Wildland fire is one of the major ecological processes that has been widely examined and studied in landscape ecology not only as a threat to public safety, forest communities, and timber values but also an essential process affecting forest health in Canada.
He aims to decipher the main evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped the present pattern of biodiversity.
Despite the interest in ecological processes that have led to the rich avian diversity and endemism of the northern Andes, there has been little research on the diversity of parasites that occur in the region, particularly in the Andes of Ecuador (although see Jones et al. 2013), and even fewer predictions as to how patterns of parasite prevalence may differ across ecological gradients.
Previous work on insect macroevolution [ 14] began with the traditional taxic approach from palaeontology [ 4, 15], to which was added the neontological phylogenetic approach [ 16- 19] which has identified a number of evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped insect diversity [ 14].
The local climate is more likely to directly affect the life cycle dynamics (e.g., reproductive rates, incubation periods) of the disease agents themselves, whereas larger scale factors could also influence broader ecological processes that have important and possibly nonlinear impacts on the disease transmission dynamics (Hallett et al. 2004; Zheng et al. 2008).
Wildfire is an ecological disturbance process that has a heterogeneous global distribution controlled by the coincidence of three basic requirements: vegetative resources to burn, environmental conditions that promote combustion, and ignitions.
Among closely related species of finches or sticklebacks, we can see operating the process that has contributed greatly to the extraordinary ecological diversification of life.
It is argued that the anthropogenic deforestation of El Salvador should be conceptualized not solely as the outcome of a post-colonial unidirectional economic transformation, but instead as a dynamic historical cultural ecological process that has repeatedly waxed and waned over the last several millennia.
To explain how the Quilombolas of Bombas respond to and shape social-ecological changes, this article explores historical and contemporary social, ecological, economic, and political processes that have affected their livelihoods and the Atlantic Forest.
Two main hypotheses have been advanced to explain speciation processes that have led to this high level of biodiversity: allopatric speciation linked to geographic isolation and ecological speciation linked to ecological gradients.
He had better refrain from even implying that the oil spill-generated ecological crisis is over.
