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Unhealthy herds and the predator–spreader: Understanding when predation increases disease incidence and prevalence
(SpringerWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-03)
Disease ecologists now recognize the limitation behind examining host–parasite interactions in isolation: community members—especially predators—dramatically affect host–parasite dynamics. Although the initial paradigm was ...
SPCIS: Standardized Plant Community with Introduced Status database
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-03)
The movement of plant species across the globe exposes native communities to new species introductions. While introductions are pervasive, two aspects of variability underlie patterns and processes of biological invasions ...
Seasonal plasticity in morphology and metabolism differs between migratory North American and resident Costa Rican monarch butterflies
(Princeton University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-02)
Environmental heterogeneity in temperate latitudes is expected to maintain seasonally plastic life-history strategies that include the tuning of morphologies and metabolism that support overwintering. For species that have ...
Transgenerational plasticity in a zooplankton in response to elevated temperature and parasitism
(National Library of Medicine (USA), Center for Biotechnology InformationWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-02)
Organisms are increasingly facing multiple stressors, which can simultaneously interact to cause unpredictable impacts compared with a single stressor alone. Recent evidence suggests that phenotypic plasticity can allow ...
Between two trees: Environmental effects of I. micheliana and A. latifolia on leaf litter ants in a coffee agroecosystem
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-02)
Shade trees provide important ecological services that support productivity in coffee agroforestry systems. Processes such as biological nitrogen fixation play a key role in this. Less is known, however, about potential ...
Mycorrhizal fungal and tree root functional traits: Strategies for integration and future directions
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-02)
Plant functional traits offer ecologists quantifiable characteristics that may be used to determine the underlying mechanisms and drivers of processes at scales ranging from individual plants to entire ecosystems. While ...
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 ...
Tree growth periodicity in the ever-wet tropical forest of the Americas
(Santa fé de BogotáWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-04)
The occurrence of annual growth rings in tropical trees—the result of the seasonal activity of vascular cambium—has been explained by seasonal water deficit or flooding periods. However, little is known about the drivers ...
Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-04)
Trait-based approaches elucidate the mechanisms underlying biodiversity response to, or effects on, the environment. Nevertheless, the Raunkiæran shortfall—the dearth of knowledge on species traits and their functionality—presents ...