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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 ...
The impact of ice storms on mycorrhizal fungi varies by season and mycorrhizal type in a hardwood forest
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-05)
Extreme weather events, such as ice storms, are increasing and have potentially large impacts on forests, including belowground structures such as fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi. Many forest trees rely on the mutualistic ...
Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees
(Cambridge University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-05)
AimOur understanding of the mechanisms that maintain forest diversity under changing climate can benefit from knowledge about traits that are closely linked to fitness. We tested whether the link between traits and seed ...
Dark roads aid movement but increase mortality of a generalist herbivore in the American Southwest
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-05)
Road networks pose many well-documented threats to wildlife, from fragmenting habitats and restricting movement to causing mortality through vehicle collisions. For large, wide-ranging mammals, home range requirements and ...
The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Academic Press, 2023-05)
Brooding of young is a reproductive strategy observed in many extant echinoderms, but the evolutionary history of this behaviour is largely unknown due to the scarcity of examples preserved in the fossil record. Here, ...
Combining local, landscape, and regional geographies to assess plant community vulnerability to invasion impact
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-06)
Invasive species science has focused heavily on the invasive agent. However, management to protect native species also requires a proactive approach focused on resident communities and the features affecting their vulnerability ...
Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-06)
Despite the large body of theory concerning multiple disturbances, relatively few attempts have been made to test the theoretical assumptions of how and if disturbances interact. Of particular importance is whether disturbance ...
Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical forests
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-06)
Accurate estimates of forest biomass stocks and fluxes are needed to quantify global carbon budgets and assess the response of forests to climate change. However, most forest inventories consider tree mortality as the only ...
Infectivity of the parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata is decreased by time spent as a transmission spore, but exposure to phycotoxins in the water column has no effect
(National Center for Biotechnology InformationWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-06)
Transmission from one host to another is a crucial component of parasite fitness. For some aquatic parasites, transmission occurs via a free-living stage that spends time in the water, awaiting an encounter with a new host. ...