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Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves (2024)
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Yang, X., Garuglieri, E., Van Goethem, M. W., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., & Daffonchio, D. (2024). Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 74(6), https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006415

Two bacteria, UG2_1T and UG2_2, were isolated from the gill tissues of the mangrove fiddler crab Cranuca inversa collected on the east coast of the Red Sea (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia). The cells are Gram-negative, rod-shaped, orange-pigmented, motile by g... Read More about Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves.

Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests (2024)
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Thomson, T., Ellis, J. I., Fusi, M., Prinz, N., Lundquist, C. J., Bury, S. J., Shankar, U., Cary, S. C., & Pilditch, C. A. (2024). Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests. Science of the Total Environment, 940, Article 173579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173579

Human land use changes are threatening the integrity and health of coastal ecosystems worldwide. Intensified land use for anthropogenic purposes increases sedimentation rates, pollutants, and nutrient concentrations into adjacent coastal areas, often... Read More about Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests.

Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota (2024)
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Soldan, R., Fusi, M., Cardinale, M., Homma, F., Santos, L. G., Wenzl, P., Bach-Pages, M., Bitocchi, E., Chacon Sanchez, M. I., Daffonchio, D., & Preston, G. M. (2024). Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota. Current Biology, 34(3), 557-567.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.056

The effect of plant domestication on plant-microbe interactions remains difficult to prove. In this study, we provide evidence of a domestication effect on the composition and abundance of the plant microbiota. We focused on the genus Phaseolus, whic... Read More about Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota.

Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation (2023)
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Fusi, M., Ngugi, D. K., Marasco, R., Booth, J. M., Cardinale, M., Sacchi, L., Clementi, E., Yang, X., Garuglieri, E., Fodelianakis, S., Michoud, G., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation. Microbiome, 11(1), Article 189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01629-4

Background: The transition from water to air is a key event in the evolution of many marine organisms to access new food sources, escape water hypoxia, and exploit the higher and temperature-independent oxygen concentration of air. Despite the import... Read More about Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation.

Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape (2023)
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Fusi, M., Rigaud, S., Guadagnin, G., Barausse, A., Marasco, R., Daffonchio, D., Régis, J., Huchet, L., Camin, C., Pettit, L., Vina-Herbon, C., & Giomi, F. (2023). Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape. Biogeosciences, 20(16), 3509-3521. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3509-2023

Oxygen availability is a pivotal factor for ecosystem functioning and the resistance of organisms to the effect of climate change in aquatic habitats. Although extensive work has been done to assess the effect of oxygen on marine and freshwater biota... Read More about Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape.

An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons (2023)
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Yando, E. S., Jones, S. F., James, W. R., Colombano, D. D., Montemayor, D. I., Nolte, S., Raw, J. L., Ziegler, S. L., Chen, L., Daffonchio, D., Fusi, M., Rogers, K., & Sergienko, L. (2023). An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 8(6), 830-849. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10346

Salt marshes occur globally across climatic and coastal settings, providing key linkages between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, salt marsh science lacks a unifying conceptual framework; consequently, historically well-studied locations h... Read More about An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons.

Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales (2023)
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Giomi, F., Barausse, A., Steckbauer, A., Daffonchio, D., Duarte, C. M., & Fusi, M. (2023). Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales. Nature Geoscience, 16, 560-566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01217-z

The decline of dissolved oxygen in the oceans could be detrimental to marine life and biogeochemical cycles. However, predicting future oxygen availability with models that mainly focus on temporal and spatial large-scale mean values could lead to in... Read More about Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales.

Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on (2023)
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Djamaluddin, R., Fusi, M., Djabar, B., Evans, D., Holmes, R., Huxham, M., O'Connell, D. P., Salzmann, U., Singleton, I., Tjoa, A., Trianto, A., & Diele, K. (2023). Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on. Restoration Ecology, 31(7), Article e13963. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13963

Mangrove forests, benefitting millions of people, experience significant degradation. Global recognition of the urgency of halting and reversing this trend have initiated numerous restoration activities. Restoration success is typically evaluated by... Read More about Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on.

The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves (2023)
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Booth, J. M., Fusi, M., Marasco, R., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves. Microbial Biotechnology, 16(8), 1584-1602. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14273

Globally, soils and sediments are affected by the bioturbation activities of benthic species. The consequences of these activities are particularly impactful in intertidal sediment, which is generally anoxic and nutrient-poor. Mangrove intertidal sed... Read More about The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves.

Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes (2023)
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Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Coscolín, C., Barozzi, A., Almendral, D., Bargiela, R., Nutschel, C. G. N., Pfleger, C., Dittrich, J., Gohlke, H., Matesanz, R., Sanchez-Carrillo, S., Mapelli, F., Chernikova, T. N., Golyshin, P. N., Ferrer, M., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36610-0

Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome plasticity in response to temperature remains unresolved. By quantifying the therma... Read More about Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes.