Maintenance of community function through compensation breaks down over time in a desert rodent community.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3709
Abstract: Understanding the ecological processes that maintain community function in systems experiencing species loss, and how these processes change over time, is key to understanding the relationship between community structure and function and predicting how communities… read more here.
Keywords: time; species loss; function; community function ... See more keywords
Effects of Passivating Agents on the Availability of Cd and Pb and Microbial Community Function in a Contaminated Acidic Soil
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DOI: 10.1007/s00128-019-02592-3
Abstract: A 3-year pot experiment was carried out to investigate the efficiencies of hydroxyapatite (H), thiol-functionalized bentonite (T) and biochar (B) alone or in combination in remedying a Cd–Pb-contaminated soil. The application of passivating agents reduced… read more here.
Keywords: acidic soil; microbial community; passivating agents; soil ... See more keywords
Steering ecological-evolutionary dynamics to improve artificial selection of microbial communities.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26647-4
Abstract: Microbial communities often perform important functions that depend on inter-species interactions. To improve community function via artificial selection, one can repeatedly grow many communities to allow mutations to arise, and "reproduce" the highest-functioning communities by… read more here.
Keywords: artificial selection; community; selection; microbial communities ... See more keywords