Concepts

Tree mortality and ecosystem disruption caused by bark beetle infestation, resulting in pulsed release of conifer needles and altered biogeochemical cycling

Environmental contamination by heavy metals from mining activities affecting freshwater ecosystems

DNA sequences that can move or be transferred between different positions within genomes or between genomes

Properties of materials that inhibit microbial growth and decomposition

The variety and distribution of small circular single-stranded DNA viruses that infect bacteria