Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Feilun Wu, Yuanchi Ha, Andrea Weiss, Meidi Wang, Jeffrey Letourneau, Shangying Wang, Nan Luo, Shuquan Huang, Charlotte T. Lee, Lawrence A. David, Lingchong You
Summary: Spatial partitioning modulates the dynamics of microbial communities, promoting the persistence of populations with negative interactions and suppressing those with positive interactions. An intermediate level of partitioning maximizes the overall diversity of the community.
NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Xiaohua Wan, Zaipeng Yu, Mengjuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Zhiqun Huang
Summary: This study explored how tree species richness affects soil microbial biomass and community composition through functional trait variation and community-weighted trait means. The findings indicated that an increase in tree species richness decreased total microbial biomass in the soil, with implications on gram-positive to gram-negative bacteria ratio and fungi to bacteria ratio based on leaf nitrogen content and leaf dry matter content traits.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Huaihai Chen, Kayan Ma, Yu Huang, Zhiyuan Yao, Chengjin Chu
Summary: The study found that while biodiversity loss caused a 72% decrease in taxonomic species, the changes in relative abundance of different functional categories were limited. The stability of functional structures associated with microbial species richness decline in terrestrial systems suggests a decoupling of taxonomy and function.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Mathew Seymour, Francois K. Edwards, Bernard J. Cosby, Iliana Bista, Peter M. Scarlett, Francesca L. Brailsford, Helen C. Glanville, Mark de Bruyn, Gary R. Carvalho, Simon Creer
Summary: The study compared eDNA and traditional sampling methods to assess biodiversity, finding that eDNA has higher temporal and spatial resolution. Seasonality has a significant impact on community richness, with regional resource availability driving community formation.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qingqing Chen, Shaopeng Wang, Elizabeth T. Borer, Jonathan D. Bakker, Eric W. Seabloom, W. Stanley Harpole, Nico Eisenhauer, Ylva Lekberg, Yvonne M. Buckley, Jane A. Catford, Christiane Roscher, Ian Donohue, Sally A. Power, Pedro Daleo, Anne Ebeling, Johannes M. H. Knops, Jason P. Martina, Anu Eskelinen, John W. Morgan, Anita C. Risch, Maria C. Caldeira, Miguel N. Bugalho, Risto Virtanen, Isabel C. Barrio, Yujie Niu, Anke Jentsch, Carly J. Stevens, Daniel S. Gruner, Andrew S. Macdougall, Juan Alberti, Yann Hautier
Summary: Eutrophication has varying effects on different aspects of grassland ecological stability, and different stability measures are largely uncorrelated. This highlights the high dimensionality of stability and provides insights for predicting grassland responses to global environmental change.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Peng He, Simone Fontana, Chengcang Ma, Heyong Liu, Li Xu, Ruzhen Wang, Yong Jiang, Mai -He Li
Summary: This study measured leaf traits, community composition, and aboveground biomass at seven different sites along a transect in forest-steppe ecotones in northeast China. The results showed that dominant species in the ecotone communities had high nitrogen content, large leaf area, and low leaf mass per unit area. The ecotone communities also had the highest functional trait diversity. Therefore, vegetation management should focus on maintaining functional trait diversity and promoting plant species with rapid resource acquisition strategies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Laura J. Williams, Ethan E. Butler, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Artur Stefanski, Karen E. Rice, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette, Peter B. Reich
Summary: The study found that in mixed-species communities, species with higher light interception and light use efficiency are more likely to exhibit greater productivity compared to monocultures.
Article
Ecology
Megan E. Koceja, Regina B. Bledsoe, Carol Goodwillie, Ariane L. Peralta
Summary: This study found that long-term fertilization and dry hydrologic conditions affect bacterial diversity, decomposition rates, and increase the potential for soil C loss. Bacterial communities decomposed high C:N ratio litter more quickly in fertilized soils, especially under drier conditions, while decomposition rates of low C:N ratio litter were similar between fertilized and unfertilized soils.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lucie Mahaut, Cyrille Violle, Delphine Renard
Summary: The stability of national food production relies heavily on the fluctuations of crop yields, with crops covering the largest share of cropland having the most impact. Climate variability can synchronize yield fluctuations among crops and destabilize individual crop yields, but increasing crop diversity can counteract these effects. Irrigation can promote the stability of individual crop yields, but cannot fully offset the destabilizing effect of climate variability.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Hua Li, Youxin Chen, Gongliang Yu, Federico Rossi, Da Huo, Roberto De Philippis, Xiaoli Cheng, Weibo Wang, Renhui Li
Summary: This study in drylands disentangled the linkages of effects of diversity within functional groups and found that richness and phylogenetic dissimilarity were significant factors influencing soil multifunctionality. Evaluating functional significance at the species level provided important clues on the trade-offs and redundancy within each functional group, explaining the distinct patterns of effects of diversity.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Helen F. Yan, Jordan M. Casey, Nancy Knowlton, J. Emmett Duffy, Simon J. Brandl
Summary: Understanding how communities respond to disturbances is critical as anthropogenic stressors on the biosphere intensify. The relationship between diversity, stability, and functioning in marine fish communities remains poorly understood under acute disturbances.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Qian Zhao, Yuan Zhang, Fen Guo, Catherine Leigh, Xiaobo Jia
Summary: Studies on the impact of salinisation on mountain streams ecosystems showed that as salinisation increased, biodiversity decreased and trophic links were simplified.
Article
Plant Sciences
Takehiro Sasaki, Naohiro I. Ishii, Daichi Makishima, Rui Sutou, Akihito Goto, Yutaka Kawai, Hayami Taniguchi, Kunihiro Okano, Ayumi Matsuo, Alfred Lochner, Simone Cesarz, Yoshihisa Suyama, Kouki Hikosaka, Nico Eisenhauer
Summary: This study provides observational evidence that plant and microbial community composition, rather than diversity, are crucial for sustaining multifunctionality in subalpine moorlands. Furthermore, plant and bacterial beta diversity enhance the dissimilarity of moorland multifunctionality.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marcos Fernandez-Martinez, Josep Penuelas, Frederic Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Michael Obersteiner, Christian Roedenbeck, Jordi Sardans, Sara Vicca, Hui Yang, Stephen Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein, Vivek K. Arora, Daniel S. Goll, Atul K. Jain, Danica L. Lombardozzi, Patrick C. McGuire, Ivan A. Janssens
Summary: Global net land carbon uptake or net biome production (NBP) has increased during recent decades. Here, researchers investigated the trends and controls of net terrestrial carbon uptake and its temporal variability and autocorrelation from 1981 to 2018. They found that annual NBP and its interdecadal variability increased globally, while temporal autocorrelation decreased. Climate change, especially increasing temperature and its variability, appeared to be the most important drivers of declining and increasingly variable NBP.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Luke Christopher Evans, Yolanda Melero, Reto Schmucki, Philipp H. Boersch-Supan, Lluis Brotons, Colin Fontaine, Frederic Jiguet, Mikko Kuussaari, Dario Massimino, Robert A. Robinson, David B. Roy, Oliver Schweiger, Josef Settele, Constanti Stefanescu, Chris A. M. van Turnhout, Tom Henry Oliver
Summary: At large scales, the mechanisms underlying stability in natural communities vary due to changes in species composition, mean abundance, and species richness. This study links species characteristics and community characteristics to evaluate the importance of stability mechanisms in butterfly communities across European countries. The results suggest that stability mechanisms differ across countries and are influenced by factors such as species richness, population abundance, and species synchrony.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Laura Grauso, Gaspare Cesarano, Maurizio Zotti, Marta Ranesi, Wen Sun, Giuliano Bonanomi, Virginia Lanzotti
PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Tushar C. Sarker, Giulia Maisto, Anna De Marco, Valeria Memoli, Speranza C. Panico, Riccardo Motti, Mohamed Idbella, Guido Incerti, Stefano Mazzoleni, Giuliano Bonanomi
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Mohamed Idbella, Mariano Iadaresta, Graziano Gagliarde, Alberto Mennella, Stefano Mazzoleni, Giuliano Bonanomi
Article
Microbiology
Giuliano Bonanomi, Daniela Alioto, Maria Minutolo, Roberta Marra, Gaspare Cesarano, Francesco Vinale
Article
Environmental Sciences
Giuliano Bonanomi, Giulia Maisto, Anna De Marco, Gaspare Cesarano, Maurizio Zotti, Pierluigi Mazzei, Giovanni Libralato, Alessia Staropoli, Antonietta Siciliano, Francesca De Filippis, Antonietta La Storia, Alessandro Piccolo, Francesco Vinale, Antonio Crasto, Marco Guida, Danilo Ercolini, Guido Incerti
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2020)
Article
Plant Sciences
Giuliano Bonanomi, Nicole Salvatori, Maurizio Zotti, Adriano Stinca, Riccardo Motti, Mohamed Idbella, Fabrizio Carteni, Stefano Mazzoleni, Francesco Giannino
Summary: The study found that the vegetation in different colored belts was related to the attack of the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris, with no significant differences in soil chemistry among the three belts, supporting the important role of the parasitic plant in the formation of the pattern.
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Gaetano Di Pasquale, Antonio Saracino, Luciano Bosso, Danilo Russo, Adriana Moroni, Giuliano Bonanomi, Emilia Allevato
Article
Plant Sciences
Yasser A. El-Amier, Giuliano Bonanomi, Saud L. Al-Rowaily, Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad
Article
Plant Sciences
R. Motti, G. Bonanomi, V. Lanzotti, R. Sacchi
Article
Soil Science
Giuliano Bonanomi, Francesca De Filippis, Maurizio Zotti, Mohamed Idbella, Gaspare Cesarano, Saud Al-Rowaily, Ahmed Abd-ElGawad
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Giuliano Bonanomi, Giovanni Jesu, Maurizio Zotti, Mohamed Idbella, Giada D'Errico, Stefania Laudonia, Francesco Vinale, Ahmed Abd-ElGawad
Summary: The study found that different types of smoke-water have different chemical profiles, exert concentration-dependent effects on crops with phytotoxic activity at high concentrations and stimulatory effects when diluted, while displaying minimal fungitoxic activity. Additionally, smoke-water strongly inhibits egg hatching by root-knot nematodes and exhibits repellent effects towards olive fruit flies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Ivan Moroz, Luiz G. B. Scapolio, Ivana Cesarino, Alcides L. Leao, Giuliano Bonanomi
Summary: Tobacco consumption leads to widespread littering of smoked cigarette butts, which pose serious threats to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Despite various technological approaches, the main bottleneck in effectively recycling CBs lies in appropriate and efficient collection logistics by consumers.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Mohamed Idbella, Giuliano Bonanomi, Francesca De Filippis, Ghita Amor, Fatima Ezzahra Chouyia, Taoufiq Fechtali, Stefano Mazzoleni
Summary: Seed endophytes and AMF together influence plant behavior significantly, playing a crucial role in plant-soil feedback. Seed fungal endophytes generate conspecific negative feedback, while seed bacterial endophytes shift feedback from negative to positive. The simultaneous occurrence of seed endophytes and AMF may either generate or expand negative plant-soil feedback effects.
Article
Forestry
Giuliano Bonanomi, Maurizio Zotti, Valentina Mogavero, Gaspare Cesarano, Luigi Saulino, Angelo Rita, Giulio Tesei, Marina Allegrezza, Antonio Saracino, Emilia Allevato