Many ecological community dynamics display some degree of directionality, known as succession patterns. But complex interaction networks frequently tend to non-directional such chaos, unless additional structures or mechanisms impose form of, often fragile shot-lived, directionality. We exhibit here a novel property emergent long-lasting directionality in competitive communities, which relies o...

Bioenergy crops play an ecologically and economically fundamental role as alternative to agri-food productions renewable energy sources. Thus far, less attention has been given assessing microbiological indicators of soil quality in bioenergy on abandoned land. The current study assessed microbial biochemical properties two soils with different textures agroforestry plantations Paulownia elonga...

Abstract As the capacity for generating large-scale molecular profiling data continues to grow, ability extract meaningful biological knowledge from it remains a limitation. Here, we describe development of new fixed repertoire transcriptional modules, BloodGen3, that is designed serve as stable reusable framework analysis and interpretation blood transcriptome data. The construction this based...

Predation can have both direct and indirect effects on the population dynamics and community structure of freshwater plankton communities, but its effects on the bacterial component of aquatic systems are less well known. We used a series of laboratory reconstructions of the detritus-based food web in the leaves of the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea to test the hypothesis that inter...

the influence of long-term mixed organic and inorganic contamination on soil microbial activity, community structure and genetic diversity was investigated in soil samples from a coke oven plant located in upper silesia, poland. the tested soils were heavily contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) and heavy metals. the microbial communities were characterized using the phospho...