National Biodiversity Institute

TO COHABIT OR INOCULATE? TESTING THE LIMITS OF MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION IN MANILA CLAMS

Abstract Microbiota transplantation has emerged as a powerful tool to investigate host-microbe interactions across a wide range of organisms, yet its applicability and ecological limits in marine bivalves remain poorly understood. Here, we experimentally test whether microbiota a...

Urban Green Walls under Traffic Stress: Linking the Elemental Composition of Particulate Matter Deposition to Plant Physiological and Gene Expression Responses

Abstract This one-year study integrates multi-elemental fractionation, physiological, and gene expression analyses to investigate PM retention and plant responses in a nine-species green wall at a high-traffic urban site. A chemical fractionation approach was optimized to discrim...

Monoterpenes as biostimulants: dose-dependent effects on metabolic and nutritional traits of lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.)

Plant-derived substances, particularly monoterpenes, offer eco-friendly biostimulant potential to enhance crop yield and nutritional quality, yet their individual effects remain poorly explored. This study investigated the physiological and metabolic responses of lettuce (Lactuca...

Amazon Forgotten Fishes. How the remarkable diversity of freshwater fishes is critical to people, rivers and forest

Across the vast sweep of the Amazon Basin, thousands of rivers, streams and floodplain lakes flow in an immense, interconnected waterscape— home to an unparalleled diversity of freshwater fishes. More than 2,700 species have so far been recorded, with dozens more added each year...

Antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador, 2000–2024: a systematic review within a One Health framework

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In Ecuador, AMR research has expanded during the last two decades, but evidence remains fragmented and largely restricted to the human health sector. We system...

Solving problems increases provisioning efficiency, enhancing reproductive success in male great tits

Abstract The ecological and selective processes acting on cognitive traits have received recent attention because of the potentially key role of cognition in rapid behavioural adjustments in response to environmental variation. Innovation, a cognitive process involved in the deve...