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Canopy Plants Safeguard the Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity of Recruiting Plants WorldwideNARA Subscribed
Plant recruitment—the transition from seed dispersal to seedling establishment—is a vulnerable stage strongly shaped by canopy plants, which modify microclimates, soils, and biotic interactions relative to open ground. Using a global database covering 142 communities across ten terrestrial biomes, we examined canopy effects on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity at global and local scales, quantified with Hill numbers ( q = 0...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, for which there is no curative treatment and few disease-modifying therapies. The vast majority of AD is late onset (LOAD) without a specific genetic cause, although many genetic and non-genetic risk factors have been identified. One of the most significant modifiable risk factors is diet/lifestyle, with type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increasing LOAD risk by over...
RecruitNet : A global database of plant recruitment networksNARA Subscribed
Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., what recruits under what) shape the composition, diversity, and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions among species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community‐level structure of plant recruitment interactions...
Geometry of the modelled freshwater/salt-water interface under variable-density-driven flow (Pétrola Lake, SE Spain)NARA Subscribed
Pétrola Lake in southeast Spain is one of the most representative examples of hypersaline wetlands in southern Europe. The rich ecosystem and environmental importance of this lake are closely associated with the hydrogeological behaviour of the system. The wetland is fed by the underlying aquifer with relatively fresh groundwater—1 g L −1 of total dissolved solids (TDS)—with a centripetal direction towards the wetland. In addi...
The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in EuropeNARA Subscribed
Motivation Trait variation within species can reveal plastic and/or genetic responses to environmental gradients, and may indicate where local adaptation has occurred. Here, we present a dataset of rangewide variation in leaf traits from seven of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in Europe. Sample collection and trait assessment are embedded in the GenTree project (EU‐Horizon 2020), which aims at ch...
Influences of synoptic situation and teleconnections on fog‐water collection in the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula, 2003–2012NARA Subscribed
Fog‐water collection has been widely analysed for its quantification and potential uses; however, there are few studies assessing the synoptic conditions and large‐scale teleconnection patterns that affect its occurrence. Focusing on the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula, this work aims to analyse the synoptic patterns, both at surface level and 850 hPa geopotential height, that most likely to favour fog‐water collection, and to...
The impacts of drought are expanding worldwide as a consequence of climate change. However, there is still little knowledge of how species respond to long‐term selection in seasonally dry ecosystems. In this study, we used Q ST ‐ F ST comparisons to investigate (i) the role of natural selection on population genetic differentiation for a set of functional traits related to drought resistance in the seasonally dry tropical oak...