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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Graham D Wright, Kerry A Thompson, Yara Reis, Johanna Bischof, Philip Edward Hockberger, Michelle S Itano, Lisa Yen, Stephen Taiye Adelodun, Nikki Bialy, Claire M Brown, Linda Chaabane, Teng-Leong Chew, Andrew I Chitty, Fabrice P Cordelières, Mariana De Niz, Jan Ellenberg, Lize Engelbrecht, Eunice Fabian-Morales, Elnaz Fazeli, Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez, Elisa Ferrando-May, Georgina Fletcher, Graham John Galloway, Adan Guerrero, Jander Matos Guimarães, Caron A Jacobs, Sachintha Jayasinghe, Eleanor Kable, Gregory T Kitten, Shinya Komoto, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jéssica Araújo Marques, Bryan A Millis, Kildare Miranda, Peter JohnO'Toole, Sunday Yinka Olatunji, Federica Paina, Cora Noemi Pollak, Clara Prats, Joanna W Pylvänäinen, Mai Atef Rahmoon, Michael A Reiche, James Douglas Riches, Andres Hugo Rossi, Jean Salamero, Caroline Thiriet, Stefan Terjung, Aldenora Dos Santos Vasconcelos, Antje Keppler
In the dynamic landscape of scientific research, imaging core facilities are vital hubs propelling collaboration and innovation at the technology development and dissemination frontier. Here, we present a collaborative effort led by Global BioImaging (GBI), introducing international recommendations geared towards elevating the careers of Imaging Scientists in core facilities. Despite the critical role of Imaging Scientists in modern research ecosystems, challenges persist in recognising their value, aligning performance metrics and providing avenues for career progression and job security...
May 1, 2024: Journal of Microscopy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ali Reza Esmaeili Ofogh, Eisa Ebrahimi Dorche, Sebastian Birk, Pejman Fathi, Mojgan Zare Shahraki, Andreas Bruder
Human-driven multiple pressures impact freshwater ecosystems worldwide, reducing biodiversity, and impacting ecosystem functioning and services provided to human societies. Multi-metric indices (MMIs) are suitable tools for tracking the effects of anthropogenic pressures on freshwater ecosystems because they incorporate various biological metrics responding to multiple pressures at different levels of biological organization. However, the performance and applicability of MMIs depend on their metrics' selection and their calibration against natural environmental gradients...
April 28, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Letícia Ramos, Daniel Negreiros, Fernando Figueiredo Goulart, João Carlos Gomes Figueiredo, Walisson Kenedy-Siqueira, Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma, Wénita de Souza Justino, Renata A Maia, Jéssica Tetzner de Oliveira, Yumi Oki, Milton Barbosa, Ramiro Aguilar, Rubens Manoel Dos Santos, Henrique Machado Dias, Yule Roberta Ferreira Nunes, G Wilson Fernandes
An environmental disaster caused by the rupture of a mining tailings dam has impacted a large area of the Rio Doce watershed in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, resulting in unprecedented damage at spatial and temporal scales. The Atlantic Forest is one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots. A long history of land use conversion has resulted in a highly fragmented landscape. Despite numerous restoration initiatives, these efforts have often biased criteria and use limited species assemblages. We conducted a comprehensive synthesis of the plant community in riparian forests along the Rio Doce watershed...
April 28, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chunli Wang, Yuqing Ma, Wenhai He, Yakov Kuzyakov, Roland Bol, Haiqing Chen, Mingsheng Fan
Organic and N fertilization increase crop productivity. However, the combined effects of organic and N fertilizers on soil quality index (SQI) and ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF, defined as the capacity of soils to simultaneously provide multiple functions and services) are not clear. We conducted a 13-year field trial in North China Plain to examine how five maize-derived organic fertilizers (straw, manure, compost, biogas residue, and biochar) at equal C input rate (3.2 t C ha-1 ), with or without N fertilization influenced top soil (0-15 cm) physico-chemical properties, and carbon (C), N, and phosphorus (P) enzyme activities, as well as SQI and soil EMF...
April 28, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jaqueiuto S Jorge, André Felipe V Duarte, Roberto Lima Santos, Eliza Maria X Freire, Adriano Caliman
The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) recognizes the importance of natural ecosystems in supporting human well-being. Hymenoptera, a diverse group of insects including ants, bees, and wasps, play crucial roles in providing ESs. Despite their significance, the provision of ESs by Hymenoptera is often undervalued, leading to ecosystem degradation and loss of important services. This study focuses on the association between Hymenoptera and a rupicolous bromeliad species (Encholirium spectabile) and explores the ESs promoted directly and indirectly by these insects...
April 30, 2024: Neotropical Entomology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Petra Holden, Molly Anderson, Frank Eckardt, Gina Ziervogel, Samuel L Jack, Mark G New, Julian Smit, Martine Visser, M Timm Hoffman
Most protected area impact research that uses counterfactuals draws heavily on quantitative methods, data, and knowledge types, making it valuable in producing generalizations but limited in temporal scope, historical detail, and habitat diversity and coverage of ecosystem services. We devised a methodological pluralistic approach, which supports social science qualitative methods, narratives, mixed methods, and interdisciplinarity, to fully unlock the potential of counterfactuals in ensuring a place-based and detailed understanding of the socioecological context and impacts of protected areas...
April 30, 2024: Conservation Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annika Schlemm, Mark Mulligan, Ting Tang, Afnan Agramont, Jean Namugize, Enos Malambala, Ann van Griensven
The Upper White Nile (UWN) basin plays a critical role in supporting essential ecosystem services and the livelihoods of millions of people in East Africa. The basin has been exposed to tremendous environmental pressures following high population growth, urbanisation, and land use change, all of which are compounded by the threats posed by climate change and insufficient financial and human resources. The water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) nexus provides a framework to assess solution options towards sustainable development by minimising the trade-offs between water, energy, and food resources...
April 27, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anina James, Eldon R Rene, Abubakar M Bilyaminu, Padmanaban Velayudhaperumal Chellam
Globally, air pollution is an unfortunate aftermath of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Although the best strategy is to prevent air pollution, it is not always feasible. This makes it imperative to devise and implement techniques that can clean the air continuously. Plants and microbes have a natural potential to transform or degrade pollutants. Hence, strategies that use this potential of living biomass to remediate air pollution seem to be promising. The simplest future trend can be planting suitable plant-microbe species capable of removing air pollutants like SO2 , CO2 , CO, NOX and particulate matter (PM) along roadsides and inside the buildings...
April 27, 2024: Chemosphere
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zezheng Liu, Sergio Fagherazzi, Qiang He, Olivier Gourgue, Junhong Bai, Xinhui Liu, Chiyuan Miao, Zhan Hu, Baoshan Cui
Planting has been widely adopted to battle the loss of salt marshes and to establish living shorelines. However, the drivers of success in salt marsh planting and their ecological effects are poorly understood at the global scale. Here, we assemble a global database, encompassing 22,074 observations reported in 210 studies, to examine the drivers and impacts of salt marsh planting. We show that, on average, 53% of plantings survived globally, and plant survival and growth can be enhanced by careful design of sites, species selection, and novel planted technologies...
April 29, 2024: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hoana Klicia Lopes Guimarães Oliveira, Patrícia Nakayama Miranda, Jean Carlo Gonçalves Ortega, Elder Ferreira Morato
Solitary bees and wasps that nest in cavities in tree trunks are important components of terrestrial ecosystems, providing pollination services, and in the case of wasps, the regulation of their prey populations. However, little is known about the vertical strata where bees and wasps build their nests. This is especially the case of urban forest remnants in the Amazon, which is relevant in the context of the global crisis in insect losses. We investigated the existence of vertical stratification in the nesting of solitary bees and wasps in an urban forest in Rio Branco, state of Acre, in the western Brazilian Amazon...
April 29, 2024: Neotropical Entomology
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EDITORIAL
Ashish Kumar Arya, Archana Bachheti, Vinaya Kumar Sethi, Kamal Kant Joshi
Birds perform significant ecosystem services in the environment. Nevertheless, they have been facing threats to their survival globally. This special collection assembles diverse articles on various aspects of birds' life, their interactions with the environment, their adaptations, and threats they have been facing along with conservation measures.
April 28, 2024: BMC Zoology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kris A G Wyckhuys, Gabor Pozsgai, Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Francisco J Sanchez-Garcia, Maged Elkahky
Biodiversity loss, as driven by anthropogenic global change, imperils biosphere intactness and integrity. Ecosystem services such as top-down regulation (or biological control; BC) are susceptible to loss of extinction-prone taxa at upper trophic levels and secondary 'support' species e.g., herbivores. Here, drawing upon curated open-access interaction data, we structurally analyze trophic networks centered on the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and assess their robustness to species loss...
April 26, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhongde Huang, Yang Bai, Maroof Ali, Zhou Fang
The rapid urbanization are serious threats to global sustainable development, making the green transformation of socio-economy and industry a must for global efforts. The theory of ecological and economic harmonization in ecological economics has gained attention. However the Two Mountains concept, i.e., "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", has been mostly neglected as a practical demonstration of the theory. In this study an equal weights method is used to construct an index system for testing the effectiveness of the ongoing practices and demonstrations of the Two Mountains concept, and whether it can achieve the expected green transformation objectives...
April 27, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanfeng Wang, Bo Xiao, Wanfu Wang, Tadeo Saéz-Sandino, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Soil nematodes are the most abundant animals on Earth and play critical roles in regulating numerous ecosystem processes, from enhancing primary productivity to mineralizing multiple nutrients. In dryland soils, a rich community of microphyte organisms (biocrusts) provide critical habitats for soil nematodes, but their presence is being threatened by increasing aridity induced by global climate change. Despite its importance, how types of biocrusts and aridity index influence soil nematode community in dryland mountain ecosystems remains largely unknown...
April 25, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bai-Lin Liu, Peng-Fei Yu, Jing-Jie Guo, Li-Si Xie, Xiang Liu, Yan-Wen Li, Lei Xiang, Hai-Ming Zhao, Nai-Xian Feng, Quan-Ying Cai, Ce-Hui Mo, Qing X Li
Microcystins (MCs) have a significant influence on aquatic ecosystems, but little is known about their terrestrial fate and impact. Here, we investigated the fate of two MCs (MC-LR and MC-RR) in the soil-earthworm system, with consideration of their congener-specific impact on earthworm health, soil bacteria, and soil metabolome. Although MCs had little acute lethal effect on earthworms, they caused obvious growth inhibition and setae rupture. Relative to MC-RR, MC-LR exhibited higher bioaccumulation and the resulting dermal lesions and deformation of longitudinal muscles...
April 25, 2024: Journal of Hazardous Materials
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REVIEW
Nora M Bernet, Thomas B Hofstetter
Understanding the impact of human activities on the metabolic state of soil and aquatic environments is of paramount importance to implement measures for maintaining ecosystem services. Variations of natural abundance 18O/16O ratios in phosphate have been proposed as proxies for the holistic assessment of metabolic activity given the crucial importance of phosphoryl transfer reactions in fundamental biological processes. However, instrumental and procedural limitations inherent to oxygen isotope analysis in phosphate and organophosphorus compounds have so far limited the stable isotope-based evaluation of metabolic processes...
April 24, 2024: Chimia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fatih Dikmen, Tunç Dabak, Burcu Daşer Özgişi, Çiğdem Özenirler, Selim Can Kuralay, Selahattin Barış Çay, Yusuf Ulaş Çınar, Onur Obut, Mehmet Ali Balcı, Pınar Akbaba, Esma Gamze Aksel, Gökmen Zararsız, Edwin Solares, Vahap Eldem
Bumblebees are crucial pollinators, providing essential ecosystem services and global food production. The success of pollination services relies on the interaction between sensory organs and the environment. The antenna functions as a versatile multi-sensory organ, pivotal in mediating chemosensory/olfactory information, and governs adaptive responses to environmental changes. Despite an increasing number of RNA-sequencing studies on insect antenna, comprehensive antennal transcriptome studies at the different life stages were not elucidated systematically...
April 27, 2024: Insect Molecular Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rui Li, Haihua Jiao, Bo Sun, Manjiao Song, Gaojun Yan, Zhihui Bai, Jiancheng Wang, Xuliang Zhuang, Qing Hu
Soil salinization poses a global threat to terrestrial ecosystems. Soil microorganisms, crucial for maintaining ecosystem services, are sensitive to changes in soil structure and properties, particularly salinity. In this study, contrasting dynamics within the rhizosphere and bulk soil were focused on exploring the effects of heightened salinity on soil microbial communities, evaluating the influences shaping their composition in saline environments. This study observed a general decrease in bacterial alpha diversity with increasing salinity, along with shifts in community structure in terms of taxa relative abundance...
March 28, 2024: Microorganisms
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carmen Hernández-Pérez, Salvadora Martínez-López, María José Martínez-Sánchez, Lucia Belén Martínez-Martínez, María Luz García-Lorenzo, Carmen Perez Sirvent
This paper evaluates an experimental wetland as part of a pilot soil reclamation project in a mining area. The wetland was constructed using materials of mining origin from the area; most reactive materials of acid pH were stabilised using limestone filler. The study selected macrophytes that are tolerant to potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and resistant to salinity, namely Phragmites australis , Juncus effusus , and Iris pseudacorus . These macrophytes were then placed in pots containing substrates composed of different mixtures of topsoil, peat, and mining waste (black or yellow sand)...
April 22, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luca Castriota, Manuela Falautano, Patrizia Perzia
The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus , which is native to the western Atlantic coast and listed among the 100 most invasive alien species in the Mediterranean Sea, is attracting a great deal of interest because of its rapid colonisation of new areas, the significant increase in its population, and the impacts it may have on ecosystems and ecosystem services. Outside its natural distribution range, the species was first found on European Atlantic coasts in the early 1900s and was introduced into the Mediterranean Sea a few decades later, probably through ballast water...
April 19, 2024: Biology
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