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Assessing the response of nematode communities to climate change-driven warming : a microcosm experiment [PDF]

, 2013
Biodiversity has diminished over the past decades with climate change being among the main responsible factors. One consequence of climate change is the increase in sea surface temperature, which, together with long exposure periods in intertidal areas ...
Gingold, Ruth, Moens, Tom, Rocha-Olivares, Axayácatl   +2 more
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Unbalanced Roles of Fungal Aggressiveness and Host Cultivars in the Establishment of the Fusarium Head Blight in Bread Wheat

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused mainly by Fusarium graminearum, is the foremost destructive disease of cereals worldwide. Effector-like molecules produced by F.
Francis Fabre, Joerg Bormann, Serge Urbach, Sylvie Roche, Thierry Langin, Ludovic Bonhomme   +5 more
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Homogenization of Functional Diversity of Rotifer Communities in Relation to Eutrophication in an Urban River of North China

Biology, 2023
Rapid urbanization has triggered nutrient loading, which will inevitably lead to the eutrophication of water bodies and further affect the structure of aquatic populations.
Bing Wang, Xuwang Yin
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Commercial Potato Cultivars Exhibit Distinct Susceptibility to the Root Lesion Nematode Pratylenchus penetrans

Horticulturae, 2022
The root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans is an important plant-parasitic nematode of potato. In this study, the susceptibility of commercial potato cultivars to P. penetrans was assessed.
Joana Figueiredo, Paulo Vieira, Isabel Abrantes, Ivânia Esteves   +3 more
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Decomposing functional diversity [PDF]

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Summary One aspect of biodiversity, functional diversity, reflects the functional role of species within a community as measured by species characteristics. We present a new metric, functional trait dispersion, based on the concept of species distinctiveness measured as the distance among species in the multidimensional space defined by trait values.
Samuel M. Scheiner, Evsey Kosman, Steven J. Presley, Michael R. Willig   +3 more
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Diversity and Function of Appressoria [PDF]

Pathogens, 2021
Endophytic, saprobic, and pathogenic fungi have evolved elaborate strategies to obtain nutrients from plants. Among the diverse plant-fungi interactions, the most crucial event is the attachment and penetration of the plant surface. Appressoria, specialized infection structures, have been evolved to facilitate this purpose.
K. W. Thilini Chethana, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Yi-Jyun Chen, Sirinapa Konta, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Pranami D. Abeywickrama, Deecksha Gomdola, Abhaya Balasuriya, Jianping Xu, Saisamorn Lumyong, Kevin D. Hyde   +10 more
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Plant functional traits best explain invasive species’ performance within a dynamic ecosystem - A review

Trees, Forests and People, 2022
Invasive alien species (IAS) poses a significant threat to plant biodiversity globally and even considered one of the largest threats to biodiversity, second to habitat loss.
Priya Kaushik, Pranab Kumar Pati, M.L. Khan, P.K. Khare   +3 more
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The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

, 2011
Aim: Two of the oldest observations in plant geography are the increase in plant diversity from the poles towards the tropics and the global geographic distribution of vegetation physiognomy (biomes). The objective of this paper is to use a process-based
Ackerly, Anderson, Betts, Box, Box, Currie, Diaz, Ehleringer, Field, Francis, Garnier, Grime, Hawkins, Hillebrand, Holdridge, Kier, Kleidon, Kleidon, Kreft, Köppen, Lavorel, Legendre, Mittelbach, Mokany, Monserud, Neilson, Olson, Pausas, Petchey, Prentice, Rahbek, Ramankutty, Raunkiaer, Reich, Reineking, Schimper, Schwinning, Sheffield, Thornley, Tilman, Tilman, Violle, von Humboldt, Westoby, Whittaker, Williams, Woodward, Woodward   +47 more
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Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Ensuring the provision of essential ecosystem services in systems affected by multiple stressors is a key challenge for theoretical and applied ecology.
Noel P. D. Juvigny‐Khenafou, Jeremy J. Piggott, David Atkinson, Yixin Zhang, Samuel J. Macaulay, Naicheng Wu, Christoph D. Matthaei   +6 more
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Productivity and forage quality of a phytodiverse semi-natural grassland under various management regimes [PDF]

, 2011
Grassland management experiment (GrassMan) was set up in 2008 on a permanent semi-natural grassland in the Solling uplands, Germany. The main research focus is on the ecosystem functioning of the phytodiverse grassland (e.g.
Johannes Isselstein, Tatiana From, Ute K. Petersen   +2 more
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