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Sheep and cattle grazing regimes differentially affect ground beetle and ant communities in Mediterranean cork oak woodlands

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Sheep and cattle grazing significantly shape ant and ground beetle species composition in Mediterranean cork oak woodlands, promoting higher diversity by increasing habitat heterogeneity. Ground beetles and ants reflect changes in grazing regimes, with sheep‐grazed areas showing the highest diversity, highlighting their utility in ecosystem monitoring.
Marcello Verdinelli, Maria Leonarda Fadda, Stefano Arrizza, Roberto Mannu   +3 more
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Complete chloroplast genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of Ilex viridis Champ. ex Benth

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
Ilex viridis Champ. ex Benth. is domestic to southern China. In the present work, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of Ilex viridis was assembled and characterized by high-throughput sequencing analyses.
Zhenyu Shan, Biyao Zhou, Yao Li, Daosen Liu, Wei Li, Julin Ma, Tao Su   +6 more
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Key sources of uncertainty in process‐based modeling of live fuel moisture content

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Location of the selected live fuel moisture content (LFMC) sampling sites. Summary Process‐based models that mechanistically represent water‐carbon balances in the atmosphere‐soil–plant continuum are an attractive tool for monitoring live fuel moisture content (LFMC) dynamics, a key variable when assessing fire danger.
Rodrigo Balaguer‐Romano, Albert Sañé, Nicolas Martin‐StPaul, Julien Ruffault, Eva Gabriel, Xavier Castro, François Pimont, Xiangzhuo Liu, Arsène Druel, Sylvain Delzon, Miquel De Cáceres   +10 more
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Combined phylogenetic and geographic data can predict plant–pest interactions with high accuracy

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Schematic overview of the study pipeline. Summary Non‐native plant pests can pose major threats to biodiversity, with destructive ecological and economic consequences. The ability to predict future threats would allow limited resources to be concentrated on managing the most serious risks. We built a Bayesian model to predict hosts at risk from Agrilus,
Elvira Hernández‐Gutiérrez, Richard A. Nichols, Laura J. Kelly   +2 more
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Not only reseeder or resprouter plants: Trait syndromes and post‐fire responses of three iconic Mediterranean woody species

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Post‐fire plant functional strategies of Mediterranean woody species can be less fixed than often thought when intraspecific variability of fire‐related traits is considered. Abstract Fire can profoundly affect ecosystem dynamics, species distribution and plant traits, especially in open biomes.
G. Ottaviani, H. Beckett, J. M. Costa‐Saura, E. Agrillo, G. Bonari, C. Calfapietra, E. D'Andrea, P. Fiorucci, M. Lo Cascio, M. Magnani, S. Portarena, C. Sirca, M. Baudena, M. Millan   +13 more
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Molecular evolution of terpene synthase underlying the diversification of isoprene emission in Fagaceae

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Isoprene emission in oaks originated from convergent adaptive evolution of terpene synthases, involving a substrate shift from monoterpene to isoprene production within a Fagaceae‐specific TPS lineage. Abstract Plants emit a wide range of volatile organic compounds, among which isoprene is the most abundant and atmospherically influential. Although oak
Y. Ikezaki, S. Koita, S. N. Kudo, T. Nakata, R. Munakata, K. Yazaki, T. Torimaru, N. Tomaru, S. Isobe, H. Hirakawa, J. Kusumi, A. Satake   +11 more
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First indisputable fossil Ilex (Aquifoliales: Aquifoliaceae) flower found in Baltic amber

Scientific Reports
The genus Ilex (holly) in the monotypic family Aquifoliaceae contains more than 600 species distributed worldwide. Pollen fossils and macrofossils of fruits of Ilex are known from the late Cretaceous (90 Ma) and verified leaves from the upper Miocene (10 
Finn N. Rasmussen, Bo Johansen, Kathleen Dollman, Erik Wisaeus, Lars Vilhelmsen   +4 more
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Fatty acid composition and antioxidant capacity of defatted, non-defatted and oils extracts of Quercus ilex fruit from Algeria

Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny
Background The nutritional value and health-promoting properties cause the fruits (acorns) of Quercus ilex to have great potential for use in the food industry as functional ingredients and antioxidants source.
Hadjira Guenane, Boulanouar Bakchiche, Ramazan Erenler, Ilyas Yildiz, Omar M. Khalaf, Amal M. Saad, Mosad A. Ghareeb   +6 more
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Multi‐decadal woodland recovery after land abandonment: environmental constraints on passive rewilding in Mediterranean landscapes

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Across the Mediterranean Basin, land abandonment has opened large areas to passive rewilding, raising questions about the pace and variability of secondary succession in these landscapes and how ecological and abiotic gradients mediate vegetation recovery in post‐agricultural landscapes. Objectives This study aims to quantify long‐
António Vaz Pato, Miguel Porto, Ana Teresa Pinto, Alice Nunes, Pedro Beja   +4 more
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