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Sustainability as Structural Coherence under Complex Market Dynamics: Evidence from the EU Sunflower Oilseed Value Chain
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Trade competitiveness can coexist with structurally fragile value chains. When chain feasibility fractures from trade competitiveness, competitiveness without coherence becomes sustainability’s opposite. This paper proposes revisiting t...
Publication · 4d
Mixotrophy broadens the ecological niche range of the iron oxidizer Sideroxydans sp. CL21 isolated from an iron-rich peatland
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Sideroxydans sp. CL21 is a microaerobic, acid-tolerant Fe(II)-oxidizer, isolated from the Schlöppnerbrunnen fen. Since the genome size of Sideroxydans sp. CL21 is 21% larger than that of the neutrophilic Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1,...
Publication · 4d
Plant diversity induces shifts from microbial generalists to specialist by enhancing niche differentiation, microbiome connectivity, and network stability in a temperate grassland
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Background Soil microbiota are key players of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, including decomposition, soil organic matter formation, and nutrient cycling, and interact strongly with plants in the rhizosphere. Several studies have dem...
Publication · 4d
Effect of plant biodiversity on microbial community assembly and dynamics
While we know that plants exert a certain control on soil microbial communities via their secondary metabolites, especially in the rhizosphere, we know little about how plant biodiversity affects soil microorganisms as a whole. Soil microorganisms...
Project · 4d
1. The effect of competition on operational efficiency: Evidence from kidney transplantation
Among the 100,000 patients on the kidney transplant waiting list in the U.S., only about one-fifth receive a transplant each year, with thousands dying while waiting. Despite a critical kidney shortage, 20% of harvested kidneys are discarded annua...
Publication · 4d