Seagrass meadows are key blue carbon (C) ecosystems, storing large amounts of organic C over centuries. Their climate benefits may be reduced by methane (CH 4 ) emissions, whose microbial and environmental descriptors in Zostera noltii meadows, dominant seagrass in North‐Western Europe, remain poorly understood. We studied CH 4 fluxes, CH 4 ‐producing and consuming microbial communities and sediment physicochemical parameters...

Symbiotic partnerships have opened new ecological niches and contributed to the remarkable diversification of insects. The leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus , a phloem‐feeding insect known to be the primary vector of Flavescence dorée phytoplasma, harbours two primary endosymbionts: the bacterium ‘ Candidatus Karelsulcia muelleri’ and a yeast‐like symbiont (YLS). While most studies on insect‐associated microorganisms have focused...

Purpose In the domain of rock climbing research, existing biomechanical and physiological studies mostly focus on few, typically upper-body muscles and frequently do not replicate ecological conditions. This study investigates full-body muscle excitation and contact forces between climber and holds in two stationary climbing stances. Methods Surface electromyography of 22 upper and lower-body muscles and contact forces between...

The rate of temperature increase in alpine environments exceeds the global average, threatening alpine plant species. While some species benefit from changing conditions, others decline or risk extinction. Understanding the mechanisms that drive these divergent responses is crucial for biodiversity conservation. Although functional traits have been widely used to predict alpine plant responses to climate shifts, the role of se...

Shrubs are expanding across the cold ecosystems of our planet with potentially profound consequences for their biodiversity and functioning. However, evidence is still strongly biased towards the Arctic tundra, while a large‐scale assessment of shrub expansion in alpine areas above the elevational treeline is missing so far. Here we quantified shrub cover changes over the past two decades in 576 permanent plots of 1 m 2 spread...

Aim Climate change poses a global threat to forest ecosystems. However, its effects are usually examined independently of local factors, assuming that functionally diverse forest habitat types within a single biome will react similarly. Here we evaluated how temperature influences the taxonomic and functional diversity of tree and shrub guilds, accounting for the regulatory effects of local factors across forest habitat types....

Balancing electron donors and acceptors is crucial for bacterial cell to control both anabolism and catabolism rates and to keep at minimum ROS production and the resulting oxidative stress. Efficiency of nutrients uptake and assimilation is therefore linked to the availability of electron acceptors, to finally re-cycle reduced intracellular electron shuttles belonging to catabolism via respiratory chain. In case of excess red...

This paper explores new technologies that can advance the state-of-the-practice in safety assessment and health monitoring of existing infrastructures. In this context, multi-temporal interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques combined with the use of digital models of infrastructures represent a powerful integration to conventional approaches in the monitoring and assessment of structural safety of infrastructures. A...

Fatigue affects approximately 80% of people with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and can impact several domains of daily life. However, the neural underpinnings of fatigue in MS are still not completely clear. The aim of our study was to investigate the spontaneous large-scale networks functioning associated with fatigue in PwMS using the EEG microstate approach with a spectral decomposition. Forty-three relapsing–remitting MS patie...