[HTML][HTML] Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

A Zieritz, C Gibbins, Y Cai, F Diba, LX Gan… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tropical fresh waters experience one of the highest rates of biodiversity loss globally.
Effective tropical freshwater biodiversity conservation requires prioritised and concerted …

Tropical land use alters functional diversity of soil food webs and leads to monopolization of the detrital energy channel

Z Zhou, V Krashevska, R Widyastuti, S Scheu… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Agricultural expansion is among the main threats to biodiversity and functions of tropical
ecosystems. It has been shown that conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes …

Bulk and amino acid nitrogen isotopes suggest shifting nitrogen balance of pregnant sharks across gestation

ON Shipley, JA Olin, JP Whiteman, DM Bethea… - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
Nitrogen isotope (δ15N) analysis of bulk tissues and individual amino acids (AA) can be
used to assess how consumers maintain nitrogen balance with broad implications for …

Amino acid nitrogen and carbon isotope data: Potential and implications for ecological studies

HY Yun, T Larsen, B Choi, EJ Won… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Explaining food web dynamics, stability, and functioning depend substantially on
understanding of feeding relations within a community. Bulk stable isotope ratios (SIRs) in …

Long-term recovery of benthic food webs after stream restoration

A Schlenker, M Brauns, P Fink, AW Lorenz… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The assessment of restoration success often neglects trophic interactions within food webs,
focusing instead on biodiversity and community structure. Here, we analysed the long-term …

Multiple trophic pathways support fish on floodplains of California's Central Valley

BJ Nakamoto, CA Jeffres, NJ Corline… - Journal of Fish …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We used compound‐specific isotope analysis of carbon isotopes in amino acids (AAs) to
determine the biosynthetic source of AAs in fish from major tributaries to California's …

Energy channelling, food chain length and body condition in a northern lake predator

ON Shipley, BC McMeans, AC Besser… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying potential links between food web structure and animal body condition is
fundamental for predicting the long‐term persistence of populations under rapidly changing …

Effects of land use and climate on web-building spiders and their prey in dry dipterocarp forests

R Michalko, T Hamřík, O Košulič… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dry dipterocarp forest is a key dry forest type across South-East Asia. Despite these
dipterocarps being endangered and widely unprotected, the factors that may affect their …

Soil food webs change with land use: basal resources, functional diversity and trophic niche breadth

Z Zhou - 2024 - ediss.uni-goettingen.de
The diversity and interactions of organisms, along with ecosystem functions and stability, are
intricately linked to food webs. Among these, soil food webs have only been investigated …