Additional new Drymaeus species from northern Peru (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae)
Two new species, Drymaeus (D.) costatus and D. (D.) luculentus, are described from northern Peru from recently collected material.
An enigmatic rock-dwelling land snail from southernmost Iberia (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Helicidae)
A new species and genus of helicid land snail, Tartessiberus cilbanus, is herein described from the extreme south of continental Spain. In spite of being fairly large and conspicuous, it has hitherto remained unknown due to its highly restricted ecological and geographic range-it is apparently restricted to the core of Serranıá de Grazalema, an ele...
Shifts in soil and plant functional diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the French Alps
...Published in BMC Research Notes
ObjectivesAltitude integrates changes in environmental conditions that determine shifts in vegetation, including temperature, precipitation, solar radiation and edaphogenetic processes. In turn, vegetation alters soil biophysical properties through litter input, root growth, microbial and macrofaunal interactions. The belowground traits of plant co...
Superspreading genomes
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Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource
Published in Insects
Simple Summary Floral resource availability is one of the keys to preserving the health of bee communities. However, flowers also present a risk of pathogen transmission, as infected pollinators could deposit pathogens while foraging, exposing other pollinators to infection via the consumption of contaminated nectar or pollen. Here, we studied, ove...
Comparable canopy and soil free-living nitrogen fixation rates in a lowland tropical forest
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Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a fundamental part of nitrogen cycling in tropical forests, yet little is known about the contribution made by free-living nitrogen fixers inhabiting the often-extensive forest canopy. We used the acetylene reduction assay, calibrated with 15N2, to measure free-living BNF on forest canopy leaves, vascular epiph...
One-year follow-up of microbial diversity in bioaerosols emitted in a waste sorting plant in France
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Maintaining biodiversity promotes the multifunctionality of social-ecological systems: holistic modelling of a mountain ...
Monitoring the provision of multiple ecosystem services (ES) in social-ecological systems is a major challenge. Most tools usually tackle the problem by modelling individual ES, but do not perform a holistic analysis of a dynamic and integrated system. We developed a discrete-event model (DORIAN) and explored its potential for assessing biodiversit...
To what extent do ageing and soil properties influence Amynthas khami cast properties? Evidence from a small watershed i...
Understanding the variables explaining earthworm cast properties remains a key challenge in soil ecology. For this purpose, this study aimed to determine the relationships between the physical and chemical properties of earthworm casts and those of their surrounding soil environment. Surface earthworm casts (recently emitted or degraded) produced b...
Glucosinolates of Lepidium graminifolium L. (Brassicaceae) from Croatia.
Published in Natural product research
The glucosinolate (GSL) profiles (inflorescence, stem, root, and fruit) of the wild-growing plant Lepidium graminifolium L. (Brassicaceae) from Croatia was established by LC-MS analysis. During this investigation, we confirmed the presence of benzyl- (1), 3-methoxybenzyl- (2), 4-hydroxybenzyl- (4), 4-methoxyindol-3-ylmethyl- (7) GSLs and reported f...
