Lu, Ningna Yang, Hainian Zhou, Xianhui Tan, Yun Cai, Wei Jiang, Qin Lu, Ying Chen, Yangyang He, Haocheng Wang, Sheng
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Plant species loss, driven by global changes and human activities, can have cascading effects on other trophic levels, such as arthropods, and alter the multitrophic structure of ecosystems. While the relationship between plant diversity and arthropod communities has been well-documented, few studies have explored the effects of species composition...
Jing, Heying Xiong, Xingshuo Jiang, Feng Pu, Xucai Ma, Wenhong Li, Daijiang Liu, Zhongling Wang, Zhiheng
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Science China. Life sciences
Global climate change has led to the decline of species and functional diversity in ecosystems, changing community composition and ecosystem functions. However, we still know little about how species with different resource-use strategies (different types of resource usage and plant growth of plants as indicated by the spectrum of plant economic tr...
Mwakalukwa, Ezekiel Edward Andrew, Samora Macrice
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Folia Oecologica
The plant biodiversity status of many village land forest reserves is little known to support meaningful implementation of sustainable forest management objectives in Tanzania. This study was conducted to assess the status of Litwang’ata village land forest reserve in Ludewa district, Southwest Tanzania through 20 square sample plots of 10 × 10 m. ...
Lennartsson, Anna
Not much is known if butterflies can get affected by wind turbines. There are different possibilities how they can affect butterflies. How high the risk is that they can get killed by wind turbines and that butterflies might loose habitats by constructions. But there can also be factors that indirectly makes butterflies thrive better in wind farms....
Chao, Anne Chiu, Chun Huo Hu, Kai Hsiang van der Plas, Fons Cadotte, Marc W. Mitesser, Oliver Thorn, Simon Mori, Akira S. Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Eisenhauer, Nico
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Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research has provided strong evidence and mechanistic underpinnings to support positive effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning, from single to multiple functions. This research has provided knowledge gained mainly at the local alpha scale (i.e. within ecosystems), but the increasing homogenization ...
Yan, Yidan Xu, Lijun Wu, Xinjia Xue, Wei Nie, Yingying Ye, Liming
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction The diversity-productivity relationship is a central issue in maintaining the grassland ecosystem’s multifunctionality and supporting its sustainable management. Currently, the mainstream opinion on the diversity-productivity relationship recognizes that increases in species diversity promote ecosystem productivity. Methods Here, we ch...
Lamont, Byron B
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Trends in ecology & evolution
Recently, Zylstra et al. reported that wet sclerophyll forest left unburnt for 75 years experiences a marked decrease in flammability, requiring a radical rethink about fire management. This also highlights the vertical dimension of fires, with species conservation favored by a mosaic of fire types (high pyrodiversity). Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Lt...
Dias, Arildo Van Houdt, Shaya Meschin, Katrin Von Stackelberg, Katherine Bago, Mari-Liis Baldarelli, Lauren Gonzalez Downs, Karen Luuk, Mariel Delubac, Timothée Bottagisio, Elio
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Introduction An unprecedented amount of Earth Observations and in-situ data has become available in recent decades, opening up the possibility of developing scalable and practical solutions to assess and monitor ecosystems across the globe. Essential Biodiversity Variables are an example of the integration between Earth Observations and in-situ dat...
Wang, Xuezhao He, Yunyun Sedio, Brian E Jin, Lu Ge, Xuejun Glomglieng, Suphanee Cao, Min Yang, Jianhong Swenson, Nathan G Yang, Jie
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Ecology letters
Metabolomics provides an unprecedented window into diverse plant secondary metabolites that represent a potentially critical niche dimension in tropical forests underlying species coexistence. Here, we used untargeted metabolomics to evaluate chemical composition of 358 tree species and its relationship with phylogeny and variation in light environ...
Mathewos, Markos Mamo, Zelalem
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Environmental Research Communications
Establishing exclosures has become common rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands in Ethiopia. This study examined the effects of exclosure on identified soil physical and chemical properties, and woody diversity at the Wamole sub-watershed. Representative soil samples were taken from the open grazing land and eight-year-old exclosure. Six...
