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Simplified, Portable and Cost‐Efficient Airborne eDNA Metabarcoding to Expand Tropical Biodiversity Assessments

Environmental DNA
Aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis has been widely established as a sensitive and non‐invasive species detection tool for global biodiversity monitoring.
Christopher Heine, Jesse Erens, Lukas Reese, Henrik Krehenwinkel, Claudia Lansac, Stefan Lötters, Amadeus Plewnia   +6 more
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Island biogeography theory and the habitat heterogeneity jointly explain global patterns of Rhododendron diversity

Plant Diversity
Mountain biodiversity is of great importance to biogeography and ecology. However, it is unclear what ecological and evolutionary processes best explain the generation and maintenance of its high levels of species diversity.
Yanwei Guan, Yongru Wu, Zheng Cao, Zhifeng Wu, Fangyuan Yu, Haibin Yu, Tiejun Wang   +6 more
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Comment on 'Island biogeography: patterns of marine shallow-water organisms' by Hachich et al., Journal of Biogeography (2015) [PDF]

, 2016
In a recent article, Hachich et al. ( 2015, Journal of Biogeography, 42, 1871-1882) studied the large-scale biogeographical patterns of the species-area, species-island age and species-isolation relationships associated with marine shallow-water groups (
Wirtz, Peter, Wirtz, P., Cordeiro, Ricardo, Ávila, S. P., Cordeiro, R., Ávila, Sérgio P., Haroun, Ricardo   +6 more
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Waves of range dynamics and gene flow characterize the biogeographic history of Litsea elongata, a dominant tree in East Asian evergreen broadleaved forests

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLFs) represent an iconic vegetation type in subtropical montane East Asia, but they are experiencing intensifying anthropogenic pressure and increasing habitat fragmentation. Here, using a dominant and widespread tree species characteristic of East Asian EBLFs, we examine its phylogeographic history and evaluate what it
Sheng‐Yuan Qin, Richard H. Ree, Zheng‐Yu Zuo, Chih‐Chieh Yu, Shuang‐Xiu Xu, Jun Rong, Peng‐Fei Ma, De‐Zhu Li   +7 more
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Assuring quality in microplastic monitoring: About the value of clean-air devices as essentials for verified data

Scientific Reports, 2017
Avoiding aerial microfibre contamination of environmental samples is essential for reliable analyses when it comes to the detection of ubiquitous microplastics.
Charlotte Wesch, Anna Maria Elert, Manuel Wörner, Ulrike Braun, Roland Klein, Martin Paulus   +5 more
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Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
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Spring Water pH in Forest Catchments Is Modified through Fluctuating Discharge under Climate Change

Hydrobiology
Over the course of industrialization in the 20th century, vast emissions of air pollutants have occurred. The exhaust gasses contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which are converted to sulfuric acid and nitric acid in the atmosphere. This causes acid rain
Carl Beierkuhnlein, Bojan Djordjevic, Johannes Höger, Vincent Wilkens, Samip Narayan Shrestha, Timothy Smith, Frank Weiser   +6 more
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Chemical diversity and phylogenetic insights into Hawaiian ʻākia (Wikstroemia) species used in traditional fishing practices

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional fishing with plant‐based piscicides is a global practice in decline, facing increasing restrictions. We investigated the chemical diversity of endemic Wikstroemia species historically used to stun or poison fish in Hawaiʻi. Using 1‐H‐NMR, principal component analysis, targeted HPLC, and target‐capture sequencing, we characterized compounds ...
Louise Winther, Isaac Lichter‐Marck, Louise Kjaerulff, David Lorence, Uma Nagendra, Mike Opgenorth, Sverre J. Schou, Kenneth R. Wood, Felipe Zapata, Dan Staerk, Nina Rønsted   +10 more
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Author Correction: Super-regional land-use change and effects on the grassland specialist flora

Nature Communications, 2019
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Alistair G. Auffret, Adam Kimberley, Jan Plue, Emelie Waldén   +3 more
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From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

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Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Jasmine S. Peters, Juan Pablo Jordán, Alison G. Power   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source