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A Global Synthesis of How Plants Respond to Climate Warming From Traits to Fitness

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70114

Pengyan Jia, Rong Zhang, Bernhard Schmid, Han Wang, Jin-Sheng He, Jiaxi Liu, Sijie Liu, Sipeng Jian, Yanhao Feng

{"title":"A Global Synthesis of How Plants Respond to Climate Warming From Traits to Fitness","authors":"Pengyan Jia, Rong Zhang, Bernhard Schmid, Han Wang, Jin-Sheng He, Jiaxi Liu, Sijie Liu, Sipeng Jian, Yanhao Feng","doi":"10.1111/ele.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70114","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Despite intensive research, our understanding of how plants respond to warming by coordinating their full arsenal of traits to adjust fitness is lacking. To fill this gap, we applied a trait-based framework with three clusters (two functional clusters: “carbon-fixation rate” and “carbon-fixation area”; a third cluster: “total carbon fixation”) to a global dataset compiled from 572 studies of warming experiments with 677 species and a comprehensive list of traits and fitness components. The pairwise correlation analysis complemented with SEM and PCA showed that plants increased biomass (the core variable in the third cluster) under warming by coordinating satellite traits in two functional clusters to adjust their core traits, net photosynthesis rate and total leaf area, respectively. In particular, the trait coordination was characterised by the maintenance of net photosynthesis rate and the increase of total leaf area, which was robust across ecological contexts although warming responses of the variables per se displayed context-dependences. Moreover, the trade-offs between biomass and reproduction (itself bearing mass vs. number trade-offs) in their warming responses scaled the coordination to enhance fitness except in the contexts where reproduction was reduced. These findings could help explain and predict plant form and function in a warming world.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Correction to “Tree Diversity Enhances Predation by Birds but not by Arthropods Across Climate Gradients”

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70113

{"title":"Correction to “Tree Diversity Enhances Predation by Birds but not by Arthropods Across Climate Gradients”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ele.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70113","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Vázquez-González, C., B. Castagneyrol, E. W. Muiruri, et al. (2024). “ Tree diversity enhances predation by birds but not by arthropods across climate gradients.” Ecology letters 27, no. 5: e14427. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14427.\u0000 In the paper by Vázquez-González et al. (2024), the authors would like to include an additional co-author, Dr. Cee Nell, whose name was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the original version of the publication. This has been corrected in the online version of the article.The correct order of author names in author byline is as follows.Carla Vázquez-González1,2, Bastien Castagneyrol3, Evalyne W. Muiruri4, Luc Barbaro5, Luis Abdala-Roberts6, Nadia Barsoum7, Jochen Fründ8,9,10, Carolyn Glynn11, Hervé Jactel3, William J. McShea12, Simone Mereu13, Kailen A. Mooney1, Lourdes Morillas14, Cee Nell1, Charles A. Nock15, Alain Paquette16, John D. Parker17, William C. Parker18, Javier Roales19, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen20, Andreas Schuldt21, Kris Verheyen22, Martin Weih11, Bo Yang23, Julia Koricheva4.We apologize for this error.","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70106

Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Kaspar Delhey, Lucía Izquierdo, Mihai Valcu, Bart Kempenaers

{"title":"Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown","authors":"Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Kaspar Delhey, Lucía Izquierdo, Mihai Valcu, Bart Kempenaers","doi":"10.1111/ele.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70106","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Rapidly expanding urbanisation presents significant challenges to wildlife. Consequently, many studies have investigated the impact of urbanisation on diverse organisms. However, despite the ecological relevance of animal colouration, its association with urbanisation remains poorly understood. Using a global database, we computed an index of urban success for 1287 bird species and quantified its association with estimates of plumage colour. Our analyses showed that birds that do well in urban environments are more likely to be blue, dark grey and black, and less likely to be brown or yellow. After considering phylogenetic relatedness, only the effects of yellow and brown remained significant. Species with high urban success also exhibit more elaborate colours, but not higher sexual dichromatism. We provide eco-evolutionary explanations for these results. Assemblage-level analyses did not support the urban colour homogenisation hypothesis: Urban bird communities were more colour-diverse after accounting for species richness. Our findings suggest that plumage colours are part of an urban-associated syndrome.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Island Plant Species Distributions Contracted at the Cooler Edge Compared to Mainland

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70099

David Coleman, Mark Westoby, Julian Schrader

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Ecological Interactions Drive a Power-Law Relationship Between Group Size and Population Density in Social Foragers

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70111

Aubtin Rouhbakhsh, Amber N. Wright, Jake M. Ferguson

{"title":"Ecological Interactions Drive a Power-Law Relationship Between Group Size and Population Density in Social Foragers","authors":"Aubtin Rouhbakhsh, Amber N. Wright, Jake M. Ferguson","doi":"10.1111/ele.70111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70111","url":null,"abstract":"Past work has shown that group formation in foraging animals aids in resource acquisition and reduces the number of interactions with predators. However, group formation can also increase competition for resources among group members. Here, we model how the individual costs and benefits of group formation drive group size. Our model predicts that when competition for resources occurs within and between groups, forager group size will exhibit a one-third power-law relationship with population abundance. However, if groups form due to intragroup competition and predation, we predict either a one-half power-law relationship with population abundance or a constant group size depending on the coupling between predator and prey. Using empirical data on group foraging birds and ungulates, we found a scaling relationship consistent with the one-third power-law, suggesting that hierarchical competition drives the average group size. Our results support work highlighting the importance of density-dependent group formation in maintaining population stability.","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Assessing the 'Small Population' Paradigm: The Effects of Stochasticity on Evolutionary Change and Population Growth in a Bird Metapopulation

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70090

Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Tor Hansson Frank, Hamish Burnett, Jørgen S. Søraker, Peter S. Ranke, Debora Goedert, Thor-Harald Ringsby, Henrik Jensen, Bernt-Erik Sæther

{"title":"Assessing the 'Small Population' Paradigm: The Effects of Stochasticity on Evolutionary Change and Population Growth in a Bird Metapopulation","authors":"Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Tor Hansson Frank, Hamish Burnett, Jørgen S. Søraker, Peter S. Ranke, Debora Goedert, Thor-Harald Ringsby, Henrik Jensen, Bernt-Erik Sæther","doi":"10.1111/ele.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Habitat loss is leading to smaller fragmented populations, increasing their susceptibility to stochasticity. Quantifying the effects of demographic and environmental stochasticity on population dynamics and the contribution of selection versus drift to phenotypic change is essential to assess the potential consequences of environmental change. We examined how stochasticity influenced population growth and body mass changes over 22 years in 11 insular house sparrow (Passer domesticus) populations. Environmental stochasticity induced synchrony in growth rates across populations while also causing substantial island-specific fluctuations. Additionally, demographic stochasticity led to larger annual growth rate fluctuations in smaller populations. Although heavier individuals generally had higher fitness, we detected non-directional evolutionary change in body mass, driven by drift rather than selection. Our study provides a unique quantitative assessment of the ‘small population’ paradigm, highlighting the importance of theoretically driven analyses of long-term individual-based data to understand the drivers of phenotypic evolution and a population's long-term viability.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Non-Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co-Occurrence Between Native and Non-Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70107

Amanda Cantarute Rodrigues, Rafaela Vendrametto Granzotti, Natália Carneiro Lacerda dos Santos, Angelo Antonio Agostinho, Luiz Carlos Gomes

{"title":"Non-Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co-Occurrence Between Native and Non-Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance","authors":"Amanda Cantarute Rodrigues, Rafaela Vendrametto Granzotti, Natália Carneiro Lacerda dos Santos, Angelo Antonio Agostinho, Luiz Carlos Gomes","doi":"10.1111/ele.70107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70107","url":null,"abstract":"Non-native species may cause cumulative impacts on native communities if their abundance continues to increase through time. This negative effect can reflect on the spatial distribution of native species, especially when native and non-native species are phylogenetically similar. Here, we assessed the spatial co-occurrence between native and non-native fish species using long-term abundance data from six locations in a Brazilian floodplain. We tested whether the co-occurrence of native and non-native species is influenced by non-native species abundance and time since first record, and whether the abundance effect is mediated by the phylogenetic relatedness between native and non-native species. We found that non-native abundance was more influential than the time since first record and co-occurrence between native and non-native species was lower when the non-native abundance was high, regardless of phylogenetic relatedness. The interannual variability in non-native species abundance may overshadow long-term trends in determining the temporal effects of non-native species.","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Plant Acquisitive Strategies Promote Resistance and Temporal Stability of Semiarid Grasslands

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70110

Pu Yan, Nianpeng He, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Xian Yang, Yiping Zuo, Hao Zhang, Jing Wang, Shiping Chen, Jian Song, Guoyong Li, Enrique Valencia, Shiqiang Wan, Lin Jiang

{"title":"Plant Acquisitive Strategies Promote Resistance and Temporal Stability of Semiarid Grasslands","authors":"Pu Yan, Nianpeng He, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Xian Yang, Yiping Zuo, Hao Zhang, Jing Wang, Shiping Chen, Jian Song, Guoyong Li, Enrique Valencia, Shiqiang Wan, Lin Jiang","doi":"10.1111/ele.70110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70110","url":null,"abstract":"Among ecologists, it is widely believed that conservative growth strategies of plants are crucial for sustaining ecosystem stability, while the potential stabilising role of acquisitive strategies has received little attention. We investigated the relationships between plant traits and three stability dimensions—temporal stability, resistance and resilience—using two complementary datasets from drought-affected semi-arid grasslands: a temporal plant community survey from a single site and a 1000-km transect survey with satellite-derived productivity estimates. We found strikingly consistent patterns from the two datasets, with grasslands dominated by acquisitive strategies exhibiting greater resistance and temporal stability of productivity. Acquisitive strategies enhance stability by facilitating drought escape and avoidance, rather than drought tolerance typically associated with conservative strategies. These results highlight the important but underappreciated role of acquisitive strategies in enhancing ecosystem resistance to disturbances and maintaining temporal stability in semi-arid grasslands.","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Cross-Taxa Analysis of Long-Term Data Reveals a Positive Biodiversity-Stability Relationship With Taxon-Specific Mechanistic Underpinning

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70003

Arthur V. Rodrigues, Tuuli Rissanen, Mirkka M. Jones, Ida-Maria Huikkonen, Otso Huitu, Erkki Korpimäki, Mikko Kuussaari, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Andreas Lindén, Hannu Pietiäinen, Juha Pöyry, Pasi Sihvonen, Anna Suuronen, Kristiina Vuorio, Marjo Saastamoinen, Jarno Vanhatalo, Anna-Liisa Laine

{"title":"Cross-Taxa Analysis of Long-Term Data Reveals a Positive Biodiversity-Stability Relationship With Taxon-Specific Mechanistic Underpinning","authors":"Arthur V. Rodrigues, Tuuli Rissanen, Mirkka M. Jones, Ida-Maria Huikkonen, Otso Huitu, Erkki Korpimäki, Mikko Kuussaari, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Andreas Lindén, Hannu Pietiäinen, Juha Pöyry, Pasi Sihvonen, Anna Suuronen, Kristiina Vuorio, Marjo Saastamoinen, Jarno Vanhatalo, Anna-Liisa Laine","doi":"10.1111/ele.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70003","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropogenic environmental change is altering biodiversity at unprecedented rates, threatening the stability of ecosystem services on which humans depend. However, most of what is known about biodiversity–stability relationships comes from experimental studies making extrapolation to real ecosystems difficult. Here, we ask whether the shape and underlying mechanisms of the biodiversity–stability relationship vary among taxa in real-world communities. Our study harnesses the power of six terrestrial and aquatic long-term monitoring datasets, encompassing entire assemblages at hundreds of georeferenced sites providing 20 years long community measurements, covering a 1200 km latitudinal gradient across Finland. In general, we detect a positive relationship between species richness and stability. Structural equation modelling reveals that this relationship is modified by functional trait community composition, with specific mechanisms varying among the taxa. Our study is among the first to highlight the importance of functional traits in elucidating both general and taxon-specific impacts of biodiversity on community stability.","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

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Effects of Disturbance and Fertilisation on Plant Community Synchrony, Biodiversity and Stability Through Succession

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70052

Janette L. Davidson, Kaitlyn R. McKnight, Megan Szojka, Dustin Gannon, Nathan I. Wisnoski, Chhaya M. Werner, Maowei Liang, Eric W. Seabloom, Courtenay Ray, Melissa H. DeSiervo, Lauren G. Shoemaker

{"title":"Effects of Disturbance and Fertilisation on Plant Community Synchrony, Biodiversity and Stability Through Succession","authors":"Janette L. Davidson, Kaitlyn R. McKnight, Megan Szojka, Dustin Gannon, Nathan I. Wisnoski, Chhaya M. Werner, Maowei Liang, Eric W. Seabloom, Courtenay Ray, Melissa H. DeSiervo, Lauren G. Shoemaker","doi":"10.1111/ele.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Global change drivers alter multiple components of community composition, with cascading impacts on ecosystem stability. However, it remains largely unknown how interactions among global change drivers will alter community synchrony, especially across successional timescales. We analysed a 22-year time series of grassland community data from Cedar Creek, USA, to examine the joint effects of pulse soil disturbance and press nitrogen addition on community synchrony, richness, evenness and stability during transient and post-transient periods of succession. Using multiple regression and structural equation modelling, we found that nitrogen addition and soil disturbance decreased both synchrony and stability, thereby weakening the negative synchrony–stability relationship. We found evidence of the portfolio effect during transience, but once communities settled on a restructured state post-transience, diversity no longer influenced the synchrony–stability relationship. Differences between transient and post-transient drivers of synchrony and stability underscore the need for long-term data to inform ecosystem management under ongoing global change.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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