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Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Fernando T. Maestre, Peter B. Reich, Thomas C. Jeffries + 5 more
'Thomas C. Jeffries' 'Juan J. Gaitan' 'Daniel Encinar' 'Miguel Berdugo' 'Colin D. Campbell' 'Brajesh K. Singh'] Despite the importance of microbial communities for ecosystem services and human welfare, the relationship between microbial diversity and multiple ecosystem functions and services (that is…
Weigang Hu, Jinzhi Ran, Longwei Dong, Qiajun Du + 39 more
Relationships between biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions (that is, ecosystem multifunctionality) are context-dependent. Both plant and soil microbial diversity have been reported to regulate ecosystem multifunctionality, but how their relative importance varies along environmental gradients remains poorly…
Adriana Espinosa-Cantú, Erika Cruz-Bonilla, Lianet Noda-Garcia, Alexander DeLuna
'Alexander DeLuna'] Protein science has moved from a focus on individual molecules to an integrated perspective in which proteins emerge as dynamic players with multiple functions, rather than monofunctional specialists. Annotation of the full functional repertoire of proteins has impacted the fields of biochemistry…
Swarnendu Mandal, Kazuyuki Aihara
Multifunctionality is ubiquitous in biological neurons. Several studies have translated the concept to artificial neural networks as well. Recently, multifunctionality in reservoir computing (RC) has gained the widespread attention of researchers. Multistable dynamics of the reservoir can be configured to capture…
Bridget E. White, Mark J. Hovenden, Leon A. Barmuta
The diversity-functioning relationship is a pillar of ecology. Two significant concepts have emerged from this relationship: redundancy, the asymptotic relationship between diversity and functioning, and multifunctionality, a monotonic relationship between diversity and multiple functions occurring simultaneously.…
Andrew Flynn, Vassilios A. Tsachouridis, Andreas Amann
Multifunctionality is a well observed phenomenological feature of biological neural networks and considered to be of fundamental importance to the survival of certain species over time. These multifunctional neural networks are capable of performing more than one task without changing any network connections. In this…
Friedrich Scherzinger, Martin Schädler, Thomas Reitz, Rui Yin + 10 more
'Harald Auge' 'Ines Merbach' 'Christiane Roscher' 'W Stanley Harpole' 'Evgenia Blagodatskaya' 'Julia Siebert' 'Marcel Ciobanu' 'Fabian Marder' 'Nico Eisenhauer' 'Martin Quaas'] The currently dominant types of land management are threatening the multifunctionality of ecosystems, which is vital for human well-being.…
Caroline Daniel, Oscar Godoy, Noémie A. Pichon, Mathis Gheno + 1 more
Linking the processes determining species coexistence and effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning is important for a mechanistic understanding of how species loss impacts ecosystems^1^. There are good theoretical reasons to expect stably coexisting communities to deliver higher ecosystem functioning, as niche…
Jacob Morra, Andrew Flynn, Andreas Amann, Mark Daley
—Multifunctionality describes the capacity for a neural network to perform multiple mutually exclusive tasks without altering its network connections; and is an emerging area of interest in the reservoir computing machine learning paradigm. Multifunctionality has been observed in the brains of humans and other animals…
Akhlesh Lakhtakia
The methodologies of bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication are inevitably pointing to the incorporation of multifunctionality in engineered materials when designing ever more complex systems. Optimal multifunctionality is also the defining characteristic of metamaterials. As fibrous materials are commonly…
Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Fabian Roger, Robert Bagchi
In ecology, multifunctionality measures the simultaneous provision of multiple ecosystem functions. If species diversity describes the variety of species that together build the ecosystem, multifunctionality attempts to describe the variety of functions these species perform. A range of methods have been proposed to…
M. Neyret, M. Fischer, E. Allan, N. Hölzel + 19 more
Land-use intensification has contrasting effects on different ecosystem services, often leading to land-use conflicts. While multiple studies have demonstrated how landscape-scale strategies can minimise the trade-off between agricultural production and biodiversity conservation, little is known about which land-use…
Catarina S. C. Martins, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Ramesha H. Jayaramaiah, Jun-Tao Wang + 5 more
Grasslands are integral to maintaining biodiversity and key ecosystem services under climate change. Plant and soil biodiversity, and their interactions, support the provision of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, whether plant and soil biodiversity explain unique, or shared, contributions to…
Noémie A. Pichon, Seraina L. Cappelli, Santiago Soliveres, Tosca Mannall + 6 more
The ability of an ecosystem to deliver multiple functions at high levels (multifunctionality) typically increases with biodiversity but there is substantial variation in the strength and direction of biodiversity effects, suggesting context-dependency. A better understanding of the drivers of this context dependency is…
Li Zhang, Bill Shipley, Shurong Zhou
Recent studies have shown that intraspecific trait variability is an important source of total trait variation in the face of global change. However, the contribution of intraspecific variability to ecosystem multifunctionality remains unknown. We calculated the mean and variability of four functional traits in an…
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Traditional biocatalytic cascades typically require discrete enzymes for each synthetic step. Here, we report unprecedented trifunctional imine reductases (IRED) that conduct three sequential transformations—alkene reduction, intramolecular reductive amination, and imine reduction—all within a single catalytic cycle.…
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Shaping supramolecular hydrogels formed using low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) into architecturally complex and multifunctional materials is a significant challenge. Here, we introduce a strategy to mechanically twist multiple 1D supramolecular gel filaments (gel noodles) into robust, multifunctional, and…
John Beverley, Peter M. Koch, David Limbaugh, Barry Smith
In our daily lives, as in science and in all other domains, we encounter huge numbers of dispositions (tendencies, potentials, powers) which are realized in processes such as sneezing, sweating, shedding dandruff, and on and on. Among this plethora of what we can think of as 'mere dispositions' is a subset of…
Anna Matuszyńska, Oliver Ebenhöh, Matias D. Zurbriggen, Daniel C. Ducat + 1 more
Synthetic biology designs and constructs new biological parts, devices and systems with predetermined functionalities. With the unlimited ability to synthesise any DNA and RNA and transfer it to almost any organism, we are at the dawn of a new era in which biology is being recreated in ways never before possible. It…
Shannon Bonke, Giovanni Trezza, Luca Bergamasco, Hongwei Song + 4 more
The sunlight-driven reduction of CO2 into fuels and platform chemicals is a promising approach to enable a circular economy. However, established optimisation approaches are poorly suited to multi-variable multi-metric photocatalytic systems because they aim to optimise one performance metric while sacrificing the…
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Curried functions provide a systematic way of transforming multi-argument functions into nested singleargument functions. This transformation allows partial application and supports many central principles of functional programming. Their extension, called curried 𝑘-ary functions, naturally generalizes the familiar…
Mudasir Ahmad Yatoo, Jhalak Gupta, Faiza Habib, Akram Alfantazi + 2 more
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as a versatile class of porous materials with enormous potential for various applications, including energy storage devices. In this review, we present a comprehensive analysis of the recent advancements and applications of MOFs in the field of energy storage. We begin by…