Article
Engineering, Environmental
Mouliang Xiao, Ji'na Ding, Yu Luo, Haoqing Zhang, Yongxiang Yu, Huaiying Yao, Zhenke Zhu, David R. Chadwick, Davey Jones, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge
Summary: Microplastics can impact microbial communities and carbon cycling in agricultural soils. This study investigates the effects of microplastics on the decomposition of soil organic matter and bacterial community succession. The results show that microplastics initially reduce CO2 efflux but subsequently promote it, possibly due to enhanced enzyme activities and shifts in bacterial diversity.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ana Pastor Perez, David Barreiro Martinez, Eva Parga-Dans, Pablo Alonso Gonzalez
Summary: This paper explores the transformation of heritage values and the importance of decolonizing knowledge through three case studies, emphasizing the necessity of revitalizing dynamics of valorization for sustainable preservation strategies.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mehmet Karaucak, Daniel Steiniger, Nikolaus Boroffka
Summary: The conflict-ridden recent history in Afghanistan has made it difficult to launch major archaeological projects and advanced field research in the past forty years. However, the increasing availability of satellite imagery and remote sensing methods have provided much-needed impetus for documentation and monitoring of the heritage in Afghanistan. Novel site data obtained through publicly available satellite imagery in the southwestern region of Kandahar include cultural heritage such as settlement mounds, architectural remains, religious monuments, fortresses, and traditional water management systems. The advantages and drawbacks of remote sensing surveys for archaeological research in Afghanistan are discussed, with the shared data for further research and cultural heritage management in the region.
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Filomena De Leo, Valme Jurado
Summary: This editorial focuses on the studies presented in the current Special Issue, highlighting advances in the field of microbial biodeterioration of cultural heritage, with a particular emphasis on new methods for their elimination and control.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Flavia Rosa Santoro, Marina Richeri, Ana Haydee Ladio
Summary: The Patagonian steppe serves as a refuge for indigenous peoples heavily reliant on natural resources. This study found that formal education is a key factor influencing local ecological knowledge among individuals. Moreover, knowledge about cultivated and gathered plants varied based on individuals' activities inside and outside their homes.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Suren Jayasuriya, Odrika Iqbal, Venkatesh Kodukula, Victor Torres, Robert LiKamWa, Andreas Spanias
Summary: Huge advancements have been made in modern image-sensing hardware and visual computing algorithms. However, there is still a gap between hardware and software design in imaging systems, which limits collaboration between research domains. This survey explores existing works that use software-defined imaging (SDI) to replace conventional hardware components, allowing users to program image sensors according to their needs. The scope of the survey covers various imaging systems and discusses the components and future research directions of SDI.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE
(2023)
Article
Biology
Stepan V. Toshchakov, Anna O. Izotova, Elizaveta N. Vinogradova, Gennady S. Kachmazov, Albina Y. Tuaeva, Vladimir T. Abaev, Martha A. Evteeva, Natalia M. Gunitseva, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Alexander G. Elcheninov, Maxim V. Patrushev, Ilya V. Kublanov
Summary: The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the southern part of the North Caucasus has various hydrothermal habitats, but reports on microbiology of this region are scarce. This study conducted the first culture-independent metabarcoding analysis of thermal habitats in the area, revealing the presence of few abundant deep lineages of uncultivated microorganisms that could be considered endemic.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Ziqian Zhu, Xin Li, Qiurong Bu, Qingcheng Yan, Liqun Wen, Xiaolei Chen, Xiaodong Li, Ming Yan, Longbo Jiang, Gaojie Chen, Shuai Li, Xiang Gao, Guangming Zeng, Jie Liang
Summary: The study examines the impact of complex nitrogen pollution patterns on microbial characteristics and responses. Significant variations in microbial communities were observed in sub-basins with different land-water pollution transport modes. Point source-dominated areas showed reduced microbial diversity, high number of denitrification groups, and increased nitrogen cycling. The study also identifies the sources of pollution that are closely associated with microbiota.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chang-Yu Chang, Djordje Bajic, Jean C. C. Vila, Sylvie Estrela, Alvaro Sanchez
Summary: Understanding the mechanisms of maintaining microbial biodiversity is crucial in ecology. Past research on microbial coexistence mainly focused on species pairs, leaving unclear whether pairwise coexistence is necessary for coexistence in a multi-species community. Through hundreds of pairwise competition experiments, we found that competitive exclusion was the most common outcome, indicating that multispecies coexistence is an emergent phenomenon that depends on community context rather than pairwise interactions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fatin Natasha Amira Muliadi, Mohd Izuan Effendi Halmi, Samsuri Bin Abdul Wahid, Siti Salwa Abd Gani, Uswatun Hasanah Zaidan, Khairil Mahmud, Mohd Yunus Abd Shukor
Summary: This study isolated a mixed culture from a local agricultural soil sample, in which Bacillus genus and different types of fungi dominated the microbial community. Response surface methodology and Box-Behnken design were effectively employed to study the impacting factors on MY dye decolorization and optimal conditions were determined.
Review
Plant Sciences
Manuel Anguita-Maeso, Juan A. Navas-Cortes, Blanca B. Landa
Summary: Research on the plant microbiome can help control the growth of root pathogens, but its application in agriculture is limited by the lack of understanding of the internal microorganisms of woody plants. This review focuses on the study of the xylem microbiome of olive trees and its potential role in disease prevention and control.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Manuel Gloeckler, Andreas Draeger, Reihaneh Mostolizadeh
Summary: The human body contains a wide range of microbes that have a significant impact on the host's well-being. However, the role of many microorganisms in human health is still unknown. To investigate their communities, accurate genome-scale metabolic models of the microorganisms are integrated to create a community that mimics the human bacterial flora. Various tools have been developed to model these communities, which involve optimization problems and model compositions. The hierarchical model approach allows for the analysis of the entire community, regardless of changes in individual submodels.
Article
Microbiology
Jianing Wang, Zhuo Pan, Jianshui Yu, Zheng Zhang, Yue-zhong Li
Summary: This study comprehensively investigated the global assembly mechanisms of microbial communities and effects of community-internal influencing factors using the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) data set. It was found that deterministic and stochastic processes contribute approximately equally to global microbial community assembly, with deterministic processes generally playing a major role in free-living and plant-associated environments, and stochastic processes being the major contributor in animal-associated environments. The assembly of functional genes is mainly attributed to deterministic processes in all microbial communities.
Article
Ecology
Tatyana Zamkovaya, Jamie S. Foster, Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, Ana Conesa
Summary: Microbial dark matter, consisting of unknown microbes, plays essential ecological roles and occupies top hubs within their communities. Excluding unknown taxa results in a reduction in network centrality measures, highlighting the importance of these unknown organisms.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Behzad D. Karkaria, Alex J. H. Fedorec, Chris P. Barnes
Summary: In naturally occurring microbial systems, there is a positive relationship between species diversity and community productivity; researchers performed model selection to discover potential amensal interactions that lead to robust stable synthetic microbial consortia.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)