Ecological theory suggests that large-scale patterns such as community stability can be
influenced by changes in interspecific interactions that arise from the behavioural and/or …

In an era of ecosystem degradation and climate change, maximizing microbial functions in
agroecosystems has become a prerequisite for the future of global agriculture. However, …

Recent advances in environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis using high‐throughput sequencing
(HTS) provide a noninvasive way to evaluate the intraspecific genetic diversity of aquatic …

Effective ecosystem conservation and resource management require quantitative monitoring
of biodiversity, including accurate descriptions of species composition and temporal …

Terrestrial animals must have frequent contact with water to survive, implying that
environmental DNA ( eDNA ) originating from those animals should be detectable from places …

Although tropical forests are among the most species-rich ecosystems on earth, 42% of
mammal species in tropical forests are endangered because of overhunting and/or …

We investigated tree species effects on the soil microbial community in the tropical montane
forest on Mt. Kinabalu, in Malaysian Borneo. We investigated microbial composition (lipid …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is DNA shed by organisms into surrounding environments such
as soil and water. The new methods using eDNA as a marker for species detection are …

Natural systems are often complex and dynamic (ie nonlinear), making them difficult to
understand using linear statistical approaches. Linear approaches are fundamentally based on …

How patterns in community diversity emerge is a long-standing question in ecology. Studies
suggested that community diversity and interspecific interactions are interdependent. …