Articles by Hillary Young
Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands - Communications Biology
Abstract Grasslands cover approximately a third of the Earth’s land surface and account for about a third of terrestrial carbon storage. Yet, we lack strong predictive models of grassland plant biomass, the primary source of carbon in grasslands. This lack of predictive ability may arise from the assumption of linear relationships between plant biomass and the environment and an underestimation of interactions of environmental variables.
Soil Building and Capillary Barrier-Enhanced Water Availability Help Explain Pisonia grandis and Other Atoll Native's Tolerance for Variable Precipitation Regimes - Engels - Ecohydrology - Wiley Online Library
Supporting Information Filename Description eco2716-sup-0001-Supplementary_Material.docxWord 2007 document , 256.5 KB Appendix S1 Supporting Information. References , , , , , and . 2006. “Chemical Composition, Anatomy, Lignin Distribution, and Cell Wall Structure of Malaysian Plant Waste Fibers.” BioResources 1: 220–232. https://doi.org/10.15376/biores.1.2.220-232. , , and . 2009. “Numerical Modeling of Atoll Island Hydrogeology.” Ground Water 47, no. 2: 184–196.
Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya
1 INTRODUCTION Mountains are critically important for conservation because they provide diverse habitats for a wide range of species (Dirnböck et al., 2011) and, especially in light of climate change, because they provide climate refugia for many species (McCain & Colwell, 2011). Temperature and rainfall patterns in mountains can change dramatically across a relatively short linear distance, creating varied habitats and microclimates, that in turn create a mosaic of niches for specialist species.
Rethinking atoll futures: local resilience to global challenges
Highlights Atolls islands are biogenic landforms that are intrinsically capable of adjusting their size, position, and elevation to changing sea levels. The vulnerability of atoll islands to sea level rise is not intrinsically due to their low elevation but primarily due to the loss of their island building capacity. The geophysical processes that control atoll island accretion are being impacted on global and local scales.
Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents
Summary Anthropogenic disturbances involving land use change, climate disruption, pollution and invasive species have been shown to impact immune function of wild animals. These immune changes have direct impacts on the fitness of impacted animals and, also, potentially indirect effects on other species and on ecological processes, notably involving the spread of infectious disease.
An Integrated Landscape of Fear and Disgust: The Evolution of Avoidance Behaviors Amidst a Myriad of Natural Enemies
Introduction When imagining a pride of lions chasing down an antelope in sub-Saharan Africa, few would consider that these apex predators have any enemies of their own.
Defaunation in the Anthropocene
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Invasive rat eradication strongly impacts plant recruitment on a tropical atoll
Rat eradication has become a common conservation intervention in island ecosystems and its effectiveness in protecting native vertebrates is increasingly well documented. Yet, the impacts of rat eradication on plant communities remain poorly understood. Here we compare native and non-native tree and palm seedling abundance before and after eradication of invasive rats (Rattus rattus) from Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands, Central Pacific Ocean.
A landscape of disgust
A rancid meal, a moist handshake, a pile of feces: These phenomena elicit disgust and avoidance that protect humans from our most pervasive consumer—infectious agents. This avoidance is not specific to humans. Various animals alter their behavior to avoid infection (1). For instance, Poirotte et al. recently showed that mandrills avoid parasite-contaminated feces and refrain from grooming infected individuals (2).
Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications
Habitat destruction and infectious disease are dual threats to nature and people. The potential to simultaneously advance conservation and human health has attracted considerable scientific and popular interest; in particular, many authors have justified conservation action by pointing out potential public health benefits . One major focus of this debate—that biodiversity conservation often decreases infectious disease transmission via the dilution effect—remains contentious.
Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity
nfectious disease burdens vary from country to country and year to year due to ecological and economic drivers. Recently, Murray et al. (Murray CJ et al. 2012 Lancet 380, 2197–2223. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61689-4)) estimated country-level morbidity and mortality associated with a variety of factors, including infectious diseases, for the years 1990 and 2010. Unlike other databases that report disease prevalence or count outbreaks per country, Murray et al.
UCSD’s kallisti ensemble explores love
Love and ambition. Or is it love versus ambition? The pairing and contradiction inherent in those emotions is explored in “Noon at Dusk,” a new chamber-music opera by the University of California San Diego’s kallisti ensemble. The adventurous ensemble was founded by UC San Diego music professor Susan Narucki. She is the director-producer of “Noon at Dusk,” which premieres this week.
The hitchhiker's guide to the Anthropocene
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The hitchhiker's guide to the Anthropocene
The hitchhiker's guide to the Anthropocene Hillary Young Adventures in the Anthropocene A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made Gaia Vince Milkweed Editions, 2014. 465 pp. The reviewer is at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Noble Hall 2116, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9620, USA.
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