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Improvement of fallow vegetation can have a positive impact on the productivity of slash-and-mulch systems in eastern Amazonia. Phosphorus fertilization can increase biomass and nutrient stocks in the fallow phase, thereby improving nutrient cycling and ...
Lívia Gabrig Turbay Rangel-Vasconcelos +3 more
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With predicted climate change, drylands are set to get warmer and drier, increasing water stress for the vegetation in these regions. Plant sensitivity to drier periods and drought events will largely depend on trait strategies to access and store water,
Nicola Kühn +4 more
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Vegetation Re-development After Fen Meadow Restoration by Topsoil Removal and Hay Transfer [PDF]
We investigated the effects of different restoration treatments on the development of fen meadow communities: (1) depth of topsoil removal, with shallow (circa 20 cm) and deep (circa 40 cm) soil removal applied, (2) transfer of seed-containing hay, and ...
Grootjans, Ab P. +27 more
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The high-elevation peatlands of the páramos of the northern Andes constitute a diverse environment that harbors large numbers of species and several types of plant communities along altitudinal, latitudinal, and environmental gradients.
Esteban Suárez +11 more
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Estimating aboveground live understory vegetation carbon in the United States
Despite the key role that understory vegetation plays in ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon cycle, it is often overlooked and has few quantitative measurements, especially at national scales. To understand the contribution of understory carbon to the United States (US) carbon budget, we developed an approach that relies on field measurements of ...
Kristofer D Johnson +8 more
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Effects of 10-year management regimes on the soil seed bank in saline-alkaline grassland.
BackgroundManagement regimes for vegetation restoration of degraded grasslands can significantly affect the process of ecological succession. However, few studies have focused on variation in the soil seed bank during vegetation restoration under ...
Hongyuan Ma +3 more
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A study of soil seed banks across one complete chronosequence of secondary succession in a karst landscape [PDF]
Anthropogenic disturbance and distinctive geochemistry have resulted in rocky desertification in many karst regions of the world. Seed banks are crucial to vegetation regeneration in degraded karst ecosystems characterized by a discontinuous distribution
Xiaole He +4 more
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Estimating Bermudagrass Aboveground Biomass Using Stereovision and Vegetation Coverage
Accurate information about the amount of standing biomass is important in pasture management for monitoring forage growth patterns, minimizing the risk of overgrazing, and ensuring the necessary feed requirements of livestock. The morphological features of plants, like crop height and density, have been proven to be prominent predictors of crop yield ...
Jasanmol Singh +4 more
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Influence of grazing exclosure on vegetation biomass and soil quality
This study investigated the influence of sixteen years exclosure from unmanaged grazing on aboveground vegetation biomass, soil organic matter (SOM), soil aggregation and nitrogen (N) mineralization in arid shrubland of Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Shagufta Qasim +8 more
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Mapping biomass with remote sensing: a comparison of methods for the case study of Uganda [PDF]
Background Assessing biomass is gaining increasing interest mainly for bioenergy, climate change research and mitigation activities, such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management
Henry Matieu +11 more
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