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HOW THE HABITAT OF POLAR BEARS IS CHANGING

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3 April 2018
Photo: Karen Lone, Norsk Polarinstitutt​

By Karen Lone, Benjamin Merkel, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Jon Aars

Polar bears use sea ice as a primary hunting habitat. Climate change is causing major declines in this unique habitat...

The E4 Award

We are happy to announce an open competition for The Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution (The E4 Award). The E4 Award will be given to an early career research scientist (criteria below) who sends an exceptional Review manuscript to Ecography. The topic...

Rodents overlap less in their body size distributions in more diverse communities--could this hold a clue to explaining diversity patterns?

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12 March 2018
Juvenile Microtus pennsylvanicus, North Dakota

By Quentin Read

Ecologists have collected reams of field data, involving much sweat and toil, to explain how competing species — those with similar diets or habitat preferences —...

Clustering or network methods? Comparing different methods for bioregionalisation

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15 February 2018

 

 

Figure 1. Example of co-occurrence network based on presence data. a) Co-occurrence network with locations (green filled circles) and taxa (blue filled circles) and b) Binary matrix of species co-occurrences.​

By Francisco...

Forecasting range shifts of a cold-adapted species under climate change: Are genomic and ecological diversity within species crucial for future resilience?

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13 February 2018

By Spyros Theodoridis

Cold-adapted taxa are experiencing severe range shifts due to climate change and are expected to suffer a significant reduction of their climatically suitable habitats in the next few decades. However, it has been proposed...

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