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We tested the effects of soil biotic disturbance and biochar or woodchip amendments on plant growth, soil microbial biomass and activity, and soil physiochemical parameters in response to disturbance in a semi...
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Open AccessMeeting report: advancing practical applications of biodiversity ontologies
We describe the outcomes of three recent workshops aimed at advancing development of the Biological Collections Ontology (BCO), the Population and Community Ontology (PCO), and tools to annotate data using tho...
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Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition
Suppressing fungi in a tropical forest plant community lowers diversity by reducing the negative effects of density on seedling recruitment, and removing insects increases seedling survival and alters plant co...
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Ecology of Tropical Rain Forests
Occupying less than 7 % of Earth’s land surface, tropical rain forests harbor perhaps half of the species on Earth and are ecologically, economically, and cultur...
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Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications
Here we present a standard developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for reporting marker gene sequences—the minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS). We also introduce a system for...
