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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, Yafei Shen, Jing Li, Fangfang Chen, Ruimei Cheng, Ruimei Cheng, Wenfa Xiao, Wenfa Xiao, Lichao Wu, Lixiong Zeng, Lixiong Zeng   +10 more
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Deer browsing delays succession by altering aboveground vegetation and belowground seed banks. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Soil seed bank composition is important to the recovery of natural and semi-natural areas from disturbance and serves as a safeguard against environmental catastrophe.
Antonio DiTommaso, Scott H Morris, John D Parker, Caitlin L Cone, Anurag A Agrawal   +4 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 Diversity
The 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, Wen-Tao Luo, Péter Török, Xiao-Ru Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Yuan-Xiu Wu, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Anke Jentsch, Xiao-Tao Lü   +8 more
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Contrasting α- and β-Diversity Responses of Aboveground Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks to Experimental Warming over Two Consecutive Growing Seasons [PDF]

Plants
Climate warming may alter both α and β diversity in alpine meadows, yet whether aboveground vegetation and soil seed banks respond synchronously remains unclear. Using a two-year open-top chamber (OTC) warming experiment, we investigated the responses of
Yuning Zhang, Shanheng Shi, Xuankai Zhuang, Ziyan Zhou, Xiaoni Liu, Yafei Shi   +5 more
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Comparison of Aboveground Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank Composition among Three Typical Vegetation Types in the Karst Regions of Southwest China

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.
Guo Yili, Wen He, Xiankun Li
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Aboveground Biomass of Wetland Vegetation Under Climate Change in the Western Songnen Plain

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of aboveground biomass (AGB) is crucial for investigating the wetland ecosystem carbon cycle. In this paper, we explored the spatiotemporal change of aboveground biomass and its response to climate change in a marsh wetland of western Songen Plain by using field measured AGB data and vegetation index derived ...
Xianguo Lu, Xiangjin Shen, Shouzheng Tong   +2 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 Biology
Background 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, Gaohua Fan, Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, Qingguo Cui, Houjia Liu, Zhenying Huang   +6 more
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Short-term experimental flooding impacts soil biogeochemistry but not aboveground vegetation in a coastal forest. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Rising sea levels and intensifying storms increase flooding pressure on coastal forests, triggering tree mortality, ecosystem transitions, and changes to the coastal carbon cycle. However, the mechanisms that drive coastal forest mortality remain elusive due to the complex interplay between belowground and aboveground processes during flooding ...
Regier P, Bond-Lamberty B, Ward N, Bailey V, Peixoto RB, Machado-Silva F, McDowell N, Morris KA, Myers-Pigg A, Pennington SC, Rahman M, Rich R, Smith RW, Wilson SJ, Woodard SC, Stearns A, Day D, Doro K, Emmanuel E, Grossiord C, Hopple A, Ogunsola O, Patel K, Phillips E, Megonigal JP.   +24 more
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Modeling grassland aboveground biomass using a pure vegetation index

Ecological Indicators, 2016
Abstract Remote sensing can be the most effective means of scaling up grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) from the sample scale to the regional scale. Among the remote-sensing approaches, statistical models based on the vegetation index (VI) are frequently used to retrieve grassland AGB because of their simplicity and reliability.
Bingfang Wu, Fei Li, Ronghua Ma
exaly   +2 more sources

Latitudinal diversity gradients of soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation in China

Plant Diversity
The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most general biogeographical patterns. However, current latitudinal diversity gradients have been mostly focused on aboveground vegetation, while such a pattern exists in soil seed bank, which is an ...
Yantong Zhao, Yangqing Luo, Shilu Zheng, Tiantian Zhang, Jiajia Liu   +4 more
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