Classical Biological Control of Air Potato in Florida by Ted D. Center, William A. Overholt

“…By 1999, it was recognized as transforming plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structure and disrupting ecological functions. …”
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Dynamics of competitive systems with a single common limiting factor by Ryusuke Kon

“…The concept of limiting factors (or regulating factors) succeeded in formulating the well-known principle of competitive exclusion.This paper shows that the concept of limiting factors is helpful not only to formulate the competitive exclusion principle, but also to obtain other ecological insights.To this end, by focusing on a specific community structure, we study the dynamics of Kolmogorov equations and show that it is possible to derive an ecologically insightful result only from the information about interactions between species and limiting factors.Furthermore, we find that the derived result is a generalization of the preceding work by Shigesada, Kawasaki, and Teramoto (1984), who examined a certain Lotka-Volterra equation in a different context.…”
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Cluster Anti-Synchronization of Complex Networks with Nonidentical Dynamical Nodes by Shuguo Wang, Chunyuan He, Hongxing Yao

“…This paper investigates a new cluster antisynchronization scheme in the time-varying delays coupled complex dynamical networks with nonidentical nodes. Based on the community structure of the networks, the controllers are designed differently between the nodes in one community that have direct connections to the nodes in other communities and the nodes without direct connections with the nodes in other communities strategy; some sufficient criteria are derived to ensure cluster anti-synchronization of the network model. …”
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Shrub encroachment alters the diversity of soil fungal communities in topsoil, but not in subsoil under alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau by Wenming Ma, Tenzing Droma, Changting Wang, Xiangli Ma

“…Hierarchical partitioning (HP) analysis indicated that pH and SOC were the main key factors affecting fungal community structure in top- and subsoils, respectively. …”
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The application of biochar and organic fertilizer substitution regulates the diversities of habitat specialist bacterial communities within soil aggregates in proso millet farmland by Lixin Tian, Yawei Wang, Doudou Jin, Yulong Zhou, Bauyrzhan Mukhamed, Dan Liu, Baili Feng

“…The impacts of biochar and fertilizer additions, as well as soil aggregates, on the community structure and composition of specialists were greater than those of generalists. …”
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Structures and determinants of soil microbiomes along a steep elevation gradient in Southwest China by Ting Li, Ting Li, Ting Li, Ziyan Gao, Ping Zhou, Ping Zhou, Mingmin Huang, Gangzheng Wang, Jianping Xu, Wangqiu Deng, Mu Wang, Mu Wang

“…Environmental factors including vegetation type (VEG), altitude (ALT), soil pH, total phosphorus (TP), nitrate nitrogen (NO3−-N), and polyphenol oxidase (ppo) all exhibited significant influence on the bacterial community structure, whereas VEG, ALT, and the carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N) were significantly associated with the fungal community structure. …”
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Fertilization Induced Soil Microbial Shifts Show Minor Effects on <i>Sapindus mukorossi</i> Yield by Juntao Liu, Zhexiu Yu, Yingyun Gong, Jie Chen, Ling Zhou, Weihua Zhang, Liming Jia

“…In summary, the rational use of formulated fertilization can change the bacterial community structure, improve the bacterial diversity, and increase the soil nutrient content, with the latter exerting a significant effect on the improvement of the yield of <i>Sapindus mukorossi</i>.…”
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Disentangling effects of droughts and heatwaves on alpine periphyton communities: A mesocosm experiment by Tamika Nagao, Rolf Vinebrooke

“…., heatwave followed by drought) lowered their cumulative effect on community structure. These findings highlight the potential for drought events to dominate over heatwaves in altering shallow littoral ecosystems at high elevations under a rapidly warming climate.…”
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Enhance the Transfer Capacity of Multiplex Networks by Fei Shao, Wei Zhao, Binghua Cheng

“…Adding edges between nodes whose product of multiplex network betweenness is the highest is confirmed to be more effective, particularly in the layer with stronger community structure. Simulation experiments on both computer-generated and real-world networks demonstrate that our strategy can enhance the transfer capacity of multiplex networks significantly, which is in good agreement with our analysis.…”
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Managing Mexican Petunia (Ruellia simplex C. Wright) in the Home Landscape by Carrie A. Reinhardt Adams, Christine Wiese, L. C. Lee, Sandra B. Wilson, A. M. Smith, Rosanna Freyre

“…The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council lists Mexican petunia (wild-type and non-sterile cultivars) as a Category 1 invasive species, meaning that it is “altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives.” …”
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Network synchronizability enhancement via adding antagonistic interactions by Yue Song, Xiaoqin Liu, Dingmei Wang, Pengfei Gao, Mengqi Xue

“…We further reveal that this condition can be interpreted from the perspective of resistance distance and network community structure. The obtained result is also verified via numerical experiments on a 14-node network and a 118-node network. …”
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Multiscale network alignment model based on convolution of homogeneous multilayer graphs by CUI Jiahao, JIANG Tao, XU Mengyao

“…In terms of graph convolution, the convolution process was guided by the construction of a homogeneity matrix according to the network homogeneity, and the social networks of different scales were processed based on the network community structure. Experimental results on two real-world social networks of different scales show that the proposed method can effectively improve the performance of social network alignment tasks.…”
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An Extreme Learning Machine-Based Community Detection Algorithm in Complex Networks by Feifan Wang, Baihai Zhang, Senchun Chai, Yuanqing Xia

“…Community structure, one of the most popular properties in complex networks, has long been a cornerstone in the advance of various scientific branches. …”
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Consequences of Physical Disturbance by Tadpoles and Snails on Chironomid Larvae by Gargi Pal, Gautam Aditya, Niladri Hazra

“…This may result in vulnerability of midge larvae to predators in the wild. So the community structure may be altered by indirect effects, where one or more species, through their direct disturbance, indirectly change the abundance of other species.…”
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Managing Mexican Petunia (Ruellia simplex C. Wright) in the Home Landscape by Carrie A. Reinhardt Adams, Christine Wiese, L. C. Lee, Sandra B. Wilson, A. M. Smith, Rosanna Freyre

“…The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council lists Mexican petunia (wild-type and non-sterile cultivars) as a Category 1 invasive species, meaning that it is “altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives.” …”
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A Local Extended Algorithm Combined with Degree and Clustering Coefficient to Optimize Overlapping Community Detection by Jing Liu, Junfang Guo, Qi Li

“…Community structure is one of the most important characteristics of complex networks, which has important applications in sociology, biology, and computer science. …”
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Microbial community dynamics in shallow-water grass-type lakes: Habitat succession of microbial ecological assembly and coexistence mechanisms by Chen Feng, Junping Lu, Tingxi Liu, Xiaohong Shi, Shengnan Zhao, Chunjian Lv, Yujiao Shi, Zixuan Zhang, Yuqi Jin, Jiaqi Pang, Aojie Sun

“…Second-generation DNA sequencing was applied to reveal the spatial dynamics of the bacterial community structure and distribution across two environmental media in this nutrient-rich shallow grassland lake and to elucidate the characteristics of the co-occurrence network. …”
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Cassava–soybean intercropping alleviates continuous cassava cropping obstacles by improving its rhizosphere microecology by Huixian Chen, Lixia Ruan, Sheng Cao, Wen He, Haixia Yang, Zhenhua Liang, Hengrui Li, Wanling Wei, Zhenling Huang, Xiu Lan

“…Phenol glucuronide, 2,3-butanediol, L-phenylalanine, deoxyguanosine and other carbohydrates, alcohols, purine nucleotides, and amino acids were significantly positively correlated with organic matter, available nitrogen, soil porosity, and pH.DiscussionTherefore, cassava–soybean intercropping can effectively alleviate the obstacles of continuous cassava cropping by affecting the accumulation of metabolites and microbial community structure in continuous cropping soil, thereby improving the adverse factors of severe soil acidification, soil compaction, and nutrient decline.…”
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Pathogen community composition and co-infection patterns in a wild community of rodents by Abbate, Jessica L., Galan, Maxime, Razzauti, Maria, Sironen, Tarja, Voutilainen, Liina, Henttonen, Heikki, Gasqui, Patrick, Cosson, Jean-François, Charbonnel, Nathalie

“…Altogether, our results suggest that host and pathogen specificity is the most important driver of pathogen community structure, and that interspecific pathogen-pathogen associations also depend on host species. …”
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Bibliometric Analysis and Future Prospects of Sludge Treatment and Disposal Technologies in China by YUAN Xusheng, GAO Hong, HE Zishuai, ZHANG Zhishang, YAN Minjie

“…Carbon source, hydrolytic acidification, sludgeanaerobic digestion, high-throughput sequencing, microbial community structure,MBR (membrane bioreactor), sludge compost, etc. may become future researchhotspots.…”
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