Fardell, Loren L. Nano, Catherine E. M. Pavey, Chris R. Dickman, Christopher R.
Published in
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Human activity can impose additional stressors to wildlife, both directly and indirectly, including through the introduction of predators and influences on native predators. As urban and adjacent environments are becoming increasingly valuable habitat for wildlife, it is important to understand how susceptible taxa, like small prey animals, persist...
Huntsinger, Lynn Barry, Sheila
Published in
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially. Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to human health, property, and lives. We review the contemporary firescape, the indigenous landscape that shaped pre-contact California's vegetation, the post-contact lands...
b., susan
Fire suppression and other factors have drastically reduced wet prairie and pine savanna ecosystems on the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States. Restoration of these open-canopy environments often targets one or several charismatic species, and semi-aquatic species such as burrowing crayfishes are often overlooked in these essentially te...
Asaeda, Takashi Rashid, Md Harun Schoelynck, Jonas
Published in
Frontiers in Environmental Science
In recent years, an invasive macrophyte, Egeria densa, has overwhelmingly colonized some midstream reaches of Japanese rivers. This study was designed to determine how E. densa has been able to colonize these areas and to assess the environmental conditions that limit or even prevent colonization. Invasive species (E. densa and Elodea nuttallii), a...
De Lombaerde, Emiel Baeten, Lander Verheyen, Kris Perring, Michael Ma, Shiyu Landuyt, Dries
The unwanted development of dense understorey vegetation composed of resource-acquisitive, tall plant species competing strongly with tree regeneration can pose formidable problems for managers attempting to regenerate temperate forests. Despite many studies on the effects of understorey removal, no comprehensive review has summarised and quantifie...
Walton, William E Mai, Kevin Nguyen, Andrew Tse, Rex
Published in
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Emergent macrophytes play critical roles in water treatment processes of free-water surface constructed treatment wetlands. Management strategies for plant biomass affect wetland function and mosquito populations. Sinking of harvested macrophyte biomass is thought to provide organic carbon that enhances denitrifying bacteria important for nutrient ...
Torchelsen, Fábio Piccin Cordero, Rodrigo León Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst
ABSTRACT Land-use change is the main cause of biodiversity losses, and for grasslands includes changes in management. The last 10 years has seen afforestation of traditionally grazed grasslands increase considerably in the understudied Serra do Sudeste region of the Brazilian Pampa, turning the region into a mosaic of tree plantations, natural ecos...
sultan, vivian hilton, brian
The United States (U.S.) electric infrastructure urgently needs renovation, as highlighted by recent major outages in California, New York, Texas, and Florida. The media has discussed the aging power infrastructure, and the Public Utilities Commission called for a comprehensive review of the causes of recent power outages. Without optimization algo...
Kratschmer, Sophie Pachinger, Bärbel Schwantzer, Martina Paredes, Daniel Guzmán, Gema Goméz, José A Entrenas, José A Guernion, Muriel Burel, Françoise Nicolai, Annegret
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Ecology and evolution
Agricultural intensification is a major driver of wild bee decline. Vineyards may be inhabited by plant and animal species, especially when the inter-row space is vegetated with spontaneous vegetation or cover crops. Wild bees depend on floral resources and suitable nesting sites which may be found in vineyard inter-rows or in viticultural landscap...
bout, astrid e. pfau, swinda f. van der krabben, erwin dankbaar, ben
Dutch riverine areas are managed intensively to ensure the provision of various ecosystem services. Vegetation management, including pruning and mowing, produces a woody and grassy biomass as a by-product. In the past, this residual biomass has been treated as a waste product. Now there is a change of perspective / biomass is valued as a potential ...
