Questions tagged [habitat]
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Negative association between habitat quality and reproductive success in birds
I'm looking for bird studies that have found either a negative correlation or no correlation between habitat quality and reproductive success.
Or in other words, bird studies that have found that ...
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What species of bird is this?
We found this fledgling (location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa) under a tree next to the road (the tree's branches are high up, so we could not put it back into the tree). We are trying ...
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What global habitat classification systems are there?
I am an IT guy, not a biologist or ecologist, but have ended up with (roughly) the task "given this Latitude/Longitude pair, return the 'habitat' at that location". The points of interest in ...
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Does the edge effect promote biodiversity?
I define the edge effect as:
A term used to describe what occurs at habitat boundaries where two bordering communities influence one another.
My question is whether it generally leads to an increase ...
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Basic behaviour patterns of animals for a modeling project?
I am working on a project (a tool) for my GIS class that models natural habitat of an animal based on landcovers, distance to the nearest watersource and distance from developed area in Kansas, USA. I ...
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How should I analyze proportional community data, in respect to habitat variables?
I want to analyze how the proportions of groups of species in a biological community correlated to habitat variables. I have 6 functional groups, defined by their similar traits, and I want to know ...
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Habitat requirements of black ant Lasius niger
Does anyone know of any published information on the maximum slope angle and/or minimum soil depth on which the black ant Lasius niger will build its nests? I have read that they won't nest on "a ...
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Is anything known about the speed with which viruses spread geographically in R. affinis (or at least bats in general)?
RaTG13, which is the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 at full genome level, was sampled (just) in a R. affinis (bat) specimen in Yunnan Province... which is about 1,500 km away from Hubei, the ...
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How are sewage, sludge and wastewater natural environments?
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Acinetobacter species can be isolated from such natural environments
as surface water, wastewater and sewage, healthy human skin, plant,
animal and food material as well as domestic appliances.
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