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Despite widespread recognition of the dynamic nature of ecological interactions, the consequences for community persistence of the observed year‐to‐year changes in species interactions have remained overlooked. Our research bridges this gap, leveraging a uniquely high‐quality dataset spanning 8 years and 12 independent sites—offering unparalleled resolution to examine plant‐pollinator interactions. Here, we characterise year‐t...
Wild insects and honey bees are equally important to crop yields in a global analysisNARA Subscribed
Aim Most of the world's food crops are dependent on pollinators. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty in the strength of this relationship, especially regarding the relative contributions of the honey bee (often a managed species) and wild insects to crop yields on a global scale. Previous data syntheses have likewise reached differing conclusions on whether pollinator species diversity, or only the number of pollinat...
Structural asymmetry in biotic interactions as a tool to understand and predict ecological persistenceNARA Subscribed
A universal feature of ecological systems is that species do not interact with others with the same sign and strength. Yet, the consequences of this asymmetry in biotic interactions for the short‐ and long‐term persistence of individual species and entire communities remains unclear. Here, we develop a set of metrics to evaluate how asymmetric interactions among species translate to asymmetries in their individual vulnerabilit...
Non‐random interactions within and across guilds shape the potential to coexist in multi‐trophic ecological communitiesNARA Subscribed
Theory posits that the persistence of species in ecological communities is shaped by their interactions within and across trophic guilds. However, we lack empirical evaluations of how the structure, strength and sign of biotic interactions drive the potential to coexist in diverse multi‐trophic communities. Here, we model community feasibility domains, a theoretically informed measure of multi‐species coexistence probability,...
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
A 15 000‐year record of climate change in northern New Mexico, USA, inferred from isotopic and elemental contents of bog sedimentsNARA Subscribed
Elemental (C, N, Pb) and isotopic ( δ 13 C, δ 15 N) measurements of cored sediment from a small bog in northern New Mexico reveal changes in climate during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Abrupt increases in Pb concentration and δ 13 C values ca. 14 420 cal. YBP indicate significant runoff to the shallow lake that existed at that time. Weathering and transport of local volcanic rocks resulted in the delivery of Pb‐bearing m...
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