{"title":"Metal hyperaccumulation in the Indonesian flora","authors":"Francis Q. Brearley","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12497","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12497","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this review, I examined the number, distribution, and metal concentrations of all known metal hyperaccumulator plants from Indonesia. In total, 72 hyperaccumulator taxa were found: 19 accumulated Ni, 42 accumulated Al, 7 accumulated Cu, 2 accumulated Zn, and 2 accumulated Co in addition to Ni. There were six hypernickelophores with greater than 1% foliar nickel and with potential for agromining. Less than 10% of the hyperaccumulator species were single island endemics, and only one had an endangered status. Given that many species were only recorded from locations with mining activity, conservation assessments and actions should urgently be undertaken. There are undoubtedly many more hyperaccumulators to be found across Indonesia that will be discovered with further inter-disciplinary surveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 6","pages":"957-965"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1440-1703.12497","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naoyuki Nakahama, Tomo Hamano, Mari Fujimoto, Akifumi Eto
{"title":"Utilization of abandoned land as cattle grazing restores butterfly and flowering plant diversities in Japan","authors":"Naoyuki Nakahama, Tomo Hamano, Mari Fujimoto, Akifumi Eto","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12494","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abandoned land management threatens the maintenance of the diversity of flower-visiting insects and flowering plants. In recent years, cattle grazing on abandoned land has been practiced in Japan to utilize the abandoned land and reduce cattle feed costs. It is important to elucidate the restoration effects that cattle grazing has on the biodiversity of abandoned lands in warm, humid climate regions, such as Japan. However, there are limited case studies that examine the restoration effects on flower-visiting insects and flowering plants in Japan. In this study, we examined the effects of Tajima cattle grazing on the species richness and abundance of butterflies and flowering plants in abandoned lands in Muraoka-ku, Kami Town, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Our results revealed that the vegetation height was lower and species richness and abundance of butterflies and flowering plants was higher in the grazing lands. However, the abandoned lands had a higher vegetation height and significantly lower species richness and abundance of butterfly and flowering plant. Grazing pressure positively and significantly affected the species richness and abundance of butterfly and flowering plant. These results indicate that grazing increased the species richness and abundance of butterfly and flowering plant. There was no significant difference in the species composition between the grazing and abandoned lands, and no significant indicator species were detected in the abandoned lands. We conclude that Tajima cattle grazing systems on abandoned lands can restore the species richness and abundance of butterfly as well as flowering plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"730-743"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529298","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}
{"title":"The long-term drive count and culling data of the sika deer (Cervus nippon) population introduced on Nakanoshima Island in Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan, during 1980–2023","authors":"Hiromasa Igota, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yukiko Matsuura, Takashi Ikeda, Takuma Watanabe, Koichi Kaji","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12488","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12488","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cervid populations introduced to favorable habitats in confinement often increase excessively without predators and hunting. Overabundant deer populations impact the ecosystems and may cause damages to agriculture and forestry. Long-term count data on the changes in a deer population is essential to understand the relationship between the population dynamics and the natural vegetation. The introduced sika deer (<i>Cervus nippon</i> Temminck, 1836) population without predators on Nakanoshima Island, Hokkaido, Japan, showed repeated irruptions and declines with mass mortality and irregular culling between 1980s and 2000s. The overabundant deer significantly altered the natural vegetation, and density-dependent changes in population parameters such as body size and reproduction were observed. Here, we present the drive count and culling data to examine the population dynamics during 1980–2023. Deer were counted by 20–30 walking drivers and 2–3 observers on boats once per year in February or March. The number of counted deer rapidly increased from the original three introduced around 1960 to >270 deer (the first peak) in two decades and decreased by half due to starvation and the first culling. Thereafter, the number of counted deer continued to increase with a lower growth rate, reached a higher peak (>400, the second peak) than the first irruption in two decades, and decreased again by half due to starvation and the second culling. Although the number of counted deer increased again up to >300 in several years, it decreased and was maintained at around 100 deer with the annual culling program since 2012. The complete data set for this abstract published in the Data Article section of the journal is available in electronic format in MetaCat in JaLTER at http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/metacat/metacat/ERDP-2024-06.1/jalter-en.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"775-781"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506340","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}
{"title":"Multimammate rat (Mastomys erythroleucus) capture-mark-recapture data in Bandia (Senegal) between 1984 and 2012","authors":"Laurent Granjon, Khalilou Bâ, Youssoupha Niang, Yves Papillon, Jean-Marc Duplantier","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12490","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12490","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Long-term ecological data are of paramount importance to document the effects of global changes on biodiversity and dynamics of populations and communities. The site of Bandia, 70 km southeast of Dakar in western Senegal, has been the scene of numerous ecological studies since the 1970s. In the frame of projects led by researchers of the <i>Institut de Recherche pour le Développement</i> (IRD), rodent populations were monitored at various periods using capture-mark-recapture (CMR) protocols on trapping grids that yielded important datasets on population dynamics and ecology of the main species present. Among them, the Guinea Multimammate Rat <i>Mastomys erythroleucus</i> proved to represent the dominant species. Thus, CMR data were collected on <i>M. erythroleucus</i> between (i) November 1975–March 1981, (ii) January 1983–October 1986, (iii) January 1997–April 2001, and (iv) June 2007–June 2012. Raw data from the 1975–1981 period were not available, but those from the three other periods are now in the IRD data repository DataSuds at https://doi.org/10.23708/YEA5AR. They represent 2556 (re)captures of 1296 <i>M. erythroleucus</i> individuals. They include the identity of each animal captured with some biological attributes (sex, weight at first capture, and reproductive activity), exact date and point of capture (via a trap-specific code) at each trapping occasion, and additional comments that may help to interpret the data. This dataset concerning one of the most widespread rodent species of the Sahelo-Sudanian bioclimatic belt provides information that can be used to address various questions such as outbreak prediction or effects of climate change. The complete data set for this abstract published in the Data Article section of the journal is also available in electronic format in MetaCat in JaLTER at http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/metacat/metacat/ERDP-2024-05.1/jalter-en.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"782-788"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1440-1703.12490","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General and specific effects of foundation species on the structure of alpine-fellfield communities in the Taisetsu Mountains, northern Japan","authors":"Zaal Kikvidze, Gaku Kudo, Maki Suzuki, Yoshiko Shimono, Mikio Sukeno","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12498","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12498","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The great majority of studies on foundation species focused on a single dominant plant in a community, while more than one such species can often coexist and compete for space and limited resources. Morphologically different coexisting foundation species can create diverse niches occupied by different subsets of beneficiary species. To test this hypothesis, we sampled alpine plant communities at exposed fellfields in alpine zone, in the Taisetsu Mountains (Hokkaido, northern Japan), with coexisting putative foundation species <i>Pinus pumila</i> (evergreen shrub) and <i>Diapensia lapponica</i> (evergreen cushion-forming shrub), and analyzed their spatial relationships with other plants. Preliminary vegetation survey indicated that fruticose lichens and <i>Loiseleuria procumbens</i> (evergreen mat-forming shrub) might also act as a foundation species; thus, we included them in our analyses. The coexisting foundation species had both general as well as specific effects on plant community structure. Namely, almost all the members of the community aggregated spatially with lichens, while the other foundation species were spatially segregated from each other. These foundation plants associated with different members of the community, thus showing species-specific effects on the community structure. Blooming species showed even stronger patterns of species-specific spatial associations, suggesting that foundation species had beneficial effects on their associated species. We conclude that the focus on coexisting foundation species can reveal important details of community structure which would be hidden if we treated all species as equal members of the community. Studying the effects of coexisting foundation species could greatly advance our understanding of how species diversity functions in plant communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"744-756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141519157","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}
Haley P. Disinger, Dulce Montserrat Navarrete Gutiérrez, Alicia Maríasol Díaz Reyes, Rosario Rodas Duarte, Maura L. Quezada, Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, A. Joseph Pollard
{"title":"Herbarium and field studies of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Guatemala","authors":"Haley P. Disinger, Dulce Montserrat Navarrete Gutiérrez, Alicia Maríasol Díaz Reyes, Rosario Rodas Duarte, Maura L. Quezada, Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, A. Joseph Pollard","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12495","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Until 2019, there were no published reports of trace element hyperaccumulation in the plants of Central America or Mexico. Recent reports, based mostly on measurement of herbarium specimens using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy, have begun to identify hyperaccumulators of nickel (Ni) in this region. The most extensive deposits of Ni-rich ultramafic rocks and soils in Central America occur along the Polochic-Motagua fault system in eastern Guatemala. This study focused on discovery and characterization of new hyperaccumulators in Guatemala, starting with surveys of herbarium specimens, followed by field studies to understand the ultramafic soils of the region and the ecology of hyperaccumulators that occur there. Initial XRF screening at the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, along with two herbaria in Guatemala, identified four previously unreported Ni hyperaccumulators—<i>Arachnothryx linguiformis</i>, <i>Arachnothryx buddleioides</i>, <i>Chionanthus panamensis</i>, and <i>Orthion guatemalense</i>. Field studies in Guatemala characterized the communities in which these species occur, some of which include multiple hyperaccumulator species growing in close proximity. In two taxa that showed phenotypic variation in foliar Ni concentration, there was no statistically significant correlation between Ni concentrations in leaves and either the total or DTPA-extractable Ni in soils, suggesting that other genetic or environmental variables may influence hyperaccumulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 6","pages":"838-851"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1440-1703.12495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genotypic variations appear in fine root morphological traits of Cryptomeria japonica trees grown in a common garden","authors":"Ryo Nakahata, Wakana A. Azuma, Tomoko Tanabe, Kiyosada Kawai, Tsutom Hiura","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12492","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12492","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fine root morphological traits regulate the belowground resource acquisition strategies of trees. Therefore, investigating genotypic variations isolated from environmental variations within tree species helps in understanding how genotypic backgrounds affect intragenerational tree acclimation to the growing environment. Thus, this study aimed to clarify the effects of genotypic variations on the fine root morphology of three types of Japanese cedar (<i>Cryptomeria japonica</i>), which were derived from different provenances but were grown in a common garden. In the three geographically different provenances of <i>C. japonica</i> stands (Yanase, Yoshino, and Yaku), fine root morphological traits, such as root length and diameter and specific root length (SRL), were measured for each root up to the 4th branching order. Yaku cedar exhibited root traits distinct from the other provenances, such as growing longer and thinner roots in 1st root order to enhance root surface area. In addition, the SRL patterns with root orders and higher root tissue density suggested a resource conservation strategy. Yanase cedar demonstrated a significantly higher root branching ratio and specific root tips than the other provenances, indicating a strategy for investing resources in absorptive roots. Although Yoshino cedar had traits similar to those of Yanase cedar or intermediate between Yanase and Yaku cedars, high aboveground production may be achieved through nutrient acquisition with root exudates instead of absorptive root growth. Genotypic variations appeared in fine root morphological traits of <i>C. japonica</i> trees, even when grown in the same environments, implying distinct resource acquisition strategies characterized by each provenance.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"717-729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1440-1703.12492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141361441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) endemic to Greek ultramafics: From taxonomy to metal accumulation behavior","authors":"Isabella Bettarini, Elisabetta Bianchi, Ilaria Colzi, Andrea Coppi, Guillaume Echevarria, Cristina Gonnelli, Federico Selvi","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12491","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12491","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A new species of <i>Odontarrhena</i> (Brassicaceae) is described from Mount Vourinos in western Macedonia, Greece. The species is restricted to the ridge and the northern slopes of Mt. Vourinos above 1500 m a.s.l. and grows on stony slopes and dry rocky grassland on ultramafic soil with elevated trace metal concentrations. Based on morphological, karyological, and nrDNA sequences, the species is tetraploid with supernumerary B-chromosomes (2<i>n</i> = 4× = 32 + 2B) and related to the Balkan endemic <i>Odontarrhena decipiens</i>. It differs from the latter mainly by the habit of subshrub with woody base and a denser indumentum of stellate trichomes, resulting in a white-silvery color of the leaves and shoots. The presence of four degenerate positions in the ITS1 region was detected only in the new species from Mt. Vourinos. Shoot Ni concentrations determined by x-ray fluorescence analysis and atomic absorption spectroscopy were largely variable (6200–18,700 μg g<sup>−1</sup> dw), but always significantly higher than in roots. Hydroponic trials confirmed the typical features of Ni hyperaccumulating plants, such as growth stimulating effect at low metal doses and shoot metal concentration above the hyperaccumulation threshold. The new species of <i>Odontarrhena</i> is a Ni hyperaccumulator with substantial aboveground biomass production, making it a promising candidate for phytomining applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 6","pages":"822-837"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141367415","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}
{"title":"Network structure indicators predict ecological robustness in food webs","authors":"Yi Tang, Fengzhen Wang, Wenhao Zhou","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12489","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1440-1703.12489","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Food web robustness is a critical aspect of ecosystem stability and has been extensively studied in ecology. However, the potential of machine learning techniques in predicting food web robustness and the identification of key network structure indicators have not been fully explored. We compared the suitability of different machine learning methods and assessed the relative importance of network structure indicators for predicting the robustness of food webs. We utilized a variety of food web datasets spanning different ecosystems to calculate network structure indicators, which include average distance (AD), betweenness centrality (BC), directional connectivity (C), closeness centrality (CC), diameter (D), degree centrality (DC), edge betweenness centrality (EBC), number of links (L), linkage density (LD), and number of nodes (N). We then compared the performance of machine learning methods, including artificial neural network (ANN), random forest (RF), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), and decision tree (DT), and evaluated the relative importance of network structure indicators on robustness predictions. The results demonstrate that the RF model has the best performance (MAE = 0.0178, RMSE = 0.0263, <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.9063). Meanwhile, the CC indicator has a significant impact in predicting robustness of food webs. It is suggested that both the RF model and the CC indicator should be considered seriously in predicting food web robustness. This research elucidates the differential outcomes when various machine learning methodologies and indicators are employed to predict the robustness of food webs. It significantly enhances our understanding by demonstrating the precise capability of machine learning models in forecasting the robustness of food webs.</p>","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"39 5","pages":"766-774"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193530","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}
Magnus D. Norling, Øyvind Kaste, Richard F. Wright
{"title":"A biogeochemical model of acidification: MAGIC is alive and well","authors":"Magnus D. Norling, Øyvind Kaste, Richard F. Wright","doi":"10.1111/1440-1703.12487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12487","url":null,"abstract":"For 40 years, Model of Acidification of Groundwater In Catchments (MAGIC) has been used to simulate the acidification of soils and waters due to acid deposition. The original model (MAGIC v8) has now been updated and re‐implemented in the C++ Mobius platform and is available as open source. MAGIC‐Forest includes new modules describing hydrology, forest growth, and soil carbon. The Mobius platform facilitates automatic optimization of calibrated parameters and multipoint calibrations using Monte‐Carlo routines. The usefulness of MAGIC is demonstrated here by application to the 50‐year data series for deposition and runoff at Birkenes, a small, calibrated catchment in southern Norway. Acid deposition has declined dramatically at Birkenes since the peak in the 1970s. Sulfate is 90% lower. Stream water has recovered strongly. Decreased concentrations of sulfate have led to increased acid‐neutralizing capacity, pH, and reduced concentrations of toxic aluminum. These changes are well‐simulated by MAGIC. The sulfate control on organic carbon solubility added as part of MAGIC‐Forest improves the simulations. The MAGIC‐Forest modeling tool is now available for applications to scenarios of land‐use and climate change.","PeriodicalId":11434,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Research","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193529","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}