Faculty Opinions recommendation of Opposite latitudinal patterns for bird and arthropod predation revealed in experiments with differently colored artificial prey.

AbstractThe complexity of forest structures plays a crucial role in regulating forest ecosystem functions and strongly influences biodiversity. Yet, knowledge of the global patterns and determinants of forest structural complexity remains scarce. Using a stand structural complexity index based on terrestrial laser scanning, we quantify the structural complexity of boreal, temperate, subtropical and tropical primary forests. We find that the global variation of forest structural complexity is largely explained by annual precipitation and precipitation seasonality (R² = 0.89). Using the structural complexity of primary forests as benchmark, we model the potential structural complexity across biomes and present a global map of the potential structural complexity of the earth´s forest ecoregions. Our analyses reveal distinct latitudinal patterns of forest structure and show that hotspots of high structural complexity coincide with hotspots of plant diversity. Considering the mechanistic underpinnings of forest structural complexity, our results suggest spatially contrasting changes of forest structure with climate change within and across biomes.

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Contrasting latitudinal patterns in diversity and stability in a high‐latitude species‐rich moth community

Global Ecology and Biogeography ◽

10.1111/geb.13252 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 572-572

Keyword(s):

High Latitude ◽

Latitudinal Patterns

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Bird and mammal conservation in Gaoligongshan Region and Jingdong County, Yunnan, China: patterns of species richness and nature reserves

Oryx ◽

10.1046/j.1365-3008.2000.00131.x ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 275-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Daoying Lan ◽

Robin Dunbar

Keyword(s):

Species Richness ◽

Population Density ◽

Human Population ◽

Yunnan Province ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

Present Situation ◽

Primary Forest ◽

Mammal Conservation ◽

Latitudinal Patterns ◽

Conservation Of Biodiversity

AbstractElevational and latitudinal patterns of species richness for birds and mammals were compared with human population density in relation to nature reserve designation in two areas of Yunnan Province, China. Results suggest that species richness is not the same for the two areas. In Gaoligongshan Region, species richness is inversely correlated with elevation and altitude, while reserve designation is positively correlated with elevation and latitude. In Jingdong County, reserve designations are positively correlated with elevation, but species richness shows no clear trends. In general, the present situation is strongly influenced by human activities. It appears that reserve designation is mismatched with species richness in Gaoligongshan Region, while there is a better fit between the two in Jingdong County. In both areas, however, it appeared that reserves were located primarily in order to reduce conflict with humans rather than to maximize conservation of biodiversity, probably because humans were responsible for forest—especially primary forest—destruction and degradation in the low-lying areas.

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Erratum to: Arthropod Predation by a Specialist Seed Predator, the Golden-backed Uacari (Cacajao melanocephalus ouakary, Pitheciidae) in Brazilian Amazonia

International Journal of Primatology ◽

10.1007/s10764-013-9693-9 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 860-860

Author(s):

A. A. Barnett ◽

B. Ronchi-Teles ◽

T. Almeida ◽

A. Deveny ◽

V. Schiel-Baracuhy ◽

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Keyword(s):

Seed Predator ◽

Brazilian Amazonia ◽

Arthropod Predation ◽

Cacajao Melanocephalus

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Reanalysis of Flash Floods and Debris Flows on two continents and their management strategies

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-373 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Juan Daniel Rios-Arboleda

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Developing Countries ◽

South America ◽

Debris Flow ◽

Debris Flows ◽

Large Scale ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Original Analysis ◽

Risk Management Strategies ◽

Latitudinal Patterns

This research expands the original analysis of Baker and Costa (1987) including data from Europe and South America with the objective to understand if there are emerging latitudinal patterns. In addition, the threshold proposed by Zimmermann et al. (1997) it is evaluated with the data from tropical zones finding that this is a good predictor.Mainly, recent Debris Flow occurred in South America are analyzed with the aim of identifying the best risk management strategies and their replicability for developing countries, particularly, the cases that have occurred in Colombia and Venezuela in the last 30 years are analyzed in order to compare management strategies and understand which are the most vulnerable areas to this phenomenon.It is concluded that large-scale and multinational projects such as SED ALP are required in South America to better characterize events that have left multiple fatalities (sometimes hundreds of people) and better understand how to manage the risk on densely populated areas.Finally, the use of amateur videos is proposed to characterize these events in nations with limited budgets for projects such as SED ALP, methodology that will be described extensively in later works.

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