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An experimental test on the effects of dispersal from different habitat sources on community structureNARA Subscribed
Biological interactions, disturbances, and demographic stochasticity often drive population declines and local extinctions. Dispersal can counterbalance these drivers by rescuing small populations or facilitating recolonization. Using freshwater zooplankton in experimental mesocosms, we tested three hypotheses: (1) isolated sites would experience declines in species richness, with ecological drift causing communities to lose d...
Cognition-oriented treatments (COTs) are a group of non-pharmacological treatments aimed at maintaining or improving cognitive functioning. Specific recommendations on the use of these interventions in people living with dementia (PLwD) are included in the Italian Guideline on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment, developed by the Italian National Institute of Health. This systematic review and...
MACHINA, the Movable Accelerator for Cultural Heritage In-situ Non-destructive Analysis: project overviewNARA Subscribed
Over the years, transportable instrumentation for cultural heritage (CH) in situ measurements has noticeably widespread, due to logistic, economical and safety reasons. Ion beam analysis, a powerful set of analytical techniques, of great importance for CH, is instead carried out by using fixed instrumentation. To overcome this limit, the Italian national Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Re...
Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversityNARA Subscribed
Ecological drift can override the effects of deterministic niche selection on small populations and drive the assembly of some ecological communities. We tested this hypothesis with a unique data set sampled identically in 200 streams in two regions (tropical Brazil and boreal Finland) that differ in macroinvertebrate community size by fivefold. Null models allowed us to estimate the magnitude to which β‐diversity deviates fro...
Aim Although parameter estimates are not as affected by spatial autocorrelation as Type I errors, the change from classical null hypothesis significance testing to model selection under an information theoretic approach does not completely avoid problems caused by spatial autocorrelation. Here we briefly review the model selection approach based on the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and present a new routine for Spatial An...
Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian CerradoNARA Subscribed
Towards an integrated computational tool for spatial analysis in macroecology and biogeographyNARA Subscribed
Because most macroecological and biodiversity data are spatially autocorrelated, special tools for describing spatial structures and dealing with hypothesis testing are usually required. Unfortunately, most of these methods have not been available in a single statistical package. Consequently, using these tools is still a challenge for most ecologists and biogeographers. In this paper, we present sam (Spatial Analysis in Macro...
Macroecological correlates and spatial patterns of anuran description dates in the Brazilian CerradoNARA Subscribed
Aim To quantify the relationship between the description dates of anuran species in the Brazilian Cerrado and some macroecological traits, and to verify the spatial patterns of average description dates and their correlation with human occupation and biodiversity knowledge. Location Brazilian Cerrado (South America). Methods The average date of description of 131 species of anurans found in 181 cells overlaying the Brazilian C...
Lomborg and the Litany of Biodiversity Crisis: What the Peer‐Reviewed Literature SaysNARA Subscribed
book has generated passionate discussion about the state of the global environment. We performed a bibliometric evaluation of the peer‐reviewed primary scientific literature to determine whether there is any consistent evidence that “things are getting better.” The global literature primarily reported negative impacts on biodiversity caused by human actions, although Europe appeared to be doing better than the rest of the worl...