Zong, Ning Hou, Ge Shi, Peili Song, Minghua
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The Science of the total environment
Many recent studies have explored how global warming and increased nitrogen (N) deposition affect the structure and function of natural ecosystems. However, how ecosystems respond to the combination of warming and N enrichment remains unexplored, especially under asymmetric seasonal warming scenarios. We conducted a decade-long field experiment in ...
Elofsson, Katarina Hiron, M. Kačergytė, I. Pärt, T.
The aim of this study is to compare policy schemes for ecological compensation applied at national and regional levels, using exploited inland wetlands as an example. We study whether uncertainty, due to natural variability and measurement difficulties, motivates compensation that is carried out in the same region as that of the exploited site, or ...
Jiang, Hang Du, Yuanyuan Han, Wenjuan Wang, Lichunxiao Xiang, Chenxu Ge, Ying Chang, Jie
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Environmental science and pollution research international
The low carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio in wastewater will inhibit pollutant removal, and more seriously, it will cause an increment of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions of constructed wetlands (CWs). Raising the C/N ratio of wastewater is an effective way to solve this problem, while it may cause secondary pollution and is costly. Assembling plant dive...
Li, Xueyou Hu, Wenqiang Bleisch, William V Li, Quan Wang, Hongjiao Ti, Bu Qin, Zhongyi Sun, Jun Zhang, Fuyou Jiang, Xuelong
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The Science of the total environment
Tens of thousands of species are increasingly confronted with habitat degradation and threatened with local extirpation and global extinction as a result of human activities. Understanding the local processes that shape the regional distribution patterns of at-risk species is useful in safeguarding species against threats. However, there is only li...
Deng, Wei Yuan, Cai-Lian Li, Na Liu, Shuo-Ran Yang, Xiao-Yan Xiao, Wen
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Microbial ecology
The species-area relationship (SAR) and its mechanisms regarding microbes are not as clear as those of plants and animals; this may result from the impact of sampling effects and the confusion between SAR and distance attenuation. We hypothesize that we can find more accurate microbial SAR curve, after removing these two factors. In this study, 27 ...
de Oca-Aguilar, A C Montes Rebollar-Téllez, E A Sosa-Bibiano, E I López-Avila, K B Torres-Castro, J R Loría-Cervera, E N
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Acta tropica
As land use intensifies in tropical forests, it is expected that species assemblages will be modified and that key functions of these ecosystems will be affected. The latter scenario is important from a public health perspective, because the land use change has been linked the outbreaks of vector-borne diseases. In this study, we evaluated the resp...
Kemmelmeier, Karl Dos Santos, Denis A Grittz, Guilherme S Stürmer, Sidney L
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Mycorrhiza
Community composition and seasonal variation of sporulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been studied in soils from many ecosystems including subtropical forest. Yet, AMF community composition has been surveyed only from the mineral soil but not from the litter layer and the root mat, and long-term variation in sporulation is not full...
Coldea, Gheorghe Gafta, Dan Negrean, Gavril Stoica, Adrian Ilie Hurdu, Bogdan-Iuliu
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Botanical studies
Previous investigations carried out in ultramafic habitats emphasized the greater importance of site conditions over soil toxic metal content for vegetation composition. Very little is known about the floristic structure of the Southern Carpathian ultramafic grasslands and there is no information on the local environmental drivers of their composit...
Velásquez Londoño, Manuela Stuckert, Adam M M Vivero, Rafael J Matute, Daniel R
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Acta tropica
Sandflies are vector species of Leishmania, among many other pathogens, with a global distribution and a variety of ecological niches. Previous samplings have found that karstic formations (i.e., caves, grottos, and folds formed by the erosion of limestone) serve as a natural habitat to sandfly species. The majority of samplings of cave sandfly div...
Ali, Thamer Salim
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Saudi journal of biological sciences
The scope of the present work has covered the area located at the east coast of Bahrain along the Askar coast associated with depth mostly
