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ArticleEcology and evolution2021

Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure.

Emma A Higgins, Doreen S Boyd, Tom W Brown, Sarah C Owen, Adam C Algar

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Disentangling the effects of multifunctional forestry practices on the abundances of birds and their invertebrate prey.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Emma A HigginsSchool of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-8960
Doreen S BoydSchool of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3040-552X
Tom W BrownSchool of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2333-7127
Sarah C OwenSchool of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-934X
Adam C AlgarDepartment of Biology Lakehead University Thunder Bay ON Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-0097

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The question of what controls animal abundance has always been fundamental to ecology, but given rapid environmental change, understanding the drivers and mechanisms governing abundance is more important than ever. Here, we determine how multidimensional environments and niches interact to determine population abundance along a tropical habitat gradient. Focusing on the endemic lizard

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abundanceAnolishabitat structuremicrohabitatpopulation sizeprey availabilitythermal ecologytropical forests

Identifiers

PMID34429929
PMCPMC8366856

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