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Substrate pH mediates growth promotion and resilience to water stress of Tilia ...
Serafim, Cindy; Ramos, Miguel A.; Yilmaz, Tugce; Sousa, Nadine R.; Yu, Kang; Geel, Maarten Van; Ceulemans, Tobias; Saudreau, Marc; Somers, BenColonization by Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi is key for the health and performance of plants under different stress scenarios, such as those faced by trees in urban environments. Because urban environments can be lacking EcM fungi, we here assessed the benefits of inoculating Tilia tomentosa seedlings in a pre-transplantation nursery context with the EcM fungi Lactarius deliciosus and Paxillus involutus, using s...
Soil organic matter rather than ectomycorrhizal diversity is related to urban t...
Geel, Maarten Van; Yu, Kang; Peeters, Gerrit; van Acker, Kasper; Ramos, Miguel; Serafim, Cindy; Kastendeuch, Pierre; Najjar, Georges; Ameglio, ThierryUrban trees provide many ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, air quality improvement, storm water attenuation and energy conservation, to people living in cities. Provisioning of ecosystem services by urban trees, however, may be jeopardized by the typically poor quality of the soils in urban areas. Given their well-known multifunctional role in forest ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcM) may...
Foliar optical traits indicate that sealed planting conditions negatively affec...
Yu, Kang; Geel, Maarten Van; Ceulemans, Tobias; Geerts, Willem; Ramos, Miguel Marcos; Sousa, Nadine; Castro, Paula M. L.; Kastendeuch, PierreUrban trees play a key role in mitigating environmental problems in cities, but they often face harsh environmental conditions as they generally grow in sealed soils that have small rooting space and low water availability. In this context, rapid monitoring and assessment of tree health status is critical to maintain urban trees and secure the provisioning of urban ecosystem services. Across three European citi...
Vegetation reflectance spectroscopy for biomonitoring of heavy metal pollution ...
Yu, Kang; Geel, Maarten Van; Ceulemans, Tobias; Geerts, Willem; Ramos, Miguel Marcos; Sousa, Nadine; Castro, Paula M. L.; Somers, BenHeavy metals in urban soils may impose a threat to public health and may negatively affect urban tree viability. Vegetation spectroscopy techniques applied to bio-indicators bring new opportunities to characterize heavy metal contamination, without being constrained by laborious soil sampling and lab-based sample processing. Here we used Tilia tomentosa trees, sampled across three European cities, as bio-indica...
Variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Silver linden (...
Geel, Maarten Van; Yu, Kang; Ceulemans, Tobias; Peeters, Gerrit; Acker, Kasper van; Geerts, Willem; Ramos, Miguel M.; Serafim, CindyTrees in urban areas face harsh environmental conditions. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcM) form a symbiosis with many tree species and provide a range of benefits to their host through their extraradical hyphal network. Although our understanding of the environmental drivers and large scale geographical variation of EcM communities in natural ecosystems is growing, our knowledge of EcM communities within and across ...
Conformal and continuous deposition of bifunctional cobalt phosphide layers on ...
Thalluri, Sitaramanjaneva Mouli; Borme, Jerome; Yu, Kang; Xu, Junyuan; Amorim, Isilda; Gaspar, João; Qiao, Liang; Ferreira, Paulo; Alpuim, P.Vertically aligned p-silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays have been extensively investigated in recent years as promising photocathodes for solar-driven hydrogen evolution. However, the fabrication of SiNW photocathodes with both high photoelectrocatalytic activity and long-term operational stability using a simple and affordable approach is a challenging task. Herein, we report conformal and continuous deposition of...