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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…
Tamara Meizoso-Regueira, Marina Dacal, Emma Ring, Matthias C. Rillig
Microplastics are increasingly recognized as emerging contaminants in terrestrial ecosystems, yet their mechanistic impacts on soil multifunctionality remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluated the influence of two microplastic polymers, polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene, on soil functioning by subjecting…
Olga Ferlian, Nico Eisenhauer, Michael Bonkowski, Marcel Ciobanu + 10 more
Global change alters abiotic and biotic conditions across the globe with unprecedented consequences for the functional integrity of affected ecosystems. However, most studies addressing global-change impacts focus on a very limited number of environmental variables, taxa, and ecosystem functions. Evidence is mounting…
Jing Li, Jun Yao, Nan He, Deliang Zhang + 2 more
Humans have made tremendous efforts to explore how biodiversity changes affect ecosystem processes and human well-being. It has been found that, in addition to biodiversity, various drivers of global change also play significant roles in ecosystem functioning. Land use is a key driver of global change, yet research on…
Georg Albert, Michael Staab, Arong Luo, Perttu Anttonen + 34 more
Biodiversity loss threatens the multifunctionality of ecosystems on which human well-being ultimately depends. Changes in multitrophic species interactions may be key to explaining the ecological consequences of biodiversity loss, but research explicitly linking species interactions and ecosystem multifunctionality…
Georg Albert, Michael Staab, Arong Luo, Perttu Anttonen + 34 more
Biodiversity loss threatens the multifunctionality of ecosystems on which human well-being ultimately depends. Multitrophic species interactions may be key to explaining the ecological consequences of biodiversity loss, but research explicitly linking species interactions and ecosystem multifunctionality remains rare.…
Cheng Huang, Mengyu Zhou, Fasih Ullah Haider, Lin Wu + 6 more
Sustainable soil management requires striking a balance between productivity and soil health. While agroforestry practices are known to improve soil health and ecosystem functions, the contribution of microbial diversity to maintaining multifunctional soil processes in pecan (Carya illinoinensis) cultivation has yet to…
Haogeng Zhao, Zhanyuan Lu, Meijuan Cheng, Shuli Wei + 9 more
Introduction Straw returning is an important agricultural measure for improving soil health; however, the mechanism driving how it shapes the characteristics and multifunctionality of crop rhizosphere microbial communities in black-soil areas remains unclear. Methods Through a 3-year field experiment, combined with…
Dongxu Ma, Jiaying He, Qiang Liu, Zhidong Zhang + 4 more
Ecosystem multifunctionality(EMF) refers to an integrated measure of an ecosystem's capacity to perform multiple co-occurring functions. However, change the multi-factor driving mechanism of EMF during poplar-birch secondary forest succession are still poorly understood. Using a space-for-time substitution approach…
Claus Metzner, Ali Ghebleh, Achim Schilling, Andreas Maier + 2 more
Complex adaptive systems often develop organized structures without centralized control. Yet the local mechanisms by which functional organization emerges and persists remain incompletely understood. Here we propose Surviving by Serving (SBS) as a general principle of self-organization: components persist as long as…
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Discovery-oriented research is a fundamental pursuit in chemical and materials science, especially when objective-free or purpose-ambiguous exploration can yield unexpected novel compounds or materials. Recently, data-driven objective-free exploration methods have emerged to support such discovery in materials science.…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…
Monetti, Fabio Marco, Lundström, Adam + 6 more
Modular product design has become a strategic enabler for companies seeking to balance product variety, operational efficiency, and market responsiveness, making the alignment between modular architecture and manufacturing considerations increasingly critical. Modular Function Deployment (MFD) is a widely adopted…
Tomovic, Savo
In this paper we propose an approach to implement specific relationship set between two entities called combinatorial relationship set. For the combinatorial relationship set B between entity sets G and I the mapping cardinality is many-to-many. Additionally, entities from G can be uniquely encoded with a pair of…
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This paper investigates several chemical systems through the lens of hyperstructures and superhyperstructures. We first review Chemical HyperStructures and Chemical SuperHyperStructures defined by redox-driven hyperoperations on species sets with maximal electromotive force selection. Building on the general (m,n)-…
Bastien Dussard, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou
In robotics, the capability of an artificial agent to represent the range of its action possibilities, i.e. affordances, is crucial to understand how it can act on its environment. While functional affordances, which refer to the use of tools and objects, have been broadly studied in knowledge representation, the…
Lee Marom, Skylar Tibbits, Gioele Zardini, Markus J. Buehler
Natural materials achieve adaptive behavior through hierarchical organization and coupled mechanisms across scales. Their translation into engineering, however, remains largely heuristic. What is missing is a formal translation framework that carries biological design logic into engineered realization while preserving…