Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security

N Ramankutty, Z Mehrabi, K Waha… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstrip** food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

[HTML][HTML] Frugivory and seed dispersal by vertebrates in tropical and subtropical Asia: An update

RT Corlett - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Seed dispersal is a key process in plant communities and frugivory is very important in
vertebrate communities. This paper updates a review of frugivory and seed dispersal by …

TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access

J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

TRY–a global database of plant traits

J Kattge, S Diaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Feedback in tropical forests of the Anthropocene

BM Flores, A Staal - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are complex systems containing myriad interactions and feedbacks with
their biotic and abiotic environments, but as the world changes fast, the future of these …

Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal

AL Teixido, LF Fuzessy, CS Souza, IN Gomes… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global anthropogenic changes cause major impacts on species interactions, with cascading
effects on ecosystem functioning. Animal-mediated pollination and seed dispersal are major …

Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico

C Ureta, M Ramírez‐Barrón… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a need to revise the framework used to project species risks under climate change
(CC) and land‐use/cover change (LUCC) scenarios. We built a CC risk index using the …

Do Eucalyptus plantation forests support biodiversity conservation?

D Lemessa, B Mewded, A Legesse, H Atinfau… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The viewpoints concerning the impacts of Eucalyptus on biodiversity remain divergent. Here,
we conducted a comparative ecological analysis by assessing the floristic compositions of …

Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments

H Gaber, F Ruland, JM Jeschke… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanisation alters biodiversity patterns and threatens to disrupt mutualistic interactions.
Aside from pollination, however, little is known about how mutualisms change in cities. Our …

Fauna as passengers and drivers in vegetation restoration: a synthesis of processes and evidence

CP Catterall - Ecological Management & Restoration, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to restore terrestrial woody ecosystems to former agricultural land are typically based
on plant‐focused actions, often neglecting fauna. However, the processes that maintain or …