Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient.

Unlabelled: Elevational gradients in alpine ecosystems are well suited to study how plant and pollinator communities respond to climate change. In the Austrian Alps, we tested how the taxonomic and functional diversity of plants and their pollinators change with increasing elevation and how this affects plant-pollinator network structure. We measured the phenotypes of flowering plants and their pollinators and observed their interactions in 24 communities along an elevational gradient.

[The Penny's Dropped - "Aha" Moments in Emergency Medicine Diagnostics].

Hardly any other speciality is as fraught with tension as emergency medicine. In addition to the need to have a broad spectrum of knowledge about illnesses and injuries, the time factor is particularly important. Emergency physicians have to quickly gain an overview of their patients' condition.

Biological and experimental factors that define the effectiveness of microbial inoculation on plant traits: a meta-analysis.

Bacterial and fungal microbiomes associated with plants can significantly affect the host's phenotype. Inoculating plants with one or multiple bacterial and fungal species can affect specific plant traits, which is exploited in attempts to increase plant performance and stress tolerance by microbiome engineering. Currently, we lack a comprehensive synthesis on the generality of these effects related to different biological (e.

Testing the sequence of successional processes in miniature ecosystems.

Unlabelled: Dispersal, environmental filtering, and biotic interactions define the species inventory of local communities. Along successional gradients, these assembly processes are predicted to sequentially vary in their relative importance with dispersal as the dominating process early in succession, followed by environmental filtering and biotic interactions at later stages. While observational data from field studies supported this prediction, controlled experiments confirming a sequence of successional processes are still lacking.

Integration of metataxonomic data sets into microbial association networks highlights shared bacterial community dynamics in fermented vegetables.

Unlabelled: The management of food fermentation is still largely based on empirical knowledge, as the dynamics of microbial communities and the underlying metabolic networks that produce safe and nutritious products remain beyond our understanding. Although these closed ecosystems contain relatively few taxa, they have not yet been thoroughly characterized with respect to how their microbial communities interact and dynamically evolve. However, with the increased availability of metataxonomic data sets on different fermented vegetables, it is now possible to gain a comprehensive understanding of the microbial relationships that structure plant fermentation.