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Patterns and environmental drivers of root traits across hydrological gradients in old growth boreal forests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Many key ecosystem functions are affected by plant roots and their traits. However, understanding of the patterns in, and drivers of, root traits lags far behind equivalent knowledge of above‐ground tissues, particularly in boreal old growth forests. We surveyed community‐level root traits across 11 old growth forests spanning a wide latitudinal range ...
Naomi Vöhringer, Hanna Axén, Anders Ahlström, Gesche Blume‐Werry, Daniel B. Metcalfe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic response of communities and ecosystem functions to ecosystem engineering and multiple stressors in a marine mussel bed

Oikos, EarlyView.
Ecosystem engineers are crucial to the development of coastal ecosystem communities and functions. However, a better understanding of how environmental stressors affect ecosystem engineering and thereby influence communities and ecosystem dynamics is needed. We conducted an in situ experiment in a blue mussel Mytilus spp.
Félix Lauzon, Charlotte Carrier‐Belleau, Jérémie Boucher‐Fontaine, Philippe Archambault, Mathieu Cusson, Frédéric Guichard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The first generation of a regional-scale 1-m forest canopy cover dataset using machine learning and google earth engine cloud computing platform: A case study of Arkansas, USA. [PDF]

Data Brief
Zurqani HA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Maintaining close canopy cover prevents the invasion of Pinus radiata: Basic ecology to manage native forest invasibility. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
Gómez P, Murúa M, San Martín J, Goncalves E, Bustamante RO.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mechanisms and impacts of future plant invasions: research agendas and management needs under disruptive social‐ecological change scenarios

Oikos, EarlyView.
No‐analogue futures are characteristic of the Anthropocene, but how global change, and societies' responses, will affect plant invasions remains unclear. Conducting research now to address future needs is crucial for guiding invasion management and policy.
Jennifer L. Bufford, Angela J. Brandt, Rowan Sprague, Christopher E. Buddenhagen, Richard P. Duncan, Nichola Harcourt, Philip E. Hulme, Hao Ran Lai, Kate G. McAlpine, Chris McGrannachan, Fiona J. Thomson, Vincent van Uitregt, Duane A. Peltzer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reindeer grazing induces spatial and functional shifts in root systems of boreal pine forests

Oikos, EarlyView.
The spatial distribution of roots, laterally and vertically, is critical for nutrient and water uptake and for driving root‐associated carbon inputs and turnover. Large herbivores, such as reindeer, influence ecosystems belowground by altering aboveground vegetation composition and soil microclimate.
Johannes Cunow, Femke Pijcke, Johan Olofsson, Maria Väisänen, Gesche Blume‐Werry   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Maintaining close canopy cover prevents the invasion of Pinus radiata: Basic ecology to manage native forest invasibility. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
Gómez P, Murúa M, San Martín J, Goncalves E, Bustamante RO.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rainforest conversion to monoculture plantations restructures functional communities of braconid parasitoid wasps

Oikos, EarlyView.
The conversion of rainforests into rubber and oil palm plantations drives biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia. Parasitoid wasps are highly diverse and play an essential role in ecosystems by regulating herbivore populations. Declines in density and diversity of parasitoid wasps, after land‐use change is well‐documented, but potential functional losses ...
Azru Azhar, Fabian Brambach, Nicolò Camarretta, Ina Geedicke, Kasmiatun, Alexander Knohl, Martyna M. Kotowska, Christoph Leuschner, Rizky Nazarreta, Rawati Panjaitan, Katja Rembold, Christian Stiegler, Endah Utari, Delphine Clara Zemp, Purnama Hidayat, Damayanti Buchori, Stefan Scheu, Jochen Drescher   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to basal resources by stream macroinvertebrates is shaped by watershed urbanization, riparian canopy cover, and season. [PDF]

Freshw Sci, 2018
Alberts JM, Fritz KM, Buffam I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Asymmetric transferability of trait–environment relationships between native and exotic plant species in Singaporean forests differing in land‐use history

Oikos, EarlyView.
Functional traits allow ecologists to synthesise general rules of community assembly. In joint species distribution modelling, traits are increasingly used to explain species–environment relationships, with the intention of being able to generalise predictions to other species in other systems.
Hao Ran Lai, Kwek Yan Chong, Louise Neo, David A. Wardle, Peter A. Vesk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source