32 Result(s)

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Patterns of deadwood amount and deadwood diversity along a natural forest recovery gradient from agriculture to old-growth lowland tropical forests

Deadwood is a key component of nutrient cycling in natural tropical forests, serving as a globally important carbon storage and habitat for a high number of species. The conversion of tropical forests to agric...

Ana Falconí-López, Nina Grella, David A. Donoso… in European Journal of Forest Research (2024)

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Author Correction: Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests

Jörg Müller, Oliver Mitesser, H. Martin Schaefer… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests

Tropical forest recovery is fundamental to addressing the intertwined climate and biodiversity loss crises. While regenerating trees sequester carbon relatively quickly, the pace of biodiversity recovery remai...

Jörg Müller, Oliver Mitesser, H. Martin Schaefer… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Allelochemical run-off from the invasive terrestrial plant Impatiens glandulifera decreases defensibility in Daphnia

Invasive species are a major threat for native ecosystems and organisms living within. They are reducing the biodiversity in invaded ecosystems, by outcompeting native species with e. g. novel substances. Inva...

Jens Georg Peter Diller, Frederic Hüftlein, Darleen Lücker… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Linking structure and species richness to support forest biodiversity monitoring at large scales

Authors have analyzed the possible correlation between measurements/indicators of forest structure and species richness of many taxonomic or functional groups over three regions of Germany. Results show the po...

Felix Storch, Steffen Boch, Martin M. Gossner, Heike Feldhaar… in Annals of Forest Science (2023)

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Evidence for a chemical arms race between cuckoo wasps of the genus Hedychrum and their distantly related host apoid wasps

Brood parasites can exert strong selection pressure on their hosts. Many brood parasites escape their detection by mimicking sensory cues of their hosts. However, there is little evidence whether or not the ho...

Ruth Castillo, Mareike Wurdack, Thomas Pauli, Alexander Keller… in BMC Ecology and Evolution (2022)

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In vitro cultivation of primary intestinal cells from Eisenia fetida as basis for ecotoxicological studies

The earthworm Eisenia fetida is a commonly used model organism for unspecific soil feeders in ecotoxicological studies. Its intestinal cells are the first to encounter possible pollutants co-ingested by the earth...

Simon A. B. Riedl, Matthias Völkl, Anja Holzinger, Julia Jasinski… in Ecotoxicology (2022)

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Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss. However, understanding how different components of land use drive biodiversity loss requires the investigation of multiple trophic levels across...

Gaëtane Le Provost, Jan Thiele, Catrin Westphal, Caterina Penone… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Origin, behaviour, and genetics of reproductive workers in an invasive ant

Worker reproduction has an important influence on the social cohesion and efficiency of social insect colonies, but its role in the success of invasive ants has been neglected. We used observations of 233 capt...

Pauline Lenancker, Heike Feldhaar, Anja Holzinger… in Frontiers in Zoology (2021)

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Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity

Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and imp...

Simon Thorn, Anne Chao, Kostadin B. Georgiev, Jörg Müller… in Nature Communications (2020)

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Gene-flow in the clouds: landscape genetics of a viviparous, montane grassland toad in the tropics

Anthropogenic habitat alteration often increases fragmentation and isolation, which decreases population sizes and increases extinction risk for species. Extrinsic threats may be buffered or enhanced by intrin...

Laura Sandberger-Loua, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Heike Feldhaar in Conservation Genetics (2018)

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The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation

Gut-associated microbiota of ants include Rhizobiales bacteria with affiliation to the genus Bartonella. These bacteria may enable the ants to fix atmospheric nitrogen, but no genomes have been sequenced yet to t...

Minna-Maria Neuvonen, Daniel Tamarit, Kristina Näslund… in Scientific Reports (2016)