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Global distribution of avian plumage coloration and patterning: the relative influence of climate, ecology, and sexual selection

Ecography, EarlyView.
Animal coloration exhibits substantial biogeographic variation, reflecting complex adaptations to both abiotic and biotic environments. Although the evolutionary mechanisms underlying avian plumage coloration have been widely studied, geographic variation in plumage patterning has received far less attention.
Yuqing Han, Ying Zeng, Tien Ming Lee, Long Wang, Chen Zeng, Pengfei Fan, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, Weini Huang, Yang Liu   +8 more
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Influence of canopy openness, ungulate exclosure, and low-intensity fire for improved oak regeneration in temperate Europe. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2020
Petersson LK, Dey DC, Felton AM, Gardiner ES, Löf M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Regeneration failure, fire, topography, and climate interact to drive temperate wet forest landscapes into fire traps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Where early successional forests are more flammable than old‐growth forests, forested landscapes are vulnerable to shifting into ‘fire traps' through positive feedbacks, where fire leads to more fire. These feedbacks are amplified by increased flammability driven by climate change, the presence of non‐native flammable plant species, and slowed ...
George L. W. Perry, Craig E. Simpkins, Kiri Reihana, James M. R. Brock, Peter J. Bellingham   +4 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

Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening

Ecography, EarlyView.
The local effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plants are well established, yet a global empirical analysis of nitrogen deposition effects on vegetation dynamics is missing. Here, we assess how nitrogen deposition, alongside other global change drivers such as fire, and changes in temperature, precipitation and human land use, is related to ...
Jonas Trepel, Joe Atkinson, Oliver Baines, Matthew Kerr, Elizabeth le Roux, Hannah Rubin, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Robert Buitenwerf   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the potential of a bush-cricket as an indicator for structure- and species-rich forests

Ecological Indicators
Central European forestry is currently facing a challenging situation, striving against climate change impacts. Forest restoration is crucial but monitoring the impact of forest management on biodiversity is needed to incorporate this factor into ...
Lisa Maria Reiss, Axel Hochkirch
doaj   +1 more source

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

Delayed rainfall diminishes the positive response of soil respiration to warming

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Warming stimulates soil respiration and its components, while delayed rainfall suppresses them. Crucially, delayed rainfall diminishes or even reverses the positive response of soil respiration to warming by intensifying the drought stress, and autotrophic respiration is more vulnerable than heterotrophic respiration under this interaction.
Shuotian Lai, Changlin Xu, Wenao Wu, Weixin Cheng, Biao Zhu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grapevine leaf size influences canopy temperature

OENO One
Grapevine leaves have diverse shapes and sizes which are influenced by many factors including genetics, vine phytosanitary status, environment, leaf and vine age, and node position on the shoot.
Zoe Migicovsky, Joel F. Swift, Zachary Helget, Laura L. Klein, Anh Ly, Matthew Maimaitiyiming, Karoline Woodhouse, Anne Fennell, Misha Kwasniewski, Allison J. Miller, Daniel H. Chitwood, Peter Cousins   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The nitrogen dilemma: Toward a novel fertilization management framework for reconciling productivity and diversity in grasslands

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Nitrogen fertilization raises grassland productivity but steadily undermines plant diversity. Instead of applying the same rate everywhere every year, the PRISM framework is designed to rotate high‐ and low‐nitrogen paddocks across the farm over time. This spatiotemporal cycling aims to maintain farm‐scale productivity while creating periodic windows ...
André Fischer Sbrissia, Marilia Barbosa Chiavegato, Daniel Augusto Barreta, Sila Carneiro Da Silva, Maria Gabriela Pittaro, Rodrigo Amorim Barbosa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source