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Experimental parameters defining ultra-low biomass bioaerosol analysis

open access: yesnpj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change

open access: yesEcology Letters, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Species richness and food-web structure jointly drive community biomass and its temporal stability in fish communities.

open access: yesEcology Letters, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental Factors on Plant Productivity in the Mountain Grassland of the Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa

open access: yesEcologies, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Benthic biomass size spectra in shelf and deep-sea sediments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +2 more sources

Estimating ecological production from biomass [PDF]

open access: yesEcosphere, 2015
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 ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide, threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends.
A Friedlander   +109 more
core   +4 more sources

The biomass–density relationship in seagrasses and its use as an ecological indicator [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Ecology, 2018
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
openaire   +4 more sources

A Unifying Concept for Growth Trends of Trees and Forests – The “Potential Natural Forest”

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Pongola Bush: Tree diversity assessment in a KwaZulu-Natal forest patch

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

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