Peer Review #1 of "Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions (v0.1)"

<p>This paper presents a novel ecological & energized modules (EEMs) system for transportation and bridge systems. It has a general interest in almost all human living & ecological systems, civil engineering, and infrastructure. As an underlying and fundamental system of zero energy, zero- water-consumption, and zero-carbon with a 100% greening rate and 100% clean energy, high- quality air, and powerful carbon capture system with significant positive spillover for global carbon removal and climate challenges, etc., the EEMs bridge system is easy, fast, efficient, and zero- dependence on the large complex equipment during the construction. It is applied to a wide variety of bridge systems, such as road bridges, footbridges, flyovers, and overpasses. It’s pollution-free, safe, noiseless, and can be used soon after paving, repairing, and re-laying. The EEMs bridge system has unique superiority in ecosystem integrity and connectivity, resulting in available consequences for global biodiversity, local species interactions, ecosystem integrity and connectivity.</p>

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Peer Review #2 of "Can secondary contact following range expansion be distinguished from barriers to gene flow? (v0.2)"

10.7287/peerj.5325v0.2/reviews/2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

C Fraïsse

Keyword(s):

Gene Flow ◽

Peer Review ◽

Range Expansion ◽

Secondary Contact

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Peer Review #1 of "Can secondary contact following range expansion be distinguished from barriers to gene flow? (v0.2)"

10.7287/peerj.5325v0.2/reviews/1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

N Barton

Keyword(s):

Gene Flow ◽

Peer Review ◽

Range Expansion ◽

Secondary Contact

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The influence of warming and biotic interactions on the potential for range expansion of native and nonnative species

AoB Plants ◽

10.1093/aobpla/plaa040 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Betsy von Holle ◽

Sören E Weber ◽

David M Nickerson

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Range Expansion ◽

Species Interactions ◽

Native Species ◽

Invasive Plant ◽

Soil Microbes ◽

Enemy Release ◽

Native Plant ◽

Soil Pathogens ◽

Microbe Interactions

Abstract Plant species ranges are expected to shift in response to climate change, however, it is unclear how species interactions will affect range shifts. Because of the potential for enemy release of invasive nonnative plant species from species-specific soil pathogens, invasive plants may be able to shift ranges more readily than native plant species. Additionally, changing climatic conditions may alter soil microbial functioning, affecting plant–microbe interactions. We evaluated the effects of site, plant–soil microbe interactions, altered climate, and their interactions on the growth and germination of three congeneric shrub species, two native to southern and central Florida (Eugenia foetida and E. axillaris), and one nonnative invasive from south America (E. uniflora). We measured germination and biomass for these plant species in growth chambers grown under live and sterile soils from two sites within their current range, and one site in their expected range, simulating current (2010) and predicted future (2050) spring growing season temperatures in the new range. Soil microbes (microscopic bacteria, fungi, viruses and other organisms) had a net negative effect on the invasive plant, E. uniflora, across all sites and temperature treatments. This negative response to soil microbes suggests that E. uniflora’s invasive success and potential for range expansion are due to other contributing factors, e.g. higher germination and growth relative to native Eugenia. The effect of soil microbes on the native species depended on the geographic provenance of the microbes, and this may influence range expansion of these native species.

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The macroecology of rapid evolutionary radiation

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2010.1950 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 278 (1717) ◽

pp. 2486-2494 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Nicholas F. Parnell ◽

J. Todd Streelman

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Radiation ◽

Species Interactions ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Ecological Communities ◽

Core Set ◽

Evolutionary Radiation ◽

Local Species ◽

Entire Lake ◽

Insight Into ◽

Occurrence Of Species

A long-standing debate in ecology addresses whether community composition is the result of stochastic factors or assembly rules. Non-random, over-dispersed patterns of species co-occurrence have commonly been attributed to competition—a particularly important force in adaptive radiation. We thus examined the macroecology of the recently radiated cichlid rock-fish assemblage in Lake Malawi, Africa at a spectrum of increasingly fine spatial scales (entire lake to depth within rock-reef sites). Along this range of spatial scales, we observed a signal of community structure (decreased co-occurrence of species) at the largest and smallest scales, but not in between. Evidence suggests that the lakewide signature of structure is driven by extreme endemism and micro-allopatric speciation, while patterns of reduced co-occurrence with depth are indicative of species interactions. We identified a ‘core’ set of rock-reef species, found in combination throughout the lake, whose depth profiles exhibited replicated positive and negative correlation. Our results provide insight into how ecological communities may be structured differently at distinct spatial scales, re-emphasize the importance of local species interactions in community assembly, and further elucidate the processes shaping speciation in this model adaptive radiation.

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