Lost locations and the (ir)repeatability of ecological studies

Shapiro, Julie Teresa; Báldi, András

doi:10.1890/12.wb.015

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“…The experiment was carried out in the southern part of the Mátra Mountains (exact locations are given in Shapiro and Báldi, 2012), in northern Hungary in 2011. The elevation of the study area is between 400-500 m a.s.l.…”

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Effects of forest heterogeneity on the efficiency of caterpillar control service provided by birds in temperate oak forests

Bereczki

Odór

Csóka

et al. 2014

Forest Ecology and Management

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Controlling herbivore insects by insectivorous birds is a major ecosystem service, nevertheless little is known about how local habitat features and forest management influence the efficiency of this service and about how the pest control service birds provide can be maintained and improved. We conducted an experiment in temperate oak forests in the Mátra Mountains, northern Hungary to measure bird predation rate of artificial caterpillars resembling winter moth (Operophtera brumata L.) larvae, to evaluate the relationships among insectivorous bird communities, caterpillar populations and leaf damage caused by caterpillars and to assess the effect of forest heterogeneity on these processes. We found, that structurally heterogeneous forests maintained a significantly higher abundance of insectivorous birds.Especially the tree size heterogeneity increased bird abundance. The rate of bird predation was positively related to the abundance of insectivorous birds as well as to caterpillar abundance, which indicates that birds were able to respond to caterpillar density. We were not able to demonstrate a direct negative effect of bird predation on caterpillar abundance and a positive effect of caterpillar abundance on leaf damage. Structurally heterogeneous forests, however, suffered from less leaf damage than did homogeneous forests, which result may indicates that the higher activity of insectivorous birds in heterogeneous stands resulted in 3 lower activity of insect herbivores. Thus, we concluded that forest management can contribute to the mitigation of insect damages by maintaining the suitability of forest stands to the insectivorous bird communities through the maintenance of high stand heterogeneity and the presence of some key elements (e.g. retention tree groups, tree diversity, shrub layer).

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Effects of forest heterogeneity on the efficiency of caterpillar control service provided by birds in temperate oak forests

Bereczki

Odór

Csóka

et al. 2014

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Scientists and managers can easily visualize and share environmental information stored in Google Earth KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files, even while in the field. For example, use of KML files to describe survey locations and sampling points can improve experimental repeatability and quality in ecology (Shapiro and Baldi ). Indeed, scientific journals currently offer platforms that allow readers to access, explore, and share published geographic data using KML files (eg Elsevier's Interactive Map Viewer; WebTable 2 [link 9]).…”

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Exploiting virtual globes for ecology and conservation in the Digital Earth era

Olea

Mateo‐Tomás

2016

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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“…Going forward, increasing the prevalence of reporting precise study locations in a standardized format (i.e., via geographic coordinates) is paramount. Although most ecology studies identify their study area and a large proportion report geographic coordinates [1,6,8], this information is effectively unusable if buried in the article text in myriad formats. Standards for reporting study areas must be developed and authors required to report their study area locations according to these standards.…”

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“…Publication of erroneous location information is not uncommon [1,7,8]. Accordingly, processes should be implemented in the submission and editing of manuscripts to check the validity of the study location.…”

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“…Accordingly, processes should be implemented in the submission and editing of manuscripts to check the validity of the study location. For example, tools could be built into manuscript submission websites where specific location information can be entered (e.g., coordinates, place-name lookup using a gazetteer, or digitized on a map) or uploaded [8]. The contributor would then be asked to confirm via a map display of the location that it is correct.…”

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