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Ecological integrity of boreal streams [PDF]

, 2007
Running waters provide a number of services for humans, such as drinking water and food resources and many freshwater animals are confined and specialised to this environment.
Bergfur, Jenny
core  

Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fungi are essential to tropical ecosystems but remain largely absent from conservation agendas. By analyzing over 78,000 fungal records from Costa Rica—a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot—this study reveals key patterns in fungal diversity, distribution, and seasonality.
Melissa Mardones, Julieta Carranza‐Velázquez, Carlos Rojas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Litter Production and Decomposition Rate in the Reclaimed Mined Land Under Albizia and Sesbania Stands and Their Effects on Some Soil Chemical Properties [PDF]

, 2011
Vegetation establishment is considered as a critical step of mined land rehabilitation. The growing plants do not only prevent soil erosion, but also play important roles in soil ecosystem development. Their litterfall is the main process of transferring
Indarmawan, I. (Indarmawan), Munawar, A. (Ali), Suhartoyo, H. (Hery)   +2 more
core  

Organic and Inorganic Pollutants, Oxidative Stress Biomarkers, and Electrophoretic Protein Profiles in an Endangered Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) From Southeastern Brazil: A Case Study

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive screening of different environmental contaminants (total metals, thermostable metal fractions associated with detoxification, and persistent organic pollutants) was conducted in an endangered common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus ) individual incidentally captured in southeastern Brazil.
Sidney Fernandes Sales Junior, Amanda Pontes Lopes, Heloíse Martins de Souza, Regina Fonseca, Enrico Mendes Saggioro, Francielli Monteiro Casanova, Kamila Cezar Gramlich, Tatiana Dillenburg Saint'Pierre, Carlos German Massone, Renato Carreira, Rachel Ann Hauser‐Davis   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Fungicide Mancozeb in Leaf Litter Enhances Survival and Growth of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mancozeb is one of the most widely used agricultural fungicides, exhibiting strong efficacy against a broad spectrum of phytopathogenic fungi. However, its widespread application comes at the cost of environmental contamination. Here, we show the effects of Inga vera leaf litter contamination with Mancozeb on life‐history traits of Aedes ...
Heloise Restello Remus, Gilberto Dinis Cozzer, João Tauchert, Raquel de Brito, Cássia Alves Lima‐Rezende, Jacir Dal Magro, Natalia Bastiani da Luz, Daniel Albeny‐Simões, Renan de Souza Rezende   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interacting Microbe and Litter Quality Controls on Litter Decomposition: A Modeling Analysis

PLoS ONE, 2014
The decomposition of plant litter in soil is a dynamic process during which substrate chemistry and microbial controls interact. We more clearly quantify these controls with a revised version of the Guild-based Decomposition Model (GDM) in which we used a reverse Michaelis-Menten approach to simulate short-term (112 days) decomposition of roots from ...
Moorhead, Daryl, Lashermes, Gwenaëlle, Recous, Sylvie, Bertrand, Isabelle   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop, Jiwei Li, Daryl L. Moorhead, Sasha C. Reed, Katherine E. O. Todd‐Brown, Alexi C. Besser, Dellena Evelyn Bloom, Thomas C. Ingalls, Alejandro Cueva   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Litter Decomposition on Soil Organic Carbon Stability in Coastal Shelter Forests Under Thinning

Shuitu Baochi Xuebao
[Objective] To elucidate the characteristics of litter decomposition and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions under thinning, and to reveal the impact of litter decomposition on the stability of SOC in coastal shelter forests under thinning ...
ZHANG Zixu, HU Dingmeng, LU Yucun, WU Qicong, DONG Zhi, GAO Peng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Physical trampling is a ubiquitous activity of walking vertebrates, but is poorly understood as a mechanism impacting biogeochemical cycling in soil. Lack of detailed knowledge of soil abiotic–biotic interactions underlying trampling effects, and the primary sources of ...
G. Adam Meyer, Shawn J. Leroux, Kathryn E. Hargan, Niels van Miltenburg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nitrogen and Microelements Co-Drive the Decomposition of Typical Grass Litter in the Loess Plateau, China

Plants
In grassland ecosystems, the decomposition of litter serves as a vital conduit for nutrient transfer between plants and soil. The aim of this study was to depict the dynamic process of grass litter decomposition and explore its major driver.
Yun Xiang, Haoning Chen, Weiqi Feng, Yongli Wen, Ying Xie, Man Cheng, Hua Li   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source