Transplanting the leafy liverwort Herbertus hutchinsiae : A suitable conservation tool to maintain oceanic-montane liverwort-rich heath? [PDF]
, 2016 Thanks to the relevant landowners and managers for permission to carry out the experiments, Chris Preston for helping to obtain the liverwort distribution records and the distribution map, Gordon Rothero and Dave Horsfield for advice on choosing ...
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A Unifying Concept for Growth Trends of Trees and Forests – The “Potential Natural Forest”
Frontiers 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
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Plant and soil microbe responses to light, warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate forest [PDF]
, 2018 1. Temperate forests across Europe and eastern North America have become denser since the 1950s due to less intensive forest management and global environmental changes such as nitrogen deposition and climate warming. Denser tree canopies result in lower
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Prothonotary warbler nestling growth and condition inresponse to variation in aquatic and terrestrial preyavailability [PDF]
, 2016 Aquatic prey subsidies entering terrestrial habitats are well documented, but little is known about the degree to which these resources provide fitness benefits to riparian consumers.
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Animals, 2022 Biomass and abundance are fundamental parameters in ecology, conservation biology, and environmental impact assessment. Distinguishing features, such as burrow openings and feeding pellets, made by different intertidal macroinvertebrate species on the ...
Bon Joo Koo, Jaehwan Seo, Min Seong Jang
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Living Close to Your Neighbors: The Importance of Both Competition and Facilitation in Plant Communities [PDF]
, 2014 Recent work has demonstrated that competition and facilitation likely operate jointly in plant communities, but teasing out the relative role of each has proven difficult.
Reich, Peter B. +2 more
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Kochia (Kochia scoparia) and Wild Oat (Avena fatua) Intraspecific and Interspecific Interference
Agronomy, 2020 Kochia (Kochia scoparia) and wild oat (Avena fatua) are highly problematic western Canadian weeds. Wild oat is widely distributed and has been a long-standing agricultural pest across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Kochia populations are patchy and
Shaun M. Sharpe
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Cleaner Materials, 2022 Biochar is a carbon-rich product obtained from the thermochemical conversion of biomass. Utilizing biochar is essential for enhancing economic viability and maintaining the ecology effectively.
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Initial Plant Growth in Sand Mine Spoil Amended with Peat Moss and Fertilizer Under Greenhouse Conditions: Potential Species for Use in Reclamation [PDF]
, 2012 The Great Lakes Basin exhibits the largest collection of freshwater sand dunes in the world. Sand dunes are ecologically important and support a unique assemblage of flora and fauna. Sand dunes are also economically valuable. However, when sand dunes are
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Nature Communications, 2021 Extracting functional information from 16S rRNA data surveys would provide a valuable tool for large-scale functional ecology. Here, the authors use PICRUSt2 to infer metabolic functions from bacterial marker gene data across the South Pacific Ocean, and
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