Correspondence José Martín, Departamento ae Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencías Naturales, eSle, José Gutiérrez Abaseal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spaín, Tel. +34914111328; Fax: +34 915645078 Email: [email protected] Amphisbaenians are reptiles specialized for a fossoríal lifestyle, which may limit their opportunities for microhabitat selection in comparison with epigeal reptiles, \Ve ...

Understanding the key aspects of plant regeneration from seeds is crucial in assessing species assembly to their habitats. However, the regenerative traits of seed dormancy and germination are underrepresented in this context. In the alpine zone, the large species and microhabitat diversity provide an ideal context to assess habitat-related regenerative strategies. To this end, seeds of 53 spec...

Characterizing habitat associations of species is fundamental to understanding the mechanistic basis of community organization. Typically, investigators estimate microhabitat characteristics that account for significant amounts of variation in species composition. Nonetheless, highly resolved microhabitat characteristics may account for no more variation in species composition than coarse macro...

—The management and recovery of populations of bull trout Salvelinus confluentus requires a comprehensive understanding of habitat use across different systems, life stages, and life history forms. To address these needs, we collected microhabitat use and availability data in three fluvial populations of bull trout in eastern Oregon. We evaluated diel differences in microhabitat use, the consis...

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Climate variability and hominin evolution are inextricably linked. Yet, hypotheses examining the impact of large-scale climate shifts on landscape ecology often constrained by proxy data coming from off-site lake ocean cores temporal offsets between paleoenvironmental archaeological records. Additionally, response (most commonly, records vegetation change), used as a proxy. This is problematic ...

Habitat selection is the process by which individuals choose among available habitat patches. Habitat availability” as how accessible and procurable physical and biological components of a habitat are to animals. Research on small mammal habitat use helps to broaden their knowledge. Small mammals are often used as an indicator species group to reflect some aspects of “integrity. Small mammal ab...

Striking evolutionary convergence can lead to similar sets of species in different locations, such as in cichlid fishes and Anolis lizards, and suggests that evolution can be repeatable and predictable across clades. Yet, most examples of convergence involve relatively small temporal and/or spatial scales. Some authors have speculated that at larger scales (e.g., across continents), differing e...

Spatial heterogeneity of abiotic factors influences patterns of seedling establishment at different scales. In stress-prone ecosystems such as Mediterranean ones, heterogeneity generated by shrubs has been shown to facilitate the establishment of tree species. However, how this facilitation is affected by spatial scale remains poorly understood. We have experimentally analysed the consequences ...