Publications by authors named "Lisa R Belyea"
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- Peatlands are important wetland areas that help store carbon and support various plants and animals, but they are being damaged by human activities.
- Scientists have made progress in restoring peatlands, but we still need to learn how tiny living things in the soil (microbes) help these ecosystems work and recover from problems.
- To improve peatland restoration, we need to study microbial communities better, create tools to monitor their health, and work with different experts to develop effective restoration practices.
Considerable progress has been made in ecological and evolutionary genetics with studies demonstrating how genes underlying plant and microbial traits can influence adaptation and even 'extend' to influence community structure and ecosystem level processes. Progress in this area is limited to model systems with deep genetic and genomic resources that often have negligible ecological impact or interest. Thus, important linkages between genetic adaptations and their consequences at organismal and ecological scales are often lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpatial patterning of ecosystems can be explained by several mechanisms. One approach to disentangling the influence of these mechanisms is to study a patterned ecosystem along a gradient of environmental conditions. This study focused on hummock-hollow patterning of peatlands.
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