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Wang S, Gu S, Zhang Y, Deng Y, Qiu W, Sun Q, Zhang T, Wang P, Yan Z. Microeukaryotic plankton community dynamics under ecological water replenishment: Insights from eDNA metabarcoding. Environ Sci Ecotechnol 2024; 20:100409. [PMID: 38572085 PMCID: PMC10987827 DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2024.100409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Ecological water replenishment (EWR) is an important strategy for river restoration globally, but timely evaluation of its ecological effects at a large spatiotemporal scale to further adjust the EWR schemes is of great challenge. Here, we examine the impact of EWR on microeukaryotic plankton communities in three distinct river ecosystems through environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. The three ecosystems include a long-term cut-off river, a short-term connected river after EWR, and long-term connected rivers. We analyzed community stability by investigating species composition, stochastic and deterministic dynamics interplay, and ecological network robustness. We found that EWR markedly reduced the diversity and complexity of microeukaryotic plankton, altered their community dynamics, and lessened the variation within the community. Moreover, EWR disrupted the deterministic patterns of community organization, favoring dispersal constraints, and aligning with trends observed in naturally connected rivers. The shift from an isolated to a temporarily connected river appeared to transition community structuring mechanisms from deterministic to stochastic dominance, whereas, in permanently connected rivers, both forces concurrently influenced community assembly. The ecological network in temporarily connected rivers post-EWR demonstrated significantly greater stability and intricacy compared to other river systems. This shift markedly bolstered the resilience of the ecological network. The eDNA metabarcoding insights offer a novel understanding of ecosystem resilience under EWR interventions, which could be critical in assessing the effects of river restoration projects throughout their life cycle.
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- Shuping Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, 100141, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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Xing Y, Qiu J, Chen J, Cheng D, Yin Q, Chen X, Xu L, Zheng P. Unveiling hidden interactions: Microorganisms, enzymes, and mangroves at different stages of succession in the Shankou Mangrove Nature Reserve, China. Sci Total Environ 2024; 923:171340. [PMID: 38438047 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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Understanding the interactions between microorganisms, soil extracellular enzymes, and mangroves is crucial for conserving and restoring mangrove ecosystems. However, the unique environments associated with mangroves have resulted in a lack of pertinent data regarding the interactions between these components. Root, stem, leaf, and soil samples were collected at three distinct stages of mangrove succession. Stoichiometry was employed to analyze the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents of these samples and to quantify extracellular enzyme activities, microbial biomass, and various physicochemical factors in the soil. The results showed that the trends of C, N, and P in the mangrove plants were consistent. Microbial biomass carbon (MBC), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), and microbial biomass phosphorus (MBP) were the highest in the Kandelia obovate community. Catalase (CAT) and β-D-G showed the highest content in K. obovate and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, whereas cellulase showed the opposite trend. Urease was least abundant in the K. obovate community, whereas neutral protease (NPR) and acid phosphatase (ACP) were most abundant. The overall soil environment in mangroves exhibited a state of N limitation, with varying degrees of limitation observed across different succession stages. The demand for P became more intense in the later stages of succession, particularly in the K. obovate and B. gymnorrhiza communities. In conjunction with correlation analysis, it indicated that the input of mangrove plant litter had a significant regulatory influence on the C, N, and P contents in the soil. There was a significant positive correlation between MBC, MBN, and MBP, indicating synergistic effects of C, N, and P on soil microorganisms. Therefore, evaluating the nutrient ratios and sufficiency of mangroves allowed us to comprehensively understand the present environmental conditions. This study aims to develop sustainable management strategies for the conservation and restoration of mangroves.
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- Yongze Xing
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Bioresource, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536015, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development, Fourth Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Beihai 536000, China
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Wang A, Zhang S, Liang Z, Zeng Z, Ma Y, Zhang Z, Yang Y, He Z, Yu G, Liang Y. Response of microbial communities to exogenous nitrate nitrogen input in black and odorous sediment. Environ Res 2024; 248:118137. [PMID: 38295972 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Since nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N) input has proved an effective approach for the treatment of black and odorous river waterbody, it was controversial whether the total nitrogen concentration standard should be raised when the effluent from the sewage treatment plant is discharged into the polluted river. To reveal the effect of exogenous nitrate (NO3--N) on black odorous waterbody, sediments with different features from contaminated rivers were collected, and the changes of physical and chemical characteristics and microbial community structure in sediments before and after the addition of exogenous NO3--N were investigated. The results showed that after the input of NO3--N, reducing substances such as acid volatile sulfide (AVS) in the sediment decreased by 80 % on average, ferrous (Fe2+) decreased by 50 %, yet the changing trend of ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) in some sediment samples increased while others decreased. High-throughput sequencing results showed that the abundance of Thiobacillus at most sites increased significantly, becoming the dominant genus in the sediment, and the abundance of functional genes in the metabolome increased, such as soxA, soxX, soxY, soxZ. Network analysis showed that sediment microorganisms evolved from a single sulfur oxidation ecological function to diverse ecological functions, such as nitrogen cycle nirB, nirD, nirK, nosZ, and aerobic decomposition. In summary, inputting an appropriate amount of exogenous NO3--N is beneficial for restoring and maintaining the oxidation states of river sediment ecosystems.
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- Ao Wang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510642, China; Maoming Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Maoming, 525000, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China; Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510642, China; Maoming Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Maoming, 525000, China.
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Wang S, Yuan X, Li T, Yang J, Zhao L, Yuan D, Guo Z, Liu C, Duan C. Changes in soil microbe-mediated carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling during spontaneous succession in abandoned PbZn mining areas. Sci Total Environ 2024; 920:171018. [PMID: 38378054 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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The mechanism through which soil microorganisms mediate carbon and nutrient cycling during mine wasteland restoration remained unknown. Using soil metagenome sequencing, we investigated the dynamic changes in soil microbial potential metabolic functions during the transition from biological soil crusts (BSC) to mixed broad-conifer forest (MBF) in a typical PbZn mine. The results showed soil microorganisms favored carbon sequestration through anaerobic and microaerobic pathways, predominantly using efficient, low-energy pathways during succession. Genes governing carbon degradation and aerobic respiration increased by 19.56 % and 24.79 %, respectively, reflecting change toward more efficient and intensive soil carbon utilization in late succession. Nitrogen-cycling genes mediated by soil microorganisms met their maximum influence during early succession (sparse grassland, SGL), leading to a respective increase of 75.29 % and 76.81 % in the net potential nitrification rate and total nitrogen content. Mantel and correlation analyses indicated that TOC, TN, Zn and Cd contents were the main factors affecting the soil carbon and phosphorus cycles. Soil AP content emerged as the primary influencer of genes associated with the nitrogen cycle. These results shed light on the dynamic shifts in microbial metabolic activities during succession, providing a genetic insight into biogeochemical cycling mechanisms and underscoring crucial factors influencing soil biogeochemical processes in mining regions.
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- Sichen Wang
- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China; Yunnan International Joint Research Center of Plateau Lake Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
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Lloren JI, McCune JL. Testing for synergistic effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on ecological communities at a landscape scale. Landsc Ecol 2024; 39:40. [PMID: 38410171 PMCID: PMC10895711 DOI: 10.1007/s10980-024-01844-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Context Anthropogenic and natural disturbances may interact synergistically, magnifying their individual effects on biodiversity. However, few studies have measured responses of ecological communities to multiple stressors at landscape scales. Objectives We use a long-term dataset to test for synergistic effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on plant community diversity and composition in a large protected area. Methods We quantified changes in plant communities over two decades in 98 plots in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. Fifty-three plots burned in a wildfire in the interim. We modeled the effects of wildfire, proximity to trails or roads, and their interaction on changes in species richness, community composition, relative abundance of disturbance-associated species, and colonization by exotic species. Results Interactions between wildfire and proximity to roads and trails affected all metrics except species richness. Only one interaction was synergistic: the relative abundance of disturbance-associated species following wildfire was magnified closer to recreational corridors. The other community metrics showed unexpected patterns. For example, plots with no exotic species in the baseline survey that burned in the wildfire were more likely to gain exotic species than unburned plots only when they were distant from recreational corridors. Conclusions Our study demonstrates interactive effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance at landscape scales within a protected area. Plant community response to wildfire was influenced by proximity to recreational corridors, sometimes in surprising ways. As the frequency and severity of anthropogenic and natural disturbances both continue to rise, documenting the prevalence and magnitude of interactions between them is key to predicting long-term effects and designing mitigation strategies. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10980-024-01844-w.
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- Jed I. Lloren
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 Canada
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Jiang J, Zeng J, Wang J, Zuo J, Wei N, Song L, Shan K, Gan N. Changes in CO 2 concentration drive a succession of toxic and non-toxic strains of Microcystis blooms. Water Res 2024; 250:121056. [PMID: 38171175 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.121056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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The dynamic changes between toxic and non-toxic strains of Microcystis blooms have always been a hot topic. Previous studies have found that low CO2 favors toxic strains, but how changing dissolved CO2 (CO2 [aq]) in water body influences the succession of toxic and non-toxic strains in Microcystis blooms remains uncertain. Here, we combined laboratory competition experiments, field observations, and a machine learning model to reveal the links between CO2 changes and the succession. Laboratory experiments showed that under low CO2 conditions (100-150 ppm), the toxic strains could make better use of CO2 (aq) and be dominant. The non-toxic strains demonstrated a growth advantage as CO2 concentration increased (400-1000 ppm). Field observations from June to November in Lake Taihu showed that the percentage of toxic strains increased as CO2 (aq) decreased. Machine learning highlighted links between the inorganic carbon concentration and the proportion of advantageous strains. Our findings provide new insights for cyanoHABs prediction and prevention.
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- Jingyu Jiang
- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China,; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China,; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,; Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China
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- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Ecological Treatment Technology for Urban Water Pollution, Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Water Environment and Marine Biological Resources Protection, Institute for Eco-Environmental Research of Sanyang Wetland, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan 430223, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China,; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,; Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China,.
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China,; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,.
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Li C, Li X, Yang Y, Shi Y, Zhang J. Comparative responses of carbon flux components in recovering bare patches of degraded alpine meadow in the Source Zone of the Yellow River. Sci Total Environ 2024; 908:168343. [PMID: 37931819 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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The patchy degradation of alpine grasslands is a common phenomenon on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and the presence of bare patches (BP) in degraded grasslands significantly affects the functioning of the alpine meadow ecosystem. The succession of vegetation-recovered BP may lead to significant changes in ecosystem carbon (C) cycling. To date, it is unclear whether different components of net ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE) respond similarly or differently to the succession of recovering BP. Here, we conducted a field monitoring experiment in a degraded alpine meadow, and selected three successional stages for recovering BP to study the response of NEE and its components. We found that the succession of recoevering BP increased ecosystem respiration (ER) during the growing season and decreased ER during the off-growing season, with the differences in annual carbon output between different successional stages being insignificant. However, gross primary productivity increased with the successional gradient, and carbon input at the later stage of succession was significantly greater than that at the middle stage of succession. The succession of recovering BP promoted the carbon sequestration function of the alpine grassland, with the grassland acting as a carbon sink when it reached the state of healthy alpine meadow, while it acted as a carbon source during the middle stage of succession. Compared with BP, the amount of carbon sequested by healthy alpine meadows increased significantly by 219 g·C·m-2·yr-1. We also found that the responses of other components to the succession of recovering BP were inconsistent. In addition, the effects of succession of recovering BP on carbon flux were related to field-monitored variables (soil temperature and water content) and other considered variables (biomass, organic carbon, and microbial biomass carbon). These research findings highlight the importance of restoring vegetation in BPs, and are crucial for predicting the carbon balance in the future and formulating sustainable grassland management strategies.
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- Chengyi Li
- College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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- College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China.
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- College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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- School of Environment, the University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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Scotton M, Ziliotto U. Long-term patterns of grassland vegetation and species richness in a full-factorial NPK fertilization experiment. Sci Total Environ 2024; 906:167555. [PMID: 37806578 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 09/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Species-rich grasslands contribute significantly to conserving environmental quality in Europe but have suffered for decades due to area reduction and degradation from nutrient addition of agricultural or pollution origins. Studying the effects of grassland fertilization can supply useful information on their degradation patterns and restoration possibilities. On a valley meadow in the Italian Alps fertilized with farmyard manure until 1976, a fertilization trial with 4 replicates and 27 treatments from the factorial combination of three levels of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) was established in 1977 and surveyed until 2003 for botanical composition on 18 m2 plots. The change of species composition and species richness (SR) occurring over the surveying period was analyzed. Six types of vegetation successions were identified, mostly with homogeneous nutrient combinations and only marginal influence by the amount of nutrients added. In all successions, the vegetation change was significant compared to the pre-experiment situation and more rapid but less persistent for abundance than for presence-absence. From about 33.6 species per plot surveyed in 1976, SR had the highest increase in the succession with no-fertilization or only-P or only-K addition (40.2 species in the period 1991-2003). The N + P + K (27.2 species) and N + P (26.3 species) successions had the strongest negative impact on SR. In the other successions (N + K, P + K and only N) SR increased or decreased little. No soil acidification and no negative effect on SR from the acidifying N-fertilizer ammonium nitrate was observed thanks to the buffering power of the Ca‑carbonate soil content. In the two successions with the highest SR variation the SR changed rapidly in the first period but fluctuated later around a constant value. In the succession with significant but little SR variation, this trend was not obvious due to the considerable interannual SR fluctuation. In all successions, the SR change was the result of a balance between logarithmic trends of species loss and gain. Species loss was probably caused by stochastic extinction of low-abundance species, but in NP, it was also due to the establishment of the aggressive-growth-habit Festuca rubra. For species gain, the suitability of incoming species to new fertility conditions was an important factor. Trial results showed that in calcareous, permeable soils, the species richness of central European grassland is especially endangered by the combined addition of N and P (with or without K), more than the only-N addition. However, they also showed that the restoration of grassland that had been degraded due to high NPK inputs from agriculture and NP enrichment from water and atmosphere pollution is possible with the cessation of fertilization and without seed addition if the surrounding landscape is species-rich and plants with aggressive growth habits are not established. Management for grassland biodiversity conservation should avoid the utilization of soil-acidifying fertilizers, reducing the P input beside the N input and limiting the introduction and spreading of aggressive grass species, such as Festuca rubra.
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- Michele Scotton
- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy.
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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Ang SBH, Lam WN, Png GK, Tan SKB, Lee BPYH, Khoo M, Luskin MS, Wardle DA, Slade EM. Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient. Oecologia 2024; 204:147-159. [PMID: 38151651 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05494-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Functional trait ecology has the potential to provide generalizable and mechanistic predictions of ecosystem function from data of species distributions and traits. The traits that are selected should both respond to environmental factors and influence ecosystem functioning. Invertebrate mouthpart traits fulfill these criteria, but are seldom collected, lack standardized measurement protocols, and have infrequently been investigated in response to environmental factors. We surveyed isopod species that consume plant detritus, and tree communities in 58 plots across primary and secondary forests in Singapore. We measured body dimensions (body size traits), pereopod and antennae lengths (locomotory traits), dimensions of mandible structures (morphological mouthpart traits), and mechanical advantages generated by mandible shape (mechanical mouthpart traits) for six isopod species found in these plots and investigated if these traits respond to changes in tree community composition, tree diversity, and forest structure. Morphological mouthpart traits responded to a tree compositional gradient reflecting forest recovery degree. Mouthpart features associated with greater consumption of litter (broader but less serrated/rugose lacinia mobilis [an important cutting and chewing structure on the mandible]) were most prevalent in abandoned plantation and young secondary forests containing disturbance-associated tree species. Feeding strategies associated with fungi grazing (narrower and more serrated/rugose lacinia mobilis) were most prevalent in late secondary forests containing later successional tree species. Since morphological mouthpart traits likely also predict consumption and excretion rates of isopods, these traits advance our understanding of environment-trait-ecosystem functioning relationships across contrasting tropical forest plots that vary in composition, disturbance history, and post-disturbance recovery.
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- Shawn B H Ang
- The Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Republic of Singapore
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- The Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Republic of Singapore.
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- The Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Republic of Singapore
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- The Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Botanic Gardens, National Parks Board 1 Cluny Road, Singapore, 259569, Republic of Singapore
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- Wildlife Management Division, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore, 259569, Republic of Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- The Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Republic of Singapore
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Chowaniec K, Styburski J, Kozioł S, Pisańska Z, Skubała K. Dune Blowouts as Microbial Hotspots and the Changes of Overall Microbial Activity and Photosynthetic Biomass Along with Succession of Biological Soil Crusts. Microb Ecol 2023; 87:22. [PMID: 38157058 PMCID: PMC10756888 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-023-02333-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Biological soil crust (BSC) constitutes a consortium of cyanobacteria, algae, lichen, mosses, and heterotrophic microorganisms, forming a miniature ecosystem within the uppermost soil layer. The biomass of different organisms forming BSC and their activity changes along with succession. Previous studies focused primarily on BSC in hyper-arid/arid regions, whereas the ecophysiology of BSC in temperate climates is still not well recognized. In order to determine changes in overall microbial activity and photosynthetic biomass in BSC at different stages of the succession of inland sandy grasslands, we analyzed dehydrogenase activity and determined the content of photosynthetic pigments. We also compared these parameters between BSC developed on the dune ridges and aeolian blowouts in the initial stage of succession. Our study revealed a significant increase in both photosynthetic biomass and overall microbial activity in BSC as the succession of inland shifting sands progresses. We found that chl a concentration in BSC could be considered a useful quantitative indicator of both the presence of photoautotrophs and the degree of soil crust development in warm-summer humid continental climates. The photosynthetic biomass was closely related to increased microbial activity in BSC, which suggests that photoautotrophs constitute a major BSC component. Dune blowouts constitute environmental niches facilitating the development of BSC, compared to dune ridges. High biomass of microorganisms in the dune blowouts may be associated with a high amount of organic material and more favorable moisture conditions. We conclude that deflation fields are key places for keeping a mosaic of habitats in the area of shifting sands and can be a reservoir of microorganisms supporting further settlement of dune slopes by BSC.
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- Karolina Chowaniec
- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Prof. S. Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Prof. S. Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3, 30-387, Kraków, Poland.
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Bin Y, Huang Z, Cao H, Ye W, Lian J. Seed rain composition responds to climate change in a subtropical forest. Sci Total Environ 2023; 903:166772. [PMID: 37666333 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023]
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Recent climate change has been shown to alter aspects of forest plant demography, such as growth and mortality, but less attention has been focused on how climate change alters the reproduction of plant populations through time. We hypothesized that the plant seed production would respond to climate change, and that the response would differ according to plant life form and functional traits. We tested this hypothesis by examining climate change from 2005 to 2020 and by determining the temporal trends of seed rain and seed production from plants with different life forms (e.g., herbs, vines, trees, palms) and of tree species with different statures as well as leaf, seed and wood traits during 2014-2020. We also tested the correlation between meteorological variables and time series of seed rain using cross correlation analysis. We found increasing wetness (lower vapor pressure deficit) through time but with decreasing minimum relative humidity, which is a pattern consistent with trends seen in many other parts of the world. During the study period, seed production of shrubs and relative contribution of woody vines to total seed rain decreased, while relative contribution of palms to total seed rain and tree species with more conservative leaf traits increased their contribution to total seed rain. Overall, these trends were well explained by the trends of meteorological variables and the responses of these life forms to climate change in previous studies. Additionally, the increasingly conservative leaf traits were also consistent with shifts in traits following recovery from disturbance. Our results suggest that a trait-based approach may help to unveil trends that are not readily apparent by examining seed counts alone. The compositional change found in the seed rain may indicate future shifts in forest species composition and should be incorporated into future studies of forest modelling and projections under climate change.
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- Yue Bin
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China.
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Yu Q, Han Q, Li T, Kou Y, Zhang X, Wang Y, Li G, Zhou H, Qu J, Li H. Metagenomics reveals the self-recovery and risk of antibiotic resistomes during carcass decomposition of wild mammals. Environ Res 2023; 238:117222. [PMID: 37778601 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Animal carcass decomposition may bring serious harm to the environment, including pathogenic viruses, toxic gases and metabolites, and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, how wild mammal corpses decomposition influence and change ARGs in the environment has less explored. Through metagenomics, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and physicochemical analysis, this study explored the succession patterns, influencing factors, and assembly process of ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in gravesoil during long-term corpse decomposition of wild mammals. Our results indicate that the ARG and MGE communities related to wildlife corpses exhibited a pattern of differentiation first and then convergence. Different from the farmed animals, the decomposition of wild animals first reduced the diversity of ARGs and MGEs, and then recovered to a level similar to that of the control group (untreated soil). ARGs and MGEs of the gravesoil are mainly affected by deterministic processes in different stages. MGEs and bacterial community are the two most important factors affecting ARGs in gravesoil. It is worth noting that the decomposition of wild animal carcasses enriched different high-risk ARGs at different stages (bacA, mecA and floR), which have co-occurrence patterns with opportunistic pathogens (Comamonas and Acinetobacter), thereby posing a great threat to public health. These results are of great significance for wildlife corpse management and environmental and ecological safety.
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- Qiaoling Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Center for Grassland Microbiome, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Gansu, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Silviculture in Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology for Cold Region, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, 810008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology for Cold Region, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, 810008, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Center for Grassland Microbiome, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Gansu, 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology for Cold Region, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, 810008, China; School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
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Evstigneev V, Serikova I, Piontkovski S, Zhuk V, Minsky I. Fall-winter sea surface temperature anomalies affect subsequent spring-summer phytoplankton succession and bioluminescence patterns in the Black Sea coastal waters near Crimea. Mar Environ Res 2023; 192:106246. [PMID: 37924796 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023]
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Seasonal and interannual dynamics of bioluminescence intensity and succession of the major phytoplankton taxonomic groups were analyzed using the six-year monitoring of Crimean coastal waters (the northern Black Sea) in 2009-2014. Monitoring program included regular CTD and bioluminescence intensity casts in the upper 60 m layer by means of "Salpa-M" sonde accompanied with phytoplankton sampling from subsurface (∼0.2 m) and from the layer of maximal bioluminescence intensity. Years with anomalous warm and cold preceding fall-winter periods were defined on the basis of remotely sensed monthly sea surface temperature (SST) and long-term records on coastal SST measuring station. It was shown that succession of phytoplankton and net vertical bioluminescence patterns in subsequent spring-summer seasons depend upon the SST anomaly during preceding fall-winter period. In "cold" years a minimal bioluminescence intensity associated with a diminished biomass and species abundance of luminous dinoflagellates as well as diatoms and dinoflagellates groups as a whole were observed. A number of luminous dinoflagellate species dropped out of spring phytoplankton community (e.g., Scrippsiella cf. acuminata). As a result, a typical spring peak of bioluminescence in the upper mixed layer has not been observed during these years. In contrast maximal bioluminescence intensity and phytoplankton abundance in spring-summer was observed in "warm" years; biomass and bioluminescence intensity peaks shift to earlier month (April) in comparison to "moderate" years; period of dinoflagellate dominance was more extended during the spring-summer succession phase. Overall, group of dinoflagellates including luminous species, seems to be the most sensitive group of algae to climatic SST anomalies in coastal waters of the northern Black Sea. Hence, the bioluminescence in the upper sea layer can act as an indicator of climate-induced phytoplankton community restructuring.
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- Moscow Representative Office of A.O, Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences (IBSS RAS), Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Moscow Representative Office of A.O, Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences (IBSS RAS), Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Sevastopol State University, Sevastopol, Russian Federation; Moscow Representative Office of A.O, Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences (IBSS RAS), Moscow, Russian Federation
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McKenney EA, Nichols LM, Alvarado S, Hardy S, Kemp K, Polmanteer R, Shoemaker A, Dunn RR. Sourdough starters exhibit similar succession patterns but develop flour-specific climax communities. PeerJ 2023; 11:e16163. [PMID: 37810791 PMCID: PMC10559884 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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The microbial fermentation behind sourdough bread is among our oldest technologies, yet there are many opportunities for sourdough science to learn from traditional bakers. We analyzed 16S rRNA sequences in R to assess the bacterial community structure and performance of 40 starters grown from 10 types of flour over 14 days, and identified six distinct stages of succession. At each stage, bacterial taxa correlate with determinants of bread quality including pH, rise, and aromatic profile. Day 1 starter cultures were dominated by microorganisms commonly associated with plants and flour, and by aromas similar to toasted grain/cereal. Bacterial diversity peaked from days 2-6 as taxa shifted from opportunistic/generalist bacteria associated with flour inputs, toward specialized climax bacterial communities (days 10-14) characterized by acid-tolerant taxa and fruity (p < 3.03e-03), sour (p < 1.60e-01), and fermented (p < 1.47e-05) aromas. This collection of traits changes predictably through time, regardless of flour type, highlighting patterns of bacterial constraints and dynamics that are conserved across systems and scales. Yet, while sourdough climax communities exhibit similar markers of maturity (i.e., pH ≤ 4 and enriched in Lactobacillus (mean abundance 48.1%), Pediococcus (mean abundance 22.7%), and/or Gluconobacter (mean abundance 19.1%)), we also detected specific taxa and aromas associated with each type of flour. Our results address important ecological questions about the relationship between community structure and starter performance, and may enable bakers to deliberately select for specific sourdough starter and bread characteristics.
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- Erin A. McKenney
- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Biotechnology Program, North Carolina State University, Biotechnology-based Sequencing-based Undergraduate Research Experience (BITSURE), Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- The Exploris School, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Moore Square Middle School, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Xiaodong L, Weijing L, Fan J, Ziqin C, Yang C, Ziyang W, Tan Y, Jing L, Weicheng W, Xinhua C. The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans in China: A review of its distribution and role in harmful algal blooms. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 194:115415. [PMID: 37634317 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans is often reported as a worldwide HAB species and caused severe financial losses to local aquaculture. In this review, we summarized the temporal and geographical distribution of its HABs in China, as well as its position in the plankton structure. Increasing N. scintillans HABs, both frequency and coverage, have broken out in almost all Chinese coastal regions mainly from April to June, with short-term and small coverage blooms as the primary type. The HAB period seems to shift with age and latitude. Recently, increasing abundance and dominance of N. scintillans were also reported in plankton communities in Chinese coastal waters, with multiple environmental factors related. In particular, trophic relationships may play an important role in its dominance and outbreaks of HABs. However, how N. scintillans became a dominant species in China and the mechanisms responsible for its HABs require further study.
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- Li Xiaodong
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong Province 266071, China; Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong Province 266071, China; Centre for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory on Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Marine Biodiversity, Fuzhou Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350002, China; Fuzhou Institute of Oceanography, Fuzhou 350108, China
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Lu X, Lv B, Han Y, Tian W, Jiang T, Zhu G, An T. Responses of compositions, functions, and assembly processes of bacterial and microeukaryotic communities to long-range voyages in simulated ballast water. Mar Environ Res 2023; 190:106115. [PMID: 37540963 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
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Ballast water is one of the main vectors for the spread of harmful organisms among geologically isolated waters. However, the successional processes of microbial functions and assembly processes in ballast water during the long-term shipping voyage remain unclear. In this study, the compositions, ecological functions, community assembly, and potential environmental drivers of bacteria and microeukaryotes were investigated in simulated ballast water microcosms for 120 days. The results showed that the diversity and compositions of the bacterial and microeukaryotic communities varied significantly in the initial 40 days (T0∼T40 samples) and then gradually converged. The relative abundance of Proteobacteria showed a distinct tendency to decrease (87.90%-41.44%), while that of Ascomycota exhibited an increasing trend (6.35%-62.12%). The functional groups also varied significantly over time and could be related to the variations of the microbial community. The chemoheterotrophy and aerobic chemoheterotrophy functional groups for bacteria decreased from 44.80% to 28.02% and from 43.77% to 25.39%, respectively. Additionally, co-occurrence network analysis showed that the structures of the bacterial community in T60∼T120 samples were more stable than those in T0∼T40 samples. Stochastic processes also significantly affected the community assembly of bacteria and microeukaryotes. pH played the most significant role in driving the structures and assembly processes of the bacterial and microeukaryotic communities. The results of this study could aid in the understanding of variations in the functions and ecological processes of bacterial and microeukaryotic communities in ballast water over time and provide a theoretical basis for its management.
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- Xiaolan Lu
- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China; International Joint Research Center for Persistent Toxic Substances (IJRC-PTS), Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
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- Jiangyin Customs, Jiangyin, 214400, China
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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Roy J, Reichel R, Brüggemann N, Rillig MC. Functional, not Taxonomic, Composition of Soil Fungi Reestablishes to Pre-mining Initial State After 52 Years of Recultivation. Microb Ecol 2023; 86:213-223. [PMID: 35821127 PMCID: PMC10293406 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02058-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Open-cast mining leads to the loss of naturally developed soils and their ecosystem functions and services. Soil restoration after mining aims to restore the agricultural productivity in which the functions of the fungal community play a crucial role. Whether fungi reach a comparable functional state as in the soil before mining within half a century of recultivation is still unanswered. Here, we characterised the soil fungal community using ITS amplicon Illumina sequencing across a 52-year chronosequence of agricultural recultivation after open-cast mining in northern Europe. Both taxonomic and functional community composition showed profound shifts over time, which could be attributed to the changes in nutrient status, especially phosphorus availability. However, taxonomic composition did not reach the pre-mining state, whereas functional composition did. Importantly, we identified a positive development of arbuscular mycorrhizal root fungal symbionts after the initial three years of alfalfa cultivation, followed by a decline after conversion to conventional farming, with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi being replaced by soil saprobes. We conclude that appropriate agricultural management can steer the fungal community to its functional pre-mining state despite stochasticity in the reestablishment of soil fungal communities. Nonetheless, conventional agricultural management results in the loss of plant symbionts, favouring non-symbiotic fungi.
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- Julien Roy
- Institut Für Biologie, Ökologie Der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- Institut Für Biologie, Ökologie Der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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Guo Z, Wang L, Song M, Jiang Z, Liang Z. The effects of flow field on the succession of the microbial community on artificial reefs. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 191:114920. [PMID: 37060891 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The flow field is one of the most important external conditions affecting the development of biofouling community on artificial reefs (ARs), especially the microbial community. In this article, we investigated the temporal dynamics of microbial communities between the stoss side and the lee side of ARs. The results showed that the composition and structure of microbial and macrobenthic communities between the stoss side and the lee side both presented obvious temporal variations. Microbial diversity and richness were higher on the stoss side than that on the lee side. There was a greater impact on bacterial and archaeal communities on temporal scale compared to that on micro-spatial scale, which was not suitable for the fungal community. The organism biomass, abundance and coverage of macrobenthic community on the lee side were higher than those on the stoss side, and the microbial diversity on the stoss side increased significantly with the organism coverage.
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- Zhansheng Guo
- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China.
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China.
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Zhang Y, Jin B, Zhang X, Wei H, Chang Q, Huang F, Liu W, Lv Y, Xu Q, Sun G, Cheng H. Grazing alters the relationships between species diversity and biomass during community succession in a semiarid grassland. Sci Total Environ 2023; 887:164155. [PMID: 37182768 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions (BEF) are crucial for ecosystem management. However, little is known about how grazing affects BEF relationships in the context of ecological succession. Here, using a 5-year experiment in a semiarid grassland of the Loess Plateau, China, we mainly focused on how grazing affected the relationships between plant species diversity and aboveground biomass (AGB) and explored the underlying mechanisms behind the relationships. In addition, we compared the plant dynamics of community composition and structure under no-grazing and grazing treatments during succession. We found that the plant species diversity-AGB relationship shifted from a negative-linear pattern in no-grazing to a humped-back model in grazing during plant community succession, suggesting that grazing could regulate dominant species and alter the availability of light resources to suppress competitive exclusion during succession. In addition, changes in annual plants over time played crucial roles in the BEF relationships. The increase in annual Salsola collina in this study, which also alters multiple mechanisms of plant interaction, had a significant effect on the negative-linear relationship both with and without grazing. On average, compared to no-grazing treatment, grazing significantly decreased the plant community density (39.53 %), cover (16.97 %), height (7.85 %), and AGB (9.35 %), but increased plant diversity, including species richness and the Shannon-Wiener index, and especially dramatically enhanced the Shannon-Wiener index (ranging from 1.55 to 2.13). These results underline the close association between grazing and the dynamics of plant communities in semiarid grasslands during succession. In particular, our findings further reveal grazing-dependent relationships between diversity and AGB, which have significant implications for the management and biodiversity conservation measures of semiarid grassland ecosystems.
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- Yonghong Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
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- School of Tourism, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
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Rafiei S, Mehrtak M, Amerzadeh M, Rafiei S, Moosavi S, Kalhor R. The relationship between succession and intellectual capital with entrepreneurship in hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res 2023; 23:474. [PMID: 37170204 PMCID: PMC10173561 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-09435-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The hospital environment is very dynamic and faces many internal and external changes. Healthcare knowledge and technology are developing at a swift pace. This study investigated the relationship between succession and intellectual capital with entrepreneurship at the Qazvin University of Medical Sciences hospital, Iran. METHODS The number of employees working in six hospitals was 2256, and according to Morgan's table, the required number of samples was 331. We distributed three hundred sixty-five questionnaires considering 10% of sample loss. We used a multi-stage stratified sampling method. In the first stage, each hospital was considered a stratum. After that, occupational groups were considered the next stratum within each hospital, and based on the ratio, the required number of samples for each occupational group was randomly selected. We used the Sobel test to investigate the mediating role of intellectual capital and the structural equation model to fit the research model. RESULTS Succession aspects, including culturalization, meritocracy, job promotion path, and the role of senior managers, have a positive and significant effect on intellectual capital. Succession is only effective on intellectual capital and does not affect the personnel's entrepreneurship directly or through intellectual capital. CONCLUSION Conducting training classes and intervention programs and using localized succession models can create a suitable platform for increasing organizational creativity and entrepreneurship, motivating the hospitals' personnel, and increasing intellectual capital.
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- Shoaib Rafiei
- Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Healthcare Services Management, School of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
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Wang J, Xiao J, Zhang Z, Yang L, Liu Z, Cheng Y, Wu L. Changes of bacterial community structure,monosaccharide composition and CO 2 exchange along the successional stages of biological soil crusts. Environ Geochem Health 2023:10.1007/s10653-023-01572-1. [PMID: 37147551 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-023-01572-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are a dominant ecological landscape of drylands, which have a significant impact on global biogeochemical flux. However, it is unclear how bacterial community and physiological characteristics vary along the BSCs successional stages. In this study, bacterial community composition, physiological characteristics, and monosaccharide composition of extracellular polysaccharides (EPSs) were compared among different successional stages. Our findings demonstrated that besides the dominant bacterial species, the bacterial communities also showed considerable differences between these two stages. Cyanobacteria were keystone taxa in the early stage, while heterotrophic bacteria (Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria) were keystone taxa in the later stages. According to the results of CO2 exchange, cyanobacterial crusts accumulated net carbon faster than moss crusts, while moss crusts had a significantly higher respiration rate. The monosaccharide analysis indicated that the EPSs components also varied depending on BSCs' successional stages. Specifically, the contents of rhamnose and arabinose were higher in the cyanobacterial crusts than other types of crusts, while the contents of fucose, xylose, mannose and glucose were the highest in cyanobacterial-lichen crusts, and galactose content was highest in the moss crusts. Altogether, our results stress the heterogeneous variation of BSCs along with succession, and this work offered a fresh viewpoint for a deeper comprehension of the interactions between the monosaccharide components of EPS and the networks of bacterial communities in BSCs.
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- Jiping Wang
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
- The James Hutton Institute, Craigie Buckler, Aberdeen, ABI5 8QH, UK
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430072, Wuhan, China.
- State Environmental Protection, Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, 130117, Changchun, China.
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Ulaski BP, Sikes DS, Konar B. Beach-cast and drifting seaweed wrack is an important resource for marine and terrestrial macroinvertebrates in high latitudes. Mar Environ Res 2023; 187:105970. [PMID: 37004498 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Seaweeds are foundation species across near-subtidal and intertidal zones, including when detached and free-floating and then cast ashore as wrack. Wrack is sometimes removed by humans for aesthetics or to be used as fertilizer. The study of wrack as an important habitat and resource for macroinvertebrates in high latitudes has been limited. To determine which taxa might be impacted when wrack is removed, the composition and relative abundance of macroinvertebrates were quantified monthly and compared in areas with and without wrack in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Relationships were assessed between macroinvertebrates and wrack line (tidal height, moisture content, seaweed biomass) and beach characteristics (wave exposure, beach slope, substrate types). Approximately 47,000 animals were counted and a total of 87 taxa were identified from beach-cast wrack, drifting wrack, and bare sediment habitats. Macroinvertebrate communities within beach-cast wrack and bare sediment habitats were significantly different. Beach-cast wrack generally had more terrestrially-derived animals, especially Coleoptera and Diptera. Bare beach sediment was predominantly occupied by Enchytraeida (annelids). Macroinvertebrate communities were most strongly influenced by seaweed biomass and tidal height of the wrack line. Beach-cast wrack and bare sediments were also compared to drifting wrack in shallow, nearshore waters. Drifting wrack was different and generally occupied by more marine-derived animals, especially Amphipoda, Gastropoda, Mytilida, and Polychaeta. Ecological succession in decaying beach-cast wrack was documented, with decomposers (e.g., Amphipoda and Diptera) being early colonizers, and predators (e.g., Coleoptera and Hymenoptera) arriving later. Understanding the importance of this unique and ecologically important habitat to macroinvertebrates is essential, as removals and reductions in wrack availability could influence macroinvertebrate community structure, higher trophic level consumers, and key ecological processes on beaches. This study is the first direct investigation into seaweed wrack-associated macroinvertebrate communities in a sub-Arctic system.
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- Brian P Ulaski
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757220, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-7220, USA.
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- University of Alaska Museum, Department of Biology & Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1962 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-6960, USA
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757220, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-7220, USA
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Graham EB, Knelman JE. Implications of Soil Microbial Community Assembly for Ecosystem Restoration: Patterns, Process, and Potential. Microb Ecol 2023; 85:809-819. [PMID: 36735065 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02155-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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While it is now widely accepted that microorganisms provide essential functions in restoration ecology, the nature of relationships between microbial community assembly and ecosystem recovery remains unclear. There has been a longstanding challenge to decipher whether microorganisms facilitate or simply follow ecosystem recovery, and evidence for each is mixed at best. We propose that understanding microbial community assembly processes is critical to understanding the role of microorganisms during ecosystem restoration and thus optimizing management strategies. We examine how the connection between environment, community structure, and function is fundamentally underpinned by the processes governing community assembly of these microbial communities. We review important factors to consider in evaluating microbial community structure in the context of ecosystem recovery as revealed in studies of microbial succession: (1) variation in community assembly processes, (2) linkages to ecosystem function, and (3) measurable microbial community attributes. We seek to empower restoration ecology with microbial assembly and successional understandings that can generate actionable insights and vital contexts for ecosystem restoration efforts.
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- Emily B Graham
- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA, USA.
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- Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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Ottinger SL, Miniat CF, Wurzburger N. Nitrogen and light regulate symbiotic nitrogen fixation by a temperate forest tree. Oecologia 2023; 201:565-574. [PMID: 36637524 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05313-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) is a critical mechanism of ecosystem recovery, and in forests of the eastern United States, the most common tree species that supports SNF is black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.). Despite its prevalence, black locust's fixation strategy-whether it maintains fixation at a constant rate (obligate fixation) or reduces its fixation rate (facultative fixation)-is unknown. Here, we examined how nitrogen and light control SNF by black locust, by growing seedlings under two nitrogen levels and across four levels of light. Seedlings were harvested after 12 weeks to determine biomass changes, nodule activity, and photosynthetic rates. Black locust seedlings increased biomass growth with increasing light, but only in the absence of nitrogen addition, while seedling root:shoot (biomass) modestly declined with increasing light regardless of nitrogen level. We found that black locust behaved like a facultative fixer, and regulated fixation by excising or maintaining nodules, and by controlling nodule biomass and activity. Specifically, nitrogen addition reduced seedling investment in nodule biomass (g g-1) by 63%, and reduced seedling allocation to nitrogen fixation (µmol C2H4 g-1 h-1) by 66%. In contrast, light affected nitrogen fixation through two indirect pathways. First, light increased plant growth, and hence nitrogen demands, which caused an increase in nitrogen fixation proportional to biomass. Second, light increasd photosynthetic activity, which was positively associated with nodule activity, but only in the absence of nitrogen addition. Our findings for how black locust regulates SNF can improve predictions of ecosystem SNF under the changing environmental conditions.
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
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Ma J, Chen F, Zhang Z, Li Y, Liu J, Chen CC, Pan K. Eukaryotic community succession on discarded face masks in the marine environment. Sci Total Environ 2023; 854:158552. [PMID: 36087664 PMCID: PMC9448716 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Wearing facemasks remains an essential strategy for combating the COVID-19 pandemic. However, used masks are becoming plastic wastes that are widespread in the oceans, which is raising concerns about the potential impacts of these novel plastic niches on marine organisms. To delve into this issue, we exposed surgical masks to coastal waters for 30 days. Valuable information was recorded weekly in regard to the succession of the eukaryotic community inhabiting the masks via high-throughput 18S rRNA gene sequencing. Generally, the community on masks was significantly distinct from that in the surrounding seawater. With 1150 different eukaryotic taxa identified, the diversity of the vigorous colonizers of masks peaked at the beginning and decreased over time. A hallmark of initial colonization was the aggregation of diatoms, which formed biofilms on masks, followed by dinoflagellates that acted as a turning point for subsequent development of calcified species and other predators. This study provides insight into the eukaryotic community dynamics on discarded masks in the marine environment and highlights that the potential mask-mediated harmful species clustering may threaten the marine ecosystem.
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- Jie Ma
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China; Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China; Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, China.
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Wang H, Liu H, Yang T, Lv G, Li W, Chen Y, Wu D. Mechanisms underlying the succession of plant rhizosphere microbial community structure and function in an alpine open-pit coal mining disturbance zone. J Environ Manage 2023; 325:116571. [PMID: 36308787 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Elucidating the responses and potential functions of soil microbial communities during succession is important for understanding biogeochemical processes and the sustainable development of plant communities after environmental disturbances. However, studies of such dynamics during post-mining ecological restoration in alpine areas remain poorly understood. Microbial diversity, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle functional gene potential in the Heishan mining area of Northwest China was studied, including primitive succession, secondary succession, and artificial succession disturbed by mining. The results revealed that: (1) The dominant bacteria in both categories (non-remediated and ecologically restored) of mining area rhizosphere soil were Proteobacteria, adopting the r strategy, whereas in naturally occurring soil outside the mining area, the dominant bacteria were actinomycetes and Acidobacteria, adopting the k strategy. Notably, mining perturbation significantly reduced the relative abundance of archaea. (2) After restoration, more bacterial network node connections were observed in mining areas than were originally present, whereas the archaeal network showed the opposite trend. (3) The networks of microbial genes related to nitrogen and phosphorus cycle potential differed significantly, depending on the succession type. Namely, prior to restoration, there were more phosphorus related functional gene network connections; these were also more strongly correlated, and the network was more aggregated. (4) Soil factors such as pH and NO3-N affected both the mining area remediation soil and the soil outside the mining area, but did not affect the soil of the original vegetation in the mining area. The changes in the structure and function of plant rhizosphere microorganisms after mining disturbance can provide a theoretical basis for the natural restoration of mining areas.
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- Hengfang Wang
- College of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology of Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China
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- School of Geology and Mining Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection Mining for Mineral Resources at Universities of Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830017, China.
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- School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, 110004, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology of Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology of Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China
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- School of Geology and Mining Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Protection Mining for Mineral Resources at Universities of Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830017, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China; Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology of Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830017, China
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Chanut PCM, Burdon FJ, Datry T, Robinson CT. Convergence in floodplain pond communities indicates different pathways to community assembly. Aquat Sci 2023; 85:59. [PMID: 37016666 PMCID: PMC10066089 DOI: 10.1007/s00027-023-00957-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Disturbance can strongly influence ecosystems, yet much remains unknown about the relative importance of key processes (selection, drift, and dispersal) in the recovery of ecological communities following disturbance. We combined field surveys with a field experiment to elucidate mechanisms governing the recovery of aquatic macroinvertebrates in habitats of an alluvial floodplain following flood disturbance. We monitored macroinvertebrates in 24 natural parafluvial habitats over 60 days after a major flood, as well as the colonization of 24 newly-built ponds by macroinvertebrates over 45 days in the same floodplain. We examined the sources of environmental variation and their relative effects on aquatic assemblages using a combination of null models and Mantel tests. We also used a joint species distribution model to investigate the importance of primary metacommunity structuring processes during recovery: selection, dispersal, and drift. Contrary to expectations, we found that beta diversity actually decreased among natural habitats over time after the flood or the creation of the ponds, instead of increasing. This result was despite environmental predictors showing contrasting patterns for explaining community variation over time in the natural habitats compared with the experimental ponds. Flood heterogeneity across the floodplain and spatial scale differences between the experimental ponds and the natural habitats seemingly constrained the balance between deterministic and stochastic processes driving the ecological convergence of assemblages over time. While environmental selection was the dominant structuring process in both groups, biotic interactions also had a prominent influence on community assembly. These findings have profound implications towards understanding metacommunity structuring in riverscapes that includes common linkages between disturbance heterogeneity, spatial scale properties, and community composition. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00027-023-00957-9.
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- P. C. M. Chanut
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH-Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Te Aka Mātuatua - School of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH-Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Jiang X, Guo Y, Li H, Li X, Liu J. Ecological evolution during the three-year restoration using rhizosphere soil cover method at a Lead-Zinc tailing pond in Karst areas. Sci Total Environ 2022; 853:158291. [PMID: 36030848 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Revised: 08/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A major challenge for the restoration of the Lead-Zinc tailing pond in Karst areas lies in how to establish vegetation with less soil and restore the ecological functions of the substrate. In this study, a novel method, rhizosphere soil cover method (RSC), was applied to recover the vegetation at a Pb-Zn tailing pond in Karst areas. Two local tolerate plants, Miscanthus sinensis and Pueraria phaseoloides, were planted as pioneer species. Although 68 % of the tailing pond was not covered with soil, the vegetation coverage has reached over 90 % after restoration for three years. Compared with the natural revegetation process (vegetation coverage was <5 % after 20 years of natural succession), the revegetation in the tailing pond was accelerated by RSC and planting pioneer species. Both the plant's diversity and richness have significantly increased in the tailings pond during the restoration (p < 0.05). The important value indicators of M. sinensis and P. phaseoloides were the highest in the plant community, indicating the dominant role of these two plants in revegetation. Moreover, the total organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total potassium in the tailings increased annually (p < 0.05), which demonstrated that the revegetation has improved the chemical properties in the substrate. In addition, the Shannon diversity index of bacteria in the tailings increased significantly from 4.11 to 5.51. The relative abundance of microbial genes related to carbon fixation and nitrogen fixation in the tailings increased by 17 % and 43 %, respectively. Meanwhile, the physicochemical properties, microbial community structure, and nutrient cycling function in the tailings without topsoil were improved more obviously than those in soils. It is thereby concluded that RSC is an efficient means for ecological restoration of the tailing ponds in Karst areas to improve the ecosystem structure and function of Pb-Zn tailings.
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- Xusheng Jiang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control Theory and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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- Technical Innovation Center of Mine Geological Environmental Restoration Engineering in Southern Karst Area, MNR, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control Theory and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control Theory and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control Theory and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China; Technical Innovation Center of Mine Geological Environmental Restoration Engineering in Southern Karst Area, MNR, Guilin 541004, China.
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Maraci Ö, Antonatou-Papaioannou A, Jünemann S, Engel K, Castillo-Gutiérrez O, Busche T, Kalinowski J, Caspers BA. Timing matters: age-dependent impacts of the social environment and host selection on the avian gut microbiota. Microbiome 2022; 10:202. [PMID: 36434663 PMCID: PMC9700942 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01401-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND The establishment of the gut microbiota in early life is a critical process that influences the development and fitness of vertebrates. However, the relative influence of transmission from the early social environment and host selection throughout host ontogeny remains understudied, particularly in avian species. We conducted conspecific and heterospecific cross-fostering experiments in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata domestica) under controlled conditions and repeatedly sampled the faecal microbiota of these birds over the first 3 months of life. We thus documented the development of the gut microbiota and characterised the relative impacts of the early social environment and host selection due to species-specific characteristics and individual genetic backgrounds across ontogeny by using 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing. RESULTS The taxonomic composition and community structure of the gut microbiota changed across ontogenetic stages; juvenile zebra finches exhibited higher alpha diversity than adults at the post-breeding stage. Furthermore, in early development, the microbial communities of juveniles raised by conspecific and heterospecific foster parents resembled those of their foster family, emphasising the importance of the social environment. In later stages, the social environment continued to influence the gut microbiota, but host selection increased in importance. CONCLUSIONS We provided a baseline description of the developmental succession of gut microbiota in zebra finches and Bengalese finches, which is a necessary first step for understanding the impact of the early gut microbiota on host fitness. Furthermore, for the first time in avian species, we showed that the relative strengths of the two forces that shape the establishment and maintenance of the gut microbiota (i.e. host selection and dispersal from the social environment) change during development, with host selection increasing in importance. This finding should be considered when experimentally manipulating the early-life gut microbiota. Our findings also provide new insights into the mechanisms of host selection. Video Abstract.
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- Öncü Maraci
- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
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- Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- Institute of Biology-Zoology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Chaudhary A, Dunn ST, Kelly J, Hoellein TJ. Plastic microbiome development in a freshwater ecosystem. Sci Total Environ 2022; 848:157697. [PMID: 35914595 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To understand biological interactions of plastic litter in freshwater ecosystems, as well the potential effects of plastics on ecosystem processes, studies of the activity and composition of plastic-associated microbial communities are needed. The physical properties and chemical composition of plastic polymers are key components of plastic product design, and may also select for distinct microbial biofilms colonizing plastic litter. We monitored growth and succession of biofilm communities on plastic substrates of common morphotypes (i.e., hard, soft, foam, and film) and a natural surface (i.e., an unglazed ceramic tile) incubated in an urban stream. We measured biofilm biomass, metabolism, extracellular enzyme activity, and bacterial, fungal and algal community composition over four weeks during primary succession. Results demonstrated a general increase in biofilm biomass and enzymatic activity corresponding to carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus metabolism during biofilm development for all substrate types. We observed higher respiration rates and negative net ecosystem productivity on foam and tile surfaces in comparison to hard, soft and film plastic surfaces. Biofilm bacterial, fungal and algal assemblages showed few significant differences in composition among substrates. However, all microbial communities changed significantly in composition over time. While substrate type was not the major factor driving biofilm composition and activity, these data show plastic litter in streams is well colonized by an active and dynamic biofilm community. As plastic litter is increasing across all types of aquatic ecosystems, it should be considered a medium for biologically active organisms that contribute to key ecosystem processes.
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- Adit Chaudhary
- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Ahluwalia S, Holmes I, von May R, Rabosky DL, Davis Rabosky AR. Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13958. [PMID: 36132220 PMCID: PMC9484453 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Microbes participate in ecological communities, much like multicellular organisms. However, microbial communities lack the centuries of observation and theory describing and predicting ecological processes available for multicellular organisms. Here, we examine early bacterial community assembly in the water-filled internodes of Amazonian bamboos from the genus Guadua. Bamboo stands form distinct habitat patches within the lowland Amazonian rainforest and provide habitat for a suite of vertebrate and invertebrate species. Guadua bamboos develop sealed, water-filled internodes as they grow. Internodes are presumed sterile or near sterile while closed, but most are eventually opened to the environment by animals, after which they are colonized by microbes. We find that microbial community diversity increases sharply over the first few days of environmental exposure, and taxonomic identity of the microbes changes through this time period as is predicted for early community assembly in macroscopic communities. Microbial community taxonomic turnover is consistent at the bacteria phylum level, but at the level of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), internode communities become increasingly differentiated through time. We argue that these tropical bamboos form an ideal study system for microbial community ecology due to their near-sterile condition prior to opening, relatively consistent environment after opening, and functionally limitless possibilities for replicates. Given the possible importance of opened internode habitats as locations of transmission for both pathogenic and beneficial microbes among animals, understanding the microbial dynamics of the internode habitat is a key conservation concern for the insect and amphibian species that use this microhabitat.
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- Sonia Ahluwalia
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States,Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States,Cornell Institute of Host Microbe Interactions and Disease and Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States,Biology Program, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Willig MR, Presley SJ. Long-term spatiotemporal variation in density of a tropical folivore: responses to a complex disturbance regime. Oecologia 2022. [PMID: 35930046 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05227-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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The Anthropocene is a time of unprecedented and accelerating rates of environmental change that includes press (e.g., climate change) and pulse disturbances (e.g., cyclonic storms, land use change) that interact to affect spatiotemporal dynamics in the density, distribution, and biodiversity of organisms. We leverage three decades of spatially explicit data on the density of a tropical folivore (Lamponius portoricensis [Insecta, Phasmida]) in a hurricane-mediated ecosystem (montane rainforest of Puerto Rico), along with associated environmental attributes, to disentangle the effects of interacting disturbances at multiple spatial scales. Spatiotemporal variation in density at a small spatial scale is affected by disturbance-related characteristics (hurricane severity, time after most recent major hurricane, ambient temperature, and understory temperature), legacies of previous land use, and understory habitat structure. Nonetheless, only a small proportion of spatiotemporal variation in density was related to those characteristics. In contrast, the majority of interannual variation in mean density at a larger scale was related to disturbance characteristics and understory habitat structure. These factors combine to affect a weak and declining trend in the density of L. portoricensis over time. The low resistance of L. portoricensis to Hurricane Hugo, as compared to Hurricanes Georges and Maria, likely arose because a drought followed Hurricane Hugo. The disturbance regime of the region is predicted to include increases in ambient temperatures, frequency of high-intensity storms, and frequency of droughts. Such trends may combine to threaten the conservation status of L. portoricensis, and other species with which it shares similar life history characteristics.
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Zhan J, Han Y, Xu S, Wang X, Guo X. Succession and change of potential pathogens in the co-composting of rural sewage sludge and food waste. Waste Manag 2022; 149:248-258. [PMID: 35760013 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2022.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Composting is an effective way to prevent and control the spread of pathogenic microorganisms which could put potential risk to humans and environment, from rural solid waste, especially sewage sludge and food waste. In the study, we aim to analyze the changes of pathogenic bacteria during the co-composting of rural sewage sludge and food waste. The results showed that only 27 pathogenic bacteria were detected after composting, compared to 50 pathogenic bacteria in the raw mixed pile. About 74% of pathogen concentrations dropped below 1000 copies/g after composting. Lactobacillus, Bacillus, Paenibacillus and Comamonas were the core pathogenic bacteria in the compost, of which concentrations were all significantly lower than that in the raw mixed pile at the end of composting. The concentration of Lactobacillus decreased to 3.03 × 103 copies/g compared to 0 d with 1.25 × 109 copies/g by the end of the composting, while that of Bacillus, Paenibacillus and Comamonas decreased to 2.77 × 104 copies/g, 2.13 × 104 copies/g and 3.38 × 102 copies/g, respectively, with 1.26 × 107 copies/g, 4.71 × 106 copies/g, 1.69 × 108 copies/g on 0 d. Redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated that physicochemical factors and substances could affect the changes of pathogenic bacteria during composting, while temperature was the key influencing factor. In addition, certain potential pathogenic bacteria, such as Bacteroides-Bifidobacterium, show statistically strong and significant co-occurrence during composting, which may increase the risk of multiple infections and also influence their distribution. These findings provide a theoretical reference for biosafety prevention and control in the treatment and disposal of rural solid waste.
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- Jun Zhan
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.
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Dawson BM, Wallman JF, Evans MJ, Barton PS. Insect abundance patterns on vertebrate remains reveal carrion resource quality variation. Oecologia 2022; 198:1043-1056. [PMID: 35294646 PMCID: PMC9056491 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05145-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Resource quality is a key driver of species abundance and community structure. Carrion is unique among resources due to its high nutritional quality, rapidly changing nature, and the diverse community of organisms it supports. Yet the role resource quality plays in driving variation in abundance patterns of carrion-associated species remains poorly studied. Here we investigate how species abundances change with a measure of resource change, and interpret these findings to determine how species differ in their association with carrion that changes in quality over time. We conducted field succession experiments using pigs and humans over two winters and one summer. We quantified the effect of total body score, an objective measure of resource change, on adult insect abundance using generalised additive models. For each species, phases of increasing abundance likely indicated attraction to a high-quality resource, and length of abundance maxima indicated optimal oviposition and feeding time. Some species such as the beetle Necrobia rufipes had a rapid spike in abundance, suggesting a narrow window of opportunity for carrion resource exploitation, while species like the wasp Nasonia vitripennis had a gradual change in abundance, indicating a wide window of resource exploitation. Different abundance patterns were also observed between species occurring on pigs and humans, suggesting cadaver type is an important aspect of resource quality. Our findings show that species abundances, unlike species occurrences, can reveal additional detail about species exploitation of carrion and provide information about how resource quality may drive competition and variation in insect community succession.
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- Blake M Dawson
- Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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- Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.,Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.,Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University Australia, Mount Helen, VIC, Australia
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Maltsev Y, Maltseva S, Maltseva I. Diversity of Cyanobacteria and Algae During Primary Succession in Iron Ore Tailing Dumps. Microb Ecol 2022; 83:408-423. [PMID: 33893532 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01759-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The extraction of commercial minerals is often accompanied by the formation of large areas of quarry and dump technogenic ecosystems. This stimulates the search for measures to reduce their negative impact on the environment, as well as a detailed study of all the constituent elements of ecosystems that spontaneously or after reclamation form on them. Primary stages of syngenesis on the tailing dumps of iron ore mines in Kryvorizhzhia took place involving cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae. The dynamics of the community structures of algae and cyanobacteria depends on the mineralogical composition of tailings, salinity conditions, pH, and content of particles of physical clay and humus. The assessment of the features of the dynamics of algae communities was carried out based on the ordination procedure because of the method of non-metric multidimensional scaling. The considered environmental variables were statistically significant predictors of community structure and could explain 47-90% of the variation in measurements. Diagnostic signs of the species composition of communities of algae and cyanobacteria tailing dumps were established by physical and chemical parameters. An increase in the content of physical clay particles in the substrate and a pH shift towards the alkaline side increased the species richness of cyanobacteria, while an increase in the humus content increased the total species diversity. Based on the specificity of the type of growth and the species composition of algae communities, when describing the primary successions, it is proposed to allocate the following stages of development of algae and cyanobacteria communities: dispersal aerophyton, stratose epilitophyton, algal crust, mixed moss and algal crust, and edaphone.
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- Yevhen Maltsev
- К.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, IPP RAS, Moscow, 127276, Russia.
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- К.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, IPP RAS, Moscow, 127276, Russia
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- Bohdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Melitopol, 72312, Ukraine
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Wells JD, MacInnis AE, Dsouza MA, Abdin ZU, Mughawi SA, Khloofi MA, Sajwani M, Maidoor MA, Saeed A, Ahli H, Shamsi RA, Mheiri RA. Forensic entomology when the evidence is "no insect." Best carrion fly species for predicting maximum postmortem interval in the United Arab Emirates. Forensic Sci Int 2021; 328:110999. [PMID: 34571245 DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2021.110999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The carrion insect species that most quickly deposit offspring on a corpse are, when available, likely to yield a more useful estimate of postmortem interval (PMI) compared to later arrivals. This is in part because the age of the oldest larva will be as close as possible to the PMI when doing a development analysis, and because the preappearance interval (PAI), the time the corpse was exposed before insect colonization, corresponds to the narrowest window of time since death for an insect-free corpse when doing a succession analysis. Given replicated training data a prediction of exposure time for a corpse can be in the form of a confidence set, and the maximum value of that set for an insect-free corpse is a probabilistic version of PAI. To discover the insect species likely to be useful in the early postmortem period in the United Arab Emirates we exposed 216 rat carcasses outdoors at two sites in Dubai over three-day periods during winter. Rats were sampled twice each day without replacement and kept in the lab to allow carrion insects to complete development to the adult stage. The fly species produced in this way were Sarcophaga dux, S. ruficornis, Wohlfahrtia nuba, W. indigens (Sarcophagidae), Chrysomya albiceps (Calliphoridae), and Musca domestica (Muscidae). To the best of our knowledge this is the first record of W. indigens larvae feeding on carrion. While adult C. albiceps and M. domestica were abundant on the carcasses, C. albiceps colonized too slowly to be useful for this type of succession analysis within this time frame, and M. domestica emerged from a single rat. The Sarcophagidae were rapid colonizers, and under these conditions the probability is>90% that a carcass would remain free of S. dux larvae not more than 57 h and free of W. nuba larvae for not more than 51 h.
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- Jeffrey D Wells
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Background: Japan is the world's largest country in terms of the number of long-lived companies, the majority of which are family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises. On the other hand, many business owners will be retiring without successors, and the closure of these small and medium enterprises may have a significant impact on the future economy. The purpose of this study is to explore the growth process of successors in long-lived small and medium-sized manufacturing companies so that potential successors can know what they will experience as managers and be prepared for the future, and professionals who support successors can be provided with information on the growth process of successors to provide appropriate support. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six successors of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies that are more than half a century old. Their answers were analyzed using the modified grounded theory approach to construct a hypothetical model. Results: In total, 46 concepts, four categories, 17 subcategories, and one core category with an analysis result diagram were formed. The diagram shows the successors gained confidence in management through the dilemma between autonomy and constraint in the early stage of succession, which was found in previous research. Following the initial stage, the successors responded to the crisis caused by market constraints such as being stuck in a new market, unreasonable treatment from customers, and created autonomous strategies in their businesses. Conclusions: By experiencing repetitive crises, the successors tend to acquire new perspectives toward the naturally occurring crises. This change of premise by the successors is considered as the process of double-loop learning. Relationships inside and outside the company influence the generation of this viewpoint. From a long-term perspective, a sense of unity with employees, stable employment, and the pursuit of enjoyment constitute the successors' values in this model.
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- Hiroo Suzuki
- Faculty of Business Science, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Business Science, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan
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Zhang X, Zhang Z, Wang W, Fang WT, Chiang YT, Liu X, Ju H. Vegetation successions of coastal wetlands in southern Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea, northern China, influenced by the changes in relative surface elevation and soil salinity. J Environ Manage 2021; 293:112964. [PMID: 34098349 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Vegetation successions of coastal wetlands were influenced by the changes in relative surface elevation and soil salinity. In this study, the vegetation successions of coastal wetlands in southern Laizhou Bay and the factors influencing the successions were investigated by quadrat survey. The changes of relative surface elevation and soil salinity in coastal wetlands of the study region were caused by climate change, sea-level rise, coastal erosion, sedimentation, neotectonism, storm surge, seawater intrusion, invasion of Spatina alterniflora, and utilization of underground brine. The changes led to the regressive vegetation succession of coastal wetlands without the protection of sea embankment and the progressive vegetation succession of coastal wetlands with the protection of sea embankment. The invasion of S. alterniflora resulted in the regressive vegetation succession of wetlands in the riparian zone. The successions weakened the coastal wetlands' ecological capacities of carbon sequestration, pollutant purification, and resisting marine disasters, decreasing their species diversity. Some measures were proposed to resist the adverse impact of successions, such as introducing passenger water, storing water in flood season, digging 200 hm2 of ponds, and planting Salix matsudana and Tamarix chinensis around the ponds.
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- Xuliang Zhang
- School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China; Research Center for Marine Management Strategy, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
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- First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan
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- School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China
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Haase D. COVID-19 pandemic observations as a trigger to reflect on urban forestry in European cities under climate change: Introducing nature-society-based solutions. Urban For Urban Green 2021; 64:127304. [PMID: 36568567 PMCID: PMC9761312 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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COVID-19 pandemic observations triggered a reflection by the author on urban forests in European cities under climate change as nature-society-based solutions. This commentary introduces a complementary triad of approaches that are all known but might lead to a novel view of urban nature, including forests, regarding changes in pandemic diseases and/or related to urbanization and climate change: Hybridity, succession, and flexibility: First, allowing for green spaces used by humans and nature but also those that are exclusively for ecosystems to provide space for undisturbed development and thus better control pests and diseases. Second, allow for succession at urban open spaces to let nature experiment on solutions for a drier and hotter climate that urban society can implement in urban forestry. And third, allow planning to set targets in efficiency assessment and monitoring that are matching time periods which natural ecosystems need to adapt to climate change acknowledging nature as a real 'partner' in nature-society-based solutions in one-health cities.
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- Dagmar Haase
- Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489, Berlin, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany
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Feng H, Zhou J, Zhou A, Bai G, Li Z, Chen H, Su D, Han X. Grassland ecological restoration based on the relationship between vegetation and its below-ground habitat analysis in steppe coal mine area. Sci Total Environ 2021; 778:146221. [PMID: 33721654 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Coal mining activities have caused severe disturbances to the regional ecosystem and soil properties. Studying the relationship of vegetation and its below-ground habitat (RVBGH) is of great significance to the coal mine land ecological restoration. To identify the optimal thickness of the soil layer for mine land ecosystem recovery and characterize the changes of the reclaimed soil-vegetation ecosystem, we studied natural and reclaimed grassland at the coal mine of Baorixile, located in Hulunbuir Steppe, Northeastern China. The vegetation and its below-ground habitat (BGH), including "root mass" and soil properties in the soil profile (0-100 cm), were surveyed in the natural and different year-reclaimed grassland. The "root mass" is the part of root system that has the most amounts of root hairs, which is the functional zone for plant growth. The RVBGH was identified by the "root mass" and plant water extraction depth, measured through the isotope δD and δ18O method. Firstly, the BGH of natural grassland was identified as a "double layer" vertical structure, with the "root mass" of 37.11 ± 2.57% fine roots at 0-20 cm range and 30.44 ± 2.67% at 20-40 cm range. The annual and perennial plant "root mass" was found at 0-20 cm and 20-40 cm depth, respectively. Secondly, an optimal thickness of the soil covering of 30-40 cm was proposed for grassland reclamation. Thirdly, along the reclamation chronosequence, the values of the reclaimed vegetation properties (height, density, coverage and diversity) increased and a deep root system was established. The "root mass" increased from one layer to double layer and the amount of total fine roots increased from 1621 ± 231.9 to 4459 ± 456.0. Moreover, the reclaimed soil properties of organic matter, cation exchange capacity, available N and P also increased. The study proposed that vegetation restoration was significantly correlated with its BGH, suggesting that vegetation BGH recovery is crucial in ecological restoration.
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- Haibo Feng
- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
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- China Institute of Geo-Environmental Monitoring, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Shandong Lunan Institute of Geological Engineering Survey, Yanzhou, Shandong 272100, China
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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Scotton M, Andreatta D. Anti-erosion rehabilitation: Effects of revegetation method and site traits on introduced and native plant cover and richness. Sci Total Environ 2021; 776:145915. [PMID: 33647653 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In mountainous areas, bare slopes represent often dangerous forms of land degradation that need to be rehabilitated. However, revegetation is usually performed with non-native plants, negatively impacting the natural landscape value. Comprehensive studies, especially on poorly investigated long-term revegetation effects, are therefore essential for the improvement of rehabilitation practices. In this study, four landslides or disused quarries surrounded by well-preserved (semi-) natural vegetation that were revegetated between 1988 and 2002 with non-native only herbaceous or both herbaceous and woody plants were studied 1-9 and 16-31 years after rehabilitation. A total of 111 sampling areas were surveyed for introduced and volunteer species and other important ground cover soil and topography traits. Climatic traits and species' ecological indicators were retrieved from the available databases. The time patterns and ecological spectra of the plant covers were analysed and correlated to the site traits. In the first decade, introduced plants were initially abundant but decreased rapidly. In the long-term, the more stress-tolerant among them still had a considerable cover, especially in fine-textured soils. Native species were established slowly but, due to their higher stress tolerance, dominated in the long-term, especially at more stressful sites. In areas with predominantly herbaceous cover, soil factors, such as gravel content, were more related to the plant cover. In areas with predominantly woody plant cover, the high plant cover was dependent on microclimatic factors, especially aspect. At sites like those studied here, woody species should be always used, but in the form of native plants, as they tend to persist. If herbaceous species are unavailable in native forms, their introduction should be avoided in areas not exposed to erosion, whereas poorly stress-tolerant non-native plants should be used in steep areas as they create a fast but short-lasting cover compensated in the long term by the establishment of native species.
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- Michele Scotton
- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy.
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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Willig MR, Presley SJ, Cullerton EI. A canonical metacommunity structure over 3 decades: ecologically consistent but spatially dynamic patterns in a hurricane-prone montane forest. Oecologia 2021; 196:919-933. [PMID: 34173893 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-04968-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The Anthropocene is a time of rapid change induced by human activities, including pulse and press disturbances that affect the species composition of local communities and connectivity among them, giving rise to spatiotemporal dynamics at multiple scales. We evaluate effects of global warming and repeated intense hurricanes on gastropod metacommunities in montane tropical rainforests of Puerto Rico for each of 28 consecutive years. Specifically, we quantified metacommunity structure each year; assessed effects of global warming, hurricane-induced disturbance, and secondary succession on interannual variation in metacommunity structure; and evaluated legacies of previous land use on metacommunity structure. Gastropods were sampled annually during a 28-year period characterized by disturbance and succession associated with 3 major hurricanes (Hurricanes Hugo, Georges, and Maria). For each year, we evaluated coherence (the extent to which the environmental distributions of species are uninterrupted along a common latent environmental gradient), species range turnover, and species range boundary clumping; and conducted co-occurrence analyses for each pair of species. We used generalized linear mixed-effects model to evaluate long-term responses of the metacommunity to aspects of global warming and disturbance. Metacommunity structure was remarkably stable, with consistent patterns of species co-occurrence. Disturbance, warming, and successional stage had little effect on metacommunity structure. Despite great temporal variation in environmental conditions, groups of species tracked their niche through space and time to maintain the same general structure. Consequently, metacommunity structure was highly resistant and resilient to multiple disturbances, even those that greatly altered forest structure.
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- Michael R Willig
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-4210, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-4210, USA.
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-4210, USA
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Lednev SA, Semenkov IN, Klink GV, Krechetov PP, Sharapova AV, Koroleva TV. Impact of kerosene pollution on ground vegetation of southern taiga in the Amur Region, Russia. Sci Total Environ 2021; 772:144965. [PMID: 33770897 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The present study is the field experiment on kerosene pollution impact on southern taiga plant communities. Experimental sites were located in a mixed forest, a deciduous forest, a sedge fen and a wet meadow within the Amur Region of the Russian Far East. Kerosene loads from 1 to 500 g/kg of soil were applied to 50 × 50 cm plots in three replications and their effects on number of species and projective cover of ground vegetation were analysed in 1.5 months and 1 year after exposure. Statistical analyses of data included Student's t-test, Friedman ANOVA and correlation coefficient (r). Phylogenetic analysis was carried out for herbaceous plants on experimental plots. The highest susceptibility to kerosene pollution was found in the mixed forest, where the edificator species (Pteridium aquilinum subsp. pinetorum) was significantly suppressed by the kerosene load of only 1 g/kg of soil. Wetland communities regenerated faster than ground vegetation of forests, especially, in tests with high (>25 g/kg) kerosene loads. The wet meadow community was the most resistant to kerosene pollution, i.e., despite significant decreases in projective cover and number of species after exposure to kerosene loads of 5 and 25 g/kg in the first season, it had the highest regeneration success in the next season. In our study, the kerosene load of 25 g/kg of soil was the threshold level of pollution, above which there were significant structural changes in the studied plant communities. Depending on their abilities to resist kerosene pollution and to regenerate in the next year, dominant species of the studied plant communities were arranged in the following ascending order: Pteridium aquilinum ssp. pinetorum, Convallaria keiskei < Carex cespitosa, Calamagrostis purpurea < Lespedeza bicolor < Vaccinium uliginosum.
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- Sergey A Lednev
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051, Russia
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Parmentier T, Claus R, De Laender F, Bonte D. Moving apart together: co-movement of a symbiont community and their ant host, and its importance for community assembly. Mov Ecol 2021; 9:25. [PMID: 34020716 PMCID: PMC8140472 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-021-00259-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Species interactions may affect spatial dynamics when the movement of one species is determined by the presence of another one. The most direct species-dependence of dispersal is vectored, usually cross-kingdom, movement of immobile parasites, diseases or seeds by mobile animals. Joint movements of species should, however, not be vectored by definition, as even mobile species are predicted to move together when they are tightly connected in symbiont communities. METHODS We studied concerted movements in a diverse and heterogeneous community of arthropods (myrmecophiles) associated with red wood ants. We questioned whether joint-movement strategies eventually determine and speed-up community succession. RESULTS We recorded an astonishingly high number of obligate myrmecophiles outside red wood ant nests. They preferentially co-moved with the host ants as the highest densities were found in locations with the highest density of foraging red wood ants, such as along the network of ant trails. These observations suggest that myrmecophiles resort to the host to move away from the nest, and this to a much higher extent than hitherto anticipated. Interestingly, functional groups of symbionts displayed different dispersal kernels, with predatory myrmecophiles moving more frequently and further from the nest than detritivorous myrmecophiles. We discovered that myrmecophile diversity was lower in newly founded nests than in mature red wood ant nests. Most myrmecophiles, however, were able to colonize new nests fast suggesting that the heterogeneity in mobility does not affect community assembly. CONCLUSIONS We show that co-movement is not restricted to tight parasitic, or cross-kingdom interactions. Movement in social insect symbiont communities may be heterogeneous and functional group-dependent, but clearly affected by host movement. Ultimately, this co-movement leads to directional movement and allows a fast colonisation of new patches, but not in a predictable way. This study highlights the importance of spatial dynamics of local and regional networks in symbiont metacommunities, of which those of symbionts of social insects are prime examples.
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- T Parmentier
- Terrestrial Ecology Unit (TEREC), Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
- Research Unit of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Namur Institute of Complex Systems, and Institute of Life, Earth, and the Environment, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000, Namur, Belgium.
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit (TEREC), Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Unit of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Namur Institute of Complex Systems, and Institute of Life, Earth, and the Environment, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000, Namur, Belgium
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit (TEREC), Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Miller EA, Winfield B, Weber BP, Flores-Figueroa C, Munoz-Aguayo J, Huisinga J, Johnson TJ. Convergence of the turkey gut microbiota following cohabitation under commercial settings. J Anim Sci Biotechnol 2021; 12:59. [PMID: 33947458 PMCID: PMC8097982 DOI: 10.1186/s40104-021-00580-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Background Microbiota development is a critical aspect of turkey poult maturation, and the succession of microbes in the turkey gut has been shown to correlate with poult performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the fate of the microbiota in turkey poults after movement of birds first raised in an isolated hatch brood system into a more traditional commercial brood facility with pre-existing birds. Turkey poults were first divided into groups raised in conventional brood pens from day-of-hatch and those raised in an experimental hatch brood system. After 11 days of growth, hatch brood birds were moved into pens within the conventional brood barn and monitored for an additional 18 days. Sampling of both hatch brood and conventional pen birds was performed at multiple timepoints throughout the study, and cecal content was used to analyze the bacterial microbiota using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Results Alpha diversity tended to be higher in samples from conventional pen birds compared to those from hatch brood birds prior to the day 11 move, but the difference between systems was not observed post-move. Using beta diversity metrics, bacterial community succession appeared delayed in the hatch brood system birds pre-move, but post-move community composition quickly converged with that of the conventional pen birds. This was validated through assessment of significantly different genera between hatch brood system and conventional pen birds, where numbers of significantly different taxa quickly decreased following the move. Some key taxa previously associated with poult performance were delayed in their appearance and relative abundance in hatch brood birds. Conclusions Overall, this study demonstrates that the use of isolated hatch brood systems has an impact on the poult gut microbiota, but its impact is resolved quickly once the birds are introduced into a conventional brood environment. Therefore, the benefits of pathogen reduction with hatch brood systems may outweigh negative microbiota impacts due to isolation. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40104-021-00580-4.
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- Elizabeth A Miller
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA. .,University of Minnesota, Mid-Central Research and Outreach Center, Willmar, MN, USA.
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Zheng T, Li W, Ma Y, Liu J. Time-based succession existed in rural sewer biofilms: Bacterial communities, sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea, and sulfide and methane generation. Sci Total Environ 2021; 765:144397. [PMID: 33385817 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rural sewers are applied widely to collect rural sewage and biofilm characteristics in rural sewers may be different with municipal sewers. The succession of bacteria communities, sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and methanogenic archaea (MA) need to be studied since rural sewers have a potential risk of sulfide and methane accumulation. In this study, lab-scale rural sewer facilities were established to analyze the characteristics of sewer biofilm and the generation of sulfide and methane. The results indicate that the variation tendency of biofilm thickness in rural sewers was different with municipal sewers. Time-based bacterial succession existed in rural sewer biofilms and the predominant genus was changed from Acinetobacter (approximately 19.10%) to Pseudomonas (approximately 12.61%). SRB (mean 1.49 × 106dsrA copies/cm2) were abundant than MA (mean 2.57 × 105mcrA copies/cm2) while MA were eliminated gradually in rural sewer biofilms. The tendency of sulfide and methane generation was similar with the number variation of SRB and MA, indicating sulfide accumulation might be more serious trouble than methane accumulation in a long-run rural sewer. Overall, this study deeply analyzed the succession of rural sewer biofilms and found that MA and methane were automatically inhibited in rural sewers.
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- Tianlong Zheng
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China; Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Cleantech Loop, Singapore 637141, Singapore
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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Zou G, Liu Y, Kong F, Liao L, Deng G, Jiang X, Cai J, Liu W. Depression of the soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community by the canopy gaps in a Japanese cedar ( Cryptomeria japonica) plantation on Lushan Mountain, subtropical China. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10905. [PMID: 33777516 PMCID: PMC7971093 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Both canopy gaps (CG) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play key roles in seedling establishment and increasing species diversity in forests. The response of AMF to canopy gaps is poorly understood. To assess the long-term effects of canopy gaps on soil AMF community, we sampled soil from plots in a 50-year Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D. Don. plantation, located in Lushan Mountain, subtropical China. We analyzed the AMF community, identified through 454 pyrosequencing, in soil and edaphic characteristics. Both richness and diversity of AMF in CG decreased significantly compared to the closed canopy (CC). The differences of the AMF community composition between CG and CC was also significant. The sharp response of the AMF community appears to be largely driven by vegetation transformation. Soil nutrient content also influenced some taxa, e.g., the low availability of phosphorus increased the abundance of Acaulospora. These results demonstrated that the formation of canopy gaps can depress AMF richness and alter the AMF community, which supported the plant investment hypothesis and accentuated the vital role of AMF-plant symbioses in forest management.
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- Guiwu Zou
- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Positioning Observation Station of Forest Ecosystem in Lushan, Lushan National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Positioning Observation Station of Forest Ecosystem in Lushan, Lushan National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
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- Positioning Observation Station of Forest Ecosystem in Lushan, Lushan National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Positioning Observation Station of Forest Ecosystem in Lushan, Lushan National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry/College of Art and Landscape, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Positioning Observation Station of Forest Ecosystem in Lushan, Lushan National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
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Jung J, Gillevet PM, Sikaroodi M, Andrews J, Song B, Shields JD. Comparative study of the hemolymph microbiome between live and recently dead American lobsters Homarus americanus. Dis Aquat Organ 2021; 143:147-158. [PMID: 33629659 DOI: 10.3354/dao03568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Lobsters and other crustaceans do not have sterile hemolymph. Despite this, little is known about the microbiome in the hemolymph of the lobster Homarus americanus. The purpose of this study was to characterize the hemolymph microbiome in lobsters. The lobsters were part of a larger study on the effect of temperature on epizootic shell disease, and several died during the course of the study, providing an opportunity to examine differences in the microbiomes between live and recently dead (1-24 h) animals. The hemolymph microbiomes of live lobsters was different from those in dead animals and both were different from the tank microbiome in which the animals had been held. The microbiomes of live lobsters were more diverse and had a different suite of bacteria than those from dead animals. The dominant taxa in live lobsters belonged to Flavobacteriaceae and Rhodobacteraceae, whereas Vibrionaceae and Enterobacteriaceae were predominant in the dead lobsters. Although aquarium microbiomes overlapped with the hemolymph microbiomes, there was less overlap and lower abundance of taxa in comparison with hemolymph from live lobsters. Previous studies reporting bacteria in the digestive tract of lobsters suggested that Vibrionaceae and Enterobacteriaceae had invaded the hemolymph via the gut. Our study suggests that hemolymph bacteria abundant in live lobsters do not originate from the tank milieu and comprise a rich, natural, or native background of bacterial constituents.
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- Jibom Jung
- School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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Haynes G, Marshall M, Lee Y, Zuiker V, Jasper CR, Sydnor S, Valdivia C, Masuo D, Niehm L, Wiatt R. Family business research: Reviewing the past, contemplating the future. J Fam Econ Issues 2021; 42:70-83. [PMID: 33162727 PMCID: PMC7599979 DOI: 10.1007/s10834-020-09732-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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This paper reviews articles published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues (JFEI) from 2010 to 2019 and considers future research opportunities. The JFEI articles utilize theories and conceptual frameworks from several social science fields, to help readers understand the importance of including both the family and business in any discussion of family businesses. The literature review addresses four family business topical areas: (1) household and business economics, (2) business continuity and succession, (3) managerial and adoption strategies, and (4) values and goals. These JFEI articles have focused on differentiating family businesses from other types of businesses; explaining the unique interface between the family and the business; and identifying the characteristics (i.e., demographics, adjustment strategies, continuity, capitals, and values and goals) for family business survival and success. In the future, family business researchers have the opportunity to better understand the impact of community resources and climate; more carefully assess the challenges of women, minorities, and immigrants; understand the role of cultural capital; and explore the impact of innovation during rapidly changing times, such as those created by the pandemic.
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- Utah State University, Logan, UT USA
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Leclerc JC, Brante A, Viard F. Rapid recovery of native habitat-builders following physical disturbance on pier pilings offsets colonization of cryptogenic and non-indigenous species in a Chilean port. Mar Environ Res 2021; 163:105231. [PMID: 33302154 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Examining the effects of disturbances within marine urban communities can shed light on their assembly rules and invasion processes. The effects of physical disturbance, through the removal of dominant native habitat-builders, were investigated in the recolonization of disturbed patches and colonization of plates on pier pilings, in a Chilean port. On pilings, disturbance substantially affected community structure after 3 months, although it slowly converged across treatments after 10 months. On plates, cryptogenic and non-indigenous species richness increased with removal severity, which was not observed in natives. Opportunistic taxa took advantage of colonizing at an early successional stage, illustrating a competition-colonization trade-off, although indirect effects might be at play (e.g. trophic competition or selective predation). Recovery of the habitat-builders then occurred at the expense of cryptogenic and non-indigenous taxa. Whether natives could continue winning against increasing propagule and colonization pressures in marine urban habitats deserves further attention. The interactions between disturbance and biological invasions herein experimentally shown in situ contribute to our understanding of multiple changes imposed by marine urbanization in a growing propagule transport network.
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- Jean-Charles Leclerc
- Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS), Casilla 297, Concepción, Chile; Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144 AD2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29680, Roscoff, France.
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- Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS), Casilla 297, Concepción, Chile
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144 AD2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29680, Roscoff, France; ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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