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Heterogenous effects of bat declines from white-nose syndrome on arthropods 白鼻综合征导致蝙蝠减少对节肢动物的异质性影响
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14437
Amy K. Wray, Marcus Z. Peery, Jade M. Kochanski, Emma Pelton, Daniel L. Lindner, Claudio Gratton
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Population and community consequences of perceived risk from humans in wildlife 野生动物感知到的人类风险对种群和社区造成的后果
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14456
Justine A. Smith, Megan E. McDaniels, Scott D. Peacor, Ellen C. Bolas, Michael J. Cherry, Nathan J. Dorn, Olivia K. Feldman, David L. Kimbro, Emily K. Leonhardt, Nicole E. Peckham, Michael J. Sheriff, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor
{"title":"Population and community consequences of perceived risk from humans in wildlife","authors":"Justine A. Smith,&nbsp;Megan E. McDaniels,&nbsp;Scott D. Peacor,&nbsp;Ellen C. Bolas,&nbsp;Michael J. Cherry,&nbsp;Nathan J. Dorn,&nbsp;Olivia K. Feldman,&nbsp;David L. Kimbro,&nbsp;Emily K. Leonhardt,&nbsp;Nicole E. Peckham,&nbsp;Michael J. Sheriff,&nbsp;Kaitlyn M. Gaynor","doi":"10.1111/ele.14456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14456","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human activities catalyse risk avoidance behaviours in wildlife across taxa and systems. However, the broader ecological significance of human-induced risk perception remains unclear, with a limited understanding of how phenotypic responses scale up to affect population or community dynamics. We present a framework informed by predator–prey ecology to predict the occurrence of non-consumptive effects (NCE) and trait-mediated indirect effects (TMIE) of anthropogenic disturbances. We report evidence from a comprehensive review of the different types of human-induced behavioural and physiological phenotypic changes and their influence on vital rates and population parameters in wildlife. Evidence for human-induced NCEs and TMIEs is mixed, with half of published studies finding a relationship between human activities, phenotypic change and population outcomes. The net effects of anthropogenic NCEs and TMIEs depend on the mismatch between the phenotypic response and the lethality of human activity. However, strong research biases in taxa, systems, human disturbance types and demographic measures prevent unified inference about the prevalence of population responses to human activities. Coexistence with and conservation of wildlife requires additional research linking human-induced phenotypic change to population and community outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141441411","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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The abundant fraction of soil microbiomes regulates the rhizosphere function in crop wild progenitors 土壤微生物群的丰富程度调节着作物野生原种的根圈功能
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14462
Miguel de Celis, María José Fernández-Alonso, Ignacio Belda, Carlos García, Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Javier Palomino, Brajesh K. Singh, Yue Yin, Jun-Tao Wang, Luis Abdala-Roberts, Fernando D. Alfaro, Diego Angulo-Pérez, Manoj-Kumar Arthikala, Jason Corwin, Duan Gui-Lan, Antonio Hernandez-Lopez, Kalpana Nanjareddy, Babak Pasari, Teresa Quijano-Medina, Daniela S. Rivera, Salar Shaaf, Pankaj Trivedi, Qingwen Yang, Eli Zaady, Yong-Guan Zhu, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Rubén Milla, Pablo García-Palacios
{"title":"The abundant fraction of soil microbiomes regulates the rhizosphere function in crop wild progenitors","authors":"Miguel de Celis,&nbsp;María José Fernández-Alonso,&nbsp;Ignacio Belda,&nbsp;Carlos García,&nbsp;Raúl Ochoa-Hueso,&nbsp;Javier Palomino,&nbsp;Brajesh K. Singh,&nbsp;Yue Yin,&nbsp;Jun-Tao Wang,&nbsp;Luis Abdala-Roberts,&nbsp;Fernando D. Alfaro,&nbsp;Diego Angulo-Pérez,&nbsp;Manoj-Kumar Arthikala,&nbsp;Jason Corwin,&nbsp;Duan Gui-Lan,&nbsp;Antonio Hernandez-Lopez,&nbsp;Kalpana Nanjareddy,&nbsp;Babak Pasari,&nbsp;Teresa Quijano-Medina,&nbsp;Daniela S. Rivera,&nbsp;Salar Shaaf,&nbsp;Pankaj Trivedi,&nbsp;Qingwen Yang,&nbsp;Eli Zaady,&nbsp;Yong-Guan Zhu,&nbsp;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,&nbsp;Rubén Milla,&nbsp;Pablo García-Palacios","doi":"10.1111/ele.14462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14462","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rhizosphere influence on the soil microbiome and function of crop wild progenitors (CWPs) remains virtually unknown, despite its relevance to develop microbiome-oriented tools in sustainable agriculture. Here, we quantified the rhizosphere influence—a comparison between rhizosphere and bulk soil samples—on bacterial, fungal, protists and invertebrate communities and on soil multifunctionality across nine CWPs at their sites of origin. Overall, rhizosphere influence was higher for abundant taxa across the four microbial groups and had a positive influence on rhizosphere soil organic C and nutrient contents compared to bulk soils. The rhizosphere influence on abundant soil microbiomes was more important for soil multifunctionality than rare taxa and environmental conditions. Our results are a starting point towards the use of CWPs for rhizosphere engineering in modern crops.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141439553","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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Mast seeding in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is associated with reduced fungal sporocarp production and community diversity 欧洲山毛榉(Fagus sylvatica L.)的桅杆播种与真菌孢子果产量和群落多样性减少有关。
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-15 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14460
Talia J. Michaud, Ian S. Pearse, Håvard Kauserud, Carrie J. Andrew, Peter G. Kennedy
{"title":"Mast seeding in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is associated with reduced fungal sporocarp production and community diversity","authors":"Talia J. Michaud,&nbsp;Ian S. Pearse,&nbsp;Håvard Kauserud,&nbsp;Carrie J. Andrew,&nbsp;Peter G. Kennedy","doi":"10.1111/ele.14460","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14460","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mast seeding is a well-documented phenomenon across diverse forest ecosystems. While its effect on aboveground food webs has been thoroughly studied, how it impacts the soil fungi that drive soil carbon and nutrient cycling has not yet been explored. To evaluate the relationship between mast seeding and fungal resource availability, we paired a Swiss 29-year fungal sporocarp census with contemporaneous seed production for European beech (<i>Fagus sylvatica</i> L.). On average, mast seeding was associated with a 55% reduction in sporocarp production and a compositional community shift towards drought-tolerant taxa across both ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic guilds. Among ectomycorrhizal fungi, traits associated with carbon cost did not explain species' sensitivity to seed production. Together, our results support a novel hypothesis that mast seeding limits annual resource availability and reproductive investment in soil fungi, creating an ecosystem ‘rhythm’ to forest processes that is synchronized above- and belowground.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141320083","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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Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation 以地区为基础的生物多样性保护原则。
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14459
Federico Riva, Nick Haddad, Lenore Fahrig, Cristina Banks-Leite
{"title":"Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation","authors":"Federico Riva,&nbsp;Nick Haddad,&nbsp;Lenore Fahrig,&nbsp;Cristina Banks-Leite","doi":"10.1111/ele.14459","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14459","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent international agreements have strengthened and expanded commitments to protect and restore native habitats for biodiversity protection (“area-based biodiversity conservation”). Nevertheless, biodiversity conservation is hindered because how such commitments should be implemented has been strongly debated, which can lead to suboptimal habitat protection decisions. We argue that, despite the debates, there are three essential principles for area-based biodiversity conservation. These principles are related to habitat geographic coverage, amount, and connectivity. They emerge from evidence that, while large areas of nature are important and must be protected, conservation or restoration of multiple small habitat patches is also critical for global conservation, particularly in regions with high land use. We contend that the many area-based conservation initiatives expected in the coming decades should follow the principles we identify, regardless of ongoing debates. Considering the importance of biodiversity for maintenance of ecosystem services, we suggest that this would bring widespread societal benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141320084","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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When can higher-order interactions produce stable coexistence? 高阶互动何时能产生稳定共存?
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14458
Theo L. Gibbs, Gabriel Gellner, Simon A. Levin, Kevin S. McCann, Alan Hastings, Jonathan M. Levine
{"title":"When can higher-order interactions produce stable coexistence?","authors":"Theo L. Gibbs,&nbsp;Gabriel Gellner,&nbsp;Simon A. Levin,&nbsp;Kevin S. McCann,&nbsp;Alan Hastings,&nbsp;Jonathan M. Levine","doi":"10.1111/ele.14458","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14458","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most ecological models are based on the assumption that species interact in pairs. Diverse communities, however, can have higher-order interactions, in which two or more species jointly impact the growth of a third species. A pitfall of the common pairwise approach is that it misses the higher-order interactions potentially responsible for maintaining natural diversity. Here, we explore the stability properties of systems where higher-order interactions guarantee that a specified set of abundances is a feasible equilibrium of the dynamics. Even these higher-order interactions which lead to equilibria do not necessarily produce stable coexistence. Instead, these systems are more likely to be stable when the pairwise interactions are weak or facilitative. Correlations between the pairwise and higher-order interactions, however, do permit robust coexistence even in diverse systems. Our work not only reveals the challenges in generating stable coexistence through higher-order interactions but also uncovers interaction patterns that can enable diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141320085","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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Response to von Schmalensee et al. 对 von Schmalensee 等人的回应
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14436
Guillermo Garcia-Costoya, Claire E. Williams, Trevor M. Faske, Jacob D. Moorman, Michael L. Logan
{"title":"Response to von Schmalensee et al.","authors":"Guillermo Garcia-Costoya,&nbsp;Claire E. Williams,&nbsp;Trevor M. Faske,&nbsp;Jacob D. Moorman,&nbsp;Michael L. Logan","doi":"10.1111/ele.14436","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14436","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Von Schmalensee et al. present two concerns about our study. While the first stems from a general disagreement about our simulation methodology, the second is a useful observation of a modelling choice we made that affected simulation outcomes, but in ways that do not invalidate our original conclusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141304995","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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Methodological artefacts cause counter-intuitive evolutionary conclusions in a simulation study 在一项模拟研究中,方法上的人为因素导致了反直觉的进化结论。
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14439
Loke von Schmalensee, Mats Ittonen, Anna Brødsgaard Shoshan, Kevin T. Roberts, Isabelle Siemers, Philip Süess, Christer Wiklund, Karl Gotthard
{"title":"Methodological artefacts cause counter-intuitive evolutionary conclusions in a simulation study","authors":"Loke von Schmalensee,&nbsp;Mats Ittonen,&nbsp;Anna Brødsgaard Shoshan,&nbsp;Kevin T. Roberts,&nbsp;Isabelle Siemers,&nbsp;Philip Süess,&nbsp;Christer Wiklund,&nbsp;Karl Gotthard","doi":"10.1111/ele.14439","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14439","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In their simulation study, Garcia-Costoya et al. (2023) conclude that evolutionary constraints might aid populations facing climate change. However, we are concerned that this conclusion is largely a consequence of the simulated temperature variation being too small, and, most importantly, that uneven limitations to standing variation disadvantage unconstrained populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14439","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141304994","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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Frequency-dependent tolerance to aircraft disturbance drastically alters predicted impact on shorebirds 对飞机干扰的容忍度与频率有关,这大大改变了对海岸鸟类的预测影响。
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14452
Henk-Jan van der Kolk, Cor J. Smit, Andrew M. Allen, Bruno J. Ens, Martijn van de Pol
{"title":"Frequency-dependent tolerance to aircraft disturbance drastically alters predicted impact on shorebirds","authors":"Henk-Jan van der Kolk,&nbsp;Cor J. Smit,&nbsp;Andrew M. Allen,&nbsp;Bruno J. Ens,&nbsp;Martijn van de Pol","doi":"10.1111/ele.14452","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14452","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthropogenic disturbance of wildlife is increasing globally. Generalizing impacts of disturbance to novel situations is challenging, as the tolerance of animals to human activities varies with disturbance frequency (e.g. due to habituation). Few studies have quantified frequency-dependent tolerance, let alone determined how it affects predictions of disturbance impacts when these are extrapolated over large areas. In a comparative study across a gradient of air traffic intensities, we show that birds nearly always fled (80%) if aircraft were rare, while birds rarely responded (7%) if traffic was frequent. When extrapolating site-specific responses to an entire region, accounting for frequency-dependent tolerance dramatically alters the predicted costs of disturbance: the disturbance map homogenizes with fewer hotspots. Quantifying frequency-dependent tolerance has proven challenging, but we propose that (i) ignoring it causes extrapolations of disturbance impacts from single sites to be unreliable, and (ii) it can reconcile published idiosyncratic species- or source-specific disturbance responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.14452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141299543","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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Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas 放牧的食草动物减少了非洲稀树草原的草本生物量和火灾活动。
IF 8.8 1区 环境科学与生态学
Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14450
Allison Tyler Karp, Sally E. Koerner, Gareth P. Hempson, Joel O. Abraham, T. Michael Anderson, William J. Bond, Deron E. Burkepile, Elizabeth N. Fillion, Jacob R. Goheen, Jennifer A. Guyton, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Neha Mohanbabu, Todd M. Palmer, Lauren M. Porensky, Robert M. Pringle, Mark E. Ritchie, Melinda D. Smith, Dave I. Thompson, Truman P. Young, A. Carla Staver
{"title":"Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas","authors":"Allison Tyler Karp,&nbsp;Sally E. Koerner,&nbsp;Gareth P. Hempson,&nbsp;Joel O. Abraham,&nbsp;T. Michael Anderson,&nbsp;William J. Bond,&nbsp;Deron E. Burkepile,&nbsp;Elizabeth N. Fillion,&nbsp;Jacob R. Goheen,&nbsp;Jennifer A. Guyton,&nbsp;Tyler R. Kartzinel,&nbsp;Duncan M. Kimuyu,&nbsp;Neha Mohanbabu,&nbsp;Todd M. Palmer,&nbsp;Lauren M. Porensky,&nbsp;Robert M. Pringle,&nbsp;Mark E. Ritchie,&nbsp;Melinda D. Smith,&nbsp;Dave I. Thompson,&nbsp;Truman P. Young,&nbsp;A. Carla Staver","doi":"10.1111/ele.14450","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.14450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fire and herbivory interact to alter ecosystems and carbon cycling. In savannas, herbivores can reduce fire activity by removing grass biomass, but the size of these effects and what regulates them remain uncertain. To examine grazing effects on fuels and fire regimes across African savannas, we combined data from herbivore exclosure experiments with remotely sensed data on fire activity and herbivore density. We show that, broadly across African savannas, grazing herbivores substantially reduce both herbaceous biomass and fire activity. The size of these effects was strongly associated with grazing herbivore densities, and surprisingly, was mostly consistent across different environments. A one-zebra increase in herbivore biomass density (~100 kg/km<sup>2</sup> of metabolic biomass) resulted in a ~53 kg/ha reduction in standing herbaceous biomass and a ~0.43 percentage point reduction in burned area. Our results indicate that fire models can be improved by incorporating grazing effects on grass biomass.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141299544","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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