A5031699699- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Forest ecology and management
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Fluoride Effects and Removal
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
Rice University
2021-2024
Yale University
2021-2023
Ecological Society of America
2023
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2019-2021
University of Illinois Chicago
2015-2019
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2019
Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among most abundant soil arthropods regulating fertility flow energy through above- belowground food webs. However, global distribution springtail diversity density, how these relate to fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate total biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild vertebrates, record peak densities up 2...
Abstract Naturally treeless ecosystems are being replaced by native and non‐native trees worldwide, often through deliberate afforestation using forestry tree species. By introducing species having novel traits, such as relatively rapid growth, many efforts also produce numerous changes in ecosystems, at the landscape scale. Trees considered critical for climate change mitigation; indeed, current carbon sequestration strategies rely on trees. Planting or allowing to naturally colonize range...
Abstract Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent bioaccumulative pollutants that can easily accumulate in soil, posing a threat to environment human health. Current PFAS degradation processes often suffer from low efficiency, high energy water consumption, or lack of generality. Here, we develop rapid electrothermal mineralization (REM) process remediate PFAS-contaminated soil. With environmentally compatible biochar as the conductive additive, soil temperature increases...
Animals can be important vectors of nutrient transfer within and across landscapes, with implications for ecosystem productivity composition. While it is presumed large ungulates are agents dispersal via movement activity, research analyzing their net effects on landscapes remains scarce. We present an individual‐based model that investigates how caribou affect the distribution nutrients a landscape through consumption only, as well cumulative deposition (i.e. fecal waste carcass...
Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences 44,999 samples 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at species level collected predominantly private archives authors were quality-controlled taxonomically-standardised. Despite covering continents, most come European...
Pulsed fluxes of organisms across ecosystem boundaries can exert top-down and bottom-up effects in recipient food webs, through both direct on the subsidized trophic levels indirect other components system. While previous theoretical empirical studies demonstrate influence allochthonous subsidies processes, understanding how these forces act conjunction is still limited, particularly when an resource simultaneously subsidize multiple levels. Using Lake Mývatn region Iceland as example system...
Although the impacts of invasive plants on soil ecosystems are widespread, role and invader root traits in structuring microbial communities remain poorly understood. Here, we present a macroecological study investigating how plant invaders their affect communities, spanning data from 377 unique plots across United States sampled multiple times, totaling 632 sampling events 94 species. We found that native harbor different average, with possessing higher specific lengths having tissue...
Understanding the factors that determine invasion success for non-native plants is crucial maintaining global biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. One hypothesized mechanism by which many exotic can become invasive through disruption of key plant-mycorrhizal mutualisms, yet few studies have investigated how these disruptions lead to invader success. We present an individual-based model examine mutualism strengths between a native plant (Impatiens capensis) mycorrhizal fungus influence...
Abstract Emergent aquatic insects can be major conduits of resources moving from freshwater to adjacent terrestrial ecosystems. These allochthonous influence the structure and function ecosystems, yet their effect on arthropod consumer populations remains largely unknown. In this study, we investigated how flying adult midges food webs in subarctic grasslands by blocking midge inputs over four years 2 × 2‐m plots near shore Lake Mývatn, Iceland, where abundances are naturally high. We...
Abstract The tragedy of the commons posits that depletion common resources harms all stakeholders. Although such a downward spiral is plausible, potential outcomes are far more complex. In present article, we report on this coupled feedback between resource strategies and environment from perspective Blackologists. We fully embrace our understanding appreciation for nature inherently shaped by identity, culture, lived experiences. First, deconstruct uses beneficiaries shared resource. Then,...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent bioaccumulative pollutants that can easily accumulate in soil, posing threat to environment human health. Current PFAS degradation processes often suffer from low efficiency, high energy water consumption, or lack of generality. Here, we develop a rapid electrothermal mineralization (REM) process remediate PFAS-contaminated soil. With environmentally compatible biochar as conductive additive, the soil temperature increases >1000 °C...
Metacommunity theory has advanced scientific understanding of how species interactions and spatial processes influence patterns biodiversity community structure across landscapes. While the central tenets metacommunity have been promoted as pivotal considerations for conservation management, few field experiments tested validity predictions. Here, we one key prediction theory-that decreasing habitat connectivity should erode by hindering movement between patches. For 2 years, manipulated an...
Intraguild predation (IGP)-predation between generalist predators (IGPredator and IGPrey) that potentially compete for a shared prey resource-is common interaction module in terrestrial food webs. Understanding temporal variation webs with widespread IGP is relevant to testing web theory. We investigated constancy the structure of such system: spider-focused forest floor. Multiplex PCR was used detect DNA 3,300 adult spiders collected from floor deciduous during spring, summer, fall over...