Manipulating water for amphibian conservation

R Mathwin, S Wassens, J Young, Q Ye… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Amphibian populations globally are in decline. One great threat is the abstraction of water
resources that alter surface‐water hydrology. Conservation actions aimed at restoring or …

Distance decay 2.0–a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

C Graco‐Roza, S Aarnio, N Abrego… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

The ecological role of ponds in a changing world

R Céréghino, D Boix, HM Cauchie, K Martens, B Oertli - Hydrobiologia, 2014 - Springer
The fifth conference of the European Pond Conservation Network (Luxembourg, June 2012)
brought together researchers, environmental managers, and other stakeholders with the aim …

Assessing the effect of sample bias correction in species distribution models

N Dubos, C Préau, M Lenormand, G Papuga… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Open-source biodiversity databases contain a large number of species occurrence records
but are often spatially biased; which affects the reliability of species distribution models …

Habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes improving multi-functionality of constructed wetlands as nature-based solutions

C Préau, J Tournebize, M Lenormand, S Alleaume… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prevention of biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes to protect ecosystem stability
and functions is of major importance in itself and for the maintenance of associated …

Effects of habitat and landscape quality on amphibian assemblages of urban stormwater ponds

L Holtmann, K Philipp, C Becke, T Fartmann - Urban Ecosystems, 2017 - Springer
Urbanisation is one of the most severe drivers of current global biodiversity loss and has
contributed to severe declines in many amphibian species. The aim of this study was to …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial analysis of the potential exposure of amphibians to plant protection products at the landscape scale

G Churko, E Szerencsits, A Aldrich… - Basic and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plant protection products (PPPs) are among the many drivers that lead to the loss of
biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and they are a contributing factor to the global decline …

A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

A Jeliazkov, D Mijatovic, S Chantepie, N Andrew… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The use of functional information in the form of species traits plays an important role in
explaining biodiversity patterns and responses to environmental changes. Although …

Landscape context is more important than wetland buffers for farmland amphibians

ME Sawatzky, AE Martin, L Fahrig - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In regions with high rates of wetland loss, remnant wetlands and constructed ponds can
provide important breeding habitat for amphibians. However, such wetlands are often …

[HTML][HTML] An effective superpixel-based graph convolutional network for small waterbody extraction from remotely sensed imagery

W Shi, H Sui - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Small waterbodies sustain susceptible ecosystems and are influenced by variable dynamics
associated with human activities and environmental disturbances. Although remote sensing …