1,146 research outputs found
The âsurplusâ dairy calf: understanding dairy-beef supply chain relationships and the implications for calf welfare
The âsurplusâ dairy calf: understanding dairy-beef supply chain relationships and the implications for calf welfare
Existing and near-to-market methane reducing feed additives and technologies:Evidence of Efficacy, Regulatory Pathways to Market and Mechanisms to Incentivise Adoption
Existing and near-to-market methane reducing feed additives and technologies:Evidence of Efficacy, Regulatory Pathways to Market and Mechanisms to Incentivise Adoption
Towards the general mechanistic prediction of community dynamics
âWhat controls the distribution and abundance of organismsâ? This question, at the heart of the dynamics of ecological communities, would have been familiar to the earliest ecologists. Having lain effectively abandoned for many years, community dynamics today is a vibrant research topic of great conceptual interest with practical import for conservation, ecological management, ecosystem services and the responses of ecological communities to climate change. We describe how modern coexistence theory can be applied to predict community dynamics through the use of demography. We explore the challenges that limit the deployment of this demographic framework, and the tools from phylogenetic and functional ecology that have been used to surmount them. Finding existing tools not altogether sufficient, we propose the use of âhardâ functional traits and physiological tolerances of environmental conditions and low resource availability to extend the demographic framework so that the dynamics of a broader range of ecological communities can be accurately predicted. We illustrate these new approaches with two case studies. Given the urgent need to accurately forecast the dynamics of ecological communities, we hope that many ecologists will adopt these tools
Trade-Offs and Coexistence in Fluctuating Environments: Evidence for a Key Dispersal-Fecundity Trade-Off in Five Nonpollinating Fig Wasps
Nutritional strategies to reduce methane emissions from cattle: effects on meat eating quality and retail shelf life of loin steaks
The association of neonatal calf diarrhoea with and without dehydration on milk feeding and activity variables in young pre-weaned artificially reared calves
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