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Mycorrhizal symbiosis changes host nitrogen source use
2021
Abstract Purpose The ecological importance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in plant acquisition of inorganic and organic sources of nitrogen (N) is not clear. To improve understanding of the plant N nutrition ecology, we tested the effect of intraspecific competition and AMF in plant N source use in growth and N acquisition. Methods Solidago virgaurea was grown in microcosms in a fully factorial experiment under greenhouse conditions. The factors tested were intraspecific competition between seedlings and adult plants (yes, no), N source (NH4, glycine) and AMF (inoculated with Glomus hoi, not inoculated). Results When grown separately, non-mycorrhizal seedling growth was highest when …
Biogas production from energy crops and crop residues
2006
Energiantuotantoa varten viljellyt energiakasvit ja erilaiset kasvintuotannon sivutuotteet ja jätteet eli peltobiomassat tarjoavat puhtaan ja kotimaisen uusiutuvan energialähteen. Kasvibiomassa voidaan hyödyntää energiana useilla eri tavoilla, joista yksi on biokaasun tuotanto. Biokaasua voidaan hyödyntää lämmön- ja sähköntuotannossa tai liikenteen polttoaineena fossiilisten polttoaineiden sijasta.Annimari Lehtomäki tutki mahdollisuuksia hyödyntää energiakasveja ja kasvijätteitä biokaasun tuotannossa pohjoisissa oloissa. Tutkimuksessa kartoitettiin Suomen oloissa menestyviä, biokaasun tuotantoon mahdollisesti soveltuvia kasvilajeja, sekä määritettiin niiden kemiallinen koostumus ja biokaasu…
Energiakasveista tuotetun biokaasun energiatase suomalaisessa maatilakokoluokan biokaasulaitoksessa
2007
Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants
2021
Questions Agricultural intensification has led to the decline of biodiverse meadows and other semi-natural grasslands. Road verges offer potential alternative habitats for meadow species, but they may not be suitable for all meadow species due to different soil properties, frequent disturbances, pollution or suboptimal management. Are the communities of vascular plants and bryophytes similar or dissimilar to those in mown or grazed meadows? What kind of species are associated with road verges, mown meadows or grazed meadows? How do the habitat types differ in their soil conditions and disturbance intensity? Location The study was conducted on 36 sites in Central Finland. Methods We compared…
A New Method to Reconstruct Quantitative Food Webs and Nutrient Flows from Isotope Tracer Addition Experiments
2020
Understanding how nutrients flow through food webs is central in ecosystem ecology. Tracer addition experiments are powerful tools to reconstruct nutrient flows by adding an isotopically enriched element into an ecosystem and tracking its fate through time. Historically, the design and analysis of tracer studies have varied widely, ranging from descriptive studies to modeling approaches of varying complexity. Increasingly, isotope tracer data are being used to compare ecosystems and analyze experimental manipulations. Currently, a formal statistical framework for analyzing such experiments is lacking, making it impossible to calculate the estimation errors associated with the model fit, the…
Defoliation and plant-soil interactions in grasslands
2006
FM Katja Ilmarinen tutki väitöskirjassaan, mitä kasveissa ja maaperässä tapahtuu kasvien versomassan poiston eli defoliaation seurauksena. Ilmarisen tutkimissa niittyekosysteemeissä defoliaatio tarkoittaa tyypillisimmin niittoa tai laidunnusta.Kasvilaji, versomassan poiston ajoitus kasvukaudella ja maaperän ravinnepitoisuus vaikuttavat siihen, mitä muutoksia kasveissa tapahtuu versomassan poiston seurauksena. Niitto vähentää juurten massaa olosuhteista riippumatta, mutta sen vaikutus juurten typpipitoisuuteen vaihtelee sen sijaan tutkimusoloista riippuen. Esimerkiksi, vähäravinteisessa maassa kasvavien kasvien typpipitoisuus kasvaa versomassan poiston seurauksena, kun taas runsasravinteises…
Oikeudenmukaisuus elollisia olentoja kohtaan : Porfyrioksen pidättäytymisen etiikka
2020
In this article, I argue that Porphyry’s conception of justice in On abstinence is remarkable for several reasons. While I agree with Fay Edwards that Porphyry does not assume the moral status of animals to depend on their rationality, I argue that Porphyry’s claim is not based on any form of the assumption that animals deserve moral consideration only if they share some relevant property with human beings. Contrary to Edwards, I argue that this is not because justice is irrelevant to animals in On abstinence 3. Rather, extending abstinence from causing harm to humans to apply also to non-human animals and plants is a constitutive element in the higher forms of justice that Porphyry require…
The Object and Limits of Empathy in Stein's Philosophy
2017
Toward Comprehensive Plant Microbiome Research
2020
Microbes have driven eco-evolutionary adaptations organizing biodiversity from the origin of life. They are ubiquitous and abundant, facilitating the biochemical processes that make Earth habitable and shape ecosystem structures, functions, and services. Recent studies reveal that commensalistic and beneficial microbes associated with wild and domesticated plants may aid in establishing sustainable agriculture for a changing climate. However, developing microbe-based biotechnologies and ecosystem services requires a thorough understanding of the diversity and complexity of microbial interactions with each other and with higher organisms. We discuss the hot and blind spots in contemporary re…
Heritable Epichloë symbiosis shapes fungal but not bacterial communities of plant leaves
2019
Keystone microbial species have driven eco-evolutionary processes since the origin of life. However, due to our inability to detect the majority of microbiota, members of diverse microbial communities of fungi, bacteria and viruses have largely been ignored as keystone species in past literature. Here we tested whether heritable Epichloë species of pooidae grasses modulate microbiota of their shared host plant. peerReviewed