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Neural pathways and computations that achieve stable contrast processing tuned to natural scenes

Stable vision in quickly changing environments requires a mechanism that ensures that contrast is computed correctly when light conditions change rapidly. Here authors identify the circuits and algorithm of this mechanism in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Burak Gür
Luisa Ramirez
Marion Silies
ResearchOpen Access03 Oct 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-18
A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

Although co-occurring species may differ widely in their response traits, coordinated functional trait shifts may emerge at the community level in response to environmental factors. Here, the authors use data from 150 grassland sites to identify a coordinated slow-fast strategy response to land-use intensification across above- and belowground taxa.

Margot Neyret
Gaëtane Le Provost
Peter Manning
ResearchOpen Access10 Feb 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-23
Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

Managing landscapes sustainably is challenging given the competing interests of different stakeholder groups. By combining broad ecological data with information on the ecosystem service priorities of multiple stakeholder groups, this study provides a tool to quantify the social impact of land-use changes.

Margot Neyret
Sophie Peter
Peter Manning
Research16 Jan 2023
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 6, P: 391-403
Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change. Here the authors measure diversity across multiple trophic levels in agricultural grassland landscapes of varying management, finding decoupled responses of above- and belowground taxa to local factors and a strong impact of landscape-level land use.

Gaëtane Le Provost
Jan Thiele
Peter Manning
ResearchOpen Access24 Jun 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-13
Small-molecule inhibition of APT1 affects Ras localization and signaling

Reversible palmitoylation controls the localization and signaling of Ras. Development of a potent and specific small molecule inhibitor of the thioesterase APT1 reveals that this enzyme depalmitoylates Ras in cells. Inhibition of APT1 led to redistribution and altered activity of HRas, NRas and an oncogenic mutant Ras.

Frank J Dekker
Oliver Rocks
Herbert Waldmann
Research25 Apr 2010
Nature Chemical Biology

Volume: 6, P: 449-456
Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands

Relationships between biodiversity and phosphorus cycling and the underlying processes are complex. Here the authors analyse a biodiversity manipulation experiment and an agricultural management gradient to show how plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity promote phosphorus exploitation.

Yvonne Oelmann
Markus Lange
Wolfgang Wilcke
ResearchOpen Access21 Jul 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

Managing forests for the supply of multiple ecosystem services (ES) is key given potential trade-offs among services. Here, the authors analyse how forest stand attributes generate trade-offs among ES and the relative contribution of forest attributes and environmental factors to predict services.

María R. Felipe-Lucia
Santiago Soliveres
Eric Allan
ResearchOpen Access16 Nov 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
GABA_A receptor dependent synaptic inhibition rapidly tunes KCC2 activity via the Cl⁻-sensitive WNK1 kinase

GABAergic transmission regulates the K⁺-Cl⁻ co-transporter KCC2. Here the authors demonstrate that inhibitory transmission, via GABA_A receptor and WNK signaling, regulates KCC2 expression in the membrane of hippocampal neurons.

Martin Heubl
Jinwei Zhang
Sabine Lévi
ResearchOpen Access24 Nov 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-17
The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

The fossil record of flowers is limited, necessitating other approaches to understanding floral evolution. Here, Sauquet and colleagues reconstruct the characteristics and diversification of ancient angiosperm flowers by combining models of flower evolution with an extensive database of extant floral traits.

Hervé Sauquet
Maria von Balthazar
Jürg Schönenberger
ResearchOpen Access01 Aug 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

Elevational trends in biodiversity and ecosystem functions across natural and anthropogenic habitats on Mount Kilimanjaro show that the effects of land use are strongly mediated by climate.

Marcell K. Peters
Andreas Hemp
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Research27 Mar 2019
Nature

Volume: 568, P: 88-92
Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

Both a high number of species and abundance in multiple trophic levels are required for ecosystems to continue to provide the services humans require of them.

Santiago Soliveres
Fons van der Plas
Eric Allan
Research17 Aug 2016
Nature

Volume: 536, P: 456-459
Gender specific airway gene expression in COPD sub-phenotypes supports a role of mitochondria and of different types of leukocytes

Anna Esteve-Codina
Thomas P. Hofer
Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock
ResearchOpen Access18 Jun 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-14
Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests

Kristin Kaiser
Bernd Wemheuer
Rolf Daniel
ResearchOpen Access21 Sept 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-12
Divergent habitat filtering of root and soil fungal communities in temperate beech forests

Kezia Goldmann
Kristina Schröter
Tesfaye Wubet
ResearchOpen Access11 Aug 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-10

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