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Contrasting microbial biogeographical patterns between anthropogenic subalpine grasslands and natural alpine grasslands [PDF]

New Phytologist, 2015
Summary The effect of plant species composition on soil microbial communities was studied at the multiregional level. We compared the soil microbial communities of alpine natural grasslands dominated by Carex curvula and anthropogenic subalpine pastures dominated by Nardus stricta. We conducted paired sampling across the Carpathians and the Alps and
Geremia, Roberto, A., Pușcaș, Mihai, Zinger, Lucie, Bonneville, Jean-Marc, Choler, Philippe   +4 more
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Alpine steppe vegetation communities are more sensitive to plateau pika disturbance than alpine meadows

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionSmall herbivores are important biological factors affecting plant productivity and species richness in the grassland ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau.
Rui Hua, Peng Zhang, Liqing Wang, Miaomiao Huang, Limin Hua, Jianwei Zhou   +5 more
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Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler, Natasha Barbolini, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan, Marian Schubert, Catarina Rydin, Olwen M. Grace, Aelys M. Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Physical and Anthropogenic Factors on Vegetation Spatial-Temporal Variation in Northern Tibet

Remote Sensing, 2019
The alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers an area of about 1/3 of China’s total grassland area and plays a crucial role in regulating grassland ecological functions.
Qinwei Ran, Yanbin Hao, Anquan Xia, Wenjun Liu, Ronghai Hu, Xiaoyong Cui, Kai Xue, Xiaoning Song, Cong Xu, Boyang Ding, Yanfen Wang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem functioning differ between a temperate and a tropical region

Ecography, EarlyView.
Any single ecosystem will provide many ecosystem functions. Yet, we lack large‐scale, systematic studies of how abiotic factors can directly or indirectly – via effects on biodiversity – drive ecosystem functioning. In this study, we assessed the impact of climate, landscape and biotic community on ecosystem functioning in the temperate and tropical ...
Laura J. A. van Dijk, Andreia Miraldo, Dimby Raharinjanahary, Eric Tsiriniaina Rajoelison, Brian L. Fisher, Robert M. Goodsell, Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz‐Eggebrecht, David Åhlén, Johanna Högvall, Erika Lundberg, Emma Rova, Piotr Łukasik, Fredrik Ronquist, Tomas Roslin, Ayco J. M. Tack   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of the Neogene İnegöl Basin (NW Anatolia): Constraints on Transtensional Basin Development at the Junction of the Western Anatolian Extensional Province and the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
The study outlines the tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the İnegöl Basin in north‐western Anatolia. Basin formation was controlled by interacting extensional and strike‐slip fault systems linked to uplift of the Uludağ Massif. Terrestrial sedimentation from the Miocene to Pleistocene is reconstructed using abundant fossil mammal assemblages that ...
M. Cihat Alçiçek, Volkan Karabacak, Serdar Mayda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Temperature Sensitivity and Activation Energy of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition in Different Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Grasslands.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grasslands are unique geographical regions and store substantial soil organic matter (SOM) in the soil surface, which make them very sensitive to global climate change.
Jie Li, Nianpeng He, Xuehong Wei, Yang Gao, Yao Zuo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil bacterial community responses to short-term grazing exclusion in a degraded alpine shrubland – grassland ecotone

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Grazing exclusion by fencing is a common and effective grassland management strategy for degraded grassland restoration. Soil bacteria, the most important decomposers of soil organic matter, is the linkage between plant and soil.
Jinlan Wang, Wen Li, Wenxia Cao, Theophilus Atio Abalori, Yuzhen Liu, Yuqiong Xin, Shilin Wang, Degang Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpine Space Prospective Study. Sustainable territorial development in the Alpine Space: Towards long term transnational cooperation [PDF]

, 2005
This "Prospective Study" argues that a long term transnational cooperation will be able to pursue the sustainable territorial development in the Alpine Space only at the condition of a substantial improvement of the current experience.
Praper, S., Bausch, T., Dax, T., Janin Rivolin, U., Vanier, M., Parvex, F.   +5 more
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