Freshwaters provide essential ecosystem services(ESS)to humanity.However,most studies on freshwater ESS focus on a few services and ignore temporal changes in driver–ESS relationships.Using graph-based visualization,...Freshwaters provide essential ecosystem services(ESS)to humanity.However,most studies on freshwater ESS focus on a few services and ignore temporal changes in driver–ESS relationships.Using graph-based visualization,we examine co-occurrence patterns among drivers and among ESS across characteristic sociopolitical eras in the history of the largest shallow lake in Central and Eastern Europe(Lake Balaton,Hungary).We also evaluate driver–ESS relationships to characterize whether there are distinct clusters in these relationships,which can help to better understand how the different types of drivers influence provisioning,regulating,and cultural ESS and basic ecological functions of the lake.The analyses revealed that Lake Balaton suffers from several alteration effects,which are frequently cited as top threatening drivers in the decline of the ecological integrity and ESS of lake ecosystems.Of these,eutrophication,the spread of invasive species,fishery,urbanization processes,and,recently,the effects of climate change were the most important.Despite these threats,the lake still maintains diverse ESS,which are in complex relationship with each other and their drivers.We highlight that major past environmental changes substantially influence present and forecasted future patterns of driver–ESS relationships.Based on these results,we discuss the possibilities of management to ensure the sustainability of ESS Lake Balaton provides to society.Overall,this study underscores the complex influence of various drivers on freshwater ESS and emphasizes the importance of understanding temporal changes in human-modified lakes,considering societal,ecological,and economic factors comprehensively.展开更多
In this work,the head-on collisions of the non-stationary dissipative soliton in ultracold neutral plasmas(UNPs)are investigated.The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo(PLK)approach is adopted for reducing the fluid equat...In this work,the head-on collisions of the non-stationary dissipative soliton in ultracold neutral plasmas(UNPs)are investigated.The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo(PLK)approach is adopted for reducing the fluid equations of the UNPs to two-counterpropagating damped Korteweg-de Vries(dKdV)equations.The dKdV equation is not an integrable Hamiltonian system,i.e.,does not have an exact solution.Thus,one of the main goal of this paper is to find a new general approximate analytical solution to the dKdV equation for investigating the mechanism of the propagation and interaction of the non-stationary dissipative solitons.The residual error is estimated for checking the accuracy of the new obtained solution.The approximate analytical soliton solutions are adopted for deriving the temporal phase shifts after the collision.The impact of physical parameters on the nonstationary dissipative soliton profile and the temporal phase shifts is discussed.The obtained results will contribute to understand the mechanism of propagation and interaction of many nonlinear phenomena in different nonlinear mediums such as ocean,sea,optical fiber,plasma physics,etc.展开更多
Approaches for the cultivation-independent analysis of microbial communities are summarized as meta’omics,which predominantly includes metagenomic,-transcriptomic,-proteomic and-metabolomic studies.These have shown t...Approaches for the cultivation-independent analysis of microbial communities are summarized as meta’omics,which predominantly includes metagenomic,-transcriptomic,-proteomic and-metabolomic studies.These have shown that endophytic,root-associated and soil fungal communities are strongly shaped by associated plant species.The impact of plant identity on the composition of its litterssociated fungal community remains to be disentangled from the impact of litter chemistry.The composition of the plant community also shapes the fungal community.Most strikingly,adjacent plant species may share mycorrhizal symbionts even if the plants usually have different types of mycorrhizal fungi associated with them(ectomycorrhizal,ericoid and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi).Environmental parameters weakly explain fungal community composition globally,and their effect is inconsistent at local and regional scales.Decrease in similarity among communities with increasing distance(i.e.distance decay)has been reported from local to global scales.This pattern is only exceptionally caused by spatial dispersal limitation of fungal propagules,but mostly due to the inability of the fungi to establish at the particular locality(i.e.environmental filtering or competitive exclusion).Fungal communities usually undergo pronounced seasonal changes and also differ between consecutive years.This indicates that development of the communities is usually not solely cyclic.Meta’omic studies challenge the classical view of plant litter decomposition.They show that mycorrhizal and(previously)endophytic fungi may be involved in plant litter decomposition and only partly support the idea of a succession from an Ascomycota to a Basidiomycota-dominated community.Furthermore,vertical separation of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal species in soil and sequential degradation from easily accessible to‘recalcitrant’plant compounds,such as lignin,can probably not be generalized.The current models of litter decomposition may therefore have to be eventually refined for certain ecosystems and environmental conditions.To gain deeper insights into fungal ecology,a meta’omic study design is outlined which focuses on environmental processes,because fungal communities are usually taxonomically diverse,but functionally redundant.This approach would initially identify dynamics of chemical shifts in the host and/or substrate by metametabolomics.Detected shifts would be subsequently linked to microbial activity by correlation with metatranscriptomic and/or metaproteomic data.A holistic trait-based approach might finally identify factors shaping taxonomic composition in communities against the dynamics of the environmental process(es)they are involved in.展开更多
基金supported by the Széchenyi Plan Plus Program(RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00014)the Sustainable Development and Technologies National Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(NP2022-Ⅱ-3/2022)
文摘Freshwaters provide essential ecosystem services(ESS)to humanity.However,most studies on freshwater ESS focus on a few services and ignore temporal changes in driver–ESS relationships.Using graph-based visualization,we examine co-occurrence patterns among drivers and among ESS across characteristic sociopolitical eras in the history of the largest shallow lake in Central and Eastern Europe(Lake Balaton,Hungary).We also evaluate driver–ESS relationships to characterize whether there are distinct clusters in these relationships,which can help to better understand how the different types of drivers influence provisioning,regulating,and cultural ESS and basic ecological functions of the lake.The analyses revealed that Lake Balaton suffers from several alteration effects,which are frequently cited as top threatening drivers in the decline of the ecological integrity and ESS of lake ecosystems.Of these,eutrophication,the spread of invasive species,fishery,urbanization processes,and,recently,the effects of climate change were the most important.Despite these threats,the lake still maintains diverse ESS,which are in complex relationship with each other and their drivers.We highlight that major past environmental changes substantially influence present and forecasted future patterns of driver–ESS relationships.Based on these results,we discuss the possibilities of management to ensure the sustainability of ESS Lake Balaton provides to society.Overall,this study underscores the complex influence of various drivers on freshwater ESS and emphasizes the importance of understanding temporal changes in human-modified lakes,considering societal,ecological,and economic factors comprehensively.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the Fasttrack Research Funding Program.
文摘In this work,the head-on collisions of the non-stationary dissipative soliton in ultracold neutral plasmas(UNPs)are investigated.The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo(PLK)approach is adopted for reducing the fluid equations of the UNPs to two-counterpropagating damped Korteweg-de Vries(dKdV)equations.The dKdV equation is not an integrable Hamiltonian system,i.e.,does not have an exact solution.Thus,one of the main goal of this paper is to find a new general approximate analytical solution to the dKdV equation for investigating the mechanism of the propagation and interaction of the non-stationary dissipative solitons.The residual error is estimated for checking the accuracy of the new obtained solution.The approximate analytical soliton solutions are adopted for deriving the temporal phase shifts after the collision.The impact of physical parameters on the nonstationary dissipative soliton profile and the temporal phase shifts is discussed.The obtained results will contribute to understand the mechanism of propagation and interaction of many nonlinear phenomena in different nonlinear mediums such as ocean,sea,optical fiber,plasma physics,etc.
基金funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,project PE 1673/4-1).
文摘Approaches for the cultivation-independent analysis of microbial communities are summarized as meta’omics,which predominantly includes metagenomic,-transcriptomic,-proteomic and-metabolomic studies.These have shown that endophytic,root-associated and soil fungal communities are strongly shaped by associated plant species.The impact of plant identity on the composition of its litterssociated fungal community remains to be disentangled from the impact of litter chemistry.The composition of the plant community also shapes the fungal community.Most strikingly,adjacent plant species may share mycorrhizal symbionts even if the plants usually have different types of mycorrhizal fungi associated with them(ectomycorrhizal,ericoid and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi).Environmental parameters weakly explain fungal community composition globally,and their effect is inconsistent at local and regional scales.Decrease in similarity among communities with increasing distance(i.e.distance decay)has been reported from local to global scales.This pattern is only exceptionally caused by spatial dispersal limitation of fungal propagules,but mostly due to the inability of the fungi to establish at the particular locality(i.e.environmental filtering or competitive exclusion).Fungal communities usually undergo pronounced seasonal changes and also differ between consecutive years.This indicates that development of the communities is usually not solely cyclic.Meta’omic studies challenge the classical view of plant litter decomposition.They show that mycorrhizal and(previously)endophytic fungi may be involved in plant litter decomposition and only partly support the idea of a succession from an Ascomycota to a Basidiomycota-dominated community.Furthermore,vertical separation of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal species in soil and sequential degradation from easily accessible to‘recalcitrant’plant compounds,such as lignin,can probably not be generalized.The current models of litter decomposition may therefore have to be eventually refined for certain ecosystems and environmental conditions.To gain deeper insights into fungal ecology,a meta’omic study design is outlined which focuses on environmental processes,because fungal communities are usually taxonomically diverse,but functionally redundant.This approach would initially identify dynamics of chemical shifts in the host and/or substrate by metametabolomics.Detected shifts would be subsequently linked to microbial activity by correlation with metatranscriptomic and/or metaproteomic data.A holistic trait-based approach might finally identify factors shaping taxonomic composition in communities against the dynamics of the environmental process(es)they are involved in.
