Tree diversity and forest resistance to insect pests: patterns, mechanisms, and prospects

H Jactel, X Moreira… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ecological research conducted over the past five decades has shown that increasing tree
species richness at forest stands can improve tree resistance to insect pest damage …

Trophic regulations of the soil microbiome

MP Thakur, S Geisen - Trends in microbiology, 2019 - cell.com
The soil microbiome regulates vital ecosystem functions ranging from primary production to
soil carbon sequestration. Yet, we have only begun to understand the factors regulating the …

[PDF][PDF] AN INVERSE LATITUDINAL GRADIENT IN SPECIES RICHNESS OF FOREST RED MILLIPEDES CHERSASTUS ATTEMS, 1926 AND CENTROBOLUS COOK …

M COOPER - … Journal of Engineering Science Invention Research …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Biogeographical Conservativism Hypothesis were tested in forest red millipedes. Latitudinal
diversity gradient (LDG) was measured in the Spirobolida family Pachybolidae to distinguish …

[PDF][PDF] The inverse latitudinal gradients in species richness of Southern African millipedes

MI Cooper - Int. J. Re. Res. Thesis Diss, 2022 - paperpublications.org
Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community,
landscape, or region [2-5]. Species richness and biodiversity increase from the poles to the …

[PDF][PDF] The inverse latitudinal gradient in species richness of forest millipedes: Pachybolidae Cook, 1897

M Cooper - J. Entomol. Zool. Stud, 2022 - entomoljournal.com
Abstract The Tropical Conservativism Hypothesis and Biogeographical Conservativism
Hypothesis were tested in forest millipedes. Latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) was …

[PDF][PDF] The inverse latitudinal gradient in species richness of forest millipedes: Pentazonia Brandt, 1833

M Cooper - Peninsula, 2022 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Tropical Conservativism Hypothesis and Biogeographical Conservativism
Hypothesis were tested in forest millipedes. Latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) was …

Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change

T Newbold, P Oppenheimer, A Etard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Global biodiversity is undergoing rapid declines, driven in large part by changes to land use
and climate. Global models help us to understand the consequences of environmental …

Biotic interactions are more often important at species' warm versus cool range edges

A Paquette, AL Hargreaves - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting which ecological factors constrain species distributions is a fundamental
ecological question and critical to forecasting geographic responses to global change …

Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude

GV Ashton, AL Freestone, JE Duffy, ME Torchin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Early naturalists suggested that predation intensity increases toward the tropics, affecting
fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes by latitude, but empirical support is still …

Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

A Schuldt, T Assmann, M Brezzi, F Buscot… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Human-induced biodiversity change impairs ecosystem functions crucial to human well-
being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem multifunctionality are …