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Luyssaert, S.; Inglima, I.; Jung, M.; Richardson, A.D.; Reichsteins, M.; Papale, D.; Piao, S.L.; Schulzes, E.D.; Wingate, L.; Matteucci, G.; Aragao, L.; Aubinet, M.; Beers, C.; Bernhoffer, C.; Black, K.G.; Bonal, D.; Bonnefond, J.M.; Chambers, J.; Ciais, P.; Cook, B.; Davis, K.J.; Dolman, A.J.; Gielen, B.; Goulden, M.; Grace, J.; Granier, A.; Grelle, A.; Griffis, T.; Grunwald, T.; Guidolotti, G.; Hanson, P.J.; Harding, R.; Hollinger, D.Y.; Hutyra, L.R.; Kolar, P.; Kruijt, B.; Kutsch, W.; Lagergren, F.; Laurila, T.; Law, B.E.; Le Maire, G.; Lindroth, A.; Loustau, D.; Malhi, Y.; Mateus, J.; Migliavacca, M.; Misson, L.; Montagnani, L.; Moncrieff, J.; Moors, E.; Munger, J.W.; Nikinmaa, E.; Ollinger, S.V.; Pita, G.; Rebmann, C.; Roupsard, O.; Saigusa, N.; Sanz, M.J.; Seufert, G.; Sierra, C.; Smith, M.L.; Tang, J.; Valentini, R.; Vesala, T.; Janssens, I.A. |
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CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database |
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Global Change Biology |
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Glob. Change Biol. |
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carbon cycle; CO2; forest ecosystems; global database; gross primary productivity; net ecosystem productivity; net primary productivity |
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Terrestrial ecosystems sequester 2.1 Pg of atmospheric carbon annually. A large amount of the terrestrial sink is realized by forests. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties are being collected at many sites around the world, but syntheses of these data are still sparse. To facilitate future synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age), as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate, and soil characteristics. This publicly available database can be used to quantify global, regional or biome-specific carbon budgets; to re-examine established relationships; to test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning [e.g. a constant net ecosystem production (NEP) to gross primary production (GPP) ratio]; and as benchmarks for model evaluations. In this paper, we present the first analysis of this database. We discuss the climatic influences on GPP, net primary production (NPP) and NEP and present the CO2 balances for boreal, temperate, and tropical forest biomes based on micrometeorological, ecophysiological, and biometric flux and inventory estimates. Globally, GPP of forests benefited from higher temperatures and precipitation whereas NPP saturated above either a threshold of 1500 mm precipitation or a mean annual temperature of 10 degrees C. The global pattern in NEP was insensitive to climate and is hypothesized to be mainly determined by nonclimatic conditions such as successional stage, management, site history, and site disturbance. In all biomes, closing the CO2 balance required the introduction of substantial biome-specific closure terms. Nonclosure was taken as an indication that respiratory processes, advection, and non-CO2 carbon fluxes are not presently being adequately accounted for. |
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Univ Antwerp, Dept Biol, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium, Email: Sebastiaan.Luyssaert@ua.ac.be |
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Maggia, Marie-Eugénie ; Decaëns, Thibaud ; Lapied, Emmanuel ; Dupont, Lise ; Roy, Virginie ; Schimann, Heidy ; Orivel, Jérome ; Murienne, Jérôme ; Baraloto, Christophier ; Cottenie, Karl ; Steinke, Dirk |
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At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana |
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Applied Soil Ecology |
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DNA barcoding Tropical rainforest Community ecology Diversity level Sampling methods |
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Despite their recognized essential role in soil, earthworms in tropical environments are still understudied. The aim of this study was to re-evaluate the diversity at the regional scale, as well as to investigate the environmental and spatial drivers of earthworm communities. We sampled earthworm communities across a range of habitats at six localities in French Guiana using three different sampling methods. We generated 1675 DNA barcodes and combined them with data from a previous study. Together, all sequences clustered into 119 MOTUs which were used as proxy to assess species richness. Only two MOTUs were common between the six localities and 20.2% were singletons, showing very high regional species richness and a high number of rare species. A canonical redundancy analysis was used to identify key drivers of the earthworm community composition. The RDA results and beta-diversity calculations both show strong species turnover and a strong spatial effect, resulting from dispersal limitations that are responsible for the current community composition. Sampling in different microhabitats allowed the discovery of 23 MOTUs that are exclusively found in decaying trunks and epiphytes, highlighting hidden diversity of earthworms outside of soil. |
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Mahoui,Sihem ; Moulay, Mohamed Said ; Omrane, Abdennebi |
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Finite element approach to linear parabolic pointwise control problems of incomplete data |
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Optimal control problem ; low-regret control ; pointwise control ; finite element method ; a priori error estimates |
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In this paper we give a priori error estimates for finite element approximations of linear parabolicproblems with pointwise control and incomplete data. We discretise the optimal control problemby using piecewise linear and continuous finite elements for the space discretisation of the state,and we use the backward Euler scheme for time discretisation. We prove a priori error estimates forthe state, the adjoint-state as well as for the low-regret pointwise optimal control. |
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Maia, A.C.D.; Dötterl, S.; Kaiser, R.; Silberbauer-Gottsberger, I.; Teichert, H.; Gibernau, M.; do Amaral Ferraz Navarro, D.M.; Schlindwein, C.; Gottsberger, G. |
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The Key Role of 4-methyl-5-vinylthiazole in the Attraction of Scarab Beetle Pollinators: A Unique Olfactory Floral Signal Shared by Annonaceae and Araceae |
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2012 |
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Journal of Chemical Ecology |
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J. Chem. Ecol. |
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Beetle pollination; Floral scent; Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS); Olfactory-mediated attraction |
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Cyclocephaline scarabs are specialised scent-driven pollinators, implicated with the reproductive success of several Neotropical plant taxa. Night-blooming flowers pollinated by these beetles are thermogenic and release intense fragrances synchronized to pollinator activity. However, data on floral scent composition within such mutualistic interactions are scarce, and the identity of behaviorally active compounds involved is largely unknown. We performed GC-MS analyses of floral scents of four species of Annona (magnoliids, Annonaceae) and Caladium bicolor (monocots, Araceae), and demonstrated the chemical basis for the attraction of their effective pollinators. 4-Methyl-5-vinylthiazole, a nitrogen and sulphur-containing heterocyclic compound previously unreported in flowers, was found as a prominent constituent in all studied species. Field biotests confirmed that it is highly attractive to both male and female beetles of three species of the genus Cyclocephala, pollinators of the studied plant taxa. The origin of 4-methyl-5-vinylthiazole in plants might be associated with the metabolism of thiamine (vitamin B1), and we hypothesize that the presence of this compound in unrelated lineages of angiosperms is either linked to selective expression of a plesiomorphic biosynthetic pathway or to parallel evolution. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. |
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Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil |
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Export Date: 2 November 2012; Source: Scopus; Coden: Jcecd; doi: 10.1007/s10886-012-0173-z; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Maia, A. C. D.; Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife 50740-560, Brazil; email: arturcamposmaia@yahoo.com.br |
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Maia, A.C.D.; Gibernau, M.; Carvalho, A.T.; Gonçalves, E.G.; Schlindwein, C. |
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The cowl does not make the monk: Scarab beetle pollination of the Neotropical aroid Taccarum ulei (Araceae: Spathicarpeae) |
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2013 |
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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |
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Flower predation; Nocturnal pollinators; Pollination syndromes; Scarabaeidae; Thermogenesis |
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Taccarum ulei (Araceae, Spathicarpeae) is a seasonal geophytic aroid, native to north-eastern Brazil, that flowers during two months of the rainy season. Patterns of floral thermogenesis, pollination biology, and floral traits associated with pollination syndromes were studied and compared with those of other Araceae. Two species of cyclocephaline scarabs (Scarabaeidae, Cyclocephalini) were recognized as effective pollinators: Cyclocephala celata and Cyclocephala cearae. Larvae of an unidentified species of fruit fly (Melanolomaspp., Richardiidae, Diptera) were also frequently observed in inflorescences at various maturation stages, feeding on the connectives of male florets and fruits, and thus lowering the reproductive success of individual plants. Beetles were attracted by odoriferous inflorescences in the early evening of the first day of anthesis, during the female phase. The emission of attractive volatiles was coupled with intense thermogenic activity in the entire spadix, unlike other aroids in which only certain zones of the spadix heat up. Pollen release, which marks the beginning of the male phase on the subsequent evening, was not related to floral thermogenesis. Comparative multivariate analysis of the floral traits of T.ulei points to a beetle-pollinated aroid, although some of the observed traits of the species are not common to other taxa sharing this pollination strategy. Such incongruence might be explained by the evolutionary history of the tribe Spathicarpeae and potential pollinator shifts. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London. |
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Maia, A.C.D.; Gibernau, M.; Dötterl, S.; Do Amaral Ferraz Navarro, D.M.; Seifert, K.; Müller, T.; Schlindwein, C. |
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The floral scent of Taccarum ulei (Araceae): Attraction of scarab beetle pollinators to an unusual aliphatic acyloin |
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Phytochemistry |
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Phytochemistry |
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(S)-2-Hydroxy-5-methyl-3-hexanone; Araceae; Behavioral tests; Cyclocephala celata and C. cearae; Dihydro-β-ionone; Floral volatiles; Taccarum ulei |
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The strongly fragrant thermogenic inflorescences of Taccarum ulei (Araceae) are highly attractive to nightactive scarab beetles of Cyclocephala celata and C. cearae (Scarabaeidae, Cyclocephalini), which are effective pollinators of plants in the wild in northeastern Brazil. GC-MS analysis of headspace floral scent samples of T. ulei established that two constituents, (S)-2-hydroxy-5- methyl-3-hexanone (an aliphatic acyloin rarely detected in flowers) and dihydro-b-ionone (an irregular terpene) accounted for over 96% of the total scent discharge. Behavioral tests (in both field and cages) showed that male and female C. celata and C. cearae were attracted to traps baited with a synthetic mixture of both compounds; however, they were also responsive to (S)-2-hydroxy-5-methyl-3-hexanone alone, which thus functions as a specific attractive cue. These findings support other recent research in suggesting that angiosperms pollinated by cyclocephaline scarab beetles release floral odors of limited complexity in terms of numbers of compounds, but often dominated by unusual compounds that may ensure attraction of specific pollinator species. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. |
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Organismic Biology, Plant Ecology, Salzburg University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria |
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Export Date: 10 October 2013; Source: Scopus; Coden: Pytca; doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.03.005; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Maia, A.C.D.; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Departamento de Química Fundamental, Av. Jornalista Anibal Fernandes, s/n, Cidade Universita, Recife, PE 50740-560, Brazil; email: arturcamposmaia@yahoo.com.br |
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Maia, A.C.D.; Schlindwein, C.; Navarro, D.M.A.F.; Gibernau, M. |
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Pollination of Philodendron Acutatum (Araceae) in the Atlantic Forest of Northeastern Brazil: A Single Scarab Beetle Species Guarantees High Fruit Set |
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International Journal of Plant Sciences |
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Cyclocephala; floral volatiles; pollination specificity; reproductive success; thermogenesis |
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Philodendron acutatum (Araceae) is a hemiepiphyte common to the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. In two localities, we studied the species' breeding system and associations with flower-visiting insects, along with an analysis of its floral scent composition. The fruit set of self-incompatible P. acutatum was high, more than 90%, and inflorescences were exclusively pollinated by one species of scarab beetle, Cyclocephala celata (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). Pollinators are drawn toward the inflorescences at dusk by strong floral fragrances given off during the female phase of anthesis, along with endogenous heating of the spadix, whose temperatures were recorded at more than 11 degrees C above ambient air. Two other species of flower-visiting Cyclocephala were also consistently recovered in blacklight trappings during the flowering period of P. acutatum. The fact that only C. celata was found in association with P. acutatum suggests a local reproductive dependence of the plant to this scarab beetle species. Dihydro-beta-ionone and 2-hydroxy-5-methyl-3-hexanone, a rare volatile molecule so far unreported as a floral compound, together accounted for more than 97% of the unique scent composition of P. acutatum and might be involved in specific attraction of C. celata. |
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[Dalia Maia, Artur Campos] Univ Fed Paraiba, Programa Posgrad Ciencias Biol, BR-58059900 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, Email: arturcamposmaia@yahoo.com.br |
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Malé, P.-J.G.; Bardon, L.; Besnard, G.; Coissac, E.; Delsuc, F.; Engel, J.; Lhuillier, E.; Scotti-Saintagne, C.; Tinaut, A.; Chave, J. |
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Genome skimming by shotgun sequencing helps resolve the phylogeny of a pantropical tree family |
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Molecular Ecology Resources |
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Next-generation sequencing; Organellar genome; Phylogenomics; Tropical trees |
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Whole genome sequencing is helping generate robust phylogenetic hypotheses for a range of taxonomic groups that were previously recalcitrant to classical molecular phylogenetic approaches. As a case study, we performed a shallow shotgun sequencing of eight species in the tropical tree family Chrysobalanaceae to retrieve large fragments of high-copy number DNA regions and test the potential of these regions for phylogeny reconstruction. We were able to assemble the nuclear ribosomal cluster (nrDNA), the complete plastid genome (ptDNA) and a large fraction of the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) with approximately 1000×, 450× and 120× sequencing depth respectively. The phylogenetic tree obtained with ptDNA resolved five of the seven internal nodes. In contrast, the tree obtained with mtDNA and nrDNA data were largely unresolved. This study demonstrates that genome skimming is a cost-effective approach and shows potential in plant molecular systematics within Chrysobalanaceae and other under-studied groups. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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Export Date: 1 September 2014; Correspondence Address: Malé, P.-J.G.; UMR 5174 Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, ENFA, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, F-31062, France; email: pjg.male@gmail.com |
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Malé, P.-J.G.; Ferdy, J.-B.; Leroy, C.; Roux, O.; Lauth, J.; Avilez, A.; Dejean, A.; Quilichini, A.; Orivel, J. |
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Retaliation in Response to Castration Promotes a Low Level of Virulence in an Ant-Plant Mutualism |
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Evolutionary Biology |
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Allomerus decemarticulatus; Cheater; Evolutionary conflict; Hirtella physophora; Mutualism breakdown; Overexploitation |
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The diversion of a host's energy by a symbiont for its own benefit is a major source of instability in horizontally-transmitted mutualisms. This instability can be counter-balanced by the host's retaliation against exploiters. Such responses are crucial to the maintenance of the relationship. We focus on this issue in an obligate ant-plant mutualism in which the ants are known to partially castrate their host plant. We studied plant responses to various levels of castration in terms of (1) global vegetative investment and (2) investment in myrmecophytic traits. Castration led to a higher plant growth rate, signalling a novel case of gigantism induced by parasitic castration. On the other hand, completely castrated plants produced smaller nesting and food resources (i.e. leaf pouches and extra floral nectaries). Since the number of worker larvae is correlated to the volume of the leaf pouches, such a decrease in the investment in myrmecophytic traits demonstrates for the first time the existence of inducible retaliation mechanisms against too virulent castrating ants. Over time, this mechanism promotes an intermediate level of castration and enhances the stability of the mutualistic relationship by providing the ants with more living space while allowing the plant to reproduce. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York. |
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Export Date: 10 March 2014; Source: Scopus; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Malé, P.-J. G.; Laboratoire Evolution and Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France; email: pjg.male@gmail.com |
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An ant symbiont directly and indirectly limits its host plant's reproductive success |
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Evolutionary Ecology |
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Cheater; Evolutionary conflict; Mutualism breakdown; Myrmecophyte; Pollination |
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In theory, mutualisms are intrinsically unstable, and the search for the maximum profit at the minimum cost should lead every mutualist to become a parasite. From an empirical point of view, mutualisms are ubiquitous and of major importance to ecosystems, suggesting the existence of mechanisms that enhance the maintenance of such relationships. We focused on the obligatory myrmecophytic association between the Neotropical plant Hirtella physophora (Chrysobalanaceae) and the ant Allomerus decemarticulatus (Myrmicinae). The plant shelters the ants in leaf pouches in exchange for protection from phytophagous insects. We experimentally demonstrated that the ants partially castrate their host plant by destroying almost two-thirds of its floral buds. The ants also impede pollination through their presence and interactions with pollinators. These results reveal that ant activity negatively affects the plant's reproduction both directly and indirectly. This dual negative effect does not result in the complete castration of the plant. We also highlight major limitations to plant reproduction due to the spontaneous abscission of flowers and to the limited quantity and/or poor quality of the pollen. These limitations must not be overlooked since they can alter the outcome of the association of H. physophora with its ant partner. We therefore conclude that the evolutionary fate of the relationship depends on both ant castration intensity and obstacles to plant fertilization not related to the presence of ants. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. |
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Export Date: 2 January 2012; Source: Scopus; Coden: Evece; doi: 10.1007/s10682-011-9485-7; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Malé, P.-J. G.; CNRS, EDB (Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique), UMR 5174, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France; email: pjmale@cict.fr |
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