Detecting shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands using UAS LiDAR.

Shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands threatens local biodiversity unless management is applied to reduce shrub density. Dense vegetation of homogenizes the landscape negatively affecting local plant diversity. Detecting structural change (e.

Rewiring and indirect effects underpin modularity reshuffling in a marine food web under environmental shifts.

Species are characterized by physiological and behavioral plasticity, which is part of their response to environmental shifts. Nonetheless, the collective response of ecological communities to environmental shifts cannot be predicted from the simple sum of individual species responses, since co-existing species are deeply entangled in interaction networks, such as food webs. For these reasons, the relation between environmental forcing and the structure of food webs is an open problem in ecology.

Effects of vegetation management intensity on biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyards: A meta-analysis.

At the global scale, vineyards are usually managed intensively to optimize wine production without considering possible negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) such as high soil erosion rates, degradation of soil fertility or contamination of groundwater. Winegrowers regulate competition for water and nutrients between the vines and inter-row vegetation by tilling, mulching and/or herbicide application. Strategies for more sustainable viticulture recommend maintaining vegetation cover in inter-rows, however, there is a lack of knowledge as to what extent this less intensive inter-row management affects biodiversity and associated ES.

Prevalence dependence in model goodness measures with special emphasis on true skill statistics.

It has long been a concern that performance measures of species distribution models react to attributes of the modeled entity arising from the input data structure rather than to model performance. Thus, the study of Allouche et al. (, 43, 1223, 2006) identifying the true skill statistics (TSS) as being independent of prevalence had a great impact.