Environmental Filtering Drives the Assembly of Habitat Generalists and Specialists in the Coastal Sand Microbial Communities of Southern China. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2019 Coastal sands harbor diverse microbial assemblages that play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of beach ecosystems. However, little is known about the relative importance of the different ecological processes underlying the assembly of ...
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Science of the Total Environment, 2021 Microbes interact with each other in response to various environmental changes in coastal marine ecosystems. To explore how the macroenvironment (environmental filtering) and species-engineered microenvironment (niche construction) affect the ecological ...
Seong-Jun Chun +4 more
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Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Aim The mechanisms underlying the maintenance of biodiversity remain to be elucidated. Taxonomic diversity alone remains an unresolved issue, especially in terms of the mechanisms of species co‐existence.
Wei Shi +4 more
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Environmental filtering increases with elevation for the assembly of gut microbiota in wild pikas. [PDF]
Microb Biotechnol, 2019 Despite their important roles in host nutrition, metabolism and adaptability, the knowledge on how the mammalian gut microbial community assemble is relatively scanty, especially regarding the ecological mechanisms that govern microbiota along ...
Li H, Zhou R, Zhu J, Huang X, Qu J.
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Environmental filtering drives distinct continental atlases of soil archaea between dryland and wetland agricultural ecosystems. [PDF]
Microbiome, 2019 BackgroundUnderstanding the spatial distributions and ecological diversity of soil archaeal communities in agricultural ecosystems is crucial for improvements in crop productivity.
Jiao S, Xu Y, Zhang J, Lu Y.
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Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2009 Environmental filtering is a fundamental process in the ecological assembly of communities. Recently developed phylogenetic tools identify patterns associated with environmental filtering across whole communities.
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Environmental filtering and spillover explain multi-species edge responses across agricultural boundaries in a biosphere reserve. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 To ensure integrity of protected areas we need to understand how species respond to anthropogenic borders. We investigate, from a metacommunity perspective, the direct and indirect mechanisms by which transformed areas affect distribution patterns of ...
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Science of the Total Environment, 2020 Climatic extreme events such as droughts (unpredictable), dry periods (predictable) or even flush floods, threaten freshwater ecosystems worldwide. The filtering mechanisms of these events and their strength on communities, however, can be different ...
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Environmental filtering of body size and darker coloration in pollinator communities indicate thermal restrictions on bees, but not flies, at high elevations. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Bees and flies are the two most dominant pollinator taxa in mountain environments of the Southwest USA. Communities of both taxa change dramatically along elevation gradients.
McCabe LM, Cobb NS, Butterfield BJ.
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Long-Term Rewetting of Three Formerly Drained Peatlands Drives Congruent Compositional Changes in Pro- and Eukaryotic Soil Microbiomes through Environmental Filtering. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 Drained peatlands are significant sources of the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide. Rewetting is a proven strategy used to protect carbon stocks; however, it can lead to increased emissions of the potent GHG methane.
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