Animals interact with mates in a sensory environment rife with the footprints of human activities.Frogs chorus over the noise of traffic(Bee and Swanson 2007),glow-worms search for bioluminescent mates against backlig...Animals interact with mates in a sensory environment rife with the footprints of human activities.Frogs chorus over the noise of traffic(Bee and Swanson 2007),glow-worms search for bioluminescent mates against backlight from street lamps(Bird and Parker 2014),and fish attend to conspecific olfactory cues mixed with sewage(Fisher et al.2006).As invasive species proliferate throughout the world,animals also encounter noise in the form of novel heterospecific signals that can interfere with existing communication channels(Groning and Hochkirch 2008).Pheromones,for example,are often species-specific in natural contexts involving sympatric heterospecifics but may become detrimental pollution when animals invade regions inhabited by historically allopatric relatives that previously faced less selection for signal divergence(Gozlan et al.2014).展开更多
Fish species diversity can be lost through interacting stressors including habitat loss, stocking and overfishing. Although a multitude of stressors have played a role in the global decline of coregonid (Coregonus spp...Fish species diversity can be lost through interacting stressors including habitat loss, stocking and overfishing. Although a multitude of stressors have played a role in the global decline of coregonid (Coregonus spp.) diversity, a number of contemporary studies have identified habitat loss stemming from eutrophication as the primary cause. Unfortunately, reconstructing the role of fishing and stocking practices can be difficult, because these records are incomplete or appear only in hard-to-access historic grey literature. Based on an illustrative set of historic and contemporary studies, we describe how fisheries management practices may have contributed to coregonid diversity loss in European and North American lakes. We provide case studies examining how fishing and stocking may reduce coregonid diversity through demographic decline and introgressive hybridization. In some lakes, fisheries management practices may have led to a loss of coregonid diversity well before issues with habitat degradation manifested. Our review suggests that fish conservation policies could beneficially consider the relative importance of all stressors, including management practices, as potential drivers of diversity loss.展开更多
Plants naturally carry microbes on seeds and within seeds that may facilitate development and early survival of seedlings.Some crops have lost seed-vectored microbes in the process of domestication or during seed stor...Plants naturally carry microbes on seeds and within seeds that may facilitate development and early survival of seedlings.Some crops have lost seed-vectored microbes in the process of domestication or during seed storage and seed treatment.Biostimulant microbes from wild plants were used by pre-modern cultures to re-acquire beneficial seed microbes.Today some companies have developed or are developing the use of microbes obtained from soils or plant sources to stimulate plant development and growth.Many of these biostimulant microbes are endophytic in plants.Biostimulant products also include humic substances,which appear to function as signal molecules in plants,triggering increased internalization of soil microbes into root cells and tissues.In addition,protein coatings on seeds fuel the growth of seed surface-vectored microbes,increasing microbial activity around and within roots.In this article,we provide evidence of the endophytic nature of many biostimulant microbes,and suggest that many of the beneficial effects of microbial biostimulants stem from their action as endophytes or as participants or stimulants of rhizophagy cycle activity.展开更多
文摘Animals interact with mates in a sensory environment rife with the footprints of human activities.Frogs chorus over the noise of traffic(Bee and Swanson 2007),glow-worms search for bioluminescent mates against backlight from street lamps(Bird and Parker 2014),and fish attend to conspecific olfactory cues mixed with sewage(Fisher et al.2006).As invasive species proliferate throughout the world,animals also encounter noise in the form of novel heterospecific signals that can interfere with existing communication channels(Groning and Hochkirch 2008).Pheromones,for example,are often species-specific in natural contexts involving sympatric heterospecifics but may become detrimental pollution when animals invade regions inhabited by historically allopatric relatives that previously faced less selection for signal divergence(Gozlan et al.2014).
文摘Fish species diversity can be lost through interacting stressors including habitat loss, stocking and overfishing. Although a multitude of stressors have played a role in the global decline of coregonid (Coregonus spp.) diversity, a number of contemporary studies have identified habitat loss stemming from eutrophication as the primary cause. Unfortunately, reconstructing the role of fishing and stocking practices can be difficult, because these records are incomplete or appear only in hard-to-access historic grey literature. Based on an illustrative set of historic and contemporary studies, we describe how fisheries management practices may have contributed to coregonid diversity loss in European and North American lakes. We provide case studies examining how fishing and stocking may reduce coregonid diversity through demographic decline and introgressive hybridization. In some lakes, fisheries management practices may have led to a loss of coregonid diversity well before issues with habitat degradation manifested. Our review suggests that fish conservation policies could beneficially consider the relative importance of all stressors, including management practices, as potential drivers of diversity loss.
基金support was provided from USDA-NIFA Multistate Project W4147the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station,and from a Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit CESU G16AC00433 grant between Rutgers University and the U.S.Geological Survey for control of invasive Phragmites australis,and Rey Juan Carlos University,grant DRIADES-2020/00006/009.
文摘Plants naturally carry microbes on seeds and within seeds that may facilitate development and early survival of seedlings.Some crops have lost seed-vectored microbes in the process of domestication or during seed storage and seed treatment.Biostimulant microbes from wild plants were used by pre-modern cultures to re-acquire beneficial seed microbes.Today some companies have developed or are developing the use of microbes obtained from soils or plant sources to stimulate plant development and growth.Many of these biostimulant microbes are endophytic in plants.Biostimulant products also include humic substances,which appear to function as signal molecules in plants,triggering increased internalization of soil microbes into root cells and tissues.In addition,protein coatings on seeds fuel the growth of seed surface-vectored microbes,increasing microbial activity around and within roots.In this article,we provide evidence of the endophytic nature of many biostimulant microbes,and suggest that many of the beneficial effects of microbial biostimulants stem from their action as endophytes or as participants or stimulants of rhizophagy cycle activity.
