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Climate and human impacts inferred from a 1500-year multi-proxy record of an alpine peatland in the South-Eastern Alps

Ecological Indicators, 2022
In the last decades, climate and human activities significantly affected ecosystems, particularly in mountain areas. Whereas the Alps have been extensively studied for palaeoclimatic reconstructions, little information is available about ecological ...
Ilaria Fracasso, Anna Dinella, Francesco Giammarchi, Nadia Marinchel, Piotr Kołaczek, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Katarzyna Marcisz, Edyta Łokas, Magdalena Miecznik, Luca Bragazza, Matteo Girardi, Maurizio Ventura, Luigimaria Borruso, Giustino Tonon, Cristiano Vernesi   +14 more
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Dominant influence of non-thawing periods on annual CO2 emissions from Zoige peatlands: Five-year eddy covariance analysis

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Changes in freeze–thaw processes as a result of climate change significantly affect the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems, especially peatlands.
Xinwei Liu, Dan Zhu, Wei Zhan, Huai Chen, Qiuan Zhu, Jiang Zhang, Ning Wu, Yixin He   +7 more
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Subsidence in Qinghai—Tibet Plateau Peatlands Driven by Drainage Disturbance and Climatic Variability

Geosciences
Peatlands are globally important carbon sinks, yet these are increasingly threatened by climate change and human disturbances. Among degradation indicators, surface subsidence is gradual and challenging to monitor, particularly in alpine peatlands.
Enpeng Tian, Zhenshan Xue, Yanfeng Wu, Kaishan Song, Ruxu Li, Rongyang Zhang   +5 more
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Relation between methanogenic archaea and methane production potential in selected natural wetland ecosystems across China [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2011
Methane (CH₄) emissions from natural wetland ecosystems exhibit large spatial variability at regional, national, and global levels related to temperature, water table, plant type and methanogenic archaea etc.
D. Y. Liu, W. X. Ding, Z. J. Jia, Z. C. Cai   +3 more
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Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Ecography, EarlyView.
Land‐use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Investigating the temporal dynamics of trait‐abundance distributions (TADs) along long‐term time series offers a promising approach to disentangle the influence ...
Nathan Rondeau, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Frédérique Louault, Raphael Martin, Pascal Carrère, Katja Klumpp, Pierre Liancourt, Nicolas Gross   +7 more
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Multidimensional diversity of bird communities across spatial variation of land cover in Zoige on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Avian Research, 2021
Background Spatial variation of land cover can result in the changes of community similarities and biotic homogenization, whereby the increasing similarity would reduce the adaptive capacity of biotic assemblages to further disturbance, and degenerate ...
Aichun Xu, Maojun Zhong, Ke Tang, Xiaoyi Wang, Chen Yang, Haigen Xu, Jianfeng Yi, Wei Liu, Chunlan Zhang, Junhua Hu   +9 more
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Water Table Decline Shifts Microbial Necromass From Particulate to Mineral‐Associated Pools in Peatlands

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) is a major and stable component of soil organic carbon, yet its fraction‐specific accumulation and stabilization mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in peatlands experiencing hydrological change. We investigated MNC distribution along three independent transects spanning a natural gradient of five ...
Hua‐Bing Liu, Jun‐Qin Gao, Jia‐Tao Zhu, Xing‐Li Li, Xingliang Xu, Fei‐Hai Yu   +5 more
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Internal Permafrost Structure of Geomorphologically Distinct Palsas in Northern Sweden Revealed by Quasi‐3D ERT

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Permafrost in northern peatlands occurs within individual palsas or extensive peat plateaus and controls local carbon storage. These permafrost landforms are complex, and their internal structure remains poorly understood. We used quasi‐3D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements, supported by UAV‐LiDAR topography, frost probing ...
Cas Renette, Mirko Pavoni, Mauricio Fuentes, Erik Sturkell, Mats Olvmo, Heather Reese   +5 more
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Changing climates and environments within the complex Middle to Late Pleistocene fill of an overdeepened valley at Niederweningen, Switzerland

Boreas, EarlyView.
Glacially overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland preserve Middle to Late Pleistocene sedimentary sequences that may serve as valuable archives for reconstructing past environmental changes in response to shifts in climate. This study presents a multidisciplinary analysis of two sediment cores from the overdeepened Wehntal Valley at ...
Johannes M. Miocic, Nigel Thew, Ruth Drescher‐Schneider, Hans Rudolf Graf, Marlu Kühn, Frank Preusser, Werner H. Schoch, Lucia Wick, Heinz Furrer   +8 more
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Incorporating burn probability into spatial prioritization of woodland caribou habitat restoration

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Habitat disturbance is a major driver of population declines of woodland caribou in Canada. Habitat restoration is a critical component of a successful, long‐term approach to caribou recovery; however, with limited resources, it is important to target areas where restoration efforts will provide maximum benefits to caribou.
James C. Maltman, Nicholas C. Coops, Gregory J.M. Rickbeil, Christopher Mulverhill, Txomin Hermosilla, A. Cole Burton   +5 more
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