Pelagic Sargassum community change over a 40-year period: temporal and spatial variability

CL Huffard, S Von Thun, AD Sherman, K Sealey… - Marine Biology, 2014 - Springer
Pelagic forms of the brown algae (Phaeophyceae) Sargassum spp. and their conspicuous
rafts are defining characteristics of the Sargasso Sea in the western North Atlantic. Given …

Substantial reorganization of China's tropical and subtropical forests: based on the permanent plots

G Zhou, BZ Houlton, W Wang, W Huang… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is evidence that climate change induced tree mortalities in boreal and temperate
forests and increased forest turnover rates (both mortality and recruitment rates) in Amazon …

Non-random patterns in viral diversity

SJ Anthony, A Islam, C Johnson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
It is currently unclear whether changes in viral communities will ever be predictable. Here
we investigate whether viral communities in wildlife are inherently structured (inferring …

Citizen science data are a reliable complement to quantitative ecological assessments in urban rivers

CA Krabbenhoft, DR Kashian - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Conservation and management agencies may benefit from volunteer programs, or citizen
science, to monitor a variety of ecosystem types. Citizen science can simultaneously engage …

Global genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA dependent RNA polymerase evolution and antiviral drug resistance

A Mari, T Roloff, M Stange, KK Søgaard, E Asllanaj… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
A variety of antiviral treatments for COVID-19 have been investigated, involving many
repurposed drugs. Currently, the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp …

Partitioning interaction turnover among alpine pollination networks: spatial, temporal, and environmental patterns

MP Simanonok, LA Burkle - Ecosphere, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have taken two distinct approaches in studying the distribution and diversity of
communities: a species‐centric focus and an interaction‐network based approach. A current …

Current invasions of Asian Cyclopid species (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) in Crimea, with taxonomical and zoogeographical remarks on the hypersaline and freshwater …

E Anufriieva, M Hołyńska, N Shadrin - Annales Zoologici, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
The Crimean Peninsula holds a large number of hypersaline water bodies. Our studies
focused on these poorly investigated habitats, and included few brackish and freshwater …

The community structure of deep-sea macrofauna associated with polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone

B De Smet, E Pape, T Riehl, P Bonifácio… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Deep-sea areas characterized by the presence of polymetallic nodules are getting
increased attention due to their potential commercial and strategic interest for metals such …

DNA barcodes reveal striking arthropod diversity and unveil seasonal patterns of variation in the southern Atlantic Forest

B Bukowski, S Ratnasingham, PE Hanisch… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Atlantic Forest harbors 7% of global biodiversity and possesses high levels of
endemism, but many of its component taxa remain unstudied. Due to the importance of …

Latitudinal variation in termite species richness and abundance along the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot

EM Cancello, RR Silva, A Vasconcellos, YT Reis… - Biotropica, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we investigated the termites of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one of the most
threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world, in regularly spaced sites from 7° S to 27° S …