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  • Topic:Biodiversity
February 2021
Global Change Biology. - 27(2021)5, 970-982

Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

Hanno Seebens; Sven Bacher; Tim M. Blackburn; César Capinha; Wayne Dawson; Stefan Dullinger; Piero Genovesi; Philip E. Hulme; Mark van Kleunen; Ingolf Kühn; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Bernd Lenzner; Andrew M. Liebhold; Zarah Pattison; Jan Pergl; Petr Pyšek; Marten Winter; Franz Essl

An international team including Jonathan Jeschke provide the first global quantitative projections of future trajectories of alien species numbers. Based on a new model and assuming a business-as-usual scenario, they project that the number of alien species will increase by 36% until 2050 worldwide and by 64% in Europe.

January 2021
Scientific Reports. - 11(2021), Art. 1356

Drivers of spatio-temporal variation in mosquito submissions to the citizen science project ‘Mückenatlas’

Nadja Pernat; Helge Kampen; Florian Ruland; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Doreen Werner

A mosquito monitoring programme was initiated in Germany in 2011, which has been complemented by the citizen science project ‘Mückenatlas’ since 2012. The authors analysed the Mückenatlas dataset to investigate causes of variation in submission numbers and to reveal biases induced by opportunistic data collection.

January 2021
The ISME journal. - 15(2021), 1695–1708

Mesopelagic microbial carbon production correlates with diversity across different marine particle fractions

Chloé M. J. Baumas; Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne; Marc Garel; Nagib Bhairy; Sophie Guasco; Virginie Riou; Fabrice Armougom; Hans-Peter Grossart; Christian Tamburini

The vertical flux of marine snow reduces atmospheric CO2. In particular, particle associated prokaryotes are responsible for organic C-loss. Analysis of prokaryotic heterotrophic production a. species richness in the North Atlantic reveal that C- loss a. associated microbial richness are different with particle fractions. Especially large, fast-sinking particles drive C-flux a. -sequestration.

 

January 2021
The ISME journal. - 15(2021), 1735–1750

Zooplankton carcasses stimulate microbial turnover of allochthonous particulate organic matter

Darshan Neubauer; Olesya Kolmakova; Jason Woodhouse; Robert Taube; Kai Mangelsdorf; Michail Gladyshev; Katrin Premke; Hans-Peter Grossart

This study investigated whether the microbial degradation of more refractory organic matter (OM) is stimulated by the addition of well available OM from dead zooplankton. A significantly higher respiration was measured when zooplankton-derived OM was added to ratio of 1:1. Stimulation was stronger in a complex microbial community with eukaryotes than just bacteria. 

January 2021
Environmental modelling & software. - 135(2021), Art. 104900

Speaking their language – Development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders

Gordon H. Copp; Lorenzo Vilizzi; Hui Wei; Shan Li; Marina Piria; Abbas J. Al-Faisal; David Almeida; Usman Atique; Zainab Al-Wazzan; Rigers Bakiu; Tea Bašić; Thuyet D. Bui; João Canning-Clode; Nuno Castro; Ratcha Chaichana; Tülin Çoker; Dimitriy Dashinov; F. Güler Ekmekçi; Tibor Erős; Árpád Ferincz; Teresa Ferreira; Daniela Giannetto; Allan S. Gilles; Łukasz Głowacki; Philippe Goulletquer; Elena Interesova; Sonia Iqbal; Katarína Jakubčinová; Kamalaporn Kanongdate; Jeong-Eun Kim; Oldřich Kopecký; Vasil Kostov; Nicholas Koutsikos; Sebastian Kozic; Petra Kristan; Yoshihisa Kurita; Hwang-Goo Lee; Rob S.E.W. Leuven; Tatsiana Lipinskaya; Juliane Lukas; Agnese Marchini; Ana Isabel González Martínez; Laurence Masson; Daniyar Memedemin; Seyed Daryoush Moghaddas; João Monteiro; Levan Mumladze; Rahmat Naddafi; Ion Năvodaru; Karin H. Olsson; Norio Onikura; Daniele Paganelli; Richard Thomas Pavia; Costas Perdikaris; Renanel Pickholtz; Dariusz Pietraszewski; Meta Povž; Cristina Preda; Milica Ristovska; Karin Rosíková; José Maria Santos; Vitaliy Semenchenko; Wansuk Senanan; Predrag Simonović; Evangelia Smeti; Barbora Števove; Kristína Švolíková; Kieu Anh T. Ta; Ali Serhan Tarkan; Nildeniz Top; Elena Tricarico; Eliza Uzunova; Leonidas Vardakas; Hugo Verreycken; Grzegorz Zięba; Roberto Mendoza

Decision-support tools have been developed mostly in English language only. To reduce language-based uncertainty, the “ecology-of-language” paradigm was applied when developing the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), a decision-support tool that offers 32 languages in which to carry out screenings and communicate outcomes to stakeholders.

January 2021
Molecular Biology and Evolution. - 38(2021)3, 1040–1059

Heterozygous, polyploid, giant bacterium, Achromatium, possesses an identical functional inventory worldwide across drastically different ecosystems

Danny Ionescu; Luca Zoccarato; Artur Zaduryan; Sina Schorn; Mina Bizic; Solvig Pinnow; Heribert Cypionka; Hans-Peter Grossart

The largest freshwater bacterium, Achromatium oxaliferum, is highly flexible in its requirements. The bacterial strains from the different ecosystems do not differ in their gene content, but rather choose what to express.

December 2020
Scientific Reports. - 10(2020), art. 22234

A probabilistic approach to dispersal in spatially explicit meta‑populations

Rajat Karnatak; Sabine Wollrab

The authors developed a new, probability-based formalism for modeling species distribution.The Network-based Probabilistic Connectivity (NPC) can provide predictions about the distribution and persistence of species at different time scales, and their dependence on patch distribution and patch density in the landscape.

November 2020
Science. - 370(2020)6515, S. 411-413

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

Sandra Díaz; Noelia Zafra-Calvo; Andy Purvis; Peter H. Verburg; David Obura; Paul Leadley; Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Luc De Meester; Ehsan Dulloo; Berta Martín-López; M. Rebecca Shaw; Piero Visconti; Wendy Broadgate; Michael W. Bruford; Neil D. Burgess; Jeannine Cavender-Bares; Fabrice DeClerck; José María Fernández-Palacios; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Samantha L. L. Hill; Forest Isbell; Colin K. Khoury; Cornelia B. Krug; Jianguo Liu; Martine Maron; Philip J. K. McGowan; Henrique M. Pereira; Victoria Reyes-García; Juan Rocha; Carlo Rondinini; Lynne Shannon; Yunne-Jai Shin; Paul V. R. Snelgrove; Eva M. Spehn; Bernardo Strassburg; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Joshua J. Tewksbury; James E. M. Watson; Amy E. Zanne

The deep biodiversity crisis calls for effective targets for its preservation. The authors argue for a “safety net” made up of multiple interlinked and ambitious goals to tackle nature’s alarming decline. No single target captures the broad range of biodiversity components that are dependent on each other. The study outlines the scientific basis for redesigning the new set of biodiversity goals.

November 2020
Biological Reviews. - 95(2020)6, S. 1511-1534

Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

Petr Pyšek; Philip E. Hulme; Dan Simberloff; Sven Bacher; Tim M. Blackburn; James T. Carlton; Wayne Dawson; Franz Essl; Llewellyn C. Foxcroft; Piero Genovesi; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Ingolf Kühn; Andrew M. Liebhold; Nicholas E. Mandrak; Laura A. Meyerson; Aníbal Pauchard; Jan Pergl; Helen E. Roy; Hanno Seebens; Mark van Kleunen; Montserrat Vilà; Michael J. Wingfield and David M. Richardson

Scientists warn of increasing threats posed by invasive alien species. More effort is needed to prevent, detect and control invasive alien species – this is emphasized by researchers from 13 countries.

November 2020
Journal of Animal Ecology. - 89(2020)11, S. 2531-2541

How biological invasions affect animal behaviour: a global, cross-taxonomic analysis

Florian Ruland; Jonathan M. Jeschke

In interaction, invasive and native species can change their behaviour. This is a meta-analysis, led by IGB, of which changes in behaviour are studied in invasions, and what is known about the types of behaviour that change, the underlying mechanisms and the speed of behavioural changes.