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Effects of Main Land-Use Types on Plant and Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Degraded Alpine Grasslands

Land, 2023
Grassland resources occupy an important place in the national economy. However, grasslands in alpine regions of China are severely degraded, and the effects of land-use types on species composition, soil nutrients, and ecosystem multifunctionality of ...
Hongye Su, Li Ma, Tao Chang, Ruimin Qin, Zhonghua Zhang, Yandi She, Jingjing Wei, Chenyu Zhou, Xue Hu, Zhengchen Shi, Haze Adi, Honglin Li, Huakun Zhou   +12 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrology, shore morphology and species traits affect seed dispersal, germination and community assembly in shoreline plant communities

, 2014
Summary 1.Seed dispersal and germination are two primary processes influencing plant community assembly. On freshwater shores, water levels regulate both processes.
Van Leeuwen, C.H.A., Sarneel, Judith M., van Paassen, J., Plant Ecophysiology, Rip, W.J., Bakker, Elisabeth S., Sarneel, Judith M.,, Sub Plant Ecophysiology, van Paassen, Jose, Bakker, E.S., van Leeuwen, Casper H. A., Sarneel, J.M., Rip, Winnie J.   +12 more
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Inhibition of lipoxygenase affects induction of both direct and indirect plant defences against herbivorous insects [PDF]

, 2009
Herbivore-induced plant defences influence the behaviour of insects associated with the plant. For biting–chewing herbivores the octadecanoid signal-transduction pathway has been suggested to play a key role in induced plant defence.
Marcel Dicke, Dicke, M., Martin J. Müller, Posthumus, M.A., Broekhoven, S., Maarten A. Posthumus, Joop J. A. van Loon, Bruinsma, M., Müller, M.J., Loon, J.J.A., van, van Loon, J.J.A., Maaike Bruinsma, Erik H. Poelman, Poelman, E.H., Sarah van Broekhoven   +14 more
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Tardigrade Community Microbiomes in North American Orchards Include Putative Endosymbionts and Plant Pathogens

, 2022
The microbiome of tardigrades, a phylum of microscopic animals best known for their ability to survive extreme conditions, is poorly studied worldwide and completely unknown in North America. An improved understanding of tardigrade-associated bacteria is
Tibbs-Cortes, Bienvenido W., Schmitz-Esser, Stephan, Tibbs-Cortes, Laura E.   +2 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Plant communities

, 2019
The present chapter offers a concise overview of the vegetation cover of the Pantepui province located between approximately 1500 and 3000 m elevation in northeastern South America. This unique natural province, belonging to the biogeographical region of the Guiana Shield in the Neotropical region, presents a remarkable diversity of montane plant ...
Huber, Otto, Rull, Valentí
openaire   +2 more sources

Niche complementarity among pollinators increases community-level plant reproductive success [PDF]

, 2020
Declines in pollinator diversity and abundance have been reported across different regions, with implications for the reproductive success of plant species.
Molina, F. P., Bartomeus, I., Magrach, A.   +2 more
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Vegetation Dynamics Studies Based on Ellenberg and Landolt Indicator Values: A Review

Land
Understanding the dynamics and system of interrelationships between habitats and plant communities is key to making reliable predictions about sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and the risks of environmental crises.
Natalya Ivanova, Ekaterina Zolotova
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Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies

Grassland Research, 2022
Background Positive effects of plant species richness on community biomass in biodiversity experiments are often stronger than those from observational field studies.
Bernhard Schmid, Martin Schmitz, Michael Rzanny, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Peter N. Mwangi, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Andrew Hector, Roland Schmid, Dan F. B. Flynn   +8 more
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