Estrada-Villegas, Sergio Pedraza Narvaez, Sara Sofia Sanchez, Adriana Schnitzer, Stefan A.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Lianas are a quintessential tropical plant growth-form; they are speciose and abundant in tropical forests worldwide. Lianas compete intensely with trees, reducing nearly all aspects of tree performance. However, the negative effects of lianas on trees have never been combined and quantified for multiple tropical forests. Here, we present the first...
Kurokawa, Masaomi Nishimura, Issei Ying, Bei-Wen
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Whether and how adaptive evolution adjusts the breadth of adaptation in coordination with the genome are essential issues for connecting evolution with ecology. To address these questions, experimental evolution in five Escherichia coli strains carrying either the wild-type genome or a reduced genome was performed in a defined minimal medium (C0). ...
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Global warming and the subsequent increase in the frequency of temperature anomalies are expected to affect marine and estuarine species’ population dynamics, latitudinal distribution, and fitness, allowing non-native opportunistic species to invade and thrive in new geographical areas. Bivalves represent a significant percentage of the benthic bio...
Kropacheva, Yu. E. Smirnov, N. G. Zykov, S. V.
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Russian Journal of Ecology
AbstractThe growth rate of the first lower molar and its wear features have been studied in narrow-skulled vole individuals (n = 39) that received hard and soft feeds under laboratory conditions. Using tetracycline markers, we have found that the tooth height increases by 0.33–0.56 mm throughout the day. Voles that received soft feed, in general, h...
Crotty, Sinead M. Altieri, Andrew H. Bruno, John F. Fischman, Hallie Bertness, Mark D.
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Ecology is a young discipline that needs to develop into a predictive science to confront the challenges of human population pressures and habitat degradation. Basic ecology has disproportionately focused on undisturbed, charismatic ecosystems, species and academic questions, leaving gaps in its ability to inform the conservation and management of ...
Sierocinski, Pawel Milferstedt, Kim Bayer, Florian Großkopf, Tobias Alston, Mark Bastkowski, Sarah Swarbreck, David Hobbs, Phil J Soyer, Orkun S Hamelin, Jérôme
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Current biology : CB
The ecology of microbes frequently involves the mixing of entire communities (community coalescence), for example, flooding events, host excretion, and soil tillage [1, 2], yet the consequences of this process for community structure and function are poorly understood [3-7]. Recent theory suggests that a community, due to coevolution between consti...
Terrisse, Fanny Cravo-Laureau, Cristiana Noël, Cyril Cagnon, Christine Dumbrell, Alex J. McGenity, Terry J. Duran, Robert
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Deciphering the ecology of marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (MOHCB) is of crucial importance for understanding their success in occupying distinct niches in hydrocarbon-contaminated marine environments after oil spills. In marine coastal sediments, MOHCB are particularly subjected to extreme fluctuating conditions due to redox oscillati...
Kropacheva, Yu. E. Sibiryakov, P. A. Smirnov, N. G. Zykov, S. V.
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Russian Journal of Ecology
Methodological approaches to the description of variants and degrees of hypselodont tooth mesowear in voles are proposed on the basis of studies on the collection of skulls of two vole species trapped in the field (narrow-headed vole, n = 38; common vole, n = 22) and two species from laboratory colonies (narrow-headed vole, n = 46; root vole, n = 7...
Altermatt, Florian Fronhofer, Emanuel Garnier, Aurélie Giometto, Andrea Hammes, Frederik Klecka, Jan Legrand, Delphine Mächler, Elvira Massie, Thomas Pennekamp, Frank
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Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community ecology and evolutionary biology. Many variables of interest are measured in order to study processes and patterns at different spatiotemporal scales and across all levels of b...
Jellyman, P G Harding, J S
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Journal of fish biology
A series of 14 day experiments was conducted on five common New Zealand fish species (redfin bully Gobiomorphus huttoni, inanga Galaxias maculatus, brown trout Salmo trutta, longfin eel Anguilla dieffenbachii and koaro Galaxias brevipinnis) to assess the effect of pH on survival and changes in body mass. No species survived in water of pH
