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Herbivore exclusion stabilizes alpine grassland biomass production across spatial scales

Global Change Biology
AbstractThere is growing evidence that land‐use management practices such as livestock grazing can strongly impact the local diversity, functioning, and stability of grassland communities. However, whether these impacts depend on environmental condition and propagate to larger spatial scales remains unclear.
Juntao Zhu, Yangjian Zhang, Jianshuang Wu, Xianzhou Zhang, Guirui Yu, Zhenxi Shen, Xian Yang, Yunlong He, Lin Jiang, Yann Hautier   +9 more
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Genomic Investigations Unveil the Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Adaptation in African Goat Populations

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study integrates genomics and landscape genetics to analyze African goat environmental adaptation. Analyzing 1591 samples, it finds population structure differentiates geographically into four groups, with gene flow between wild Yura goats and North Africans.
Weifeng Peng, Yihua Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Lei Gao, Lili Wu, Shuping Wang, Yiyang Gao, Wanlu Shi, Kaixin Lu, Rong Deng, Junting Li, Jing Han, Xiaohui Lu, Yujie Liu, Xiaojiao Tang, Yunxia Zhang, Guoyin Li, Li Huang, Mingsheng Yang, Xiaoyan Li   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for spatial interactions in the upscaling of ecosystem services

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Maps of ecosystem service (ES) supply are frequently used to guide spatial planning, policymaking and ecosystem management. However, these are typically based upon coarse land‐cover proxies. This approach lacks a strong mechanistic basis and neglects spatial biodiversity dynamics and interactions among landscape properties that can modify ES ...
Andrea Larissa Boesing, Gaëtane Le Provost, Margot Neyret, Anja Linstädter, Javier Muro, Jörg Müller, Kirsten Jung, Markus Fischer, Maximilian Lange, Olena Dubovyk, Paul Magdon, Ralph Bolliger, Sophia Leimer, Steffen Boch, Swen Renner, Till Kleinebecker, Ute Hamer, Valentin H. Klaus, Wolfgang Wilcke, Peter Manning   +19 more
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Invasion Alters Plant and Mycorrhizal Communities in an Alpine Tussock Grassland

Oecologia
Abstract Plant invasions now impact even the world’s most remote ecosystems, including alpine zones, altering key mutualisms that affect ecosystem functions. Plant-mycorrhizal associations can be sensitive to invasion, but previous studies have been limited in the types of mycorrhizas examined, favouring invaders that host arbuscular ...
Moyle, DM, Deslippe, Julie
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Sanitation felling against the European spruce bark beetle: A matter of intensity and forest type Tagli fitosanitari contro il bostrico tipografo: una questione di intensità e tipologia forestale

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
We assess the effect of sanitation felling performed in 2022 in North‐Eastern Italy on bark beetle damage that occurred in 2023 across eight spruce forest types, as evaluated using multispectral satellite imagery. Bark beetle damage was reduced only at very high or very low sanitation felling rates.
Aurora Bozzini, Michele Missoni, Giacomo Santoiemma, Iris Bernardinelli, Rinaldo Comino, Massimo Faccoli   +5 more
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Living by the lake: Plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake‐dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between wetland ecosystems and prehistoric lakeshore settlements within the Lake Ohrid basin (a biodiversity hotspot) by considering plant food systems at Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia. The mid‐fifth millennium (c.4555–4373 to 4437–4241 cal BCE) waterlogged assemblage contained a diverse spectrum of ...
Amy Holguin, Michael Charles, Ferran Antolín, Rachel Ballantyne, Müge Ergun, Albert Hafner, Stefanie Jacomet, André F. Lotter, Goce Naumov, Johannes Reich, Raül Soteras, Elizabeth Stroud, Willy Tinner, Rachel Wood, Amy Bogaard   +14 more
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Estimation of Crude Protein Content in Revegetated Alpine Grassland Using Hyperspectral Data

Remote Sensing
Remote sensing plays an important role in understanding the degradation and restoration processes of alpine grasslands. However, the extreme climatic conditions of the region pose difficulties in collecting field spectral data on which remote sensing is ...
Yanfu Bai, Shijie Zhou, Jingjing Wu, Haijun Zeng, Bingyu Luo, Mei Huang, Linyan Qi, Wenyan Li, Mani Shrestha, Abraham A. Degen, Zhanhuan Shang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forage Research Report, No. 2 [PDF]

, 1964
Cooperating with the Agricultural Research Service, U.S.
Klebesadel, L.J., Laughlin, W.M.
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Wet Season Carbon (δ13C) and Nitrogen (δ15N) Composition of Modern Plants as Isotopic Framework for Agropastoral and Palaeoecological Studies in Northern Greece

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean wetlands are one of Europe's most vital and endangered biodiversity hotspots. This study determined the carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values of modern plants to construct an isotopic framework by which to contextualize agropastoral management in and around past wetland ecosystems.
Doris Vidas‐Cardador, Amy Styring, Michael Charles, Valasia Isaakidou, Paul Halstead, Amy Bogaard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scenarios and strategies for future‐proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change is driving unprecedented declines in dominant, habitat‐forming foundation species across marine and terrestrial ecosystems globally. As climatic novelty becomes the norm, ecosystem reassembly will become increasingly common. Predicting and understanding these transitions, and their implications for future ecosystem functioning ...
Lauren T. Toth, Elizabeth T. Borer, Deron E. Burkepile, Joan Dudney, Nathan P. Lemoine, Julianna J. Renzi, Kathryn E. L. Smith, Travis A. Courtney, Sara A. Goeking, William M. Hammond, David L. Hoover, Sandra MacFadyen, Michael J. Osland, Joseph E. Townsend, Robert Y. Fidler   +14 more
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