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Seabird nutrient subsidy alters size and resource use of functionally important mangrove macroinvertebrates
Published 2024-12-01“…Abstract Invertebrates have a central role in food webs and ecosystem functioning. By boosting productivity, allochthonous nutrient inputs influence the food webs of recipient communities. …”
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Feeding and growth variations affect δ13C and δ15N budgets during ontogeny in a lepidopteran larva
Published 2023-04-01“…Isotopes are widely used in ecology to study food webs and physiology. The fractionation observed between trophic levels in nitrogen and carbon isotopes, explained by isotopic biochemical selectivity, is subject to important within-trophic level variations, leading to imprecision in trophic level estimation. …”
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A large elevation in 15N/14N of collagenous amino acids: an insight from starvation experiments of marine organisms
Published 2025-02-01“…However, great care will be required if studying food webs where collagen-rich organisms (i.e., gelatinous zooplankton) are abundant or if using collagen-rich materials in our studies.…”
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Ocean hypoxia: The science of climate change in the sea
Published 2025-02-01“…There is also a clear need to understand how the intensification and/or expansion of hypoxia will affect ocean food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Building a predictive understanding of ocean hypoxia is a multi-scaled and multi-disciplinary research endeavor. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Coyotes
Published 2015-08-01“… The omnivorous coyote is a relative newcomer to Florida that plays an important role in ecosystems and food webs. Of particular importance and possible benefit may be their potential ability to control populations of pest species such as some rodents. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Coyotes
Published 2015-08-01“… The omnivorous coyote is a relative newcomer to Florida that plays an important role in ecosystems and food webs. Of particular importance and possible benefit may be their potential ability to control populations of pest species such as some rodents. …”
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Differential use of multiple food sources at a bathyal benthic ecosystem in the central Sagami Bay revealed by amino acid nitrogen isotopic compositions
Published 2025-01-01“…Despite living in the same habitat, organisms of these two size classes may belong to independent food webs due to differences in feeding ecology.…”
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An overview of the distribution and ecology of the alien cyanobacteria species Raphidiopsis raciborskii, Sphaerospermopsis aphanizomenoides and Chrysosporum bergii in Europe
Published 2023-10-01“…Alien species cause a decline in biodiversity by displacing native species, lead to extinctions, affect food webs, and produce cyanotoxins which potentially impact the environment and human health. …”
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Competition between a nonallelopathic phytoplankton and an allelopathic phytoplankton species under predation
Published 2016-04-01“…This work advances knowledge in an area of research becoming ever more important, which is understanding the functioning of allelopathy in food webs.…”
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Amino acid stable carbon isotopes in nail keratin illuminate breastfeeding and weaning practices of mother – infant dyads
Published 2025-01-01“…Abstract Compound-specific stable carbon isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) is widely used in ecological studies to analyze food-webs and is gaining use in archaeology for investigating past diets. …”
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Soil Restoration Practices on Priming Effect Intensity and Carbon Fluxes
Published 2022-01-01“…The decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) is one of the most important processes influencing the global carbon (C) cycle, the physicochemical characteristics of soils, and the mineralization of nutrients for plant growth and soil food webs. Yet, priming effects are considered to be large enough to influence ecosystem carbon fluxes. …”
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Thailand's animals in peril: a systematic review of microplastic contamination and its ecological consequences
Published 2025-01-01“…The ingestion of MPs poses direct physical threats to wildlife and serves as a vector for harmful chemicals, raising concerns about bioaccumulation and biomagnification within food webs, ultimately impacting human health through seafood consumption. …”
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Exploring Nanoplastics Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Organisms: A Study Using Gold-Doped Polymeric Nanoparticles
Published 2025-01-01“…The results demonstrated that measuring gold content using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), along with confirmation of its presence through electron microscopy in selected exposed samples provides insight into the accumulation and release of nanoplastics by organisms playing a relevant ecological role at the early levels of aquatic food webs.…”
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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts
Published 2021-06-01“…Abstract Trophic ecology of detrital-based food webs is still poorly understood. Abyssal plains depend entirely on detritus and are among the most understudied ecosystems, with deposit feeders dominating megafaunal communities. …”
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Antarctic nematodes survival in Martian and Lunar regolith simulants under terrestrial conditions
Published 2025-01-01“…Considering their crucial role in soil food webs, and their relation with nutrient cycling and carbon dioxide emissions, the observed capacity of nematodes to thrive in Martian and Lunar regoliths positions them as potential candidates to sustain human habitats, helping on the development of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) systems, and forming the basis for a biological life-support system to facilitate human survival in extraterrestrial environments.…”
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Piscivores, Trophic Cascades, and Lake Management
Published 2002-01-01“…Here we review field experiments and surveys, testing the hypothesis that effects of increasing piscivore biomass will cascade down through the food web yielding a decline in phytoplankton biomass. …”
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Defensive responses of most antioxidant genes in the freshwater dinoflagellate Palatinus apiculatus to cadmium stress and their implications
Published 2025-01-01“…Photosynthetic dinoflagellates are one of the major microalgal taxa, playing essential roles in biogeochemical cycles and food webs in aquatic environments. Some freshwater dinoflagellates are known to be sensitive to environmental conditions, like water quality and contaminants; however, their molecular toxicological responses are insufficiently discovered. …”
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Fungal planktonic community related to salinity and temperature in an oligotrophic sea
Published 2025-01-01“…Marine fungi play a crucial role in carbon cycling and food webs by acting as saprophytes or parasites and shaping host communities. …”
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Proliferative and viability effects of two cyanophages on freshwater bloom-forming species Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii vary between strains
Published 2025-01-01“…Abstract Viruses that infect cyanobacteria are an integral part of aquatic food webs, influencing nutrient cycling and ecosystem health. …”
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Investigating the research landscape of chlorinated paraffins over the past ten decades
Published 2025-01-01“…Therefore, future research should prioritize studying LCCP bioaccumulation and toxicity in diverse food webs, focusing on aquatic species vulnerable to CPs and effective toxicological models. …”
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