Biota

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota. 
  • A comparison of the community diversity of foliar fungal endophytes between seedling and adult loblolly pines (Pinus taeda). 
  • Analysis of engineered nanomaterials in complex matrices (environment and biota): general considerations and conceptual case studies. 
  • Bacteria and diatom co-occurrence patterns in microbial mats from polar desert streams. 
  • Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. 
  • Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Evolution of the hygiene hypothesis into biota alteration theory: what are the paradigms and where are the clinical applications? 
  • Fungal Community Responses to Past and Future Atmospheric CO2 Differ by Soil Type. 
  • Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees. 
  • How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data. 
  • Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre. 
  • Insensitivity of Diverse and Temporally Variable Particle-Associated Microbial Communities to Bulk Seawater Environmental Parameters. 
  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. 
  • Relationship between abundance and specific activity of bacterioplankton in open ocean surface waters. 
  • SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiome. 
  • Sediment quality guidelines: challenges and opportunities for improving sediment management. 
  • Special issue: gut microbial communities in health and disease. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • The ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a neotropical forest dominated by the endemic dipterocarp Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea. 
  • Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi. 
  • Variable but persistent coexistence of Prochlorococcus ecotypes along temperature gradients in the ocean's surface mixed layer. 
  • Whole-community facilitation regulates biodiversity on Patagonian rocky shores.