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Ecosystem engineering and leaf quality together affect arthropod community structure and diversity on white oak (Quercus alba L.)
Shelter building caterpillars act as ecosystem engineers by creating and maintaining leaf shelters, which are then colonized by other arthropods....
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Ecosystem engineering kelp limits recruitment of mussels and microphytobenthic algae
Ecosystem engineers often exert strong effects on the recruitment of other species through modification of the local abiotic and biotic environment....
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Insects in Environmental Engineering and Ecosystem Services
Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms on this earth. They are the environmental engineers, and the major service providers to our...
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Are Ecosystem Engineering Traits Fixed or Flexible: A Study on Clonal Expansion Strategies in Co-occurring Dune Grasses
Many vegetated coastal ecosystems are formed through ecosystem engineering by clonal vegetation. Recent work highlights that the spatial shoot...
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A Cosmic View of ‘Tundra Gardens’: Satellite Imagery Provides a Landscape-Scale Perspective of Arctic Fox Ecosystem Engineering
Most animal ecology studies using remote sensing data have assessed how environmental characteristics shape animal abundance, distribution, or...
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Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers
Climate change and its consequences such as sea-level rise will modify environmental gradients, altering the spatial spread and persistence of plant...
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Ecosystem Services
The ecosystem services concept represents the benefits provided by nature to people. This concept has been increasingly applied through the past two...
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Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding
Anthropomorphic activities have caused major damage to ecosystems worldwide. Although documenting this damage is important, implementing measures to...
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Ecosystem Engineers: “Old Songs about the First Things” or the Concept We Have Never Noticed (Overview of the Problem)
Abstract —The concept of ecosystem engineering focuses on how organisms physically change the abiotic environment and how this affects the biota...
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Measures in the Practice of Ecosystem Restoration
The measures applied for the restoration of ecosystem range from the well-known measures applied in nature conservation management, agriculture, and...
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide....
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Ecosystem services generated by Neotropical freshwater fishes
To understand how Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFF) benefit society, we conducted a broad literature survey to (i) map and list the ecosystem...
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Economic value of mangrove ecosystem services in the coastal area of Bintan Island, Indonesia
The mangrove ecosystem in Bintan Regency provides many benefits, both directly and indirectly, for the people around it. Mangrove ecosystem services...
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Characterization of Reservoir Ecosystem
This chapter intends to describe the ecosystem characterization of the reservoir and understands the effect of various environmental stressors on the...
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Exploring the ecosystem health of a tropical Indian estuary using mass-balanced ecosystem model
Estuaries provide life support to aquatic biota and livelihood support to fishermen and local inhabitants. However, the ecosystem function of...
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Mangroves of Malaysia: a comprehensive review on ecosystem functions, services, restorations, and potential threats of climate change
Mangroves stand as unique blue-carbon ecosystems in intertidal tropical and subtropical coastal regions, renowned for their significant contributions...
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Burrow builders as ecosystem engineers for pit-building antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
Burrow builders are often classified as ecosystem engineers because their digging activities regulate the availability of resources for other...
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Ecosystem Resilience
In this chapter, the concept of ecosystem resilience is reviewed. The concept of panarchy is approached since it allows us to understand the complex...
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Ecosystem engineering by endangered Mongolian marmots supports darkling beetles
Mongolian marmots ( Marmota sibirica ) live in colonies that consist of numerous burrows and are considered ecosystem engineers. Although once a common...
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Norms and Values in Ecosystem Restoration
While restoration ecology, as a scientific sub-discipline of ecology, generates and analyses data and facts qualitatively and quantitatively and...