Climate change and human land management can cause desertification. The latter phenomenon is an environmental issue affecting many drylands on Earth. During previous decades many regions were affected by desertification, and various other areas are at risk of becoming so. Desert…
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In this thesis I describe fine-scale spatial patterns in rain forest termites, from the colony to the assemblage level, sampled from one hectare plots in Central African and South East Asian lowland rain forest. By so doing the ecological interactions that structure this functio…
Climate change is altering freshwater habitats in the United States by increasing water temperatures and changing stream flows. These habitat changes can directly impact survival and geographic ranges of ectothermic freshwater organisms through thermal stress and habitat loss, a…
Investigating individual-based habitat settlement and space use decisions (i.e., how individuals distribute themselves across a landscape) is a central theme in ecology, with potential consequences for fitness (e.g., survival, reproduction). Among mammals, habitat selection and …