Survey of 132 selected Virginia Piedmont grassland fragments identifies four plant communities
A field survey of 132 selected grassland fragments in northern and central Virginia’s Piedmont documented 695 plant taxa and distinguished ...
Tag: soil ecology
Hidden World Beneath Appalachia Reveals Hundreds of Unknown Soil Arthropods
A first-of-its-kind survey of Virginia's shallow subterranean habitats using buried Limburger-baited traps uncovered 345 arthropod morphospecies and 256 genetically distinct ...
Fertilizer regimes reshape microbial interaction networks without altering sugarcane rhizosphere diversity
A 24-year Cuban fertilization trial shows that sugarcane rhizosphere microbial communities stay taxonomically stable while their bacterial-fungal interaction networks reorganize ...
The Soil Beneath Our Feet May Drive Evolution, Two Naturalists Argue
A dialogue between soil scientist Augusto Zanella and botanist Sandro Pignatti proposes that soil functions as a living recycling matrix ...
Underground Fungal Cities: Plant Families Secretly Shape Rangeland Soil Life
A new study from northwestern Türkiye reveals that plant family identity drives arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spore abundance and community structure ...
Hidden webspinners reveal a far wider secret spread across Mexico
A review of 431 museum specimens reveals that three introduced Old-World webspinner species have colonized far more Mexican states than ...
Fluorescence technique reveals where microplastics lodge inside millipede guts
A new fluorescence microscopy protocol reveals that microplastics adhere to the foregut and hindgut walls of millipedes but stay separated ...
The Amoebae We Forgot: Tiny Predators May Hold the Key to Climate-Microbiome Dynamics
A new PLOS Ecosystems opinion article argues that free-living amoebae, long ignored in climate and public health surveillance, may be ...
Nitrogen Pollution Quietly Strips Carbon From Forest Soils, No Matter Its Form
A field experiment in a subtropical Chinese plantation shows that inorganic and organic nitrogen additions alike reduce soil microbial necromass ...
Fungal Teams in Soil Defy Expectations, Reshaping Tomato Growth and Disease Defense
A high-throughput phenotyping study shows that mixtures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce additive, synergistic, and antagonistic effects on tomato growth ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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