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Experimental parameters defining ultra-low biomass bioaerosol analysis
Investigation of the microbial ecology of terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric ecosystems requires specific sampling and analytical technologies, owing to vastly different biomass densities typically encountered.
Irvan Luhung+23 more
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Satellite data indicate significant advancement in alpine spring phenology over decades of climate warming, but corresponding field evidence is scarce. It is also unknown whether this advancement results from an earlier shift of phenological events, or ...
Hao Wang+11 more
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Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning and food-web complexity-stability relationships are central to ecology. However, they remain largely untested in natural contexts.
A. Danet+4 more
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The relationship between plant productivity, measured according to biomass and species richness, is a fundamental focal point in community ecology, as it provides the basis for understanding plant responses or adaptive strategies.
Nthabeliseni Munyai+4 more
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Benthic biomass size spectra in shelf and deep-sea sediments [PDF]
The biomass distributions of marine benthic metazoans (meio- to macro-fauna, 1 ?g–32 mg wet weight) across three contrasting sites were investigated to test the hypothesis that allometry can consistently explain observed trends in biomass spectra ...
Anderson, T.R.+7 more
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Estimating ecological production from biomass [PDF]
Productivity‐diversity relationships (P/D) are a vital theme in ecology, but productivity is typically not measured directly in that research. Instead, biomass (B) is the most common proxy for productivity, often as a 1:1 substitute. Unfortunately, this practice may cause error and uncertainty in P/D research, due to the fundamental difference between ...
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Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model [PDF]
Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide, threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends.
A Friedlander+109 more
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The biomass–density relationship in seagrasses and its use as an ecological indicator [PDF]
Biomass-density relations have been at the centre of a search for an index which describes the health of seagrass meadows. However, this search has been complicated by the intricacy of seagrass demographics and their complex biomass-density relations, a consequence mainly of their modular growth and clonality.
Vasco M. N. C. S. Vieira+2 more
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A Unifying Concept for Growth Trends of Trees and Forests – The “Potential Natural Forest”
Changes in the environment will alter the growth rate of trees and forests. Different disciplines assess such growth rates differently, for example, with tree-ring width data, forest inventories or with carbon-flux data from eddy covariance towers.
Mario Trouillier+3 more
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The Pongola Bush: Tree diversity assessment in a KwaZulu-Natal forest patch
The Pongola Bush Nature Reserve lies in a narrow band along the escarpment between Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Although referred to as ‘bush’, this vegetation type may be considered to fit into the intersection of two types of scarp forest: the ...
Timothy F. Hall+2 more
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