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Soil microbial interconnections along ecological restoration gradients of lowland forests after slash-and-burn agriculture Universiteit Antwerpen
Microbial interconnections in soil are pivotal to ecosystem services and restoration. However, little is known about how soil microbial interconnections respond to slash-and-bum agriculture and to the subsequent ecosystem restoration after the practice. Here, we used amplicon sequencing and co-occurrence network analyses to explore the interconnections within soil bacterial and fungal communities in response to slash-and-bum practice and a ...
Are ecological gradients in seasonal $Q_{10}$ of soil respiration explained by climate or by vegetation seasonality? Universiteit Antwerpen
Soil respiration (SR) is highly sensitive to future climate change, and particularly to global warming. However, considerable uncertainties remain associated with the temperature sensitivity of SR and its controlling processes. Using 384 field measurement data from 114 published papers and one book, this study quantifies the variation in the seasonal Q10 values of soil respiration, the multiplier by which respiration rates increase for a 10 °C ...
Shifts in dominance and complementarity between sessile oak and beech along ecological gradients KU Leuven
Ecological niche shifts of understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient of temperate forests in north-western Europe KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Aim In response to environmental changes and to avoid extinction, species may either track suitable environmental conditions or adapt to the modified environment. However, whether and how species adapt to environmental changes remains unclear. By focusing on the realized niche (i.e. the actual space that a species inhabits and the resources it can access as a result of limiting biotic factors present in its habitat), we here examine shifts in ...
Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Soils are the product of a complex suite of chemical, biological, and physical processes. In spite of the importance of soils for society and for sustaining life on earth, our knowledge of soil formation rates and of the influence of biological activity on mineral weathering and geochemical cycles is still limited. In this paper we provide a description of the Damma Glacier Critical Zone Observatory and present a first synthesis of our ...
Radial fast-neutron fluence gradients during rotating 40Ar/39Ar sample irradiation recorded with metallic fluence monitors and geological age standards Universiteit Gent
Assessing the structure and drivers of biological sounds along a disturbance gradient Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Studying soundscapes to improve knowledge about an environment with limited visibility is gaining popularity. However, the structure and drivers of biological sounds remain poorly understood although this information can improve understanding of landscape dynamics. To describe biological sounds and provide a better understanding of their drivers, we conducted a study aiming at detecting and identifying individual vocalising animal species, ...
Chironomid distribution along a pollution gradient in Ethiopian rivers, and their potential for biological water quality monitoring Universiteit Gent
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in urbanized landscapes: evolution, species sorting and the change in zooplankton body size along urbanization gradients KU Leuven
Urbanization causes both changes in community composition and evolutionary responses, but most studies focus on these responses in isolation. We performed an integrated analysis assessing the relative contribution of intra- and interspecific trait turnover to the observed change in zooplankton community body size in 83 cladoceran communities along urbanization gradients quantified at seven spatial scales (50-3200 m radii). We also performed a ...