The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems

MR Turetsky, B Bond‐Lamberty, E Euskirchen… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and
strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and …

Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes

H Hillebrand, DM Bennett, MW Cadotte - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The composition of communities is strongly altered by anthropogenic manipulations of
biogeochemical cycles, abiotic conditions, and trophic structure in all major ecosystems …

Decline in climate resilience of European wheat

H Kahiluoto, J Kaseva, J Balek… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Food security relies on the resilience of staple food crops to climatic variability and extremes,
but the climate resilience of European wheat is unknown. A diversity of responses to …

[HTML][HTML] Staphylococcus aureus infection dynamics

EJG Pollitt, PT Szkuta, N Burns, SJ Foster - PLoS pathogens, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Staphylococcus aureus is a human commensal that can also cause systemic infections. This
transition requires evasion of the immune response and the ability to exploit different niches …

Interestingness elements for explainable reinforcement learning: Understanding agents' capabilities and limitations

P Sequeira, M Gervasio - Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose an explainable reinforcement learning (XRL) framework that analyzes an
agent's history of interaction with the environment to extract interestingness elements that …

Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six‐year grassland experiment

E Marquard, A Weigelt, VM Temperton, C Roscher… - Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diversity has been shown to increase community biomass in experimental
communities, but the mechanisms resulting in such positive biodiversity effects have …

Long‐term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

JM Ravenek, H Bessler, C Engels… - Oikos, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity experiments generally report a positive effect of plant biodiversity on
aboveground biomass (overyielding), which typically increases with time. Various studies …

Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites

L Kirwan, A Lüscher, MT Sebastià, JA Finn… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Ecological and agronomic research suggests that increased crop diversity in
species‐poor intensive systems may improve their provision of ecosystem services. Such …

Old and new challenges in using species diversity for assessing biodiversity

A Chiarucci, G Bacaro… - … Transactions of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although the maintenance of diversity of living systems is critical for ecosystem functioning,
the accelerating pace of global change is threatening its preservation. Standardized …

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

L Baeten, K Verheyen, C Wirth, H Bruelheide… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the current advances in functional biodiversity research is the move away from short-
lived test systems towards the exploration of diversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in …