Island biogeography and landscape structure: integrating ecological concepts in a landscape perspective of anthropogenic impacts in temporary wetlands.
Although our understanding of environmental risk assessment in temporary wetlands has been improved by the use of multi-species toxicity testing, we still know little of how landscape variables mediate the strength of, and recovery from, anthropogenic stress in such ecosystems. To bridge this research gap, we provide a theoretical framework of the response of temporary wetlands to anthropogenic disturbance along a habitat-isolation continuum based on island biogeography theory, landscape ecology and dispersal and colonization strategies of temporary wetland organisms.
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (ICAM), Avda Carlos III s/n, E-45071 Toledo, Spain. david.angeler@uclm.es
David G
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Angeler
Miguel
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Alvarez-Cobelas
D000818:Animals; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005843:Geography; D008954:Models, Biological; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects