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Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration [PDF]
, 2014 Manipulating community assemblages to achieve functional targets is a key component of restoring degraded ecosystems. The response-and-effect trait framework provides a conceptual foundation for translating restoration goals into functional trait targets,
Laughlin, Daniel C.
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Forest tree communities are largely structured by interactions between phenotypes and their environments. Functional traits have been popularized as providing key insights into plant functional tradeoffs.
Jie Yang, Nathan G. Swenson
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Seeing the forest for the genes: using metagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities [PDF]
, 2014 Most environments harbor large numbers of microbial taxa with ecologies that remain poorly described and characterizing the functional capabilities of whole communities remains a key challenge in microbial ecology.
Barberán, Albert +2 more
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Saving the European eel : how morphological research can help in effective conservation management
, 2020 The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a critically endangered species, whose recruitment stocks have declined to nearly 1% compared to the late 70s. An amalgam of factors is responsible for this, among them migration barriers, pollution, habitat loss ...
Adriaens, Dominique +2 more
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Parallel functional and stoichiometric trait shifts in South American and African forest communities with elevation [PDF]
, 2017 The Amazon and Congo basins are the two largest continuous blocks of tropical forest with a central role for global biogeochemical cycles and ecology. However, both biomes differ in structure and species richness and composition.
C. Taveirne +8 more
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Fungal ecological strategies reflected in gene transcription - a case study of two litter decomposers. [PDF]
, 2019 Microbial communities interplay with their environment through their functional traits that can be a response or an effect on the environment. Here, we explore how a functional trait-the decomposition of organic matter, can be addressed based on genetic ...
Barbi, Florian +14 more
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Integrating Species Traits into Species Pools [PDF]
, 2018 Despite decades of research on the species‐pool concept and the recent explosion of interest in trait‐based frameworks in ecology and biogeography, surprisingly little is known about how spatial and temporal changes in species‐pool functional diversity ...
Darwin C. +4 more
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Functional Molecular Ecological Networks [PDF]
mBio, 2010 ABSTRACT Biodiversity and its responses to environmental changes are central issues in ecology and for society. Almost all microbial biodiversity research focuses on “species” richness and abundance but not on their interactions. Although a network approach is powerful in describing ecological interactions among species, defining
Jizhong Zhou +5 more
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Characterization of wild and captive baboon gut microbiota and their antibiotic resistomes [PDF]
, 2018 Antibiotic exposure results in acute and persistent shifts in the composition and function of microbial communities associated with vertebrate hosts.
Boolchandani, Manish +9 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 Species interaction networks have been usually delimited by perceived habitat borders. Here, seed-dispersal is analyzed as a regional multilayer network of interconnected habitats, highlighting the key role of versatile dispersers for the functional ...
Sérgio Timóteo +4 more
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