Castro-Cubillos, Margoth L. Taylor, Joe D. Mastretta-Yanes, Alicia Benítez-Villalobos, Francisco Islas-Villanueva, Valentina
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Scientific Reports
Tropical coastal lagoons are important ecosystems that support high levels of biodiversity and provide several goods and services. Monitoring of benthic biodiversity and detection of harmful or invasive species is crucial, particularly in relation to seasonal and spatial variation of environmental conditions. In this study, eDNA metabarcoding was u...
Clare, David S. Bolam, Stefan G. McIlwaine, Paul S. O. Garcia, Clement Murray, Joanna M. Eggleton, Jacqueline D.
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Scientific Data
Measurement(s) body size • body morphology • lifespan • egg development location • larva development location • living habit • sediment position • feeding mode • mobility • bioturbation mode Technology Type(s) literature review • professional judgement Sample Characteristic - Organism benthic invertebrates Sample Characteristic - Environment marine...
Willson, Alyssa M. Trugman, Anna T. Powers, Jennifer S. Smith-Martin, Chris M. Medvigy, David
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Nature Communications
Lianas are an important component of tropical forests. Here the authors compare liana and tree functional trait distributions from across the tropics and use a liana-tree competition model to show that a key hydraulic trait influences liana viability and its response to future climate conditions.
Chen, Yuxin Vogel, Anja Wagg, Cameron Xu, Tianyang Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Weigelt, Alexandra Eisenhauer, Nico Schmid, Bernhard
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Nature Communications
Using experimental communities of grassland species, this study shows that drought-exposure history can accelerate recovery from subsequent drought through increased niche complementarity between species. This transgenerational effect may enhance the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a future with more frequent droughts.
Cantera, Isabel Coutant, Opale Jézéquel, Céline Decotte, Jean-Baptiste Dejean, Tony Iribar, Amaia Vigouroux, Régis Valentini, Alice Murienne, Jérôme Brosse, Sébastien
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Nature Communications
It is unclear how far the impact of deforestation can spread. Here the authors analyse freshwater eDNA data along two rivers in the Amazon forest, and find that low levels of deforestation are linked to substantial reductions of fish and mammalian diversity downstream.
Jing, Zhongwang Wang, Jiang Bai, Yi Ge, Yuan
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Communications Biology
A 3 year experiment exposing 270 plants to drought and exotic plant invasion reveals an increase in plant richness while drought and invasion decrease ecosystem multifunctional stability.
Rafiee, Fahime Ejtehadi, Hamid Farzam, Mohammad Zare, Habib Bashirzadeh, Maral
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Scientific Reports
Climate and soil factors induce substantial controls over plant biodiversity in stressful ecosystems. Despite of some studies on plant biodiversity in extreme ecosystems including rocky outcrops, simultaneous effects of climate and soil factors have rarely been studied on different facets of biodiversity including taxonomic and functional diversity...
Mammola, Stefano Pavlek, Martina Huber, Bernhard A. Isaia, Marco Ballarin, Francesco Tolve, Marco Čupić, Iva Hesselberg, Thomas Lunghi, Enrico Mouron, Samuel
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Scientific Data
Measurement(s) morphological trait • ecological trait Technology Type(s) literature extraction • observation Sample Characteristic - Organism Agelenidae • Amaurobiidae • Anapidae • Cybaeidae • Dysderidae • Hahniidae • Leptonetidae • Linyphiidae • Liocranidae • Mysmenidae • Nesticidae • Pholcidae • Pimoidae • Segestriidae • Sicariidae • Sparassidae ...
Gerke, Hannah C. Hinton, Thomas G. Okuda, Kei Beasley, James C.
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Scientific Reports
The 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan caused the evacuation of > 100,000 people and prompted studies on environmental impacts of radiological contamination. However, few researchers have explored how the human evacuation has affected ecosystem processes. Despite contamination, one common scavenger (wild boar, Sus scrofa ) is 2–3× more abund...
Topor, Z. M. A. Genung, M. Robinson, K. L.
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Scientific Reports
Tropical cyclones can highly modify coastal ecosystems through interactions between their unique set of meteorological traits and an ecosystem’s antecedent conditions. As such, resultant changes to biological community structure are likely storm-specific, yet our understanding of cyclone effects on marine communities is limited compared to communit...
