Publications by authors named "J A Brodie"
Population density is a valuable metric used to manage wildlife populations. In the Russian Far East, managers use the Formozov- Malyushev-Pereleshin (FMP) snow tracking method to estimate densities of ungulates for hunting management. The FMP also informs Amur tiger () conservation since estimates of prey density and biomass help inform conservation interventions.
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- Introducing new genes and species into ecosystems can provide benefits like preventing extinctions, but it also poses risks and raises ethical concerns.
- The conservation community has made attempts to create guidelines, yet there is a need for broader principles to help navigate these complex decisions.
- This text proposes an inclusive set of principles that consider biological, legal, social, cultural, and ethical factors to assist conservation managers in making informed choices about emerging technologies.
The urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change necessitates a comprehensive understanding of carbon cycling dynamics. Traditionally, global carbon cycle models have focused on vegetation, but recent research suggests that animals can play a significant role in carbon dynamics under some circumstances, potentially enhancing the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change. However, links between animals, plants, and carbon remain unclear.
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- - Urbanization is transforming cities and suburbs globally, making them more similar to each other and less like the local ecosystems they replaced, but its impact on large-scale ecological patterns is still unclear.
- - A study across 14,000 km in the Americas found that while seed predation increases from high to low latitudes in natural areas, this latitudinal trend remains strong even in urbanized regions despite significant habitat changes.
- - Urbanization reduced overall seed predation and vertebrate predation but had no significant effect on invertebrate predation, while increasing predation by ants, suggesting that urbanization can change predator dynamics and influence the evolution of urban species.
In the marine environment, seaweeds (i.e. marine macroalgae) provide a wide range of ecological services and economic benefits.
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