A Classification of Ecological Boundaries

By David L. Strayer, M. Power, William F. Fagan, Steward T. A. Pickett, J. Belnap. 2003

331 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. J. Morrone
2. William F. Fagan
3. Peter P. Marra
4. T. Tscharntke
5. T. Sisk
6. M. Neel
7. C. Klausmeier
8. J. Tylianakis

In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Morrone
2. William F. Fagan
3. Clive G. Jones
4. Peter P. Marra
5. Todd Dawson
6. Chris J. Kennedy
7. Susan Bell
8. T. Tscharntke

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Tylianakis
2. T. Tscharntke
3. T. Rand
4. J. Morrone
5. Steward T. A. Pickett
6. Mary L. Cadenasso
7. William F. Fagan
8. Clive G. Jones

Citations in the corpus

• An Interdisciplinary and Synthetic Approach to Ecological Boundaries (2003, background): “Conduits may, in fact, be imbedded within boundaries (Strayer et al. 2003), and the spatial relationships between corridors and boundaries are areas worthy of investigation.”
• Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats. (2006, background): “However, edges can substantially influence animal behaviour, especially dispersal patterns (Strayer et al. 2003).”
• Species' geographic ranges and distributional limits: pattern analysis and statistical issues (2005, neutral): “Similarly, the delineation of ecological boundaries to better understand the relationship between boundary structures and their functions is an active research area in ecology (Cadenasso et al. 2003, Fagan et al. 2003, Strayer et al. 2003).”
• What is an edge species? The implications of sensitivity to habitat edges (2010, background): “Here, we defi ne edge as the boundary between two vegetation cover classes (which are often broadly referred to as “habitat”), although many other defi nitions are possible (Lidicker 1999, Strayer et al. 2003).”
• Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica (2010, background): “Matrix types with high structural contrast are thus predicted to be less permeable to movement and more hostile to species than those with low-contrast boundaries (e.g., Stamps et al. 1987, Forman 1995, Strayer et al. 2003).”
• A Framework for a Theory of Ecological Boundaries (2003, background): “These categories represent the content of a flow, which can be either conserved, dissipated, or transformed, and passive or active vectors that may carry the flow (Strayer et al. 2003).”
• A conceptual framework for ecosystem stoichiometry: balancing resource supply and demand (2005, background): “1997) and the degree and type of contrast between the ecosystems the boundary separates (Strayer et al. 2003).”
• Biogeographical transition zones: a search for conceptual synthesis (2014, background): “Ecological boundaries act as physical filters (like a semipermeable membrane), controlling the quantity and quality of energy and material flux across their interface (Strayer et al., 2003), and may occur at any level of the ecological hierarchy.”
• A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF EDGE EFFECTS (2004, background): “Edges can be defined as the boundary between patches with differing qualities; thus, the identification of edges will depend on how researchers define patches (Strayer et al. 2003).”