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Functional soil mycobiome across ecosystems
Journal of Proteomics, 2022 Fungi support a wide range of ecosystem processes such as decomposition of organic matter and plant-soil relationships. Yet, our understanding of the factors driving the metaproteome of fungal communities is still scarce. Here, we conducted a field survey including data on fungal biomass (by phospholipid fatty acids, PLFA), community composition (by ...
Fernandes, Maysa L. P. +7 more
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InsectsThe hazelnut weevil larvae (Curculio dieckmanni) is a major pest of nut weevils, spending part of its life cycle in the soil and causing significant damage to hazelnut crops.
Bin Wang +6 more
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Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
Ecology and Society, 2006 Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, the role of humans in ecosystems, landscape ...
Erik Andersson
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Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Ecology and Society, 2006 Scale is a concept that transcends disciplinary boundaries. In ecology and geography, scale is usually defined in terms of spatial and temporal dimensions.
Graeme S. Cumming +2 more
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Fish extinctions and ecosystem functioning in tropical ecosystems [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007 The activities of modern humans have increased the extinction rate of the world's species by up to 1,000 times that observed from the fossil record (1). This extinction crisis has motivated the scientific community to understand the consequences of reduced biodiversity for the dynamics of ecosystems, especially those that provide basic services to ...
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Periphyton Function in Lake Ecosystems [PDF]
The Scientific World JOURNAL, 2002 Periphyton communities have received relatively little attention in lake ecosystems. However, evidence is increasing that they play a key role in primary productivity, nutrient cycling, and food web interactions. This review summarizes those findings and places them in a conceptual framework to evaluate the functional importance of periphyton in lakes.
Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Alan D. Steinman
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From atoms to ecosystems: elementome diversity meets ecosystem functioning [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2021 SummaryThe elemental composition of plants (the elementome) is a reliable indicator of their functional traits and the ecological strategies that they follow, and thus represents a good predictor of how ecosystems work. Biodiversity and, especially, functional diversity are also widely recognized as important drivers of ecosystem functioning, mainly ...
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Diversity, 2020 A better understanding of deep-sea biology requires knowledge of the structure and function of their communities, the spatial, temporal, and environmental patterns, and the changes and dynamics that govern them.
Giovanni A. P. dos Santos +6 more
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Ecology Letters, 2018 The research of a generation of ecologists was catalysed by the recognition that the number and identity of species in communities influences the functioning of ecosystems.
Katherine H. Bannar-Martin +17 more
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2020 AbstractA rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale dependence in the BEF relationship: (1) a nonlinear change in the slope of the BEF relationship with spatial scale; (2) a scale‐dependent relationship ...
Gonzalez, Andrew +12 more
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