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Publikováno v:
Fire Ecology. 8:32-40
Prevalence of parasites can be an indicator of individual and population health of hosts. Populations of parasites can be affected by habitat management practices, however, which in turn can affect prevalence on hosts. We assessed the influence of va
Autor:
Robert K. Swihart, Carol E. Rizkalla
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of Zoology. 90:222-236
Measuring connectivity in fragmented landscapes remains a central problem in ecology. Connectivity metrics range from descriptors of landscape structure to direct observations of a species’ ability to move to and colonize a forest patch. We constru
Autor:
Carol E. Rizkalla, Anne Savage
Publikováno v:
Journal of Coastal Research. 27:166-173
As coastal development becomes increasingly threatened by erosion, installation of armoring such as seawalls has been applied to protect property by permanently relocating the position of a dune. The physical impact of seawalls to beach ecosystems is
Autor:
Carol E. Rizkalla, Robert K. Swihart
Publikováno v:
Environmental Management. 44:899-908
Forest cover in the upper Wabash River basin in Indiana was fragmented due to agricultural conversion beginning more than 175 years ago. Currently, urban expansion is an important driver of land-use change in the basin. A land transformation model wa
Publikováno v:
Landscape Ecology. 24:77-88
In fragmented landscapes, the likelihood that a species occupies a particular habitat patch is thought to be a function of both patch area and patch isolation. Ecologically scaled landscape indices (ESLIs) combine a species’ ecological profile, i.e
Autor:
Robert K. Swihart, Carol E. Rizkalla
Publikováno v:
Biological Conservation. 140:339-348
Functional connectivity is a measure of the interaction of landscape structure and a spe- cies' dispersal ability to determine the degree to which a landscape facilitates movement among patches. Dispersal through an inhospitable matrix requires that
Publikováno v:
EcoHealth. 4:151-155
The 2003 outbreak of Ebola in the Republic of Congo killed 114 people and up to 800 western lowland gorillas. This outbreak and all outbreaks between 2001–2003 began with human handling of infected animal carcasses. Ebola has since spread, putting
Publikováno v:
Journal of Mammalogy. 88:564-572
Few investigators have considered whether predictors of species occurrence from 1 locality are useful predictors in others, or how regional factors may constrain occurrence. We used landowner questionnaires over 6 regions in Indiana to test the perfo
Autor:
Robert K. Swihart, Carol E. Rizkalla
Publikováno v:
Landscape Ecology. 21:1361-1375
Several studies have shown that wetland loss and habitat fragmentation can alter diversity and abundance of herpetofauna, but taxonomic attention has been skewed towards amphibians. We assessed responses of aquatic turtles to features at multiple spa
Publikováno v:
Diversity Distributions. 12:277-287
Extant species in human-dominated landscapes differ in their sensitivity to habitat loss and fragmentation, although extinctions induced by environmental alteration reduce variation and result in a surviving subset of species with some degree of ‘r