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Urbanization and Spatial Aggregation Impair Multifunctionality in Urban Vacant Lots [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Urban shrinkage, driven by population decline rather than expansion, is an emerging concern in many developed countries. This demographic shift increases the prevalence of novel green spaces, such as vacant lots, prompting interest in their potential to ...
Yuki Iwachido, Himari Katsuhara, Kaho Maehara, Mahoro Tomitaka, Kensuke Seto, Shun Nonaka, Masayuki Ushio, Maiko Kagami, Takehiro Sasaki   +8 more
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The soil microbiome as an indicator of ecosystem multifunctionality in European soils [PDF]

Nature Communications
The role of soil microorganisms in supporting multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) remains poorly understood across diverse environmental conditions.
Ferran Romero, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, Cristiano Ballabio, Panos Panagos, Arwyn Jones, Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram, Nico Eisenhauer, Marie Sünnemann, Carlos A. Guerra, Dongxue Tao, Ido Rog, Shuo Jiao, Stefano Mocali, Matthias C. Rillig, Anika Lehmann, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden   +18 more
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Multifunctionality in a reservoir computer [PDF]

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2021
Multifunctionality is a well observed phenomenological feature of biological neural networks and considered to be of fundamental importance to the survival of certain species over time. These multifunctional neural networks are capable of performing more than one task without changing any network connections.
Andrew Flynn, Vassilios A. Tsachouridis, Andreas Amann   +2 more
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Precipitation preferences alter the relative importance of herbaceous plant diversity for multifunctionality in the drylands of China

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
BackgroundMultiple components of biodiversity are excellent predictors of precipitation-induced changes in ecosystem function. However, the importance of differing scales (alpha versus beta) is usually overlooked in biodiversity–ecosystem ...
Hao Guo, Hao Guo, Xiaobing Zhou, Xiaobing Zhou, Ye Tao, Ye Tao, Jinfei Yin, Jinfei Yin, Lan Zhang, Lan Zhang, Xing Guo, Xing Guo, Chaohong Liu, Yajun Lin, Yajun Lin, Yuanming Zhang, Yuanming Zhang   +16 more
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Species diversity is a strong predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality under altered precipitation in desert steppes

Ecological Indicators, 2022
With the intensification of global climate change, the precipitation patterns are altered and grassland ecosystem is facing biodiversity loss and ecosystem services decline.
Ya Hu, Xiangyun Li, Aixia Guo, Ping Yue, Xinxin Guo, Peng Lv, Shenglong Zhao, Xiaoan Zuo   +7 more
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Positive effects of fungal β diversity on soil multifunctionality mediated by pH in the natural restoration succession stages of alpine meadow patches

Ecological Indicators, 2023
It is important to have a deep understanding of microbial diversity–multifunctionality relationships. Studies on α diversity of microorganisms have been reported extensively, but the different microbial species of diversity at β scale is still unclear ...
Chengwei Duan, Xilai Li, Chengyi Li, Pengnian Yang, Yu Chai, Wenyin Xu   +5 more
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The ecological clusters of soil organisms drive the ecosystem multifunctionality under long-term fertilization

Environment International, 2022
Long-term fertilization is known to impact the biodiversity and community structures of soil organisms, which are responsible for multiple soil ecosystem functions (multifunctionality).
Yi-Fei Wang, Peng Chen, Feng-Hua Wang, Wan-Xue Han, Min Qiao, Wen-Xu Dong, Chun-Sheng Hu, Dong Zhu, Hai-Yan Chu, Yong-Guan Zhu   +9 more
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Does Digital Inclusive Finance Development Affect the Agricultural Multifunctionality Extension? Evidence from China

Agriculture, 2023
This paper constructs a comprehensive index system for agricultural multifunctionality extension to measure the agricultural multifunctionality development level in 30 sample provinces in China from 2011 to 2019, builds a model to explain theoretically ...
Yafei Wang, Jing Liu, Huanhuan Huang, Zhixiong Tan, Lichen Zhang   +4 more
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Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Plant diversity has a positive influence on the number of ecosystem functions maintained simultaneously by a community, or multifunctionality. While the presence of multiple trophic levels beyond plants, or trophic complexity, affects individual ...
Krishna Anujan, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Case M. Prager, Brian C. Weeks, Shahid Naeem   +4 more
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Bacterial richness is negatively related to potential soil multifunctionality in a degraded alpine meadow

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Fungal richness and community composition are known to be positively associated with soil multifunctionality. However, the contributions of bacterial and fungal communities to the multiple soil functions of alpine meadow ecosystems have not been widely ...
Jie Wang, Xiangtao Wang, Guobin Liu, Chao Zhang, Guoliang Wang   +4 more
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