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Author Sommeria-Klein, G.; Zinger, L.; Coissac, E.; Iribar, A.; Schimann, H.; Taberlet, P.; Chave, J.
Title Latent Dirichlet Allocation reveals spatial and taxonomic structure in a DNA-based census of soil biodiversity from a tropical forest Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Molecular Ecology Resources Abbreviated Journal Mol. Ecol. Resour.
Volume 20 Issue (down) 2 Pages 371-386
Keywords community ecology; environmental DNA; metabarcoding; OTU presence–absence; soil microbiome; topic modelling; bacterium; biodiversity; biology; classification; eukaryote; fungus; genetics; high throughput sequencing; isolation and purification; microbiology; parasitology; procedures; soil; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Computational Biology; Eukaryota; Fungi; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Soil; Soil Microbiology
Abstract High-throughput sequencing of amplicons from environmental DNA samples permits rapid, standardized and comprehensive biodiversity assessments. However, retrieving and interpreting the structure of such data sets requires efficient methods for dimensionality reduction. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) can be used to decompose environmental DNA samples into overlapping assemblages of co-occurring taxa. It is a flexible model-based method adapted to uneven sample sizes and to large and sparse data sets. Here, we compare LDA performance on abundance and occurrence data, and we quantify the robustness of the LDA decomposition by measuring its stability with respect to the algorithm's initialization. We then apply LDA to a survey of 1,131 soil DNA samples that were collected in a 12-ha plot of primary tropical forest and amplified using standard primers for bacteria, protists, fungi and metazoans. The analysis reveals that bacteria, protists and fungi exhibit a strong spatial structure, which matches the topographical features of the plot, while metazoans do not, confirming that microbial diversity is primarily controlled by environmental variation at the studied scale. We conclude that LDA is a sensitive, robust and computationally efficient method to detect and interpret the structure of large DNA-based biodiversity data sets. We finally discuss the possible future applications of this approach for the study of biodiversity. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Address Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane (EcoFoG, UMR 745), INRA, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, University of the French West Indies, University of French Guiana, Kourou, France
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Author Marino, N.A.C.; Céréghino, R.; Gilbert, B.; Petermann, J.S.; Srivastava, D.S.; de Omena, P.M.; Bautista, F.O.; Guzman, L.M.; Romero, G.Q.; Trzcinski, M.K.; Barberis, I.M.; Corbara, B.; Debastiani, V.J.; Dézerald, O.; Kratina, P.; Leroy, C.; MacDonald, A.A.M.; Montero, G.; Pillar, V.D.; Richardson, B.A.; Richardson, M.J.; Talaga, S.; Gonçalves, A.Z.; Piccoli, G.C.O.; Jocqué, M.; Farjalla, V.F.
Title Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: A multi-site synthesis Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Global Ecology and Biogeography Abbreviated Journal Global Ecol. Biogeogr.
Volume 29 Issue (down) 2 Pages 295-308
Keywords abundance; environmental niche; functional distinctiveness; functional traits; metacommunity; niche breadth; niche position; occupancy; abundance; biodiversity; functional group; geographical distribution; invertebrate; Neotropical Region; niche breadth; Invertebrata
Abstract Aim: Locally abundant species are usually widespread, and this pattern has been related to properties of the niches and traits of species. However, such explanations fail to account for the potential of traits to determine species niches and often overlook statistical artefacts. Here, we examine how trait distinctiveness determines the abilities of species to exploit either common habitats (niche position) or a range of habitats (niche breadth) and how niche position and breadth, in turn, affect abundance and occupancy. We also examine how statistical artefacts moderate these relationships. Location: Sixteen sites in the Neotropics. Time period: 1993–2014. Major taxa studied: Aquatic invertebrates from tank bromeliads. Methods: We measured the environmental niche position and breadth of each species and calculated its trait distinctiveness as the average trait difference from all other species at each site. Then, we used a combination of structural equation models and a meta-analytical approach to test trait–niche relationships and a null model to control for statistical artefacts. Results: The trait distinctiveness of each species was unrelated to its niche properties, abundance and occupancy. In contrast, niche position was the main predictor of abundance and occupancy; species that used the most common environmental conditions found across bromeliads were locally abundant and widespread. Contributions of niche breadth to such patterns were attributable to statistical artefacts, indicating that effects of niche breadth might have been overestimated in previous studies. Main conclusions: Our study reveals the generality of niche position in explaining one of the most common ecological patterns. The robustness of this result is underscored by the geographical extent of our study and our control of statistical artefacts. We call for a similar examination across other systems, which is an essential task to understand the drivers of commonness across the tree of life. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Address Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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Call Number EcoFoG @ webmaster @ Serial 991
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Author Céréghino, R.; Corbara, B.; Leroy, C.; Carrias, J.-F.
Title Ecological determinants of community structure across the trophic levels of freshwater food webs: a test using bromeliad phytotelmata Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Hydrobiologia Abbreviated Journal Hydrobiologia
Volume 847 Issue (down) 2 Pages 391-402
Keywords Environmental filtering; Functional group; Neotropical; Niche; Trophic interactions; alga; assembly rule; bacterium; community structure; ecological modeling; environmental conditions; food web; freshwater ecosystem; functional group; Neotropic Ecozone; niche; protozoan; taxonomy; trophic interaction; trophic level; algae; Invertebrata; Protozoa
Abstract Understanding the relative importance of habitat and biotic drivers on community assembly across food web components is an important step towards predicting the consequences of environmental changes. Because documenting entire food webs is often impractical, this question has been only partially investigated. Here, we partitioned variation in species assemblages of the major components of tank bromeliad food webs (bacteria, algae, protozoans, detritivorous and predatory invertebrates) into habitat and biotic determinants and examined the influence of habitat variables and predator or prey abundance on all taxonomic assemblages. Ecological determinism of assemblage structure ranged from weak in bacteria (< 10% of the explained variance) to strong in predatory invertebrates (90%). Habitat features and canopy openness significantly influenced species assemblages; however, prey or predator density had far and away the most significant structuring effects. If biotic forces are at least as important as the abiotic forces while the importance of stochasticity declines towards upper trophic levels, then trophic levels could respond differently to natural or anthropogenic disturbance and to shifts in species distributions. The effects of such differential responses on food web reconfiguration, however, remain to be elucidated. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Address UMR EcoFoG (AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Université de Guyane, Université des Antilles), Kourou, 97310, France
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Author Tysklind, N.; Etienne, M.-P.; Scotti-Saintagne, C.; Tinaut, A.; Casalis, M.; Troispoux, V.; Cazal, S.-O.; Brousseau, L.; Ferry, B.; Scotti, I.
Title Microgeographic local adaptation and ecotype distributions: The role of selective processes on early life-history traits in sympatric, ecologically divergent Symphonia populations Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Ecology and Evolution Abbreviated Journal Ecology and Evolution
Volume 10 Issue (down) 19 Pages 10735-10753
Keywords determinants of plant community diversity and structure; evolutionary ecology; landscape ecology; local adaptation; Neotropical forest; plant development and life-history traits; reciprocal transplantation experiments; Symphonia
Abstract Trees are characterized by the large number of seeds they produce. Although most of those seeds will never germinate, plenty will. Of those which germinate, many die young, and eventually, only a minute fraction will grow to adult stage and reproduce. Is this just a random process? Do variations in germination and survival at very young stages rely on variations in adaptations to microgeographic heterogeneity? and do these processes matter at all in determining tree species distribution and abundance?. We have studied these questions with the Neotropical Symphonia tree species. In the Guiana shield, Symphonia are represented by at least two sympatric taxa or ecotypes, Symphonia globulifera found almost exclusively in bottomlands, and a yet undescribed more generalist taxon/ecotype, Symphonia sp1. A reciprocal transplantation experiment (510 seeds, 16 conditions) was set up and followed over the course of 6 years to evaluate the survival and performance of individuals from different ecotypes and provenances. Germination, survival, growth, and herbivory showed signs of local adaptation, with some combinations of ecotypes and provenances growing faster and surviving better in their own habitat or provenance region. S. globulifera was strongly penalized when planted outside its home habitat but showed the fastest growth rates when planted in its home habitat, suggesting it is a specialist of a high-risk high-gain strategy. Conversely, S. sp1 behaved as a generalist, performing well in a variety of environments. The differential performance of seeds and seedlings in the different habitats matches the known distribution of both ecotypes, indicating that environmental filtering at the very early stages can be a key determinant of tree species distributions, even at the microgeographic level and among very closely related taxa. Furthermore, such differential performance also contributes to explain, in part, the maintenance of the different Symphonia ecotypes living in intimate sympatry despite occasional gene flow. © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Address UMR AMAP, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Author Mahoui,Sihem ; Moulay, Mohamed Said ; Omrane, Abdennebi
Title Finite element approach to linear parabolic pointwise control problems of incomplete data Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication International Journal of Systems Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 51 Issue (down) 14 Pages 2597-2609
Keywords Optimal control problem ; low-regret control ; pointwise control ; finite element method ; a priori error estimates
Abstract 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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Author Thomas, H.J.D.; Bjorkman, A.D.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Elmendorf, S.C.; Kattge, J.; Diaz, S.; Vellend, M.; Blok, D.; Cornelissen, J.H.C.; Forbes, B.C.; Henry, G.H.R.; Hollister, R.D.; Normand, S.; Prevéy, J.S.; Rixen, C.; Schaepman-Strub, G.; Wilmking, M.; Wipf, S.; Cornwell, W.K.; Beck, P.S.A.; Georges, D.; Goetz, S.J.; Guay, K.C.; Rüger, N.; Soudzilovskaia, N.A.; Spasojevic, M.J.; Alatalo, J.M.; Alexander, H.D.; Anadon-Rosell, A.; Angers-Blondin, S.; te Beest, M.; Berner, L.T.; Björk, R.G.; Buchwal, A.; Buras, A.; Carbognani, M.; Christie, K.S.; Collier, L.S.; Cooper, E.J.; Elberling, B.; Eskelinen, A.; Frei, E.R.; Grau, O.; Grogan, P.; Hallinger, M.; Heijmans, M.M.P.D.; Hermanutz, L.; Hudson, J.M.G.; Johnstone, J.F.; Hülber, K.; Iturrate-Garcia, M.; Iversen, C.M.; Jaroszynska, F.; Kaarlejarvi, E.; Kulonen, A.; Lamarque, L.J.; Lantz, T.C.; Lévesque, E.; Little, C.J.; Michelsen, A.; Milbau, A.; Nabe-Nielsen, J.; Nielsen, S.S.; Ninot, J.M.; Oberbauer, S.F.; Olofsson, J.; Onipchenko, V.G.; Petraglia, A.; Rumpf, S.B.; Shetti, R.; Speed, J.D.M.; Suding, K.N.; Tape, K.D.; Tomaselli, M.; Trant, A.J.; Treier, U.A.; Tremblay, M.; Venn, S.E.; Vowles, T.; Weijers, S.; Wookey, P.A.; Zamin, T.J.; Bahn, M.; Blonder, B.; van Bodegom, P.M.; Bond-Lamberty, B.; Campetella, G.; Cerabolini, B.E.L.; Chapin, F.S., III; Craine, J.M.; Dainese, M.; Green, W.A.; Jansen, S.; Kleyer, M.; Manning, P.; Niinemets, Ü.; Onoda, Y.; Ozinga, W.A.; Peñuelas, J.; Poschlod, P.; Reich, P.B.; Sandel, B.; Schamp, B.S.; Sheremetiev, S.N.; de Vries, F.T.
Title Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Nature Communications Abbreviated Journal Nat. Commun.
Volume 11 Issue (down) 1351 Pages
Keywords biome; climate change; extreme event; global change; growth; interspecific interaction; plant community; tundra; article; plant community; prediction; tundra; warming; classification; climate; ecosystem; genetics; plant; plant development; Climate; Ecosystem; Plant Development; Plants; Tundra
Abstract The majority of variation in six traits critical to the growth, survival and reproduction of plant species is thought to be organised along just two dimensions, corresponding to strategies of plant size and resource acquisition. However, it is unknown whether global plant trait relationships extend to climatic extremes, and if these interspecific relationships are confounded by trait variation within species. We test whether trait relationships extend to the cold extremes of life on Earth using the largest database of tundra plant traits yet compiled. We show that tundra plants demonstrate remarkably similar resource economic traits, but not size traits, compared to global distributions, and exhibit the same two dimensions of trait variation. Three quarters of trait variation occurs among species, mirroring global estimates of interspecific trait variation. Plant trait relationships are thus generalizable to the edge of global trait-space, informing prediction of plant community change in a warming world. © 2020, Crown.
Address Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 94240, Amsterdam, 1090 GE, Netherlands
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Author Duplais, C.; Papon, N.; Courdavault, V.
Title Tracking the Origin and Evolution of Plant Metabolites Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Trends in Plant Science Abbreviated Journal Trends Plant Sci.
Volume 25 Issue (down) 12 Pages 1182-1184
Keywords enzyme evolution; iridoids; Lamiaceae; nepetalactone; plant metabolites
Abstract Iridoids are monoterpenes that are produced by various plants as chemical defense molecules. Lichman et al. recently described the timeline of molecular events that underpin the re-emergence of iridoid biosynthesis in an independent lineage of aromatic plants (catnip). This study represents a benchmark for studying enzyme and metabolite evolution in different clades across the tree of life. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Address Biomolécules et Biotechnologies Végétales (BBV) EA 2106, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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Author Legeay, J.; Husson, C.; Boudier, B.; Louisanna, E.; Baraloto, C.; Schimann, H.; Marcais, B.; Buée, M.
Title Surprising low diversity of the plant pathogen Phytophthora in Amazonian forests Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Environmental Microbiology Abbreviated Journal Environ. Microbiol.
Volume 22 Issue (down) 12 Pages 5019-5032
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Abstract The genus Phytophthora represents a group of plant pathogens with broad global distribution. The majority of them cause the collar and root-rot of diverse plant species. Little is known about Phytophthora communities in forest ecosystems, especially in the Neotropical forests where natural enemies could maintain the huge plant diversity via negative density dependence. We characterized the diversity of soil-borne Phytophthora communities in the North French Guiana rainforest and investigated how they are structured by host identity and environmental factors. In this little-explored habitat, 250 soil cores were sampled from 10 plots hosting 10 different plant families across three forest environments (Terra Firme, Seasonally Flooded and White Sand). Phytophthora diversity was studied using a baiting approach and metabarcoding (High-Throughput Sequencing) on environmental DNA extracted from both soil samples and baiting-leaves. These three approaches revealed very similar communities, characterized by an unexpected low diversity of Phytophthora species, with the dominance of two cryptic species close to Phytophthora heveae. As expected, the Phytophthora community composition of the French Guiana rainforest was significantly impacted by the host plant family and environment. However, these plant pathogen communities are very small and are dominated by generalist species, questioning their potential roles as drivers of plant diversity in these Amazonian forests. © 2020 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Address International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, United States
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Author Dessert, C.; Clergue, C.; Rousteau, A.; Crispi, O.; Benedetti, M.F.
Title Atmospheric contribution to cations cycling in highly weathered catchment, Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles) Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Chemical Geology Abbreviated Journal Chem. Geol.
Volume 531 Issue (down) 119354 Pages
Keywords Atmospheric deposit; Cation-nutrient recycling; Critical Zone; Saharan dust; Sr and Nd isotopes; Atmospheric chemistry; Biogeochemistry; Catchments; Deposits; Dust; Ecosystems; Forestry; Isotopes; Lakes; Positive ions; Rain; Recycling; Runoff; Soil moisture; Soil surveys; Tropics; Vegetation; Volcanoes; Weathering; Atmospheric deposits; Critical zones; Nutrient recycling; Saharan dust; Sr and Nd isotopes; Nutrients; catchment; cation; dust; isotopic composition; neodymium isotope; regolith; strontium isotope; trace element; water chemistry; water quality; Guadeloupe; Leeward Islands [Lesser Antilles]; Sahara
Abstract The important fertilizing role of atmospheric dust, and particularly African dust, in tropical rainforests is increasingly recognized but still poorly quantified. To better evaluate dust input into the Caribbean basin, we sampled critical zone compartments of a small forested volcanic catchment in Guadeloupe (soils, parent rock, atmospheric dust, plants, soil solutions, stream and rain waters). The aims of this study are to track sources of cation nutrients (Ca, Mg, K, Sr) developed on highly weathered soil in the rainforest of Guadeloupe, to quantify plant recycling of these nutrients, and to identify constraints on regolith development and its associated nutrient pool. In the Quiock Creek catchment, a large isotopic range of 87Sr/86Sr and eNd values was observed despite the small scale of observation. Sr isotopic composition of the dissolved load varied from 0.7084 in rainfall to 0.7110 in soil solution, whereas it ranges between 0.7068 and 0.7153 for soil samples and between 0.7096 and 0.7102 for plants. The Nd isotopic composition varied between -8.39 in near-surface soil samples to 2.71 in deeper soil. All samples had an intermediate signature between that of the bedrock endmember (87Sr/86Sr = 0.7038; eNd = 4.8) and the atmospheric endmember (sea salt: 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7092 and Saharan dust: 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7187, eNd=-11.5). The regolith was built on pyroclastic deposits, but, because of extreme leaching, the regolith has lost its original bedrock signature and inherited an exogenous atmospheric signature. Our results show that only the chemical weathering of the fresh near-surface minerals can provide nutrients to the ecosystem (first 30 cm). However, this dust weathering is too low to sustain the tropical forest ecosystem on its own. The cationic mass balance at the catchment scale, as well as the Sr isotopic signature, show that cation and Sr fluxes are of atmospheric origin only and that original bedrock no longer participates in nutrient cycles. The vegetation reflects the 87Sr/86Sr of the dissolved pool of atmospheric Sr. At the soil-plant scale, the cation-nutrient fluxes provided by vegetation (litter fall + leaf excretion) are major compared to input and output fluxes. The annual Ca, K, Sr and Mg fluxes within the vegetation are, respectively, 31, 28, 20 and 3 times greater than the exported fluxes at the outlet of the basin. The residence time of nutrients in the vegetation is 16 years for K and close to 45 years for Sr, Ca and Mg. These results emphasize the highly efficient vegetative turnover that dominates the nutrient cycle in the Quiock Creek catchment. This first characterization of biogeochemical cycles in the Guadeloupean rainforest suggests that the forest community of Quiock Creek is sustained by a small near-surface nutrient pool disconnected from the deep volcanic bedrock. We also demonstrated that, even with efficient nutrient recycling, Saharan dust plays a significant role in maintaining ecosystem productivity in Guadeloupe over long-time scales.
Address Laboratoire de biologie et de physiologie végétales, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, INRA, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Pointe-à-Pitre, 97159, France
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Author Croft, H.; Chen, J.M.; Wang, R.; Mo, G.; Luo, S.; Luo, X.; He, L.; Gonsamo, A.; Arabian, J.; Zhang, Y.; Simic-Milas, A.; Noland, T.L.; He, Y.; Homolová, L.; Malenovský, Z.; Yi, Q.; Beringer, J.; Amiri, R.; Hutley, L.; Arellano, P.; Stahl, C.; Bonal, D.
Title The global distribution of leaf chlorophyll content Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Remote Sensing of Environment Abbreviated Journal Remote Sens. Environ.
Volume 236 Issue (down) 111479 Pages
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Abstract Leaf chlorophyll is central to the exchange of carbon, water and energy between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. This paper presents the first spatially-continuous view of terrestrial leaf chlorophyll content (ChlLeaf) at the global scale. Weekly maps of ChlLeaf were produced from ENVISAT MERIS full resolution (300 m) satellite data using a two-stage physically-based radiative transfer modelling approach. Firstly, leaf-level reflectance was derived from top-of-canopy satellite reflectance observations using 4-Scale and SAIL canopy radiative transfer models for woody and non-woody vegetation, respectively. Secondly, the modelled leaf-level reflectance was input into the PROSPECT leaf-level radiative transfer model to derive ChlLeaf. The ChlLeaf retrieval algorithm was validated using measured ChlLeaf data from 248 sample measurements at 28 field locations, and covering six plant functional types (PFTs). Modelled results show strong relationships with field measurements, particularly for deciduous broadleaf forests (R2 = 0.67; RMSE = 9.25 microg cm-2; p < 0.001), croplands (R2 = 0.41; RMSE = 13.18 microg cm-2; p < 0.001) and evergreen needleleaf forests (R2 = 0.47; RMSE = 10.63 microg cm-2; p < 0.001). When the modelled results from all PFTs were considered together, the overall relationship with measured ChlLeaf remained good (R2 = 0.47, RMSE = 10.79 microg cm-2; p < 0.001). This result is an improvement on the relationship between measured ChlLeaf and a commonly used chlorophyll-sensitive spectral vegetation index; the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI; R2 = 0.27, p < 0.001). The global maps show large temporal and spatial variability in ChlLeaf, with evergreen broadleaf forests presenting the highest leaf chlorophyll values, with global annual median values of 54.4 microg cm-2. Distinct seasonal ChlLeaf phenologies are also visible, particularly in deciduous plant forms, associated with budburst and crop growth, and leaf senescence. It is anticipated that this global ChlLeaf product will make an important step towards the explicit consideration of leaf-level biochemistry in terrestrial water, energy and carbon cycle modelling.
Address UMR EEF, INRA Université de Lorraine, Champenoux54280, France
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