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Land-Use Change Related to Topography and Societal Drivers in High-Mountains – A Case Study in the Upper Watershed of the Tergi (Kazbegi Region), Greater Caucasus

European Countryside, 2019
High mountain ecosystems, with strong topographic and climatic gradients, are fragile and particularly sensitive to changes in land use. The abandonment of historic cultural landscapes has often led to changes in the pattern of land cover and thus, to a ...
Theissen Tim, Otte Annette, Waldhardt Rainer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Unifying Concept for Growth Trends of Trees and Forests – The “Potential Natural Forest”

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
Changes in the environment will alter the growth rate of trees and forests. Different disciplines assess such growth rates differently, for example, with tree-ring width data, forest inventories or with carbon-flux data from eddy covariance towers.
Mario Trouillier, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid response of vascular plants and insects to restoration of montane grasslands

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionIndustrialization has ushered in massive changes in agriculture. Particularly in low mountain ranges, large-scale afforestation with Norway spruce on traditionally managed, semi-natural grasslands has caused a severe decline in biodiversity ...
Felix Helbing, Thomas Fartmann, Thomas Fartmann, Carsten Morkel, Dominik Poniatowski   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

The rarest invaders: systematic global evidence for the conservation-invasion paradox in plants

npj Biodiversity
The Conservation–Invasion Paradox (CIP) refers to species that are threatened or declining within their native ranges establish invasive populations elsewhere.
Ramiro R. Ripa, Yves P. Klinger, Jorgelina Franzese   +2 more
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Species pool distributions along functional trade-offs shape plant productivity–diversity relationships

Scientific Reports, 2017
Grasslands deliver the resources for food production and are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems. These characteristics are often in conflict as increasing yield through fertilization can lead to biodiversity loss.
Loïc Chalmandrier, Camille Albouy, Loïc Pellissier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transcription Factor Promiscuity Drives Regulatory Rewiring and Evolvability in Gene Networks in Bacteria

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
When a master transcription factor (TF) is lost, bacteria can rapidly rewire gene regulatory networks by co‐opting related regulators. Using experimental evolution in Pseudomonas fluorescens, we show that TF promiscuity (low‐level, non‐cognate binding) provides the raw material for rewiring. Successful co‐option follows a predictable hierarchy governed
Tiffany B. Taylor, Alan M. Rice
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Plant Functional Groups in Subalpine Grassland of the Greater Caucasus

Mountain Research and Development, 2018
Plant functional groups—in our case grass, herbs, and legumes—and their spatial distribution can provide information on key ecosystem functions such as species richness, nitrogen fixation, and erosion control.
Anja Magiera, Hannes Feilhauer, Rainer Waldhardt, Martin Wiesmair, Annette Otte   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Single‐Cell Dissection of Therapy‐Induced Remodeling Uncovers a Fibroblast‐Driven Immunosuppressive Niche and Targetable Vulnerabilities in Lethal Prostate Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Single‐cell longitudinal profiling reveals that androgen‐deprivation therapy induces a DPT+ fibroblast‐complement axis that suppresses macrophage inflammation and drives CD8+ T cell exhaustion in prostate cancer. Concurrently, resistant epithelial subpopulations persist and engage TSPAN1‐ and NRXN1‐mediated programs promoting CRPC and neuroendocrine ...
Yang Chen, Dandan Dong, Jinling Liao, Naikai Liao, Mengqi Liu, Qin Zhang, Siting Chen, Qi Liu, Ying Lu, Tianyu Li, Chunlin Zou, Qiong Song, Qiuyan Wang, Jian Liang, Qiji Xie, Chengyang Li, Mengyun Wang, Jiwen Cheng, Zengnan Mo, Gong‐Hong Wei   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

β‐Elemene Rescues Radiation‐Induced Enteritis by Orchestrating a Host‐Microbiome Circuit That Fuels Epigenetic DNA Repair

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study elucidates that β‐elemene promotes cellular uptake of L. gasseri‐derived lactate by enhancing the membrane translocation of MCT1 in a CD147‐dependent manner. Intracellular lactate, through the lactylation of RBBP4 at the K26 site, recruits EP300 to the promoter regions of downstream genes (POLD1/POLD3), catalyzing H3K27ac modification.
Jiancheng He, Jiapeng Bao, Shukang Deng, Weijie Zang, Haoming Yan, Zihao Zhao, Guangze Zhang, Ruiqing Liu, Junjie Chen, Yilin Hu, Wanjiang Xue   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source