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Analysing the spatial variation of soil respiration during the early growing season of different grasslands in China [PDF]

PeerJ
Background As one of the most essential vegetation types, grasslands play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. However, current researches on the spatial variation (SV) of soil respiration (Rs) in grasslands faces great uncertainties.
Jie Liu, Ni Huang, Li Wang, Xiaoyu Lin, Luying Zhu, Zheng Niu, Yuelin Zhang, Wensheng Duan   +7 more
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Hunting as anthropogenic sink of biomass or source of carrion? A brief case study based on German hunting bags

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Dead biomass is a crucial nutrient source for ecosystems. Although hunting residues can subsidize numerous scavenging organisms and are known to drive important zoogeochemical processes at very different scales in the ecosystem, this has received little attention.
Jörg Beckmann, Jörg Müller, Sophie Horlebein, Christian von Hoermann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Palaearctic grasslands in transition : overarching patterns and future prospects

, 2018
The Palaearctic biogeographic realm extends over some 45 million km² and thus more than 1/3 of the terrestrial ice-free surface on Earth. It comprises extensive grasslands of different types and origin, which can be subdivided into (1) natural grasslands
Dengler, Jürgen, Török, Péter
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Temporal stability responses to nitrogen addition in Tibetan alpine grasslands: A community composition perspective

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
Plant community composition typically undergoes progressive changes along environmental gradients. However, most experimental studies have focused on individual communities, so it remains unclear how exogenous nutrient inputs affect the stability of ...
Ning Zong, Peili Shi
doaj   +1 more source

Fine‐scale spatio‐temporal niche partitioning enables coexistence of wild ungulates and livestock in a resource‐limited Himalayan landscape, India

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Understanding how wild ungulates share space with domestic livestock is central to conservation planning in Himalayan multi‐use landscapes. This study focuses on multi‐axis niche relationships among six wild ungulates: hangul Cervus hanglu hanglu, Kashmir musk deer Moschus cupreus, Himalayan goral Naemorhedus goral, kashmir markhor Capra falconeri ...
Mohsin Javid, Khursheed Ahmad, Orus Ilyas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical patterns and drivers of plant productivity and species diversity in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Plant Diversity
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has three main grassland types: alpine meadow, alpine steppe, and alpine desert steppe. In this study, we asked how plant productivity and species diversity vary with altitude, longitude and latitude in alpine grasslands ...
Yun-Long Pan, Hai-Ping Tang, Dong Liu, Yong-Gui Ma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forest and fire drive moose (deníe) detections near their northern range limit

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
One way to understand species range shifts in response to anthropogenic climate change is to study populations living at the limit of climate and resource suitability. Moose Alces alces (deníe in Dënesųłıné) generally require forest–wetland landscape complexes but are increasingly seen across the forest–tundra transition at their northern range limit ...
Claudia A. Haas, Nick W. Luymes, Rosemary Hohnen, Frances E. C. Stewart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infections proliferate during amphibian terrestrial dormancy

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The spread and impact of wildlife pathogens is often seasonal, and identifying the season(s) of highest impact can be critical to biodiversity and public health management.
David R. Daversa, Robert L. Grasso, Molly Posta, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, H. Bradley Shaffer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community assembly on inland cliffs is context‐dependent

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Under harsh environmental conditions, community assembly processes are expected to drive pronounced functional convergence, with communities dominated by stress‐tolerant species.
Thomas Deola, Gianmaria Bonari, Alessandro Bricca, Leopoldo de Simone, Sofie Paulus, Claudia Angiolini, Francesco Candini, Juan Lorite, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anke Jentsch   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial distribution and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are pivotal in plant resource acquisition, mediating plant interactions, and influencing soil carbon dynamics.
Feng Zhang, Yaoming Li, Baoming Ji, Shikui Dong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source