Mangrove-Saltmarsh Ecotones: Are Species Shifts Determining Eco-Morphodynamic Landform Configurations?
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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
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Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we inve...
Above- and belowground composition and diversity of subtropical plantations and their relationships with soil nutrient s...
PurposeThis study aimed to understand the above- and belowground community assembly in subtropical plantations, and to detect the relationship with understory plant communities, soil microbial communities and stocks of soil organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.MethodsWe compared the composition and diversity of understory plants and microbial co...
Limitations of estimating branch volume from terrestrial laser scanning
Quantitative structural models (QSMs) are frequently used to simplify single tree point clouds obtained by terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). QSMs use geometric primitives to derive topological and volumetric information about trees. Previous studies have shown a high agreement between TLS and QSM total volume estimates alongside field measured data...
Tree drought–mortality risk depends more on intrinsic species resistance than on stand species diversity
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Increasing tree diversity is considered a key management option to adapt forests to climate change. However, the effect of species diversity on a forest's ability to cope with extreme drought remains elusive. In this study, we assessed drought tolerance (xylem vulnerability to cavitation) and water stress (water potential), and combined them into a...
The environment and its exploitation along the Lower Scheldt river during the Roman period (Wichelen, Belgium - late 1st...
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The large number of rural Roman settlements known from the Low Countries is generally characterised by a poor preservation of ecological proxies due to the absence of waterlogged contexts. The riverside site of Wijmeers (Wichelen, Belgium), a small rural settlement located in the Lower Scheldt basin, represents a rare exception to this pattern. Due...
Tree species diversity affects litter decomposition via modification of the microenvironment
Decomposition is a key determinant of forest functioning, controlling nutrient and carbon cycling. Although litter-mixing effects on decomposition (that is, using mixtures of litter of different species) have been studied extensively, less is known about the indirect effects of modified microenvironments via overstory tree species mixing. To invest...
Лесопатологический мониторинг лесных насаждений Удмуртской Республики / Forest pathology monitoring of forest plantation...
В данной работе проведена инвентаризация лесов Удмуртской Республики. Выполнено лесопатологическое обследование лесных насаждений. Приведены результаты исследований по мониторингу лесных насаждений на наличие вредных насекомых и болезней лесов. / In this work an inventory of forests of the Udmurt Republic was carried out. A forest pathology examina...
Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness
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Biodiversity is an important component of natural ecosystems, with higher species richness often correlating with an increase in ecosystem productivity. Yet, this relationship varies substantially across environments, typically becoming less pronounced at high levels of species richness. However, species richness alone cannot reflect all important ...
Leveraging plural valuations of mangroves for climate interventions in Indonesia
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