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Li Wen, Fengqiu Huang, Zhongxiu Rao, Kaikai Cheng, Yong Guo and Haiming Tang
Lilium growth is severely impeded by continuous cropping, and crop rotation is essential to reducing the detrimental effects of monocultures. Soil (0?20 cm) was collected in three Lilium cropping patterns in Longshan County, Hunan Province, including con...
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Rita B. Domingues, Benjamin A. Mosley, Patrícia Nogueira, Inês B. Maia and Ana B. Barbosa
It is generally assumed that the larger the bottle volume, the longer the duration of phytoplankton microcosm experiments. We hypothesize that volume and duration are independent, as volume does not regulate the extension of the exponential growth phase....
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Pengfei Sun, Jinrun Wang, Yongyu Tan, Siyuan He, Xin Liu, Haiyan Zhang and Gang Hou
Being a biologically diversed hotspot in the global marine ecosystem, the Beibu Gulf is inhabited by a high diversity of fish and serves as a vital fishing ground in China. Due to continuous overfishing, the fishery resource has drastically declined in t...
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Susanna Gorrasi, Angelika Brandt, Francesca Pittino, Andrea Franzetti, Marcella Pasqualetti, Barbara Muñoz-Palazon, Giorgia Novello and Massimiliano Fenice
The Kuril?Kamchatka Trench (North-West Pacific Ocean) is included in the deepest trenches (>9000 m). This study is the first that aims at uncovering the bathyal prokaryotic diversity (1000?2000 m) of this fascinating extreme environment. The analysis of ...
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Xuan Xu, Penghe Cao, Yuchao Wang, Wei Wu, Jiahuan Guo, Jiejie Sun, Xiaoming Zou, Weifeng Wang and Honghua Ruan
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which is ...
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Laura Yesenia Solís-Ramos, Antonio Andrade-Torres, Martin Hassan Polo-Marcial, Marysol Romero-Ceciliano, Cristofer Coto López, Carlos Ávila-Arias and Keilor Rojas-Jiménez
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) provide benefits to host plants by enhancing nutrition and overall fitness. In this study, AMF species were isolated from the soil rhizosphere of Jatropha curcas and were identified and evaluated for their potential in ...
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Ana Catarina Torres, Marcos Rubal, Ricardo Costa-Garcia, Isabel Sousa-Pinto and Puri Veiga
Nowadays, coastal urbanization is one of the most serious and prevalent pressures on marine ecosystems, impacting their biodiversity. The objective of this study was to explore differences in attributes and biodiversity associated with an intertidal ecos...
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Tihana Marceta, Maria Gabriella Marin, Valentina Francesca Codognotto and Monica Bressan
Among aquaculture activities, shellfish culture is considered more sustainable and beneficial in terms of food security. Currently, only a few bivalve species are reared and there is a need to explore the possibility to introduce new candidates for shell...
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Cristina Gioia Di Camillo, Giorgia Luzi, Afghan Danial, Luciano Di Florio, Barbara Calcinai, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Jéssica Luana Santana Mendonça de Oliveira, Agnese Fumanti and Carlo Cerrano
The macrofauna in the intertidal zone of sandy beaches provides the trophic connectivity between land and sea, by linking microbiome, meiofauna, and megafauna, representing a food source for several terrestrial animals, including shorebirds and mammals. ...
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Gabriella Caruso, Maria Grazia Giacobbe, Filippo Azzaro, Franco Decembrini, Marcella Leonardi, Stefano Miserocchi, Xiuyun Cao, Chunlei Song and Yiyong Zhou
Bacterial and phytoplankton communities are known to be in close relationships, but how natural and anthropogenic stressors can affect their dynamics is not fully understood. To study the response of microbial communities to environmental and human-induc...
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