Background: During range expansion in spatially distributed habitats, organisms differ from one another in terms of their patterns of localization versus propagation. To exploit locations or explore the landscape? This is ...

The Del Plata Basin is one of the largest watersheds in the world and is the epicenter of MERCOSUR activities in the Southern Cone of South America. Because of the quick expansion of agricultural activities during the ...

© 2017 Botanical Society of Scotland and Taylor & Francis. Background: Seed mass is a life history trait that is related to invasiveness. Under limiting conditions, a trade-off is observed whereby an increase in seed mass ...

Community ecology seeks to understand and predict the characteristics of communities that can develop under different environmental conditions, but most theory has been built on analytical models that are limited in the ...

Community ecology seeks to understand and predict the characteristics of communities that can develop under different environmental conditions, but most theory has been built on analytical models that are limited in the ...

The restoration of deforested or degraded areas can contribute to biodiversity conservation and global resilience given the current and projected impacts of climate change. In recent years, a robust array of ecological ...

Highlights •We developed a spatial indicator to assess opportunities for recreation and tourism. •We found trade-offs between agricultural commodities and this indicator. •Spatially represented, trade-off was diffuse ...