[HTML][HTML] Community bioacoustics: studying acoustic community structure for ecological and conservation insights

V Chhaya, S Lahiri, MA Jagan, R Mohan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of animal acoustic signals has evolved due to multiple ecological processes,
both biotic and abiotic. At the level of communities of signaling animals, these processes …

More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

U Jandt, H Bruelheide, F Jansen, A Bonn, V Grescho… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Long-term analyses of biodiversity data highlight a 'biodiversity conservation paradox':
biological communities show substantial species turnover over the past century,, but …

Ocean acidification drives global reshuffling of ecological communities

I Nagelkerken, SD Connell - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm that climate change will alter global marine biodiversity is one of the most
widely accepted. Yet, its predictions remain difficult to test because laboratory systems are …

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

ML Avolio, KJ Komatsu, SL Collins, E Grman… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying
these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the …

Current street tree communities reflect race‐based housing policy and modern attempts to remedy environmental injustice

KT Burghardt, ML Avolio, DH Locke, JM Grove… - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Humans promote and inhibit other species on the urban landscape, shaping biodiversity
patterns. Institutional racism may underlie the distribution of urban species by creating …

Increasing stability of a native freshwater fish assemblage following flow rehabilitation

E Jacinto, NA Fangue, DE Cocherell… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stream restorations are increasingly critical for managing and recovering freshwater
biodiversity in human‐dominated landscapes. However, few studies have quantified how …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiota shaping and bioburden monitoring of indoor antimicrobial surfaces

A Mäki, N Salonen, M Kivisaari, M Ahonen… - Frontiers in Built …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Indoor residents are constantly exposed to dynamic microbiota that have significant health
effects. In addition to hand hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection, antimicrobial coatings …

The Brazilian Amazonian rainforest harbors a high diversity of yeasts associated with rotting wood, including many candidates for new yeast species

KO Barros, FBM Alvarenga, G Magni, GFL Souza… - Yeast, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the diversity of yeast species associated with rotting wood in
Brazilian Amazonian rainforests. A total of 569 yeast strains were isolated from rotting wood …

Long-term biodegradation of crude oil in high-arctic backshore sediments: The Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) after nearly four decades

L Schreiber, B Hunnie, I Altshuler, E Góngora… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
With an on-going disproportional warming of the Arctic Ocean and the reduction of the sea
ice cover, the risk of an accidental oil spill from ships or future oil exploration is increasing. It …

Recovery of the herbaceous component of degraded sagebrush steppe is unimpeded by 75 years of moderate cattle grazing

SM Copeland, KW Davies, CS Boyd, JD Bates - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the effects of contemporary cattle grazing on herbaceous perennial
communities in big sagebrush steppe is important for managing for wildlife habitat, plant …