Agriculture erases climate constraints on soil nematode communities across large spatial scales

X Li, H Zhu, S Geisen, C Bellard, F Hu, H Li… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic conversion of natural to agricultural land reduces aboveground biodiversity.
Yet, the overall consequences of land‐use changes on belowground biodiversity at large …

Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience

P Capdevila, I Stott, J Cant, M Beger… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating rates of biodiversity loss underscore the need to understand how species
achieve resilience—the ability to resist and recover from a/biotic disturbances. Yet, the …

Uniting species-and community-oriented approaches to understand arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity

M Öpik, J Davison - Fungal Ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) occur in the majority of terrestrial, and some aquatic,
habitats worldwide. They are important for the functioning of individual plants and of entire …

Effects of acid rain on plant growth: A meta-analysis

Z Shi, J Zhang, Z Xiao, T Lu, X Ren, H Wei - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic driven acid gases emission has caused acid rain in many regions globally.
Although efforts have been made to assess the effects of acid rain on terrestrial ecosystems …

Sex differences in life history, behavior, and physiology along a slow-fast continuum: a meta-analysis

M Tarka, A Guenther, PT Niemelä, S Nakagawa… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts that behavior and physiology covary
with life history. Evidence for such covariation is contradictory, possibly because systematic …

Skmer: assembly-free and alignment-free sample identification using genome skims

S Sarmashghi, K Bohmann, MT P. Gilbert, V Bafna… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
The ability to inexpensively describe taxonomic diversity is critical in this era of rapid climate
and biodiversity changes. The recent genome-skimming approach extends current …

Phylogenetic imprint of woody plants on the soil mycobiome in natural mountain forests of eastern China

T Yang, L Tedersoo, PS Soltis, DE Soltis… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies have detected strong phylogenetic signals in tree–fungus associations for
diseased leaves and mycorrhizal symbioses. However, the extent of plant phylogenetic …

Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions

LJ Harmon, CS Andreazzi, F Débarre… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Species interactions lie at the heart of many theories of macroevolution, from adaptive
radiation to the Red Queen. Although some theories describe the imprint that interactions …

Stress in the city: meta-analysis indicates no overall evidence for stress in urban vertebrates

M Iglesias-Carrasco, U Aich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As cities continue to grow it is increasingly important to understand the long-term responses
of wildlife to urban environments. There have been increased efforts to determine whether …

Sex ratios in a warming world: thermal effects on sex-biased survival, sex determination, and sex reversal

S Edmands - Journal of Heredity, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rising global temperatures threaten to disrupt population sex ratios, which can in turn cause
mate shortages, reduce population growth and adaptive potential, and increase extinction …