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The alpine cushion plant Silene acaulis as foundation species: a bug's-eye view to facilitation and microclimate. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Alpine ecosystems are important globally with high levels of endemic and rare species. Given that they will be highly impacted by climate change, understanding biotic factors that maintain diversity is critical.
Olivia Molenda, Anya Reid, Christopher J Lortie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Ground-Active Arthropod Diversity Under Energycane and Biomass Sorghum Production

Insects
Energycane and biomass sorghum are two of the most promising cellulosic energy crops in the southeastern US. Research on these two energy crops has focused mainly on biomass production, and there is a lack of knowledge on their ability to promote ...
Yubin Yang, Tanumoy Bera, Hamid Araji, Fugen Dou, Lloyd T. Wilson, William L. Rooney, Jesse I. Morrison, Brian S. Baldwin, Joseph E. Knoll, John L. Jifon, Alan L. Wright, Dennis C. Odero, Hardev S. Sandhu, Anna L. Hale, Himaya P. Mula-Michel, Jing Wang   +15 more
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovery of a Reversible Sub‐Picomolar Thrombin Inhibitor Using DCC

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
An ultrapotent yet fully reversible trivalent thrombin inhibitor discovered through screening a large dynamic combinatorial library (DCL) of 125 000 members of self‐assembled fragments. The innovative approach leverages size‐exclusion‐based affinity selection, coupled with MALDI‐TOF mass spectrometry readout, enabling the full workflow to be completed ...
Millicent Dockerill, Richard J. Payne, Nicolas Winssinger   +2 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Effects of different fertilization treatments on ground-dwelling arthropods and their functional groups in agricultural landscapes

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Intensive agriculture has caused significant declines in ground-dwelling arthropod diversity and ecosystem services. Chemical and organic fertilizers alter arthropod habitats, affecting arthropod community abundance and diversity.
Ziqi Bian, Ziqi Bian, Lyuyi Liu, Lyuyi Liu, Yan Li, Yan Li, Yanli Li, Yanli Li, Shengyan Ding, Shengyan Ding   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023
Forests sustain 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. Biodiversity experiments have demonstrated that plant diversity correlates with both primary productivity and higher trophic diversity. However, whether higher trophic diversity can mediate the effects of plant diversity on productivity remains unclear.
Li, Yi, Schmid, Bernhard, Schuldt, Andreas, Li, Shan, Wang, Ming-Qiang, Fornoff, Felix, Staab, Michael, Guo, Peng-Fei, Anttonen, Perttu, Chesters, Douglas, Bruelheide, Helge, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Ma, Keping, Liu, Xiaojuan   +13 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance mediates the bottom‐up influence of plant diversity on arthropods in tropical forests

Ecology and Evolution
Understanding how primary productivity and diversity affect secondary productivity is an important debate in ecology with implications for biodiversity conservation.
Orou G. Gaoue, Hermann Bassoki, Anicet G. Dassou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The shrub Ephedra californica facilitates arthropod communities along a regional desert climatic gradient

Ecosphere, 2021
Arthropods underpin arid community dynamics and provide many key ecosystem services. In arid ecosystems, the key habitat components that influence arthropod community structure are relatively understudied.
Jenna Braun, Michael Westphal, Christopher J. Lortie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source