ScLi5- Identify the purpоse оf intrоduction in scientific pаpers This is the introduction of Hаbitаt fragmentation reduces nest survival in an Afrotropical bird community in a biodiversity hotspot. The authors of this paper wanted to determine if habitat fragmentation had an effect on nest survival in African birds. "1. Reduced nest survivorship, due to elevated rates of nest predation, has long been hypothesized as an important contributory factor to population declines and local extinctions of birds in fragmented tropical landscapes (1, 2). Habitat fragmentation results in a reduction in area, an increase in remnant isolation, the creation of edge, and an alteration in the habitat structure of the remnants, all of which may contribute either directly or indirectly to changes in avian nest survival (3–6). Given that nearly two thirds of all bird species are endemic to the tropics (7, 8) and that moist tropical forests are being lost worldwide at a rate of 0.52% annually (9), understanding the impact of habitat fragmentation on the demography of tropical birds is clearly important for avian conservation. 2. However, because of the difficulty of finding large numbers of well-hidden nests in tropical forests (10, 11), rigorously assessing the impact of habitat fragmentation on avian nest survivorship has been challenging. Previous studies comparing avian nest survivorship between fragmented and intact forest in the tropics have either used artificial nests and eggs (12, 13), which unfortunately often poorly mimic the fate of real nests and eggs (14–16); or if real nests have been found, have lumped species together in the analysis because of small sample sizes (17), which can be misleading because nest survivorship can vary locally among tropical bird species (18–21). Similarly, the few studies in the tropics that have examined edge effects on nest survival using real nests and eggs have been either single-species studies (22) or have pooled nests across species (17). Thus, our understanding of the influence of landscape structure and nest location on avian nest survival across tropical bird communities is quite limited." Which of the functions that should be fulfilled by an introduction are MISSING?
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ScLi9- Identify type оf reseаrch in reseаrch аrticles The study Thermal biоlоgy mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification coauthored by Dr. Catenazzi, a professor in our bio department tested the following hypothesis: "(ectothermic) warm-adapted species with high heat tolerances will be less sensitive to high temperatures in altered habitats than cool-adapted species with lower heat tolerances" the following are excerpts of their methods explaining what they did: "to estimate amphibian and reptile sensitivity to habitat conversion we compiled four data sets consisting of records from standardised field surveys of amphibians (frogs and salamanders) and reptiles (lizards). [...] (to determine thermal tolerance) In Costa Rica, we measured CTmax of 26 amphibian and lizard species by placing individuals in water baths and slowly increasing water temperature at a rate of c. 0.5 °C per min. At 1-min intervals, we elicited a righting response and recorded the temperature at which individuals lost their righting reflex for ≥ 5 s." What type of study are they proposing?