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Fungal community composition and genetic potential regulate fine root decay in northern temperate forests
(Academic PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-04)
Understanding how genetic differences among soil microorganisms regulate spatial patterns in litter decay remains a persistent challenge in ecology. Despite fine root litter accounting for ~50% of total litter production ...
Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Evolution in Platyrrhine Monkeys: Duplications and Hybridization as Sources of Adaptive Genetic Variation
(2022)
Genetic variation is the foundation for a population to adapt to an environment that is constantly changing. Investigating the mechanisms through which genetic variation is acquired and maintained can inform how populations ...
Diversifying and perennializing plants in agroecosystems alters retention of new C and N from crop residues
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-03)
Managing soils to retain new plant inputs is key to moving toward a sustainable and regenerative agriculture. Management practices, like diversifying and perennializing agroecosystems, may affect the decomposer organisms ...
Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated
(American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of AmericaWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-03)
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is increasingly targeted as a key strategy in climate change mitigation and improved ecosystem resiliency. Agricultural land, a dominant global land use, provides substantial ...
A Social-Ecological Analysis of Ecological Nutrient Management using Cover Crops in the U.S. Midwest
(2022)
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer inputs to agricultural soils are a leading cause of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, contributing significantly to global climate change. As an alternative to conventional fertilizers, N2 fixing legumes ...
Viral Community Dynamics and Implications for the Fate of cHABs
(2024)
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) pose significant ecological and public health concerns in freshwater ecosystems. Viruses, specifically phages (viruses that infect bacteria), are increasingly recognized as ...
Floral Evolution Beyond Phenology: Adaptive Dynamics in Plant-Pollinator Interactions Under Global Change
(2024)
Global change generates rapid shifts in multiple environmental variables simultaneously, forming a multifactorial suite of pressures to which organisms must respond. To date, research regarding adaptive responses in plants ...
Influences of Affiliative Behavior in a Socially Monogamous Mammal
(2024)
All animals engage in aspects of social behavior at some time in their lives, whether through mating, territory defense, or more complex sustained cooperative behaviors. Therefore, the study of social behavior allows ...
Cichlids Model the Role of Riverine Connectivity in Shaping the Biogeography, Diversification, and Population Structure of Fishes in the Guiana Shield, South America
(2023)
Riverine fishes are confined by the hydrology of their river systems and their populations and communities are consequently modeled based on a dendritic network architecture. However, distinct river basins are known to ...
Primate Distribution Dynamics and the Effects of Contemporary Climate Change Along an Elevational Gradient in Indonesian Borneo
(2024)
Climate is a major driver of global change and can force both gradual and abrupt environmental transitions that profoundly influence traits of organisms, the quality of their habitats, and the persistence of populations. ...