Glier, Adam Prausová, Romana Štefánek, Michal Kovář, Pavel
Published in
Journal of Landscape Ecology
This pilot case study compares genome sizes of two groups of species (conspecific plants) which spontaneously colonize interior space within abandoned industrial area and/or deposits, and those ones occurred in adjacent vicinity. Testing of the hypothesis “There is functional significance of small versus large genomes of plant species by comparing ...
Planchuelo, Greg Kowarik, Ingo von der Lippe, Moritz
With accelerating urbanization, the urban contribution to biodiversity conservation becomes increasingly important. Previous research shows that cities can host many endangered plant species. However, fundamental questions for urban nature conservation remain open: to what extent and where can endangered plant species persist in the long term and w...
Lorite, Juan Ros-Candeira, Andrea Alcaraz-Segura, Domingo Salazar-Mendías, Carlos
Published in
Ecology
Providing a complete data set with species and trait information for a given area is essential for assessing plant conservation, management, and ecological restoration, for both local and global applications. Also, these data sets provide additional information for surveys or data collections, establishing the starting point for more detailed studi...
Hernandez, Rebecca R. Tanner, Karen E. Haji, Sophia Parker, Ingrid M. Pavlik, Bruce M. Moore-O’Leary, Kara A.
Published in
Plants
Seed bank survival underpins plant population persistence but studies on seed bank trait-environment interactions are few. Changes in environmental conditions relevant to seed banks occur in desert ecosystems owing to solar energy development. We developed a conceptual model of seed bank survival to complement methodologies using in-situ seed bank ...
Galland, William Piola, Florence Mathieu, Céline Bouladra, Lyna Simon, Laurent Haichar, Feth el Zahar
Published in
Microorganisms
Intensive agriculture uses a lot of nitrogen fertilizers to increase crop productivity. These crops are in competition with soil-denitrifying microorganisms that assimilate nitrogen in the form of nitrate and transform it into N2O, a greenhouse gas, or N2. However, certain plant species exude secondary metabolites, called procyanidins, which inhibi...
Wu, Jin Serbin, Shawn P Ely, Kim S Wolfe, Brett T Dickman, L Turin Grossiord, Charlotte Michaletz, Sean T Collins, Adam D Detto, Matteo McDowell, Nate G
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Published in
Global change biology
Stomata regulate CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration. The approaches used to represent stomatal conductance (gs ) in models vary. In particular, current understanding of drivers of the variation in a key parameter in those models, the slope parameter (i.e. a measure of intrinsic plant water-use-efficiency), is still l...
Nolan, Rachael Blackman, Chris de Dios, Víctor Resco Choat, Brendan Medlyn, Belinda Li, Ximeng Bradstock, Ross Boer, Matthias
Globally, fire regimes are being altered by changing climatic conditions. New fire regimes have the potential to drive species extinctions and cause ecosystem state changes, with a range of consequences for ecosystem services. Despite the co-occurrence of forest fires with drought, current approaches to modelling flammability largely overlook the l...
Pérez, Fernanda Lavandero, Nicolás Ossa, Carmen Gloria Hinojosa, Luis Felipe Jara-Arancio, Paola Arroyo, Mary T. Kalin
Published in
Frontiers in Plant Science
Understanding why some plant lineages move from one climatic region to another is a mayor goal of evolutionary biology. In the southern Andes plant lineages that have migrated along mountain ranges tracking cold-humid climates coexist with lineages that have shifted repeatedly between warm-arid at low elevations and cold habitats at high elevations...
Gillard, Morgane B Drenovsky, Rebecca E Thiébaut, Gabrielle Tarayre, Michèle Futrell, Caryn J Grewell, Brenda J
Published in
American journal of botany
Worldwide, ecosystems are threatened by global changes, including biological invasions. Invasive species arriving in novel environments experience new climatic conditions that can affect their successful establishment. Determining the response of functional traits and fitness components of invasive populations from contrasting environments can prov...
hinojo-hinojo, césar goulden, michael l.
Remotely-sensed Vegetation Indices (VIs) are often tightly correlated with terrestrial ecosystem CO2 uptake (Gross Primary Production or GPP). These correlations have been exploited to infer GPP at local to global scales and over half-hour to decadal periods, though the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. We used satellite remote ...
