Philippa Kaur

Sampling sites Thirteen sites in streams of 3 cantons of Switzerland and 7 sites along the shores of Lake Geneva were selected to cover a known gradient of anthropogenic pressures, in order to compare the morphological and metabarcoding approaches for determining the oligochaete indices (Supplementary Table S1). The 13 stream sites comprised sources and sites in […] More

NPP and GPP models Important advances in NPP and GPP models for estuarine-coastal waters were made possible by increasingly sophisticated approaches and availability of calibration data. Common elements of production models dating to the 1950s include terms for photosynthetic efficiency, phytoplankton biomass, and light availability41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52. Light-utilization models specific to estuarine-coastal ecosystems, such as Chesapeake Bay, […] More

We first compared the vertical variation in WD between 822 individual trees by determining WD in six compartments (stump: Stu, stem base: Steb, stem: Ste, large-: LB, medium-: MB and small-sized branches: SB, Fig. 1D). The sample covered a broad range of WD values from 0.217 to 1.020 (Steb). As there are no strong assumptions regarding […] More

16S rRNA data and taxonomic classification We collected 11,649 16S rRNA amplification datasets from MG-RAST (last accessed: march 2015). The datasets had very diverse sizes, with an average size of 100,473 sequences per dataset (Supplementary data 1 and Supplementary Fig. 7). We removed those containing non-ribosomal data or less than 2000 sequences. For this, we queried the […] More

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Focal strain evolution was different in each community We measured performance (competitive fitness) of the evolved populations relative to the ancestral population when both were grown in separate dialysis bags embedded within the community at the end of the experiment (see Supplementary Fig. 1). The focal strains (rows of Fig. 1) had wide variation in performance across […] More

By bringing together diverse, spatially explicit datasets, we present a flexible methodology for identifying where land-sparing policies are most needed, and where they are most likely to succeed. We focus on Brazil, a country of exceptional global importance for both biodiversity conservation and agriculture, but the methods used here could be adapted for any region […] More

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