practices of semi-natural mountain grasslands are expected to modify plant community structure and shift dominance patterns. Using vegetation surveys of 11 sites in semi-natural grasslands of the Swiss Jura and Swiss and French Alps ...
Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer Verlag2013Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Dendritic Metacommunities
The present thesis deals with the understanding of the origins and the mechanisms of maintenance of biodiversity in natural landscapes, in particular by identifying key processes that define large-scale patterns of abundance and diversity. Biological commu ...
EPFL2013Dendritic 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 ...
2012Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities
Andrea Rinaldo, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt
Metacommunity theory poses that the occurrence and abundance of species is a product of local factors, including disturbance, and regional factors, like dispersal among patches. While metacommunity ideas have been broadly tested there is relatively little ...
Public Library of Science2011High-density collagen gel tubes as a matrix for primary human bladder smooth muscle cells
Peter Frey, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Lionel Ambroise Micol
Tissue-engineered grafts for the urinary tract are being investigated for the potential treatment of several urologic diseases. These grafts, predominantly tubular-shaped, usually require in vitro culture prior to implantation to allow cell engraftment on ...
Elsevier2011Landscape structure affects dispersal in the greater white-toothed shrew: inference between genetic and simulated ecological distances
Dispersal is often viewed as a process on which the landscape has little effect. This is particularly apparent in populations’ genetic and ecological studies, where isolation by distance is generally tested using a Euclidean distance between populations. H ...
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