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Oak regeneration patterns in pine forestsForest regeneration is a complex proces driven by many interacting factors. In this TPT master (UdL) study, Óscar Santafé supervised by Carol Puerta have investigated the factor determining natural regeneration patterns of oak sedlings in pine forests (Pinus nigra) in Catalonia.The results point to the ...
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Ecography 33(1) is the first issue of volume 33 published by Ecography in February 2010, which includes a special section dedicated to “Understanding (insect) species distributions across spatial scales”. This sections is composed of an Editorial and 11 Research papers providing an integral up-to-date overview of the spatial determinants of ...
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ECO-LAND members have attended and significantly contributed to the 18th Conference held in Cáceres, Spain, between 22-26th March.The conference was a meeting place for ornithologists and conservation biologists all over Europe who reported on last news regarding mapping and monitoring of birds all across de continent. Elena Lopez-Zozaya presented DINDIS ...
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In this new study and in collaboration with researchers from the Catalan Ornithological Institute (ICO) we developed a simple quantitative method to assist in the decision making process of the landscape planning by integrating information of species occurrence and their individual IUCN extinction risks.We applied this method in Catalonia using ...
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In order to test hypotheses about changes in the environment induced by man, including climatic change, ecologists are sampling portions of the environment repeatedly across time.This new paper co-authored by Miquel de Cáceres paper describes a method for testing a space–time interaction in repeated ecological survey data, when there is ...
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Biology and habitat use of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in intermittent Mediterranean streams.The three-spined stickleback has one of the largest distribution ranges among freshwater fishes, being found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments in Eurasia and North America. Throughout its huge range, stickleback is often abundant and thus it is ...
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