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Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Impacts of Low Flows on Fish Foodscapes and Production in a Braided River

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changes in river discharge affect the physical composition and connectivity of habitats which, in turn, may shape the spatial distribution of fish food abundance, accessibility and quality—the ‘foodscape’—of river ecosystems. However, the influence of river flows on fish foodscapes has received very little attention from scientists. We studied
Rick J. Stoffels, Richard S. A. White, Gergely T. Torok, Richard J. Measures, Kristy L. Hogsden, Alex F. Rose, Paul W. Lambert, Jaret P. Bilewitch, S. Elizabeth Graham, Lisa Smith, Amber R. Brooks, Brian J. Smith   +11 more
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Biodiversity and Community Structure of Mesozooplankton in the Marine and Coastal National Park Areas of Korea

Diversity, 2020
Zooplankton communities are useful bioindicators that can provide information on the changes occurring in marine ecosystems. Therefore, investigation of zooplankton communities in marine and coastal national parks is essential.
Heesoo Kim, Chang-Rae Lee, Sang-kyu Lee, Seung-Yoon Oh, Won Kim   +4 more
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Incorporating environmental DNA metabarcoding for improved benthic biodiversity and habitat mapping

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Seafloor imagery is commonly used to collect information about the distribution of benthic organisms in order to generate habitat and biodiversity maps. Recent advances in genomics (e.g., environmental DNA; eDNA) show potential to complement video surveys for habitat mapping, but there have been few examples testing this.
Rylan J. Command, Shreya Nemani, Benjamin Misiuk, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Nicole Fahner, Emily Porter, Greg Singer, Beverly McClenaghan, Katleen Robert   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined water and detritus sampling is the most effective strategy to detect environmental DNA of macroinvertebrates in rivers

Ecological Indicators
Although environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding technology has been increasingly applied in freshwater ecosystems, the effectiveness of conventional water sampling and other adaptive metabarcoding methods for detecting macroinvertebrates has not been ...
Kena Shi, Yajing He, Jiefeng Yu, Yongjing Zhao, Hongzhu Wang, Yongde Cui   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metabarcoding and metabolome analyses of copepod grazing reveal feeding preference and linkage to metabolite classes in dynamic microbial plankton communities [PDF]

, 2016
In order to characterize copepod feeding in relation to microbial plankton community dynamics, we combined metabarcoding and metabolome analyses during a 22-day seawater mesocosm experiment.
Althammer, Julia, Frischer, Marc, Ijaz, Umer Z., Larsen, Aud, Nejstgaard, Jens C., Pohnert, Georg, Quince, Christopher, Ray, Jessica L., Sazhin, Andrey, Simonelli, Paolo, Skaar, Katrine S., Stoecker, Diane, Troedsson, Christofer   +12 more
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Structure and functional genes associated with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycling processes in periphyton: A comparison between natural and artificial rivers

River, EarlyView.
Network analysis of functional genes among prokaryotes, and eukaryotes in natural and artificial rivers. Abstract Periphyton in aquatic ecosystems plays vital roles in the elemental cycle process and is vulnerable to anthropogenic interference. However, few studies have explored the elemental cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and ...
Yulu Tian, Jiezhang Mo, Jiaxin Liu, Chenghao Li, Jiahua Guo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours that improve their fitness in human‐altered settings. Despite research on wildlife in urban areas, the development of foraging behaviour in urban species is
Joan Navarro, Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Giménez, José Antonio Garcia, Pablo Cermeño, Jordi Figuerola, Raül Aymí, Tomás Montalvo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dietary differentiation of two co‐occurring common bat species (Eptesicus nilssonii and Pipistrellus pygmaeus)

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Sympatric bat species can co‐exist and avoid interspecific competition via niche differentiation e.g. diet. Detecting dietary differences can be achieved by comparing dietary niches of sympatric and allopatric populations. If dietary overlap is higher in sympatry versus allopatry, co‐occurrence may be altering the dietary niche of the species.
Heather Wood, Adam Kimberley, William F. Englund, Sara A. O. Cousins   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data [PDF]

, 2017
Understandably, given the fast pace of biodiversity loss, there is much interest in using Earth observation technology to track biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services. However, because most biodiversity is invisible to Earth observation,
Bush, Alex, Sollmann, Rahel, Wilting, Andreas, Bohmann, Kristine, Cole, Beth, Balzter, Heiko, Martius, Christopher, Zlinszky, András, Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien, Cobbold, Christina A., Dawson, Terence P., Emerson, Brent C., Ferrier, Simon, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Herold, Martin, Jones, Laurence, Leendertz, Fabian H., Matthews, Louise, Millington, James D.A., Olson, John R., Ovaskainen, Otso, Raffaelli, Dave, Reeve, Richard, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Rodgers, Torrey W., Snape, Stewart, Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid, Vogler, Alfried P., White, Piran C.L., Wooster, Martin J., Yu, Douglas W.   +30 more
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