Larger area facilitates richness-function effects in experimental microcosms

JP DeLong, JP Gibert - The American Naturalist, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Species-area relationships (SAR) and biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) relationships
are central patterns in community ecology. Although research on both patterns often invokes …

Site productivity overrides competition in explaining the disturbance–diversity relationship in riparian forests

EA Calcada, D Closset-Kopp, J Lenoir, M Hermy… - Perspectives in plant …, 2015 - Elsevier
The intermediate-disturbance hypothesis (IDH) is frequently invoked to explain the high
biodiversity of certain ecosystems and largely permeates forest management guidelines …

Merging microbial and plant profiling to understand the impact of human-generated extreme environments in natural and agricultural systems

MM Howard, LM Kaminsky, A Kessler… - Advanced techniques for …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Many human activities, such as agriculture and pollution, have severely disturbed soil
habitats, exposing resident plants and microorganisms to relatively extreme environmental …

Disturbance characteristics determine the timescale of competitive exclusion in a phytoplankton model

L Göthlich, A Oschlies - Ecological modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
The way in which disturbance shapes phytoplankton diversity is still subject to much debate.
Various disturbance–diversity relationships have been proposed, with diversity increasing or …

Strong zonation of benthic communities across a tidal freshwater height gradient

JR McLachlan, JM Haghkerdar, HS Greig - Freshwater Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Trade‐offs associated with environmental gradients generate patterns of diversity and
govern community organisation in a landscape. In freshwaters, benthic community structure …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects for integrating disturbances, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning using microbial systems

T Banitz, A Chatzinotas, A Worrich - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biodiversity is a key driver of ecosystem functioning, while disturbances are a key driver of
biodiversity. Consequently, disturbances crucially influence ecosystem functioning–both …

[图书][B] Impacts of human disturbance on carnivores in protected areas of the American Southwest

AD Baker - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Mammalian carnivores are a vital component of many ecosystems and can be particularly
sensitive to human disturbance, even within protected areas (PAs). Our objective was to …

Toxicological impacts and likely protein targets of bisphenol A in Paramecium caudatum

MVX Senra, AL Fonseca - European Journal of Protistology, 2023 - Elsevier
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used plasticizer agent and a well-known ubiquitous endocrine
disruptor, which is frequently associated with a series of reproductive, developmental, and …

Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities in a fluctuating environment

VL Andersen Woltz, CI Abreu, J Friedman, J Gore - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The effect of environmental fluctuations is a major question in ecology. While it is widely
accepted that fluctuations and other types of disturbances can increase biodiversity, we …

Species with moderate intraspecific trait variability are locally abundant within an environmentally heterogeneous subtropical forest

G Shen, ER Yan, A Bar-Massada, J Zhang, H Liu… - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Species with large intraspecific trait variability (ITV) have larger niche breadth than species
with low ITV and thus are expected to be more abundant at the local scale. However …