Host-pathogen dynamics of seagrass diseases under future global change

BK Sullivan, SM Trevathan-Tackett, S Neuhauser… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human-induced global change is expected to amplify the disease risk for marine biota.
However, the role of disease in the rapid global decline of seagrass is largely unknown …

Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally

C Xu, BR Silliman, J Chen, X Li, MS Thomsen, Q Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Consumer fronts, global change, and runaway collapse in ecosystems

BR Silliman, MW McCoy, C Angelini… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Consumer fronts occur when grazers or predators aggregate in bands along the edges of a
resource. Our review reveals that consumer fronts are a common phenomenon in nature …

The blue carbon of southern southwest Atlantic salt marshes and their biotic and abiotic drivers

P Martinetto, J Alberti, ME Becherucci… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal vegetated ecosystems are acknowledged for their capacity to sequester organic
carbon (OC), known as blue C. Yet, blue C global accounting is incomplete, with major gaps …

Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide

Q He, BR Silliman - Ecological Monographs, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid, global, anthropogenic alteration of food webs in ecosystems necessitates a better
understanding of how consumers regulate natural communities. We provide a global …

Role of Epichloë Endophytes in Defense Responses of Cool-Season Grasses to Pathogens: A Review

C Xia, N Li, Y Zhang, C Li, X Zhang, Z Nan - Plant disease, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Various cool-season grasses are infected by Epichloë endophyte, and this symbiotic
relationship is always of benefit to the host grass due to an increased resistance to abiotic …

Effect of marine heatwaves and warming on kelp microbiota influence trophic interactions

LC Castro, A Vergés, SC Straub… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The range‐expansion of tropical herbivores due to ocean warming can profoundly alter
temperate reef communities by overgrazing the seaweed forests that underpin them. Such …

The corallivorous invertebrate Drupella aids in transmission of brown band disease on the Great Barrier Reef

KJ Nicolet, MO Hoogenboom, NM Gardiner… - Coral Reefs, 2013 - Springer
Brown band disease (BrB) is an increasingly prevalent coral disease in the Indo-Pacific, but
although the macroscopic signs of BrB have been associated with the ciliate Philaster …

Crab bioturbation and herbivory may account for variability in carbon sequestration and stocks in south west atlantic salt marshes

P Martinetto, DI Montemayor, J Alberti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Coastal vegetation plays an important role for climate change mitigation. Compared with
terrestrial ecosystems, coastal vegetation shows higher rates of atmospheric CO2 uptake …

Sources of Fungal Symbionts in the Microbiome of a Mobile Insect Host, Spodoptera frugiperda

M Watson, G May, KE Bushley - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
The sources of fungal symbionts of insects are not well understood, yet the acquisition and
assembly of fungal communities in mobile insect hosts have important implications for the …