Correlations between forest soil quality and aboveground vegetation characteristics in Hunan Province, China [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 As a key component of terrestrial ecosystems, soil interacts directly with aboveground vegetation. Evaluating soil quality is therefore of great significance to comprehensively explore the interaction mechanism of this association.
Yafei Shen +10 more
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The context dependency of nitrogen deposition impacts on the compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank [PDF]
Plant DiversityThe compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank is critical for community stability and successional trajectories, but such relationships are highly sensitive to environmental changes.
Niwu Te +8 more
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Agronomy, 2022 Rural agricultural activity generates cropland, secondary vegetation and straggling primary forest and can modify the soil seed bank (SSB), potentially impacting the restoration of preferred species.
Yili Guo, Shujun Wen, Wen He
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Legume cover under Camellia oleifera forests enhances understory biomass carbon storage and soil CO2 flux but declines soil inorganic carbon storage on a karst steep slope [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionLegume cover is a widely used and useful soil management strategy in orchards across the world. However, it remains unclear how the alfalfa cover affects vegetation and soil carbon storage, soil greenhouse gas fluxes, and global warming ...
Leilei Ding +12 more
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Fenced enclosure and increased rainfall facilitate recovery of degraded desert steppe by restructuring soil seed bank dynamics [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Soil seed bank is pivotal for vegetation regeneration in degraded desert steppes. However, there is limited information on the dynamic changes of aboveground vegetation and soil seed banks across different degradation stages of desert steppe ...
Huayang Chen +6 more
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ChinaSoilSeedBank: A dataset on species diversity and composition of soil seed bank in China [PDF]
Scientific DataDatasets on aboveground vegetation have been well established and used for comprehensive ecological and conservational studies. However, a comprehensive dataset for soil seed bank, particularly one integrating the species composition of soil seed bank ...
Yantong Zhao, Yangqing Luo, Jiajia Liu
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AgronomyTimely forecasting of aboveground vegetation biomass is crucial for effective management and ensuring food security. However, research on predicting aboveground biomass remains scarce.
Efrain Noa-Yarasca +2 more
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Estimation of aboveground biomass of vegetation based on landsat 8 OLI images
Heliyon, 2022 Remote sensing estimation of aboveground biomass for desert oasis vegetation in arid area is an important means to monitor land desertification, it is of great significance to accurately evaluate the carbon sink change of desert oasis ecosystem, and ...
Yanbin Zhang, Ronghua Wang
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Plant, Soil and Environment, 2023 The soil seed bank, as a potential source of ground vegetation renewal, plays an important role in the natural recovery and succession of vegetation as well as in the construction of ecosystems.
Saimilakezi Taiwaikuli +4 more
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Soil Seed Bank Characteristics of Nitraria tangutorum Nebkhas in a Desert–Oasis Ecotone
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Understanding soil seed banks (SSBs) of Nitrariatangutorum nebkhas is critical for vegetation restoration and ecological management in desert–oasis ecotones.
Min Li +6 more
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