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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12536

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Copper, lead, and zinc tolerance and accumulation in the Australian rattle pods Crotalaria novae-hollandiae, C. medicaginea, and C. mitchellii

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12535

Roger H. Tang, Mirko Salinitro, Philip Nti Nkrumah, Peter D. Erskine, Antony van der Ent

{"title":"Copper, lead, and zinc tolerance and accumulation in the Australian rattle pods Crotalaria novae-hollandiae, C. medicaginea, and C. mitchellii","authors":"Roger H. Tang, Mirko Salinitro, Philip Nti Nkrumah, Peter D. Erskine, Antony van der Ent","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12535","url":null,"abstract":"Crotalaria is a genus of ~600 species of legumes predominantly found in (sub)tropical regions of Africa and Australia. Crotalaria novae-hollandiae from Australia is a polymetallic zinc (Zn)-cadmium(Cd)-copper(Cu) hyperaccumulator, but only when growing in metalliferous soils. This study aimed to test metal tolerance in Australian Crotalaria species to establish whether metal tolerance is a trait shared between Crotalaria species not known to occur on metalliferous soils. The hyperaccumulator Crotalaria novae-hollandiae and two non-metallophytes, Crotalaria mitchellii and Crotalaria medicaginea, were exposed to different treatments containing Cu-lead(Pb)-Zn in the form of spiked soils. Foliar samples were analyzed for total elemental concentrations and spectrophotometric analysis was undertaken to assess photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll a + b and carotenoids) as indicators of stress and polyphenols as an indicator of tolerance. No significant differences in metal accumulation were found in the Crotalaria species, and all exhibited a high level of tolerance toward Zn. However, C. novae-hollandiae exhibited the greatest tolerance toward Zn but had low tolerance toward Cu, while none accumulated foliar Pb. Tolerance to Zn appears to be a trait shared between the Crotalaria species tested. None of the tested Crotalaria species exhibited tolerance toward Cu, and none accumulated Pb.","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 6","pages":"966-976"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Concentrations and inter-element correlations of seven essential elements in wild plants of Japan

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12533

Takafumi Mizuno, Daichi Kondo, Hiroto Kasai, Kosuke Kuwabara, Jun Yamashita, Yoshinori Murai, Antony van der Ent, Atsushi Hashimoto, Toshihiro Watanabe

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Transfer of potentially toxic metals and metalloids from terrestrial plants to arthropods—A mini review

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12532

Tean Joubert, Bianca Greyvenstein, João Marcelo-Silva, Stefan John Siebert

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Recent advances in the study of serpentine plants and ecosystems: Perspectives from the 10th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology, France: Part II

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12530

Antony van der Ent, Shota Sakaguchi, Robert S. Boyd, Nishanta Rajakaruna, A. Joseph Pollard, Takafumi Mizuno, Sandrine Isnard, Cristina Gonnelli, Guillaume Echevarria

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Designing cropping systems for nickel agromining on ultramafic land in Albania

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12525

Aida Bani, Vanessa Álvarez-López, Angeles Prieto-Fernández, Liri Miho, Edmira Shahu, Guillaume Echevarria, Petra Kidd

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Spatiotemporal interactions between jaguars (Panthera onca) and their potential prey in Amazonian islands 亚马逊岛屿上美洲虎（Panthera onca）与潜在猎物之间的时空互动

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12522

Herbert O. B. Duarte, Luís Miguel Rosalino, José Júlio de Toledo, Renato Richard Hilário, William Douglas Carvalho

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Seed dispersal of Zoysia japonica by sika deer: An example of the “foliage is the fruit” hypothesis 梅花鹿传播紫云英的种子：叶是果实 "假说的一个实例

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12527

Seiki Takatsuki, Hiroshi Imae, Masatoshi Sato

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From anthropogenic toward natural acidification: Effects of future deposition and climate on recovery in a humic catchment in Norway 从人为酸化到自然酸化：未来沉积和气候对挪威腐殖质集水区恢复的影响

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12524

Heleen A. de Wit, François Clayer, Øyvind Kaste, Magnus Norling

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Phenotyping of the nickel metal crop Bornmuellera emarginata for establishing breeding selection criteria 对镍金属作物 Bornmuellera emarginata 进行表型分析，以制定育种选择标准

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Ecological Research Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12521

Serigne N. Ly, Guillaume Echevarria, Stéphanie Ouvrard, Antony van der Ent, Mark G. M. Aarts

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