Figure showing the spatial distribution of the maximum of canopy height (m) derived from airborne LiDAR data at 50 cm resolution across the forest of Compiègne in northern France. Copyright by Tarek Hattab (EDYSAN: https://www.u-picardie.fr/edysan/)....
Factors influencing the proportion of scavenging in a vertebrates’ diet. Each of the traits/ factors ranges from low on the left to high on the right. A high value for a given trait can either increase scavenging propensity (+ +) or reduce it (– –), the same is true for a...
Ecosystem productivity is extremely sensitive to small-scale variability of water and nutrient availability. Spatial variation in savanna vegetation in Okavango delta, Botswana. Photo credit: Petr Pokorny.
Winner of the E4 award
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Plant functional types across Amboseli National Park in August 2012 (photo credit: Ryan Nagelkirk).
#E4 award paper #OpenAccess
By Ryan Nagelkirk and Kyla Dahlin
Variety may be the spice of life, but for land surface modelers...
We have the great pleasure to announce the winner and runner-up of the first (2015) Ecography E4 award (The Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution).
First prize nominee (winner): Šímová & Storch “...
Female blackcap caught and ringed during autumn migration. Photo credit: H.H. de Rooij.
By Marleen M.P. Cobben and Arie J. van Noordwijk
Migration is a very wide-spread behavioural strategy to cope with seasonal changes in environmental...
A red junglefowl, (Gallus gallus) on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, where G. gallus is naturalized.
By Kyle Rosenblad
Since McKinney and Lockwood’s (1999) seminal work, a growing body of research has confirmed that human activity...
Assemblages of dragonflies are darker coloured in colder regions and lighter coloured in warmer regions! – A general pattern for insects? Photo: Stefan Pinkert.
By Stefan Pinkert
In this...
The Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina), a spruce-budworm specialist that breeds regularly throughout boreal coniferous forests of North America east of the Western Cordillera, is one of 31 species considered likely to expand its range into the Alaskan boreal...
Thermal benefits of dark body colouration (melanism) are known for various groups of ectotherms like amphibians (alpine salamander Salamandra atra, A) and reptiles (melanistic morph of the adder Vipera berus, B). By studying the body colouration and body...
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