Publications by authors named "Joseph Huddart"
The 2016 Peace Agreement has increased access to Colombia's unique ecosystems, which remain understudied and increasingly under threat. The Colombian government has recently announced its National Bioeconomic Strategy (NBS), founded on the sustainable characterization, management, and conservation of the nation's biodiversity as a means to achieve sustainability and peace. Molecular tools will accelerate such endeavors, but capacity remains limited in Colombia.
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- River ecosystems play a crucial role in processing terrestrial organic carbon, and this process is heavily influenced by microbial activity.
- A global study involving over 1000 river and riparian sites revealed distinct carbon processing patterns across different biomes, showing slower processing at higher latitudes and faster rates near the equator.
- The findings suggest temperature and environmental factors affect carbon processing rates, providing a foundation for future biomonitoring efforts to assess environmental impacts on ecosystems worldwide.
Coexistence of predators that share the same prey is common. This is still the case in size-structured predator communities where predators consume prey species of different sizes (interspecific prey responses) or consume different size classes of the same species of prey (intraspecific prey responses). A mechanism has recently been proposed to explain coexistence between predators that differ in size but share the same prey species, emergent facilitation, which is dependent on strong intraspecific responses from one or more prey species.
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