ABSTRACT Knowledge of species composition and their interactions, in the form of interaction
networks, is required to understand processes shaping their distribution over time and …

Soil organisms are a crucial part of the terrestrial biosphere. Despite their importance for
ecosystem functioning, few quantitative, spatially explicit models of the active belowground …

Herbivory and plant defenses exhibit a coupled decline along elevation gradients. However,
the current ecological equilibrium could be disrupted under climate change, with a faster …

Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most
often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated …

To cope with environmental challenges, plants produce a wide diversity of phytochemicals,
which are also the source of numerous medicines. Despite decades of research in chemical …

In the recent years, many protocols aimed at reproducibly sequencing reduced-genome subsets
in non-model organisms have been published. Among them, RAD-sequencing is one of …

Aim Ecological gradients are expected to be associated with structural rewiring of species
interaction networks. The study of network structures along geographic and ecological …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing has led to an unprecedented rise in the
identification of cryptic species. However, it is widely acknowledged that nuclear DNA (nuDNA) …

As the most abundant animals on earth, nematodes are a dominant component of the soil
community. They play critical roles in regulating biogeochemical cycles and vegetation …

Encompassing ca. 200 species distributed in paleotropical Africa and Asia, Amorphophallus
is one of the largest genera of Araceae. In spite of the great economic interest in its …