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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canopy Storage Implications on Interception Loss Modeling

American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2014
A rainfall interception methodology was implemented in a deciduous Ficus benjamina (L.) tree to evaluate the interception loss, as well as the dynamics on canopy storage capacity (S) and free through fall (ρ). Measurements of gross precipitation (Pg), through fall and meteorological data were recorded every 5 minutes.
Cesar Véliz-Chávez, Carlos Alberto Mastachi-Loza, Enrique González-Sosa, Rocio Becerril-Piña, Norma Maricela Ramos-Salinas   +4 more
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Characteristics and simulation of snow interception by the canopy of primary spruce‐fir Korean pine forests in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains of China

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Snow interception by the forest canopy is an important control on the forest hydrological cycle in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains within the northern temperate region of China. In this study, the effects of snowfall characteristics and stand structures on the
Yang Xiao, Xiaosong Li, Shuping Zhao, Guohua Song   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality

Ecography, EarlyView.
Organisms' energy requirements increase with body mass, leading to larger home range areas and lower population density. Previous research has highlighted the differential scaling of these variables in mammals, where species with large home ranges have higher density than expected due to increased home range overlap. Here we investigate this phenomenon
Luca Santini, Gianni Jacucci, Marlee A. Tucker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Stochastic Simulation Method for Estimating Vegetation Interception Capacity Based on Mechanical‐Geometric Analysis

Water Resources Research
Vegetation interception is a vital ecohydrological process, and the interception capacity is a key parameter to many classical interception models. However, current canopy interception capacity estimation methods largely depend on measured interception ...
Zixi Li, Fuqiang Tian, Di Wang, Zimu Peng   +3 more
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GROUNDWATER RECHARGE MODEL CONSIDERING CANOPY INTERCEPTION

PROCEEDINGS OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING, 2003
When discussing on the water budget in a basin scale with various land surface conditions, evapotranspiration is a key factor for the practitioners. It is known in forest hydrology that canopy interception, which is equal to the direct evaporation, accounts for around 20% of rainfall, while the transpiration through vegetation is affected by soil water
TSUTSUMI, Atsushi, JINNO, Kenji, MORI, Makito, HIROSHIRO, Yoshinari   +3 more
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Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo, Mason Fidino, Christopher J Schell, Marccus D Hendricks, Seth B Magle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Rainfall Interception of Vegetation Canopy from MODIS Imageries in Southern China

Remote Sensing, 2019
The interception of rainfall by vegetation canopies plays an important role in the hydrologic process of ecosystems. Most estimates of canopy rainfall interception in present studies are mainly through field observations at the plot region.
Jianping Wu, Liyang Liu, Caihong Sun, Yongxian Su, Changjian Wang, Ji Yang, Jiayuan Liao, Xiaolei He, Qian Li, Chaoqun Zhang, Hongou Zhang   +10 more
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The impact of plant density and spatial arrangement on light interception on cotton crop and seed cotton yield: an overview

Journal of Cotton Research, 2020
Light attenuation within a row of crops such as cotton is influenced by canopy architecture, which is defined by size, shape and orientation of shoot components.
Blessing CHAPEPA, Nhamo MUDADA, Rangarirai MAPURANGA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source