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Uncovering ecological patterns with convolutional neural networks.

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Using remotely sensed imagery to identify biophysical components across landscapes is an important avenue of investigation for ecologists studying ecosystem dynamics. With high-resolution remotely sensed imagery, algorithmic utilization of image context...

Elephants limit aboveground carbon gains in African savannas.

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Understanding the drivers of vegetation carbon dynamics is essential for climate change mitigation and effective policy formulation. However, most efforts focus on abiotic drivers of plant biomass change, with little consideration for functional roles...

A checklist of the termites of Kruger National Park, South Africa

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The protection of biodiversity is critical to ecosystem function and is a primary management goal for conservation areas globally. Maintaining a current inventory of known diversity is a central component of achieving this goal and serves as an essential...

Combining behavioural and LiDAR data to reveal relationships between canopy structure and orangutan nest site selection in disturbed forests.

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Primary tropical forests are becoming increasingly disturbed and fragmented, making it critically important to understand the conservation value of degraded forests. Many populations of even the largest and most iconic species are now found outside of...

Are Termite Mounds Always Grazing Hotspots? Grazing Variability with Mound Size, Season and Geology in an African Savanna.

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Foraging site selection by large herbivores is influenced by multiple factors varying across landscapes and spatial scales. Termite mounds harbour highly nutritious plants compared with the savanna matrix, making them preferred foraging patches in many...

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle.

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Predicting and managing the global carbon cycle requires scientific understanding of ecosystem processes that control carbon uptake and storage. It is generally assumed that carbon cycling is sufficiently characterized in terms of uptake and exchange...

Woody encroachment slows decomposition and termite activity in an African savanna

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Woody encroachment can lead to a complete switch from open habitats to dense thickets, and has the potential to greatly alter the biodiversity and ecological functioning of grassy ecosystems across the globe. Plant litter decomposition is a critical...

Megafaunal effects on vegetation structure throughout a densely wooded African landscape

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Megafauna strongly affect vegetation structure and composition, often leading to management concern. However, the extent of their influence across large scales and varying ecosystems remains largely unknown. Using high resolution airborne Light Detection...

Geology drives the spatial patterning and structure of termite mounds in an African savanna.

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Termite mounds perform important roles in savanna ecosystems, generating heterogeneity and influencing ecosystem processes across multiple trophic levels. However, the influence the environment and neighboring termite colonies have on mound spatial...

Contrasting termite diversity and assemblages on granitic and basaltic African savanna landscapes

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Termites are recognised soil ecosystem engineers in the tropics and sub-tropics, making the understanding of their distribution a priority. However, there is a poor understanding of how differences in soil properties and plant biomass productivity affect...

Canopy structure drives orangutan habitat use in disturbed Bornean forests

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Bornean orangutans are critically endangered, and their numbers continue to decline despite decades of conservation effort. Management strategies aimed at protecting primary forest are proving insufficient, and new approaches are required to ensure the...

Riparian vegetation structure and the hunting behavior of adult estuarine crocodiles

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Riparian ecosystems are amongst the most biodiverse tropical habitats. They are important, and essential, ecological corridors, linking remnant forest fragments. In this study, we hypothesised that crocodile’s actively select nocturnal resting locations...