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Conserving Rodent Pests in Transition Toward Endangered Status

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Rodent control invariably takes place in the context of ecosystems heavily modified by agriculture. Together, they are potent drivers of rodent decline and endangerment. Nineteen percent of 2349 rodent species evaluated in the IUCN Red List of threatened species are of some conservation concern.
Xavier Lambin
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Artificial Management Improves Soil Moisture, C, N and P in an Alpine Sandy Meadow of Western China

, 2011
Regeneration of degraded grassland ecosystems is a significant issue in restoration ecology globally. To understand the effects of artificial management measures on alpine meadows, we surveyed topsoil properties including moisture, organic carbon (SOC ...
Zhao Ling-Ping, Wu Gao-Lin, Wu, GL, Li Wei   +3 more
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Modern pollen rain of an upland area: implications of pollen dispersal for interpreting palaeoenvironmental records

Boreas, EarlyView.
A long‐term perspective on landscape evolution is critical for understanding past land‐use activity, land cover–climate feedbacks and, notably, for establishing a factual basis for conservation. Fossil pollen analysis provides a means to achieve this. Biases pertaining to pollen productivity, pollination processes and basin size, however, mean there is
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
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Influence of elevation, climate, snowmelt and floral abundance on body size of solitary bees

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
We measured body size in bee species from a 10‐year specimen collection from Colorado sub‐alpine meadows (2450–3450 m) and tested effects of elevation and annual snowmelt, climate and floral abundance. 2 out of 4 bee species collected across a broad elevation range showed a decline in body size with higher elevations; the other two showed no effect ...
Lachlan C. Jones, Melanie R. Kazenel, Kristin Conrad, Jane E. Ogilvie, Ian K. Breckheimer, Rebecca E. Irwin   +5 more
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Balancing Risk and Reward: Red Fox Exploitation of Kill Sites in a Wolf‐Occupied Landscape

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
Wolves are recolonising the European Alps, and the carcasses they leave behind are a valuable food source for smaller carnivores. Using camera traps at 26 wolf‐killed red deer carcasses in Stelvio National Park, we found that red foxes visited every carcass and timed their visits according to how much meat was left, rather than to whether wolves were ...
Valerio Donini, Luca Corlatti, Luca Pedrotti, Giulia Borsani, Matteo Nava   +4 more
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Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) excrements

Ecological Processes
Background Grassland degradation decreases the capacity of soil carbon sequestration, while the supplementation of exogenous organic matter enhances the soil priming effect (PE) and affects the carbon cycle in the soil.
Qinyao Li, Wenquan Yang, Yanru Wu, Xilai Li, Jiancun Kou, Yanghua Yu, Yangcan Zhang, Xinting He, Yunlong Zhao   +8 more
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‘Merge my breath with the one of nature’: Qualitative analysis on focus groups exploring how nature exposure could improve positive body image in young women

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Nature exposure may support young women in improving their relationship with their body, enhancing positive body image. However, the mechanisms remain still largely underexplored. A few qualitative studies provided valuable insights, but they lacked generalizability to the broader population of young women, since they often relied ...
Paolo Mancin, Sara Iannattone, Fidan Turk, Marta Ghisi, Silvia Cerea   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data from: The microbially-mediated soil organic carbon loss under degenerative succession in an alpine meadow

, 2017
Land-cover change has long been recognized as having marked effect on the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the microbially-mediated processes and mechanisms on SOC are still unclear.
Zhang, Yuguang, Deng, Ye, Wang, Xiulei, Cong, Jing, Lu, Hui, Zhou, Jizhong, Sheng, Yuyu, Li, Diqiang, Liu, Xueduan, Yin, Huaqun, Liu, Xiao   +10 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. However, the response of different grassland types to the disturbance of the “endemic species” plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) remains unclear.MethodsIn this study, two representative ...
Rui Hua, Peng Zhang, Liqing Wang, Miaomiao Huang, Limin Hua, Jianwei Zhou   +5 more
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Mowing Modulates Nitrogen Saturation Thresholds of Aboveground Productivity in a Meadow Steppe via Dominant Species and Stoichiometric Regulation

Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2026.
Aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) reached saturation at approximately 10 g N m−2 year−1, while mowing increased the nitrogen saturation threshold to a higher nitrogen‐addition level. This nonlinear saturation response was mainly driven by increased dominance of the dominant species, with plant stoichiometric thresholds further promoting the ...
Shuai Wu, Jiaqi Ye, Yu Mo, Yue Wang, Jie Yu, Guojiao Yang, Xiaotao Lü, Zhenghai Li, Yajing Bao, Xingguo Han   +9 more
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