Methodological advances for hypothesis‐driven ethnobiology

OG Gaoue, JK Moutouama, MA Coe… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ethnobiology as a discipline has evolved increasingly to embrace theory‐inspired and
hypothesis‐driven approaches to study why and how local people choose plants and …

Genomic epidemiology as a public health tool to combat mosquito-borne virus outbreaks

S Pollett, JR Fauver, I Maljkovic Berry… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Next-generation sequencing technologies, exponential increases in the availability of virus
genomic data, and ongoing advances in phylogenomic methods have made genomic …

Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes

C Bello, TW Crowther, DL Ramos… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Forest restoration is fundamental to overcoming biodiversity crises and climate change. In
tropical forests, animals can improve forest recovery as they disperse> 70% of tree species …

Unified changes in cell size permit coordinated leaf evolution

TJ Brodribb, GJ Jordan, RJ Carpenter - New Phytologist, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The processes by which the functions of interdependent tissues are coordinated as lineages
diversify are poorly understood. Here, we examine evolutionary coordination of vascular …

Parameters influencing the development of highly conductive and efficient biofilm during microbial electrosynthesis: the importance of applied potential and inorganic …

P Izadi, JM Fontmorin, A Godain, EH Yu… - npj Biofilms and …, 2020 - nature.com
Cathode-driven applications of bio-electrochemical systems (BESs) have the potential to
transform CO2 into value-added chemicals using microorganisms. However, their …

Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar

TM Eppley, S Hoeks, CA Chapman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in
which the taxa are arboreal, semiterrestrial, or terrestrial. Although habitual terrestriality is …

Bio. Phylo: a unified toolkit for processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic trees in Biopython

E Talevich, BM Invergo, PJA Cock, BA Chapman - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
Background Ongoing innovation in phylogenetics and evolutionary biology has been
accompanied by a proliferation of software tools, data formats, analytical techniques and …

Effect of cover crop on soil fertility and bacterial diversity in a banana plantation in southwestern China

S Xu, W Zhang, PH Goodwin, Y Wang, SJ Zheng… - Soil and Tillage …, 2024 - Elsevier
A cover crop can be an effective strategy to mitigate soil degradation in crops, such as
banana. In this study, soil bacterial diversity, chemical properties, enzymatic activities, and …

Range‐wide variation in local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of fitness‐related traits in Fagus sylvatica and their implications under climate change

H Gárate‐Escamilla, A Hampe… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To better understand and more realistically predict future species distribution ranges, it
is critical to account for local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in populations' responses …

Multiple-stressor effects on stream invertebrates: DNA barcoding reveals contrasting responses of cryptic mayfly species

JN Macher, RK Salis, KS Blakemore, R Tollrian… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Most freshwater ecosystems are subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, which
commonly reduce biodiversity across all levels. Existing freshwater bioassessment …