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Ecology
Cody K. Porter, Jimena Golcher-Benavides, Craig W. Benkman
Summary: Dietary partitioning plays a central role in biological communities and its extent varies over time, possibly due to food availability and seasonality. The study found that dietary partitioning is greatest when food abundance is low, implying competition for limited food resources. The extent of dietary partitioning in birds and mammals is also related to seasonal changes in primary productivity.
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Ecology
Greta Miller, Samantha Hartzell, Amilcare Porporato
Summary: This study introduces a water balance model for epiphytes and reveals their potential impact on local hydrometeorology. The distribution of epiphytes in the rainforest canopy is correlated with vertical profiles of environmental inputs. Epiphytes play a significant role in the water cycle of rainforests.
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Plant Sciences
Anja Schmutz, Christian Schob
Summary: Diverse plant communities with different spatial water uptake patterns contribute to higher productivity in mixtures compared to monocultures. This is due to niche partitioning of species and complementary root distribution. These findings support the potential of intercropping for sustainable agriculture with more efficient soil resource utilization.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Claudia Gonzalez-Salvatierra, Luis Manuel Pena-Rodriguez, Casandra Reyes-Garcia, Erick De la Barrera, Jose Luis Andrade
Summary: This study found significant changes in photosynthesis and water use efficiency of Tillandsia brachycaulos in different seasons and microenvironments, adapting to varying light and water availability. The epiphytic bromeliad reduced CAM activity during the dry season, while increasing carbon gain by adjusting stomatal opening during the rainy season.
BOTANICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Shajulin Benedict, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan
Summary: This study proposes an incremental multilayer resource-aware partitioning method for minimizing resource wastage and maximizing service placement and deadline satisfaction in a dynamic Fog computing environment with multiple application requests.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Ecology
Sophie E. Weides, Tomas Hajek, Pierre Liancourt, Maximiliane M. Herberich, Rosa E. Kramp, Sara Tomiolo, L. Camila Pacheco-Riano, Katja Tielboerger, Maria Majekova
Summary: Belowground niche partitioning is a crucial mechanism for maintaining species coexistence and diversity. Despite the shift to shallower soil layers under climate change, co-occurring species with different water-uptake depths still maintain belowground niche partitioning. The coexistence of contrasting strategies may contribute to stabilizing species coexistence under extreme drought.
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Ecology
Matheus de Toledo Moroti, Philip Teles Soares, Mariana Pedrozo, Diogo B. Provete, Diego Jose Santana
Summary: Morphology and phylogenetic distance are more influential on trophic niche overlap, while body size affects niche breadth. Trophic niche breadth is usually smaller when considering prey traits and availability, whereas values of niche overlap increase when these data are not considered.
BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Alexander Gamisch, Klaus Winter, Gunter A. Fischer, Hans Peter Comes
Summary: This study combines phylogeny, climatic niche, and carbon isotope ratios to uncover the evolutionary traits of epiphytic Malagasy Bulbophyllum orchids, including changes in niches and photosynthetic pathways, the spread of CAM, and its impact on diversification. The findings suggest that CAM may have a widespread selective advantage in tropical epiphytes, even in high-rainfall environments.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Alivereti N. Naikatini, Gunnar Keppel, Gilianne Brodie, Sonia Kleindorfer
Summary: This study explores the interspecific foraging behavior overlap in Fiji's forest birds and finds evidence of vertical stratification of foraging behavior. The results support the significance of interspecific competition and niche divergence for patterns of ecological speciation on islands.
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Plant Sciences
Sarah C. Davis
Summary: This article discusses the key characteristics of Agave americana as a novel crop, including high yield and cold tolerance, and explores breeding directions. Agave americana can be used for fiber, sweeteners, bioproducts, and bioethanol production, and it also has resilient traits for changing climate conditions.
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Plant Sciences
Juan-Luis Garcia, Felipe Lobos-Roco, Jan H. Schween, Camilo del Rio, Pablo Osses, Raimundo Vives, Mariana Pezoa, Alexander Siegmund, Claudio Latorre, Fernando Alfaro, Marcus A. Koch, Ulrich Loehnert
Summary: This study discusses new meteorological data for the foggiest season (July-August-September, JAS) in 2018 and 2019, revealing steep spatial gradients in fog presence and fog water yields related to the advection of contrasting coastal and continental air masses. The study shows that fog presence and fog water yields tend to be negatively related to both distance to the coast and elevation.
PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hector Ortiz G. Cano, Robert Hadfield, Teresa Gomez, Kevin Hultine, Ricardo Mata Gonzalez, Steven L. Petersen, Neil C. Hansen, Michael T. Searcy, Jason Stetler, Teodoro Cervantes Mendivil, David Burchfield, Pilman Park, J. Ryan Stewart
Summary: This study used maximum entropy ecological-niche-modeling algorithms to predict potential areas for dryland farming of Agave using rock piles and grasslands. The study identified potential locations for using rock piles in south-central Arizona and northwestern Sonora, and highlighted that grasslands in central to southern Sonora have the highest potential for cultivating Agave. These findings have important implications for the local economies and the expanding bacanora-beverage industry in the region.
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Marine & Freshwater Biology
G. C. Z. Reinas, J. C. Silva, A. Bialetzki
Summary: This study analyzed the diet and distribution of native and exotic Loricariidae fish from a Neotropical floodplain and found that these factors contribute to the coexistence of different species. Differences in diet and resource utilization promote coexistence, but the large population size of exotic species may pose a competitive threat to native species.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Julia Marion Schmack, Gavin Lear, Carmen Astudillo-Garcia, Stephane Boyer, Darren F. Ward, Jacqueline R. Beggs
Summary: This study quantified the spatial distribution and dietary composition of four invasive wasp species, revealing clear resource partitioning among them that facilitates coexistence. These species predominantly consume native and endemic invertebrates, with a combined ecological impact on the recipient community.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Forestry
Andrzej Borkowski
Summary: The pine shoot beetles Tomicus piniperda L. and T. minor Hartwig exhibit resource partitioning in forests with different degrees of crown damage, with T. piniperda preferring the thicker part of the stem and T. minor favoring the thinner part. The results suggest spatial specialization in resource utilization by the two beetle species.