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Predictability and constraints on the structure of ecological communities in the context of climate change

Creator:

Barner, Allison K.

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Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may be infeasible. Although information about responses of individual species to a changing environment is increasing, scaling such information to the community...

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................................................................................................205 APPENDIX E – CHAPTER 3 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES AND FIGURES ..........214 APPENDIX F – WAVE
Coastal Dune Ecology, Geomorphology, and Ecosystem Services : How Invasive Beachgrasses, their Interactions, and Sediment Dynamics Shape U.S. Pacific Northwest Dunes

Creator:

Biel, Reuben G.

Abstract:

Biological invasions and climate change represent two preeminent threats to ecological communities and biodiversity, altering the distribution and abundance of species, disrupting existing species interactions and forming unprecedented ones, and creating novel ecological communities. Many of the most successful invasive species are also ecosystem engineers, species that physically modify the...

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