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An assessment of rehabilitation success in an African grassland using ants as bioindicators
(AOSIS, 2016)
Many studies that evaluate rehabilitation make use of invertebrate bioindicators. Invertebrates, especially ants, make useful indicators as they are sensitive to environmental change. We compared ant assemblages in ...
Termite mounds differ in their importance for herbivores across savanna types, seasons and spatial scales
(Nordic Society Oikos, 2016)
Herbivores do not forage uniformly across landscapes, but select for patches of higher nutrition and lower predation risk. Macrotermes mounds contain higher concentrations of soil nutrients and support grasses of higher ...
Methods and approaches for the management of arthropod border incursions
(Springer, 2016)
Biological invasions are increasing and are
strongly associated with negative agricultural, economic and ecological impacts. It is increasingly recognized that the primary focus in minimizing biological invasions should ...
Biogeo: an R package for assessing and improving data quality of occurrence record datasets
(Nordic Society Oikos, 2016)
Occurrence data from museum and herbarium collections are valuable for mapping biodiversity patterns in space and time.
Unfortunately these collections datasets contain many errors and suffer from several data quality ...