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Ecology
Na Huang, Xinyuan Sun, Yanfang Song, Zhiyong Yuan, Weiwei Zhou
Summary: This article discusses two issues: the decline of amphibian populations and the lack of morphological trait data for amphibians. To address these problems, the authors collected morphological trait data for global amphibians and created a database.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
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Ecology
Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramirez, Liesje Mommer, Gregoire T. Freschet, Colleen M. Iversen, M. Luke McCormack, Jens Kattge, Hendrik Poorter, Fons van Der Plas, Joana Bergmann, Thom W. Kuyper, Larry M. York, Helge Bruelheide, Daniel C. Laughlin, Ina C. Meier, Catherine Roumet, Marina Semchenko, Christopher J. Sweeney, Jasper van Ruijven, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Isabelle Aubin, Jane A. Catford, Peter Manning, Adam Martin, Ruben Milla, Vanessa Minden, Juli G. Pausas, Stuart W. Smith, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Christian Ammer, Bradley Butterfield, Joseph Craine, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Franciska T. de Vries, Marney E. Isaac, Koen Kramer, Christian Koenig, Eric G. Lamb, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Josep Penuelas, Peter B. Reich, Matthias C. Rillig, Lawren Sack, Bill Shipley, Leho Tedersoo, Fernando Valladares, Peter van Bodegom, Patrick Weigelt, Justin P. Wright, Alexandra Weigelt
Summary: Root trait data are essential for understanding plant form and function, yet they are often overlooked in large-scale studies and global models. The Global Root Trait (GRooT) Database was created to address this gap and provide readily available data for the integration of root trait data into large-scale analyses.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Nilesh Kumar, M. Shahid Mukhtar
Summary: Biological networks are complex, and node prioritization algorithms can help identify the most influential nodes. CentralityCosDist algorithm combines centrality measures and seed nodes to rank nodes accurately. When applied to protein-protein interactions and co-expression patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana, CentralityCosDist identified more plant-pathogen interactions and related functions compared to other algorithms.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
R. W. McDowell, A. Noble, P. Pletnyakov, P. M. Haygarth
Summary: Soil phosphorus is crucial for food production to support the growing global population. However, the knowledge of plant available phosphorus stocks at a global scale is limited, hindering the efficient use of phosphorus fertilizers. This study compiled and analyzed a database of thousands of soil samples to generate a model that predicts the distribution and global stock of plant available phosphorus. These findings can inform strategies to optimize phosphorus use and mitigate environmental degradation.
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Lucie S. Monticelli, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Anouck Lasserre, Edwige Amiens-Desneux, Anne-Violette Lavoir, James D. Harwood, Nicolas Desneux
Summary: This study evaluated the effect of phylogenetic (and taxonomic) signals of plants and host species on parasitoid host range. The results indicated the importance of phylogenetic (or taxonomic) signals in dictating parasitoid host specificity. Identifying these signals could be useful for biological control programs.
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Francesco Maria Sabatini, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Milan Chytry, Richard Field, Michael Kessler, Jonathan Lenoir, Franziska Schrodt, Susan K. Wiser, Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan, Fabio Attorre, Luis Cayuela, Michele De Sanctis, Jurgen Dengler, Sylvia Haider, Mohamed Z. Hatim, Adrian Indreica, Florian Jansen, Anibal Pauchard, Robert K. Peet, Petr Petrik, Valerio D. Pillar, Brody Sandel, Marco Schmidt, Zhiyao Tang, Peter van Bodegom, Kiril Vassilev, Cyrille Violle, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Priya Davidar, Jiri Dolezal, Bruno Herault, Antonio Galan-de-Mera, Jorge Jimenez, Stephan Kambach, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Holger Kreft, Felipe Lezama, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Justin K. N'Dja, Oliver L. Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Petr Sklenar, Karina Speziale, Ben J. Strohbach, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hua-Feng Wang, Karsten Wesche, Helge Bruelheide
Summary: “Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.”
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
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Biology
Tad A. Dallas, Pedro Jordano
Summary: This study examined the conservation of species' roles in host-parasite networks using a global occurrence database of helminth parasites, finding that the majority of species' roles are not conserved. This suggests that species' roles may be influenced by spatial and environmental gradients, as well as the context of the local host and helminth parasite community.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rafael Molina-Venegas, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, David J. Mabberley
Summary: This study compiled plant-use records for 13489 genera based on information from Mabberley's plant-book. Plant uses were classified into 28 standard categories including human and animal nutrition, materials, fuels, medicine, poisons, social, and environmental uses. Of the taxa included, 33% were assigned to at least one category, with ornamental use being the most common (26%), followed by medicine (16%), human food (13%), and timber (8%).
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Aleksi Lehikoinen, Pekka Pohjola, Jari Valkama, Marko Mutanen, Jaakko L. O. Pohjoismaki
Summary: Ectoparasites such as louse flies show tendencies for host specialization driven by host biology and competition avoidance, but certain bird-specific louse fly species exhibit a wide range of suitable hosts. Factors such as host size, habitat, and breeding strategy influence host preference among bird louse fly species. DNA barcodes for Finnish Hippoboscidae species are provided as a resource for future species identification and metabarcoding studies.
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Management
Keiko Ito, Kenta Ikeuchi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis, Antonin Bergeaud
Summary: This paper examines how changes in both position and participation in GVC networks affect firm innovation. The study finds that Japan's position in GVCs has shifted from the core of Asian value chains to the periphery relative to other countries. It also shows that increasing firms' forward centrality in key GVC hubs is positively associated with their patent applications in the corresponding sectors, suggesting knowledge spillovers from downstream markets.
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Agronomy
Xiao-Qiang Liu, Hong-Bo Jiang, Jia-Yao Fan, Tian-Yuan Liu, Li-Wei Meng, Yi Liu, Hai-Zhong Yu, Wei Dou, Jin-Jun Wang
Summary: Diaphorina citri showed dose-dependent EAG responses to 12 host plant volatiles, with four compounds eliciting significant attraction to adults; expression profiles of nine OBP genes showed significant upregulation or downregulation; recombinant protein DcitOBP7 exhibited high in vitro binding affinities to certain odorants and RNAi-suppression of DcitOBP7 resulted in reduced EAG activity and behavioral responses in D. citri.
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(2021)
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Business
Yue Zhao, Ronaldo Parente, Stav Fainshmidt, Steven Carnovale
Summary: International business research suggests that a multinational enterprise's position within a host country's network can influence its establishment mode choices, with central networks favoring greenfield and brokerage networks favoring acquisitions. Analyzing data on automotive MNEs entering the U.S. over two decades, the study demonstrates how different aspects of an MNE's local network alliance position can impact establishment mode decisions, advancing a nuanced understanding of how networks shape internationalization into a host country.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
(2021)
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Ecology
Maxwell J. Farrell, Mohamad Elmasri, David A. Stephens, T. Jonathan Davies
Summary: This study predicts missing links in global mammal-parasite networks using available data and demonstrates how these predictions can guide the collection of interaction data, ultimately increasing the completeness of global species interaction networks. The study provides insights into the use of phylogenies for predicting host-parasite interactions and highlights the importance of iterated prediction and targeted search in collecting information on host-parasite interactions.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Tommaso Jucker, Fabian Jorg Fischer, Jerome Chave, David A. Coomes, John Caspersen, Arshad Ali, Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Ted R. Feldpausch, Daniel Falster, Vladimir A. Usoltsev, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Luciana F. Alves, Mohammad Aminpour, Ilondea B. Angoboy, Niels P. R. Anten, Cecile Antin, Yousef Askari, Rodrigo Munoz, Narayanan Ayyappan, Patricia Balvanera, Lindsay Banin, Nicolas Barbier, John J. Battles, Hans Beeckman, Yannick E. Bocko, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Frans Bongers, Samuel Bowers, Thomas Brade, Michiel van Breugel, Arthur Chantrain, Rajeev Chaudhary, Jingyu Dai, Michele Dalponte, Kangbeni Dimobe, Jean-Christophe Domec, Jean-Louis Doucet, Remko A. Duursma, Moises Enriquez, Karin Y. van Ewijk, William Farfan-Rios, Adeline Fayolle, Eric Forni, David Forrester, Hammad Gilani, John L. Godlee, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Matthias Haeni, Jefferson S. Hall, Jie-Kun He, Andreas Hemp, Jose L. Hernandez-Stefanoni, Steven Higgins, Robert J. Holdaway, Kiramat Hussain, Lindsay B. Hutley, Tomoaki Ichie, Yoshiko Iida, Hai-sheng Jiang, Puspa Raj Joshi, Hasan Kaboli, Maryam Kazempour Larsary, Tanaka Kenzo, Brian D. Kloeppel, Takashi Kohyama, Suwash Kunwar, Shem Kuyah, Jakub Kvasnica, Siliang Lin, Emily R. Lines, Hongyan Liu, Craig Lorimer, Jean-Joel Loumeto, Yadvinder Malhi, Peter L. Marshall, Eskil Mattsson, Radim Matula, Jorge A. Meave, Sylvanus Mensah, Xiangcheng Mi, Stephane Momo, Glenn R. Moncrieff, Francisco Mora, Sarath P. Nissanka, Kevin L. O'Hara, Steven Pearce, Raphael Pelissier, Pablo L. Peri, Pierre Ploton, Lourens Poorter, Mohsen Javanmiri Pour, Hassan Pourbabaei, Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada, Sabina C. Ribeiro, Casey Ryan, Anvar Sanaei, Jennifer Sanger, Michael Schlund, Giacomo Sellan, Alexander Shenkin, Bonaventure Sonke, Frank J. Sterck, Martin Svatek, Kentaro Takagi, Anna T. Trugman, Farman Ullah, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Ahmad Valipour, Mark C. Vanderwel, Alejandra G. Vovides, Weiwei Wang, Li-Qiu Wang, Christian Wirth, Murray Woods, Wenhua Xiang, Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes, Yaozhan Xu, Toshihiro Yamada, Miguel A. Zavala
Summary: Data capturing multiple axes of tree size and shape are crucial for ecological research. To overcome the challenge of obtaining such data, researchers have developed the Tallo database, which includes georeferenced and taxonomically standardized records of individual trees from around the world.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Xuemiao Huang, Taiwei Wang, Wanting Zu, Tianxin Xu, Lin Du, Yiming Wang, Wenbo Nie, Lisheng Wang
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive and objective overview of the current status of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) research through bibliometric analysis, covering research directions, trends, prolific institutions, authors, and more.
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Zoology
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Evolutionary Biology
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SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY
(2018)
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Entomology
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Entomology
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Entomology
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Entomology
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Entomology
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J. C. Sumner-Kalkun, M. J. Sjolund, Y. M. Arnsdorf, M. Carnegie, F. Highet, D. Ouvrard, A. F. C. Greenslade, J. R. Bell, R. Sigvald, D. M. Kenyon
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Agronomy
Monica K. Kansiime, Robbie D. Girling, Idah Mugambi, Joseph Mulema, George Oduor, Duncan Chacha, David Ouvrard, Wanja Kinuthia, Michael P. D. Garratt
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(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Yde de Jong, Juliana Kouwenberg, Louis Boumans, Charles Hussey, Roger Hyam, Nicola Nicolson, Paul Kirk, Alan Paton, Ellinor Michel, Michael D. Guiry, Phillip S. Boegh, Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen, Henrik Enghoff, Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Anton Guentsch, Marc Geoffroy, Andreas Mueller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Walter Berendsohn, Ward Appeltans, Christos Arvanitidis, Bart Vanhoorne, Joram Declerck, Leen Vandepitte, Francisco Hernandez, Roisin Nash, Mark John Costallo, David Ouvrard, Pascale Bezard-Falgas, Thierry Bourgoin, Florian Tobias Wetzel, Falko Gloeckler, Guenther Korb, Caroline Ring, Gregor Hagedorn, Christoph Haeuser, Nihat Aktac, Ahmet Asan, Adorian Ardelean, Paulo Alexandre G. Vieira Borges, Dhimiter Dhora, Hasmik Khachatryan, Michael Malicky, Shaig Ibrahimov, Alexander Tuzikov, Aaike De Wever, Snejana Moncheva, Nikolai Spassov, Karel Chobot, Alexi Popov, Igor Borsic, Spyros Sfenthourakis, Urmas Koljaig, Pertti Uotila, Gargominy Olivier, Jean-Claude Dauvin, David Tarkhnishvili, Giorgi Chaladze, Michael Tuerkay, Anastasios Legakis, Laszlo Peregovits, Gudmundur Gudmundsson, Erling Olafsson, Liam Lysaght, Bella Sarah Galil, Francesco M. Raimondo, Gianniantonio Domina, Fabio Stoch, Alessandro Minelli, Voldermars Spungis, Eduardas Budrys, Sergej Olenin, Armand Turpel, Tania Walisch, Vladimir Krpach, Marie Therese Gambin, Laurentia Ungureanu, Gordan Karaman, Roy M. J. C. Kleukers, Elisabeth Stur, Kaare Aagaard, Nils Valland, Toril Loennechen M. Moen, Wieslaw Bogdanowicz, Piotr Tykarski, Jan Marcin Weslawski, Monika Kedra, Antonio M. de Frias Martins, Antonio Domingos Abreu, Ricardo Silva, Sergei Medvedev, Alexander Ryss, Smiljka Simic, Karol Marhold, Eduard Stloukal, Davorin Tome, Marian A. Ramos, Benito Valdes, Francisco Pina, Sven Kuilander, Anders Telenius, Yves Gonseth, Pascal Tschudin, Oleksandra Sergeyeva, Volodymyr Vladymyrov, Volodymyr Bohdanovych Rizun, Chris Raper, Dan Lear, Pavel Stoeviv, Lyubomir Penev, Casino Rubio, Thierry Backeljau, Hannu Saarenmaa, Sandrine Ulenberg
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