Publications by authors named "Hugo Mell"
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- Linear transportation infrastructures can fragment species habitats, yet their verges (such as grass strips or embankments) may provide continuous habitats and corridors for vascular plants in temperate ecosystems.
- The researchers conducted a comprehensive literature review to evaluate whether these verges can effectively support biodiversity, focusing on vascular plants and assessing various studies for relevance and bias.
- The findings synthesized in this paper underscore the potential role of verges as habitats, but also highlight the complexities and controversies surrounding their conservation value amid landscape management practices.
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- Tropical coral reefs, covering only 0.1% of the Earth's surface, are home to immense marine biodiversity and provide essential services, but face threats from global issues like climate change and local challenges such as chemical pollution.
- This study systematically reviewed experiments on chemical toxicity to reef-building corals to create useful data for ecological risk assessment, determining toxicity thresholds and comparing them to regulatory safety levels for marine life.
- The research leveraged a comprehensive database of ecotoxicological studies to ensure rigorous evaluation of the impacts of pollutants on corals, assessing the quality of the studies and aiming to create actionable knowledge for ecosystem management.
Pepper & Nettle explain the behavioral constellation of deprivation (BCD) in terms of differences in collection risk (i.e., the probability of collecting a reward after some delay) between high- and low-socioeconomic-status (SES) populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe agree with Van Lange et al. that climate is likely to affect individuals' social behavior in many ways. However, we suspect that its impact on physiology and psychology is so remote that its predictive power disintegrates almost completely through the causal chain underlying aggression and violence.
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