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Seagrass ecosystem multifunctionality under the rise of a flagship marine megaherbivoreNARA Subscribed
Large grazers (megaherbivores) have a profound impact on ecosystem functioning. However, how ecosystem multifunctionality is affected by changes in megaherbivore populations remains poorly understood. Understanding the total impact on ecosystem multifunctionality requires an integrative ecosystem approach, which is especially challenging to obtain in marine systems. We assessed the effects of experimentally simulated grazing i...
Demographic changes in Pleistocene sea turtles were driven by past sea level fluctuations affecting feeding habitat availabilityNARA Subscribed
Pleistocene environmental changes are generally assumed to have dramatically affected species’ demography via changes in habitat availability, but this is challenging to investigate due to our limited knowledge of how Pleistocene ecosystems changed through time. Here, we tracked changes in shallow marine habitat availability resulting from Pleistocene sea level fluctuations throughout the last glacial cycle (120–14 thousand ye...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex, multicausal disorder involving several spatiotemporal scales and scientific domains. While many studies focus on specific parts of this system, the complexity of AD is rarely studied as a whole. In this work, we apply systems thinking to map out known causal mechanisms and risk factors ranging from intracellular to psychosocial scales in sporadic AD. We report on the first systemic causal...
Two new species of the lampeye genus Hylopanchax are described from the Ivindo River basin in the Ogowe River drainage. Hylopanchax multisquamatus , new species, and Hylopanchax thysi , new species, differ from congeners by the presence of a hyaline urogenital male papilla with small black spots and a dark‐brown reticulate pattern on the flanks of both males and females in preserved specimens. Hylopanchax multisquamatus is dis...
Omics for the future in asthmaNARA Subscribed
Rain events decrease boreal peatland net CO 2 uptake through reduced light availabilityNARA Subscribed
Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, reflecting their important role in the global carbon cycle. The short‐term exchange and the long‐term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) in these ecosystems are closely associated with the permanently wet surface conditions and are susceptible to drought. Especially, the single most important peat forming plant genus, Sphagnum , depends heavily on surface wetness for...
Cross‐habitat interactions among bivalve species control community structure on intertidal flatsNARA Subscribed
Increasing evidence shows that spatial interactions between sedentary organisms can structure communities and promote landscape complexity in many ecosystems. Here we tested the hypothesis that reef‐forming mussels ( Mytilus edulis L.), a dominant intertidal ecosystem engineer in the Wadden Sea, promote abundances of the burrowing bivalve Cerastoderma edule L. (cockle) in neighboring habitats at relatively long distances coast...
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Late Glacial fluvial response of the Niers‐Rhine (western Germany) to climate and vegetation changeNARA Subscribed
The Niers valley was part of the Rhine system that came into existence during the maximum Saalian glaciation and was abandoned at the end of the Weichselian. The aim of the study was to explain the Late Pleniglacial and Late Glacial fluvial dynamics and to explore the external forcing factors: climate change, tectonics and sea level. The sedimentary units have been investigated by large‐scale coring transects and detailed cros...