What is more, those with their heads up are looking in different directions so that together they are alert to any movement anywhere on the landscape around them. There is no way for a hunter to approach a herd unobserved. When a member of the herd spots trouble, it starts to move away...
most species are functionally redundant, whereas a few have unique functional traits22,23. Such functional uniqueness makes the communities and the functions they support vulnerable to environmental changes, implying that so-called ecosystem insurance24is only true for a few redundant functions. Thus, ...
species that went extinct are no longer able to be studied, observed, or enjoyed by humans. But when you think about all the cool extinct species lost to time, you start to think about what species you would bring back from extinction. We decided to pose this question to ...
However, a perfect species concept does not exist for Fungi. Here, we review the species concepts commonly used in Basidiomycota, the second largest phylum of Fungi that contains some of the best known species of mushrooms, rusts, smuts, and jelly fungi. In general, best practice is to del...
For the coastal zone, as for the tropical rain forests of the terrestrial environment, it is probable that more organisms exist there than have been described. The vast diversity of aquatic species and the differing means by which they must be conserved confound the development of appropriate ...
Similarly, because the so-called mixed forests (i.e., forests composed of several tree species) have on average a higher growth rate than mono-specific forests42,43,44,45, we expected that they store more SOC through their positive effect on standing biomass. To address these hypotheses, we...
It is the first time we hear that she is a mother. Like He, she also breeds and the legacy of martyrdom shall be passed on if there are any daughters. In his way, He survives too. After all, there is no restaurant without a rat. Our resilient subject “bounce[s] back” (Bracke ...
Examples of monocot crops, their progenitor species and breeding priorities linked to changing climates are shown in Table 1. Table 1 Monocot crops and their progenitor species or wild relatives that offer genetic diversity for targeted crop improvement. Full size table Opportunities also exist to ...
Fungi are primarily heterotrophic, nutrition-absorptive (osmotrophic) eukaryotes that exist in every ecological niche. They grow within their food, digesting it externally and absorbing nutrients across a semi-rigid chitinous cell wall during key phases of their vegetative life cycle (Voigt2012a; Jame...
Research suggests that an atypical miRNA called MIR2911, identified in honeysuckle decoction, binds to viral mRNA and exerts an inhibitory effect on the replication of influenza A viruses11. The mechanisms through which miRNAs resist degradation when boiled with water to prepare TCM decoctions are ...