Gross, Nicolas Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann Saiz, Hugo Gozalo, Beatriz Ochoa, Victoria
Grazing by domestic livestock is both the main land use across drylands worldwide and a major desertification and global change driver. The ecological consequences of this key human activity have been studied for decades, and there is a wealth of information on its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem processes. However, most field assessments of ...
Cesarz, Simone; Craven, Dylan; Auge, Harald; Bruelheide, Helge; Castagneyrol, Bastien; Gutknecht, Jessica; Hector, Andy; Jactel, Herve; Koricheva, Julia; Messier, Christian;
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Zhang, Y Boer, AM Lunt, DJ Hutchinson, DK Ross, P Flierdt, T Sexton, P Coxall, HK Steinig, S Ladant, J
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Here, we compare the ocean overturning circulation of the early Eocene (47-56 Ma) in eight coupled climate model simulations from the Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP), and investigate the causes of the observed inter-model spread. The most common global meridional overturning circulation (MOC) feature of these simulations is the an...
Hishe, Hadgu; Giday, Kidane; Fremout, Tobias; 113131; Negussie, Aklilu; Aerts, Raf; 19879; Muys, Bart; 13609;
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Esmaeilzadeh-Salestani, Keyvan Bahram, Mohammad Seraj, Rahele Ghanbari Moheb Gohar, Daniyal Tohidfar, Masoud Eremeev, Viacheslav Talgre, Liina Khaleghdoust, Banafsheh Mirmajlessi, Mahyar Luik, Anne
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Food systems need to become more sustainable. There is a need to investigate the agricultural management components that address the sustainability better. Long crop rotations are suggested to be environmentally friendly, yet, little is known how soil microbial communities may be affected by long-term rotation under organic cropping with cover crop...
Van Daele, Frederik Honnay, Olivier De Kort, Hanne
Aim: Forest herbs might be unable to track shifts in habitat suitability due to rapid climate change and habitat fragmentation. In this study, we quantified the role of dispersal limitation and the potential mitigating effect of large-scale reforestation on the redistribution of the herbaceous forest plant species Primula elatior under climate chan...
Baardsen, Lisa F. De Bruyn, Luc Adriaensen, Frank Elst, Joris Strubbe, Diederik Heylen, Dieter Matthysen, Erik
Urbanization has been shown to strongly affect community composition of various taxa with potentially strong shifts in ecological interactions, including those between hosts and parasites. We investigated the effect of urbanization on the composition of arthropods in nests of great tits in Flanders, Belgium. These nests contain taxonomically and fu...
DeCock, Eva De Schrijver, An Schelfhout, Stephanie Wasof, Safaa Vanhellemont, Margot Moeneclaey, Iris Mertens, Jan Verheyen, Kris Baeten, Lander
Aims: The restoration of degraded ecosystems typically focuses on establishing assemblages of target species, but successful recovery should also be evaluated by the ecosystem's functioning to guarantee long-term persistence. We investigated how the processes underlying community assembly (i.e. species loss, species gain and changes in abundance of...
Gregory, Ann C.; 126662; Zablocki, Olivier; Zayed, Ahmed A.; Howell, Allison; Bolduc, Benjamin; Sullivan, Matthew B.;
The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we (1) built a human Gut Virome Database (GVD) from 2,697 viral particle or microbial metagenomes from 1,986 individuals representing 16 countries, (2) assess its effe...
Staude, Ingmar R. Waller, Donald M. Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus Bjorkman, Anne D. Brunet, Jörg De Frenne, Pieter Hédl, Radim Jandt, Ute Lenoir, Jonathan Máliš, František
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
The loss of biodiversity at the global scale has been difficult to reconcile with observations of no net loss at local scales. Vegetation surveys across European temperate forests show that this may be explained by the replacement of small-ranged species with large-ranged ones, driven by nitrogen deposition.
