Biodiversity across Afromontane environments
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Biodiversity across Afromontane environments
Restoration interventions mediate tropical tree recruitment dynamics over time.
Forest restoration is increasingly heralded as a global strategy to conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change, yet long-term studies that compare the effects of different restoration strategies on tree recruit demographics are lacking. We measured tree recruit survival and growth annually in three restoration treatments-natural regeneration...
Soil Acidobacterial community composition changes sensitively with wetland degradation in northeastern of China
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Acidobacteria are a major component of the soil bacteria and are conducted for many soil functions, and the soil Acidobacterial structure and diversity are affected by climate changes and human activities. However, soil Acidobacterial structure and diversity in wetland ecosystems are still limited recognized. The current study aimed to study the Ac...
Conceptual analysis: What signals might plant canopies send via stemflow?
Published in Frontiers in Water
As watersheds are complex systems that are difficult to directly study, the streams that drain them are often sampled to search for watershed “signals.” These signals include the presence and/or abundance of isotopes, types of sediment, organisms (including pathogens), chemical compounds associated with ephemeral biogeochemical processes or anthrop...
Need for Emergency response to Wetlands Loss in Southwestern Nigeria: A Review
Southwestern Nigeria's wetlands are assaulted, degraded, and lost, especially to agricultural development and urban expansions, while the rural wetlands losses are due to agriculture but temporal in nature, loss to urban developments are permanent. To examine the extent, influence, and potential of the degradation, the review covered the six states...
Global variations and drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from forests and grasslands
Published in Frontiers in Soil Science
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions are highly variable due to the complex interaction of climatic and ecological factors. Here, we obtained in-situ annual N2O emission flux data from almost 180 peer-papers to evaluate the dominant drivers of N2O emissions from forests and unfertilized grasslands at a global scale. The average value of N2O emission fluxe...
Plant-microbe interactions in forest ecosystems
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Comprendre et aménager la diversité fonctionnelle florale des agrosystèmes pour conserver les insectes pollinisateurs de...
La transition agroécologique des systèmes agricoles nécessite la mise en place d’écosystèmes diversifiés favorisant les régulations biologiques. Parmi elles, la pollinisation entomophile assure la reproduction de la majorité des plantes à fleurs et une stabilisation des rendements des cultures. Pour enrayer le déclin des insectes pollinisateurs, le...
Smoothing and adaptation of shifted Pólya tree ensembles
Recently, S. Arlot and R. Genuer have shown that a random forest model outperforms its single-tree counterpart inestimating α-Hölder functions, 1 ≤ α ≤ 2. This backs up the idea that ensembles of tree estimators are smootherestimators than single trees. On the other hand, most positive optimality results on Bayesian tree-based methodsassume that α ...
Urbanization causes biotic homogenization of woodland bird communities at multiple spatial scales.
Published in Global change biology
Urbanization is a major contributor to biodiversity declines. However, studies assessing effects of urban landscapes per se (i.e., disentangled from focal habitat effects) on biodiversity across spatial scales are lacking. Understanding such scale-dependent effects is fundamental to preserve habitats along an urbanization gradient in a way that max...
