Kristine N. Hopfensperger

TL;DR: Salinization, a widespread threat to the structure and ecological functioning of inland and coastal wetlands, is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate and geographic scale as discussed by the authors, and the causes of salinization are diverse and include alterations to freshwater flows, land-clearance, irrigation, disposal of wastewater effluent, sea level rise, storm surges, and applications of de-icing salts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 108 articles published between 1945 and 2006 that summarized and provided specific values on similarities between above and belowground communities to identify common trends among ecosystems, and found that standing vegetation and its associated seed bank was the least similar in forest ecosystems, most similar in grasslands, and of intermediate similarity in wetlands.

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: It is found that plant diversity significantly declined with increasing richness of introduced earthworm ecological groups, and there is evidence that introduced earthworms are associated with declines in plant diversity in North American forests.

TL;DR: This paper found that building size had a strong positive effect on bird-window collision mortality, but the strength of the effect on mortality depended on regional urbanization, and that collision prevention measures should be prioritized at large buildings in regions of low urbanization throughout North America.