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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· 10h
Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions
Plant microbiomes have the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet both the complexity of climate change and the complexity of plant–microbe interactions make applications and future...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· 22d
Recent vegetation shifts in the French Alps with winners outnumbering losers
Analysing 11 million records of 4250 French Alps plant species over 30 years shows that one-third expanded their range, dominated by thermophilic and fast-colonizing species, while 13% declined. Most...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· 22d
Gene Family Expansions Provide Molecular Flexibility Required for Context‐Dependent Species Interactions
We explore how the evolution of molecular complexity through gene family expansions is essential for regulating arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in different environmental contexts. Specifically, we ....
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· 26d
The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity
Plant traits capture the remarkable diversity of ecological strategies, yet synthesizing this complexity into coherent frameworks remains challenging. Trait spaces have significantly advanced this ef...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Sep 14
A simple plant–mycorrhizal fungal resource trade co‐evolution model explains mutualism stability, extinction and transitory parasitism via fitness feedback
The mutualism between mycorrhizal fungi and plants has persisted for over 400 million years, despite the mutualism paradox predicting that mutualisms should be evolutionarily unstable due to the fit...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Trait‐based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities
Understanding the future of ecological communities under global change is among the most pressing challenges in plant ecology. Islands, with their reduced species diversity and clear boundaries, have....
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Aug 1
Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Aug 1
Health benefits of selenium through the consumption of fresh wild macromycetes from Dali, Yunnan, China
The beneficial effects of dietary selenium in countering mercury toxicity are increasingly being explored. This information would be particularly usef…
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Harnessing Nutritional Niches to Explore Fungus‐Animal Symbioses
The stability of fungus-animal symbioses often depends on optimised nutrient exchange, but we lack a framework to explore whether animal-derived nutrients are optimal for fungal symbionts. This conce...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study uses comparative genomics and phylogenetics to analyse the distribution and evolution of key enzymes involved in the catabolism of lignin-related aromatic compounds in the bacterial and fun...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Jul 1
A genomic perspective on fungal diversity and evolution - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Mondo and Grigoriev explore the central role of omics approaches to investigate the biology and evolution of fungi and understand phylogeny and how traits evolved over time within the ...
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Ji Zhang
@ecoloji.bsky.social
· Jun 5