EUBrazilOpenBio is a collaborative initiative addressing strategic barriers in biodiversity research by integrating open access data and user-friendly tools widely available in Brazil and Europe. The project deploys the EU-Brazil cloudbased e-infrastructure that allows the sharing of hardware, software and data on-demand. This e-Infrastructure provides access to several integrated services and ...

Disentangling the relative influence of the environment and biotic interactions in determining species coexistence patterns is a major challenge in ecology. The zonation occurring along elevation gradients, or at bioclimatic contact zones, offers a good opportunity to improve such understanding because the small scale at which the partitioning occurs facilitates inference based on experiments a...

AIM The origins of ecological diversity in continental species assemblages have long intrigued biogeographers. We apply phylogenetic comparative analyses to disentangle the evolutionary patterns of ecological niches in an assemblage of European birds. We compare phylogenetic patterns in trophic, habitat and climatic niche components. LOCATION Europe. METHODS From polygon range maps and hand...

Comparing niche divergence among closely related taxa can yield important insights into the ecological distinctiveness of genetically similar forms, and identify the processes that are responsible for diversification in such organisms. Here, we apply newly developed techniques for analysing niche divergence to assess how ecologically distinct a group of closely related rattlesnakes (Sistrurus s...

Biodiversity is declining globally at unprecedented rates. Ecological niche models (ENMs) are one of the most widely used toolsets to appraise global change impacts on biodiversity. Here, we identify a variety advantages incorporating remotely sensed ecosystem functioning attributes (EFAs) into ENMs. The development ENMs that explicitly incorporate will allow more holistic and integrative persp...

Coastal ecosystems, including coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass, are in global decline. Mitigation approaches include restoration other managed recovery interventions. To maximise success, these should be guided by an understanding of the environmental niche geographic limits foundational species. However, choices data, variables, modelling can bewildering when embarking on such exercise, bi...

kolah ghazi national park is one of the most important habitats for wild goat in iran with a population of around 2000 heads. in order to model the habitat for this species, a presence only layer was used as input to enfa method in biomapper software. ecogeographic factors were also used as independent variables including plant community, distribution of predators, geomorphologic features, main...

Division of Evolution, Ecology, and Genetics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2602, Australia, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 900951606, ...

S. Varela ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles Univ., Vinicná 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic. – SV, R. García-Valdés and F. Fernández-González, Inst. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, ES-45071 Toledo, Spain. RG-V also at: Dept of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Calle José Gutié...

A growing body of research on plant-microbe interactions in soil is contributing to the development of a new, microbially based perspective on plant community ecology. Soil-dwelling microorganisms are diverse, and interactions with plants vary with respect to specificity, environmental heterogeneity, and fitness impact. Two microbial processes that may exert key influences on plant community st...