Data from: Trace element accumulation in woody plants of the Guadiamar...
Phytomanagement employs vegetation and soil amendments to reduce the environmental risk posed by contaminated sites. We investigated the distribution of trace elements in soils and woody plants from a...
View ArticleData from: Genetic variability, local selection and demographic history:...
Genome-wide analysis of genetic divergence is critically important in understanding the genetic processes of allopatric speciation. We sequenced RAD tags of 131 Asian seabass individuals of six...
View ArticleData from: Woodstoich III: Integrating tools of Nutritional Geometry and...
Within the last two decades, ecological stoichiometry (ES) and nutritional geometry (NG, also known as geometric framework for nutrition) have delivered novel insights into core questions of...
View ArticleData from: Consumer versus resource control and the importance of habitat...
The relative influence of consumers (top down) and resources (bottom up) on the distribution and abundance of organisms remains a key question in ecology. We examined the relationships between consumer...
View ArticleData from: Benchmarking DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity-based monitoring...
Characterization of biodiversity has been extensively used to confidently monitor and assess environmental status. Yet, visual morphology, traditionally and widely used for species identification in...
View ArticleData from: Spread of amphibian chytrid fungus across lowland populations of...
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is an emergent infectious disease partially responsible for worldwide amphibian population declines. The spread of...
View ArticleData from: River banks and channels as hotspots of soil pollution after...
Riparian areas are highly dynamic systems where the control of soil pollution might be particularly challenging. Limited accessibility to river banks and bed sediments makes reclamation operations...
View ArticleData from: Exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis during flexible...
Objective: Recent guidelines recommend the use by healthcare personnel of a fit-tested N95 particulate respirator or higher-grade respiratory precaution in a patient undergoing bronchoscopy when...
View ArticleData from: Adaptation to warmer climates by parallel functional evolution of...
The evolutionary processes and genetics underlying local adaptation at a species wide level are largely unknown. Recent work has indicated that a frameshift mutation in a member of a family of...
View ArticleData from: Extra molting and selection on nymphal growth in the desert locust
In insects, extra-molting has been viewed as a compensatory mechanism for nymphal growth that contributes to optimize body weight for successful reproduction. However, little is known on the capacity...
View ArticleData from: Intestinal microbiota is influenced by gender and body mass index
Intestinal microbiota changes are associated with the development of obesity. However, studies in humans have generated conflicting results due to high inter-individual heterogeneity in terms of diet,...
View ArticleData from: Effects of antibiotic resistance alleles on bacterial evolutionary...
Antibiotic resistance has wide-ranging effects on bacterial phenotypes and evolution. However, the influence of antibiotic resistance on bacterial responses to parasitic viruses remains unclear,...
View ArticleData from: Exceptional body sizes but typical trophic structure in a...
In this study, we focused on the exceptionally large mammals inhabiting the Americas during the Quaternary period and the paramount role of body size in species ecology. We evaluated two main features...
View ArticleData from: Predicting biotic interactions and their variability in a changing...
Global environmental change is altering the patterns of biodiversity worldwide. Observation and theory suggest that species' distributions and abundances depend on a suite of processes, notably abiotic...
View ArticleData from: Movement of a hybrid zone between lineages of the Australian glass...
In 1993, a population of freshwater glass shrimp (Paratya australiensis) was translocated from Kilcoy Creek to Branch Creek in the Conondale Range, Queensland. Subsequent genetic analysis revealed that...
View ArticleData from: State-and-transition simulation models: a framework for...
A wide range of spatially explicit simulation models have been developed to forecast landscape dynamics, including models for projecting changes in both vegetation and land use. While these models have...
View ArticleData from: Contrasting trait assembly patterns in plant and bird communities...
Human-driven environmental changes can induce marked shifts in the functional structure of biological communities with possible repercussion on important ecosystem functions and services. At the same...
View ArticleData from: Taxonomic quality of species descriptions varies over time and...
While concerns are being raised about a potential shortage of taxonomists and systematists, recent analyses suggest instead that the number of researchers involved in taxonomic descriptions is higher...
View ArticleData from: Transcriptomic responses of the calanoid copepod Calanus...
In the Gulf of Maine, the copepod Calanus finmarchicus co-occurs with the neurotoxin-producing dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense. The copepod is resistant to this toxic alga, but little is known...
View ArticleData from: Flow cytometry combined with viSNE for analysis of microbial...
Biofilms serve essential ecosystem functions and are used in different technical applications. Studies from stream ecology and waste-water treatment have shown that biofilm functionality depends to a...
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