Greening the dike revetment with historic sod transplantation technique in a living lab
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status: published
Ecological restoration trajectory of the Taitema Lake wetland in arid northwest China : a 36-year wetland health assessm...
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The Taitema Lake wetland in the lower reaches of the Tarim River (northwest China) is sensitive to hydrological changes and provides necessary ecosystem functions for biodiversity conservation. Monitoring and evaluating the long -term dynamics of the Taitema Lake wetland is essential for conserving and restoring regional wetland ecosystems. This pa...
Forest floor environment overrules global change treatment effects on understorey communities in a mesocosm experiment
Light availability profoundly influences plant communities, especially below dense tree canopies in forests. Canopy disturbances, altering forest floor light conditions, together with other environmental changes such as climate change, nitrogen deposition and legacy effects from previous land-use will simultaneously impact forest understorey commun...
Protecting an artificial savanna as a nature-based solution to restore carbon and biodiversity in the Democratic Republi...
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A large share of the global forest restoration potential is situated in artificial 'unstable' mesic African savannas, which could be restored to higher carbon and biodiversity states if protected from human-induced burning. However, uncertainty on recovery rates in protected unstable savannas impedes science-informed forest restoration initiatives....
Declining potential nectar production of the herb layer in temperate forests under global change
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Wild pollinators are crucial for ecosystem functioning and human food production and often rely on floral resources provided by different (semi‐) natural ecosystems for survival. Yet, the role of European forests, and especially the European forest herb layer, as a potential provider of floral resources for pollinators has scarcely been quantified....
Trait–micro‐environment relationships of forest herb communities across Europe
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Aim The microclimate and light conditions on the forest floor are strongly modified by tree canopies. Therefore, we need to better consider the micro-environment when quantifying trait-environment relationships for forest understorey plants. Here, we quantify relationships between micro-environmental conditions and plant functional traits at the co...
Soil-forming factors of high-elevation mountains along the East African rift valley : the case of the Mount Guna volcano...
The soils of the high-elevation mountains along the East African Rift Valley are poorly understood. Assessing the potential of soils for agriculture, climate change mitigation, and environmental functioning requires insight into how they relate to the factors influencing soil formation. Between 3000 and 4120 m a.s.l., 85 soil profiles of Mount Guna...
Ecological security warning in Central Asia : integrating ecosystem services protection under SSPs-RCPs scenarios
Ecological security patterns (ESPs) are designed to enhance ecosystem structure and functionality while pre -serving vital ecosystem services (ESs). This study not only integrated the ES trade-offs related to ecological security warning, but also considered the effects of future climate changes and human activities on ESPs. By combining the revised...
Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change : isotop...
One of the largest isotopic datasets of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean region is evaluated, based on plants (n = 410), animals (n = 210) and humans (n = 16) from Tell Tweini (Syria). Diachronic analysis of plant and faunal specimens from four main periods of occupation: Early Bronze Age (2600–2000 BC), Middle Bronze Age (2000–1600 BC), Late Bron...
Assimilation of Sentinel-1 Backscatter into a Land Surface Model with River Routing and Its Impact on Streamflow Simulat...
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status: published
