Collectively, these results suggest that the spatial variability of greendown in this oak-hickory forest is most strongly controlled by an interaction of topographic and species compositional drivers operating at the landscape and tree crown levels.
However, we do acknowledge that our strategy will not be able to identify species-specific drivers.
The army ants of South America, such as the Eciton burchellii species, and the driver ants of Africa do not build permanent nests, but instead, alternate between nomadism and stages where the workers form a temporary nest (bivouac) from their own bodies, by holding each other together.
A new paradigm that gene exchange between species being a driver in the evolution of adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, has increased excitement in the field [ 1].
Not only are there numerous exceptions (e.g., insects, bats, rabbits, squirrels, hamsters, and whales), but this anthropocentric thinking could also lead to a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be male or female in different species of organisms (Driver et al., 1994).
Land use alteration is recognized as a threat for many aquatic species, but demographic drivers of land use associated declines are poorly studied.
In turn, these help generate predictions about the interplay of invasive species and other drivers of ecosystem processes that are of particular relevance to ecosystems where invasive species co-occur with other anthropogenic impacts.
The diminishing rates of return after 3 km for the large tree community (numbers of species and ecological drivers sampled) suggests that this is a suitable and ecologically meaningful transect length.
The most abundant microbial species are important drivers of carbon and nutrient cycling in soil.
Non-native species were the drivers of this community composition change (Figs 1 and 2).
