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Fire as a driver of fungal diversity — A synthesis of current knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-28)Fires occur in most terrestrial ecosystems where they drive changes in the traits, composition, and diversity of fungal communities. Fires range from rare, stand-replacing wildfires to frequent, prescribed fires used to ... -
Sex-specific natural selection on SNPs in Silene latifolia
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-05-27)Selection that acts in a sex-specific manner causes the evolution of sexual dimorphism. Sex-specific phenotypic selection has been demonstrated in many taxa and can be in the same direction in the two sexes (differing only ... -
The Phylogenetic Position of the Enigmatic, Polypodium hydriforme (Cnidaria, Polypodiozoa): Insights from Mitochondrial Genomes
(Oxford University Press, 2022-07-22)Polypodium hydriforme is an enigmatic parasite that belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Its taxonomic position has been debated: whereas it was previously suggested to be part of Medusozoa, recent phylogenomic analyses based ... -
Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems
(Oxford University Press, 2020-11-05)Fire alters microbial community composition, and is expected to increase in frequency due to climate change. Testing whether microbes in different ecosystems will respond similarly to increased fire disturbance is difficult ... -
Pine savanna restoration on agricultural landscapes: The path back to native savanna ecosystem services
(Elsevier, 2022-04-20)Restoration of savanna ecosystems within their historic range is expected to increase provision of ecosystem services to resident human populations. However, the benefits of restoration depend on the degree to which ... -
Quantifying ecological variation across jurisdictional boundaries in a management mosaic landscape
(Springer, 2021-04)Context Large landscapes exhibit natural heterogeneity. Land management can impose additional variation, altering ecosystem patterns. Habitat characteristics may reflect these management factors, potentially resulting in ... -
Demography of botfly (Cuterebra fontinella) parasitism in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Kansas
(2022-10)Botflies (Diptera: Cuterebra sp.) are widely distributed and seasonally abundant parasites of small mammals in North America. To assess their effect on rodent survival, we studied the demography of botfly parasitism on ... -
Root pathogen diversity and composition varies with climate in undisturbed grasslands, but less so in anthropogenically disturbed grasslands
(Springer Nature, 2020-09-21)Soil-borne pathogens structure plant communities, shaping their diversity, and through these effects may mediate plant responses to climate change and disturbance. Little is known, however, about the environmental determinants ... -
Coupled ecological and management connectivity across administrative boundaries in undeveloped landscapes
(Wiley Open Access, 2021-01-12)Human-induced ecological boundaries, or anthropogenic ecotones, may arise where administrative boundaries meet on undeveloped lands. Landscape-level ecological processes related to factors such as fire, invasive species, ... -
Spatial release from masking in crocodilians
(Nature Research, 2022-08-25)Ambient noise is a major constraint on acoustic communication in both animals and humans. One mechanism to overcome this problem is Spatial Release from Masking (SRM), the ability to distinguish a target sound signal from ... -
Gtsf1 is essential for proper female sex determination and transposon silencing in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
(Geological Society of America, 2020-11-02)Sex determination pathways are astoundingly diverse in insects. For instance, the silk moth Bombyx mori uniquely use various components of the piRNA pathway to produce the Fem signal for specification of the female fate. ... -
Response to Stephens et al. (2019)
(University of Kansas, 2020-01-31)Rebuttal to Stephens et al. (2019), as part of a debate format. -
Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction
(Public Library of Science, 2020-01-30)The use of perennial crop species in agricultural systems may increase ecosystem services and sustainability. Because soil microbial communities play a major role in many processes on which ecosystem services and sustainability ... -
Predicting Abundances of Aedes mcintoshi, a primary Rift Valley fever virus mosquito vector
(Public Library of Science, 2019-12-17)Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus with important livestock and human health, and economic consequences across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Climate and vegetation monitoring guide ... -
A new variance ratio metric to detect the timescale of compensatory dynamics
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-05-06)Understanding the mechanisms governing ecological stability—why a property such as primary productivity is stable in some communities and variable in others—has long been a focus of ecology. Compensatory dynamics, in which ... -
Tail associations in ecological variables and their impact on extinction risk
(Ecological Society of America, 2020-05-13)Extreme climatic events (ECEs) are becoming more frequent and more intense due to climate change. Furthermore, there is reason to believe ECEs may modify "tail associations" between distinct population vital rates, or ... -
A new approach to interspecific synchrony in population ecology using tail association
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-11-10)Standard methods for studying the association between two ecologically important variables provide only a small slice of the information content of the association, but statistical approaches are available that provide ... -
A new model for efficient, need-driven progress in generating primary biodiversity information resources
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-01-19)Premise The field of biodiversity informatics has developed rapidly in recent years, with broad availability of large-scale information resources. However, online biodiversity information is biased spatially as a result ...
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