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Biomass Carbon in Harvest Residues of Winter Oilseed Rape Across Fertilizer N Rates: Implications for Carbon Input Estimations in Soil Carbon Models

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background: Reliable estimation of carbon (C) inputs from above‐ and belowground residues at different yield levels is crucial, as these inputs drive soil organic carbon (SOC) models for C accounting. Aims: This study quantifies C inputs from different components of winter oilseed rape (WOSR) and compares them with estimates from various ...
Ozan Ozkiper, Iris Vogeler, Lars J. Munkholm, Jørgen Eriksen, Johannes L. Jensen   +4 more
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Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines

Oikos, EarlyView.
Competition theory suggests that interspecific prey competition can result in changes to the dietary niche, but obtaining timeseries of data from sympatric species experiencing temporal variation in competition is challenging. Scotland is an important area for two species of seals, but over the past 20 years, populations of harbour seals Phoca vitulina
Izzy Langley, Philip S. Hammond, Paul M. Thompson, Graham J. Pierce, Lindsay J. Wilson, Ailsa J. Hall, Gordon D. Hastie, Debbie J. F. Russell   +7 more
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Modelling forest dynamics using integral projection models and repeat lidar

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Forests are facing increasing pressure from climate change and disturbance, yet linking individual tree trajectories to whole‐forest outcomes remains a major challenge. Our study integrates repeat airborne lidar with an Integral Projection Model to analyse demographic processes at the landscape scale.
Alice Rosen, Robin Battison, Christina M. Hernández, Oliver G. Spacey, Jessica McLean, Suzanne M. Prober, Samuel J. L. Gascoigne, Sean McMahon, Tommaso Jucker, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +9 more
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Tradeoffs between brain and digestive tissues across elevations in Typhlomys daloushanensis: evidence for sexual dimorphism

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
To cope with highly stochastic and/or heterogeneous environmental conditions, animals must balance energy resource allocation across physiological processes. The digestive tract and brain exhibit structural variations under strong developmental and selective pressures that vary across environmental gradients both between and within species.
Yimei Yan, Bangqing Chen, Jifa Cui, Chris Newman, Boyu Lei, Nan Wu, Jinwei Wu, Jin Zhao, Christina D. Buesching, Youbing Zhou   +9 more
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Facilitating macrosystem biology with organismal‐scale airborne remote sensing: Challenges and opportunities

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Emergent ecosystem properties, such as population and trait distributions, biodiversity and energy and water fluxes, occur because of the dynamic interactions of individuals in their environment.
Sarah J. Graves, Ritesh Chowdhry, Meilun Zhou, Ira Harmon, Ben Weinstein, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Alina Zare, Ethan P. White, Stephanie A. Bohlman   +8 more
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Tree species diversity drives above‐ground carbon sequestration through light‐related trait shifts

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Functional traits can vary in response to tree species mixing, which in turn might influence biomass production and, consequently, carbon (C) sequestration in diverse forests.
Joel Jensen, Haben Blondeel, Chloe MacLaren, Iftekhar U. Ahmed, Laurent Augusto, Lander Baeten, Mark R. Bakker, Jürgen Bauhus, Christel Baum, Friderike Beyer, Pedro Brancalion, Elisabeth Bönisch, Pablo Castro Sánchez‐Bermejo, Peter Dietrich, Nico Eisenhauer, Nicolas Fanin, Adam Felton, Olga Ferlian, Petra Fransson, Emmely Fritsch, Carolyn Glynn, Douglas L. Godbold, Joannès Guillemot, Sylvia Haider, Peter Hajek, Hervé Jactel, Simone Mereu, Celine Meredieu, Bart Muys, Nils‐Erik Nordh, Quentin Ponette, Boris Rewald, Agnès Robin, Dai Saito, Hans Sandén, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Hernán Serrano‐León, Matthias Steinparzer, Kris Verheyen, Ramona Werner, Huimin Yi, Martin Weih   +41 more
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Fertilization influences overyielding through dominance of species with high specific leaf area in young tree mixtures

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In the context of anthropogenic eutrophication of the biosphere, understanding the impact of nutrient addition on plant diversity–productivity relationships remains a major challenge.
Dai F. Saito, Friderike Beyer, Grégoire T. Freschet, Anja Klingler, Charles A. Nock, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Jürgen Bauhus   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Season and human footprint weaken the negative effect of temperature on the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of wild brown trout populations

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We apply a new parameterized model through linking metabolic scaling and the maximum entropy theory of ecology to quantify the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of brown trout populations and assess the main drivers shaping the exponent. Abstract Metabolic scaling fundamentally sets the pace of life in almost all organisms.
Meng Xu, Ignasi Arranz
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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