Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Journals "Ecosphere"
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Back to Africa: monitoring post-hydropower restoration to facilitate reintroduction of an extinct-in-the-wild amphibian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-11)Monitoring of the ecological efficiency of different restoration and mitigation measures is important to inform decision-making but can be challenging, especially in remote and low-resource settings. Species composition ... -
Contingent faculty in ecology and STEM: an uneven landscape of challenges for higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The number of contingent or non‐tenure‐track faculty at colleges and universities in the United States has been growing over the past several decades; they now constitute nearly 70% of the non‐student academic workforce. ... -
Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land-use changes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01-10)Compositional changes in Himalayan vegetation in response to the major drivers of biodiver- sity loss, climate change and land-use change, are barely documented. We quantify temporal changes in the alpine vegetation of ... -
Functional traits of alpine plant communities show long-term resistance to changing herbivore densities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Herbivores shape vegetation by suppressing certain plant species while benefitting others. By thus modifying plant species functional composition, herbivores affect carbon cycling, albedo, vegetation structure and species' ... -
Geographic patterns in range sizes and their drivers of endemic angiosperms in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Geographic range size of endemic species is the most important indicator of species' vulnerability to extinction and conservation prioritization, yet variation in range size among species and across space has been relatively ...