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Mussels and Local Conditions Interact to Influence Microbial Communities in Mussel Beds

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Microbiomes are increasingly recognized as widespread regulators of function from individual organism to ecosystem scales. However, the manner in which animals influence the structure and function of environmental microbiomes has received considerably ...
Edward Higgins, Thomas B. Parr, Thomas B. Parr, Caryn C. Vaughn   +3 more
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Do ecosystems have functions?

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
‘Ecosystem function’ and ‘ecosystem functioning’ became core keywords in the ecological literature on ecosystems, their structure, development and integrity.
Ulrich Krohs, Martin Zimmer
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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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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, David H. M. Cumming, Charles L. Redman   +2 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, Germain, Rachel, Srivastava, Diane, Filotas, Elise, Dee, Laura, Gravel, Dominique, Thompson, Patrick, Isbell, Forest, Wang, Shaopeng, Efi, Sonia, Montoya, José, Zelnik, Yuval, Loreau, Michel   +12 more
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Bridging the gap between omics and earth system science to better understand how environmental change impacts marine microbes [PDF]

, 2015
The advent of genomic-, transcriptomic- and proteomic-based approaches has revolutionized our ability to describe marine microbial communities, including biogeography, metabolic potential and diversity, mechanisms of adaptation, and phylogeny and ...
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Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco, Tej Pandya, Charles Swanton   +2 more
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