Swoczyna, Tatiana Kalaji, Hazem M. Bussotti, Filippo Mojski, Jacek Pollastrini, Martina
Published in
Frontiers in Plant Science
Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChF) signal analysis has become a widely used and rapid, non-invasive technique to study the photosynthetic process under stress conditions. It monitors plant responses to various environmental factors affecting plants under experimental and field conditions. Thus, it enables extensive research in ecology and benefits fo...
Xu, Gui-Qing Kandlikar, Gaurav S. Vaz, Marcel C.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Leaf drought tolerance traits influence plant survival in water deficit conditions, and these traits are influenced by both the plant’s evolutionary history and the environment in which the plant is currently growing. However, due to the substantial phenotypic plasticity in leaf traits, we still do not know to what degree variation in leaf traits i...
Lucero, Jacob E. Faist, Akasha M. Lortie, Christopher J. Callaway, Ragan M.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Positive interactions can drive the assembly of desert plant communities, but we know little about the species-specificity of positive associations between native shrubs and invasive annual species along aridity gradients. These measures are essential for explaining, predicting, and managing community-level responses to plant invasions and environm...
Louhaichi, Mounir Abdallah, Mohamed A.B. Safi, Navin Hassan, Sawsan Gamoun, Mouldi Ates, Serkan
Watershed rangelands in Northern Afghanistan provide various ecosystem services that support the livelihoods of local people, but they are now highly degraded essentially due to the continuous high grazing pressure and recurrent droughts. Effects of shrub establishment method enhanced by water harvesting techniques to rehabilitate degraded rangelan...
Lindén, Elin te Beest, Mariska Aubreu, Ilka Moritz, Thomas Sundqvist, Maja K. Barrio, Isabel C. Boike, Julia Bryant, John P. Bråthen, Kari Anne Buchwal, Agata
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Spatial variation in plant chemical defence towards herbivores can help us understand variation in herbivore top-down control of shrubs in the Arctic and possibly also shrub responses to global warming. Less defended, non-resinous shrubs could be more influenced by herbivores than more defended, resinous shrubs. However, sparse field measurements l...
Rodrigues, Diana Corticeiro, Sofia Maia, Paula
Aim of study: To study the natural dynamics of Pinus pinaster natural regeneration in a post-fire scenario in three populations of Coastal Central Portugal, with severe ecological degradation due to plant invasions, and partially affected by the 2017 wildfires. Area of study: Three P. pinaster populations, located along a geographic gradient of abo...
Lindén, Elin te Beest, Mariska Aubreu, Ilka Moritz, Thomas Sundqvist, Maja K. Barrio, Isabel C. Boike, Julia Bryant, John P. Bråthen, Kari Anne Buchwal, Agata
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Spatial variation in plant chemical defence towards herbivores can help us understand variation in herbivore top–down control of shrubs in the Arctic and possibly also shrub responses to global warming. Less defended, non-resinous shrubs could be more influenced by herbivores than more defended, resinous shrubs. However, sparse field measurements l...
Zeh, Lilli Schmidt-Cotta, Claudia Limpens, Juul Bragazza, Luca Kalbitz, Karsten
Background: Northern peatlands have accumulated vast amounts of carbon (C) as peat. Warming temperatures may affect peatland C stores by increasing microbial decomposition of ancient peat through enhanced input of labile root exudates by expansion of vascular plants, thereby accelerating atmospheric warming. Aims: We set out to explore how much fre...
Lindén, Elin te Beest, Mariska Aubreu, Ilka Moritz, Thomas Sundqvist, Maja K. Barrio, Isabel C. Boike, Julia Bryant, John P. Bråthen, Kari Anne Buchwal, Agata
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Spatial variation in plant chemical defence towards herbivores can help us understand variation in herbivore top–down control of shrubs in the Arctic and possibly also shrub responses to global warming. Less defended, non-resinous shrubs could be more influenced by herbivores than more defended, resinous shrubs. However, sparse field measurements l...
Argunov, A. V.
Published in
Biology Bulletin
AbstractThe marking behavior of male Siberian Roe deer in central Yakutia, Siberia is considered in the context of a biological signal field. The optical elements of the Roe deer signal field are trees and shrubs damaged by their horns. Seven species of tree and shrub plants used by Roe deer as marking objects have been found: pine, larch, fir, bir...
