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Integrated Reanalysis of Global Riverine Fish eDNA Datasets Shows Robustness and Congruence of Biodiversity ConclusionsNARA Subscribed
The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity assessments in aquatic ecosystems, enabling non‐invasive monitoring of fish communities across diverse regions. However, the global comparability of these eDNA datasets remains ambiguous due to heterogeneous sampling protocols and bioinformatic workflows across studies, making it difficult to assess how robust and comparable the biodiversity patterns infe...
Species nativeness as a cultural paradigm in conservationNARA Subscribed
In landscapes recently impacted by continental glaciation, landslides may occur where topographic relief has been generated by the drainage of glacial lakes and ensuing post-glacial fluvial network development into unconsolidated glacially derived sediments and exhumed bedrock. To investigate linkages among environmental variables, post-glacial landscape development, and landslides, we created a landslide inventory of nearly 1...
Environment and phytoplankton relative abundances in a hypersaline lake: 27 years in Great Salt Lake, USA and experimentsNARA Subscribed
Over 27 years in Great Salt Lake (GSL: Utah, USA), phytoplankton relative abundances of chlorophytes, diatoms and cyanobacteria varied dramatically (monthly > 90%) of several of the most common GSL phytoplankton (chlorophyte– Dunaliella viridis , diatom– Nitzschia epithemioides , cyanobacterium– Euhalothece sp.). Maximum abundances and growth rates were measured across ranges of temperature (10–30 °C), salinity (30–150 ppt) an...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
FreshLanDiv : A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land UsesNARA Subscribed
Motivation Freshwater ecosystems have been heavily impacted by land‐use changes, but data syntheses on these impacts are still limited. Here, we compiled a global database encompassing 241 studies with species abundance data (from multiple biological groups and geographic locations) across sites with different land‐use categories. This compilation will be useful for addressing questions regarding land‐use change and its impact...
Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental changeNARA Subscribed
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator interactions, recent studies have examined how the effects of environmental change on individual interactions accumulate to generate species‐level responses. Here, we review recent developments in using plant‐pollinator networks of interacting individuals along...
The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict population dynamics with ever‐greater accuracy. Although predictions rest on the well‐advanced theory of age‐structured populations, two key issues remain poorly explored. Specifically, how the age‐dependency in demographic rates and the year‐to‐year interactions between survival and fecundity affect stochastic population growth rates. We use inference, si...
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Global importance of large‐diameter treesNARA Subscribed
Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century. Major taxa studied Woody plants. Methods We examined the contribution of large trees to forest density, richness and biomass using a global network of 48 large (from 2 to 60 ha) forest plots representing 5,601,473 stems across 9,298 species and 210 plan...
Heterogeneous genome divergence, differential introgression, and the origin and structure of hybrid zonesNARA Subscribed
Hybrid zones have been promoted as windows on the evolutionary process and as laboratories for studying divergence and speciation. Patterns of divergence between hybridizing species can now be characterized on a genomewide scale, and recent genome scans have focused on the presence of ‘islands’ of divergence. Patterns of heterogeneous genomic divergence may reflect differential introgression following secondary contact and pro...
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This review describes an international network of 59 long‐term forest dynamics research sites ( CTFS ‐Forest GEO ) useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. Within very large plots (median size...
Gene flow and the maintenance of species boundariesNARA Subscribed
Hybrid zones are regions where individuals from genetically differentiated populations meet and mate, resulting in at least some offspring of mixed ancestry. Patterns of gene flow (introgression) in hybrid zones vary across the genome, allowing assessment of the role of individual genes or genome regions in reproductive isolation. Here, we document patterns of introgression between two recently diverged species of field cricke...
Satellite clock bias estimation for iGPSNARA Subscribed
Author reply to Fujimi et alNARA Subscribed