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Feedbacks between vegetation and soil in global Forest degradation: a meta-analysis

Ecological Indicators
Forest degradation represents a major global environmental challenge, yet its impacts on both aboveground vegetation and belowground soil properties remain insufficiently understood.
Huawei Wu, Xuekun Cheng, Yufeng Zhou, Guomo Zhou, Hongyan Zhang, Xiaobo Fang, Yongjun Shi   +6 more
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Protected areas reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance woody growth across African woodlands

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Protected areas are increasingly promoted for their capacity to sequester carbon, alongside biodiversity benefits. However, we have limited understanding of whether they are effective at reducing deforestation and degradation, or promoting vegetation ...
Iain M. McNicol, Aidan Keane, Neil D. Burgess, Samuel J. Bowers, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Casey M. Ryan   +5 more
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Modeling the impacts of grazing management on livestock behavior and performance: A case study in the Peruvian Andes

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Our modeling study shows that livestock management strongly influences grazing behavior and animal performance in the Peruvian Andes. Furthermore, adjusting stocking rates and improving animal distribution can enhance forage intake and body condition while increasing forage biomass.
Melody R. Zarria Samanamud, Randall B. Boone   +1 more
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Dynamic Monitoring Method for Aboveground Biomass of Maize Based on Multi-source Data

应用气象学报
The aboveground biomass of maize is regarded as a crucial indicator for monitoring maize growth. However, it's challenging to meet the practical needs for dynamic remote sensing of aboveground biomass during early growth stages.
Liu Menghua, Zhou Guangsheng, Zhou Huailin   +2 more
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Spatial patterns of arctic tundra vegetation properties on different soils along the Eurasia Arctic Transect, and insights for a changing Arctic

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Vegetation properties of arctic tundra vary dramatically across its full latitudinal extent, yet few studies have quantified tundra ecosystem properties across latitudinal gradients with field-based observations that can be related to remotely sensed ...
Howard E Epstein, Donald A Walker, Gerald V Frost, Martha K Raynolds, Uma Bhatt, Ronald Daanen, Bruce Forbes, Jozsef Geml, Elina Kaärlejarvi, Olga Khitun, Artem Khomutov, Patrick Kuss, Marina Leibman, Georgy Matyshak, Nataliya Moskalenko, Pavel Orekhov, Vladimir E Romanovsky, Ina Timling   +17 more
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Use of hyperspectral reflectance to non-destructively estimate seagrass Zostera noltei biomass

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Seagrasses are marine plants ranked worldwide amongst the most valuable coastal ecosystems. The global conservation effort requires accurate estimation of seagrass abundance and taxonomic composition.
Valentina Costa, João Serôdio, Ana I. Lillebø, Ana I. Sousa   +3 more
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Disturbance from restoration reseeding is associated with short‐term topsoil carbon loss and alters soil bacterial communities and functions in degraded alpine meadows of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Restoration reseeding of degraded alpine meadows increased aboveground vegetation but was associated with short‐term topsoil carbon loss, coinciding with a microbial strategy shift from resident carbon‐preserving to carbon‐spending bacterial guilds. Abstract Background Restoration of degraded ecosystems is widely promoted as a nature‐based solution ...
Long‐Tao Zhu, Wen‐Min Shi, Guang‐Peng Qu, Xu Yin, Yong‐Kang Zhang, Ying‐Jie Sun, Zhen Luo, Wei Li, Chun‐Ping Zhang, Jie‐Jun Xi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bimodality of woody cover and biomass across the precipitation gradient in West Africa [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2014
Multiple states of woody cover under similar climate conditions are found in both conceptual models and observations. Due to the limitation of the observed woody cover data set, it is unclear whether the observed bimodality is caused by the presence of ...
Z. Yin, S. C. Dekker, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, H. A. Dijkstra   +3 more
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Determinants of Aboveground Carbon Storage of Woody Vegetation in an Urban–Rural Transect in Shanghai, China

Sustainability, 2023
Carbon storage of urban woody vegetation is crucial for climate change mitigation. Biomass structure and species composition have been shown to be important determinants of carbon storage in woody vegetation. In this study, allometric equations were used to estimate the aboveground carbon storage of urban woody vegetation along an urban–rural transect ...
Yanyan Wei, Chi-Yung Jim, Jun Gao, Min Zhao   +3 more
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A Coupled AquaCrop–Richards Model for Improved Crop Yield Prediction Through Physically Based Soil Water Dynamics

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crop modelling is essential for agricultural water management but often relies on simplified water balance routines that limit representation of soil moisture dynamics. To address this limitation, we developed a coupled model that integrates the 1‐D Richards equation, solved using a finite difference method into the FAO AquaCrop.
Krishna Panthi, Vidya Samadi, Carlos Toxtli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source