Agricultural intensification tends to maximize provisioning services at the expense of regulating, cultural andsupporting ecosystem services (ES). Enhancing agroecosystem sustainability requires both individual and collectivesolutions, but these are particularly difficult to design and implement since knowledge is lacking and ESmay be considered ei...
Published in PeerJ
Germination ecology of 10 species from acidic dry grasslands and 10 species from alkaline xerothermic grasslands was studied. The seeds were subjected to different pH, iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and aluminum (Al) treatments under controlled conditions. Effects of ionic (chlorides) and chelated forms (HBED chelates) of Fe and Mn were also compared. F...
Published in PeerJ
Background Localized disturbances within grasslands alter biological properties and may shift species composition. For example, rare species in established communities may become dominant in successional communities if they exhibit traits well-suited to disturbance conditions. Although the idea that plant species exhibit different trait ‘strategies...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Plant nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) can reflect community and ecosystem responses to environmental changes such as water availability. Climate change is predicted to increase aridity and the frequency of extreme drought events in grasslands, but it is unclear how community-scale NSC will respond to drought or how such responses may vary along a...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Precipitation is a primary climatic determinant of grassland productivity, with many global change experiments manipulating precipitation. Here we examine the impacts of precipitation addition and reduction treatment intensity and duration on grassland above- (ANPP) and below- (BNPP) ground net primary productivity in a large-scale meta-analysis. W...
Published in Oecologia
Drought, defined as a marked deficiency of precipitation relative to normal, occurs as periods of below-average precipitation or complete failure of precipitation inputs, and can be limited to a single season or prolonged over multiple years. Grasslands are typically quite sensitive to drought, but there can be substantial variability in the magnit...
This study case aimed to evaluate the impact of liming and mineral fertilization of a Signalgrass pasture on C accumulation in surface and deeper layers of a Brazilian Oxisol. A 27-yr old Signalgrass pasture ((Urochloa decumbens cv. Basilisk Stapf (Syn: Brachiaria)) was used in the trial. This pasture has been grazed in a stocking rate of one anima...
La structure du paysage, de par la quantité d’habitat semi-naturels et par l’hétérogénéité de la matrice qu’elle présente, est l'un des principaux facteurs influençant la biodiversité, en particulier dans les paysages agricoles. Cette diversité, notamment la diversité végétale, conditionne le fonctionnement des écosystèmes actuels et futurs. L’obje...
Natura 2000 je eden glavnih mehanizmov varovanja narave, konkretneje habitatnih tipov, ogroženih rastlinskih in živalskih vrst, tako na slovenski, kakor tudi na evropski ravni. Habitatni tipi lahko izginjajo zaradi pozidave ali zaradi neprimerne kmetijske prakse – intenzivno kmetijstvo na eni strani in zaraščanje na drugi. Ekstenzivna travišča kot ...
Published in Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
The ecological phenomenon of fungal fairy rings is usually found in grasslands and caused by the growth of specific fairy ring fungi in soil. The fairy rings are classified into three zones (DARK, DEAD, and OUT), and they have the potential to increase crop yield. Among these fairy rings, distinct characteristics of type I fairy rings can be seen i...
