Publications by authors named "Iwona Melosik"
Desiccation-tolerant organisms can survive dehydration in a state of anhydrobiosis. Tardigrades can recover from anhydrobiosis at any life stage and are considered among the toughest animals on Earth. However, the factors that influence recovery from anhydrobiosis are not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- The study explores how various factors, including tree genetics and neighbor species, affect caterpillar communities on oak trees, finding that recent leaf development and tree growth influences herbivore diversity and parasitism rates.
- It highlights that the genetic makeup of oak trees plays a role in hosting certain herbivores, particularly leaf-mining casebearers, while the evolutionary relationships among trees can impact overall herbivore abundance.
- Ultimately, the research suggests that the composition of insect communities on trees is primarily shaped by interactions involving tree traits and parasitism rather than the movement of insects among different tree species.
Global warming and peat bogs drying are having a strong negative effect on the survival of endangered peat mosses. Here, we aimed to identify ultrastructural and physiological trait variation during dehydration and rehydration in the (sub-)meristematic cells of buds among clonally propagated individuals of Sphagnum denticulatum in relation to their ecological origin. We cultivated five clones in common garden conditions (CGCs) to exclude a carryover effect and we subsequently water-stressed (-40 MPa) and rehydrated (7 days) them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF