More stories

  • in

    Habitat provided by native species facilitates higher abundances of an invader in its introduced compared to native range

    1. Doherty, T. S., Glen, A. S., Nimmo, D. G., Ritchie, E. G. & Dickman, C. R. Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 11261–11265 (2016). 2. Levine, J. M. et al. Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 270, 775–781 (2003). 3. […] More

  • in

    Bacterial community analysis of floor dust and HEPA filters in air purifiers used in office rooms in ILAS, Beijing

    1. Hospodsky, D. et al. Human Occupancy as a Source of Indoor Airborne Bacteria. PLoS One 7, 10, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034867 (2012). 2. Fujiyoshi, S., Tanaka, D. & Maruyama, F. Transmission of Airborne Bacteria across Built Environments and Its Measurement Standards: A Review. Frontiers in Microbiology 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02336 (2017). 3. Adams, R. I., Bateman, A. C., Bik, […] More

  • in

    Invasive earthworms unlock arctic plant nitrogen limitation

    Study site This study was conducted at the Abisko Scientific Research Station (68°21′17.0′′ N; 18°48′54′′ E) about 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. The station is located within the sporadic permafrost zone, with a mean annual temperature around 0 °C and mean annual precipitation of 335 mm (1981–2010, Abisko Scientific Research Station, 380 m.a.s.l). Common garden experiment We […] More

  • in

    Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form

    1. Scott, A. C. Burning planet: The Story of Fire Through Time (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018). 2. Mutch, R. W. Wildland fires and ecosystems—A hypothesis. Ecology 51, 1046–1051 (1970). Article Google Scholar 3. Bond, W. J. & Midgley, J. J. Kill thy neighbour: an individualistic argument for the evolution of flammability. Oikos 73, 79–85 (1995). […] More

  • in

    The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity

    1. Haddad, N. M. et al. Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems. Sci. Adv. 1, e1500052 (2015). 2. Miraldo, A. et al. An Anthropocene map of genetic diversity. Science 353, 1532–1535 (2016). 3. Newbold, T. et al. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 520, 45–50 (2015). 4. Gann, […] More

  • in

    Seasonality impels the antibiotic resistance in Kelani River of the emerging economy of Sri Lanka

    Prevalence of E. coli and their antibiotic susceptibility Escherichia coli prevalence (colony-forming unit (CFU) ml−1) was observed in the Kelani River from upstream (K1; Seethawaka Export Processing Zone [EPZ]) to downstream (K4; Ambathale intake) (Table 1). We did not observe the large change in the range of prevalence of total coliform in October (23–31 CFU ml−1) and March […] More

  • in

    Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    1. Barnosky, A. D. et al. Has the earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 471, 51–57 (2011). 2. Díaz, S. et al. Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Advance Unedited Version) (IPBES Secretariat, 2019). 3. Pereira, H. […] More

  • in

    Macroecological dynamics of gut microbiota

    1. Faust, K., Lahti, L., Gonze, D., de Vos, W. M. & Raes, J. Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 25, 56–66 (2015). 2. Gohl, D. M. et al. Systematic improvement of amplicon marker gene methods for increased accuracy in microbiome studies. Nat. Biotechnol. 34, 942–949 (2016). 3. Caporaso, […] More