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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
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Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures

Forest Ecosystems
In the temperate zone of Europe, Scots pine forests are expected to occupy the poorest habitats which are unfavourable for deciduous trees. However, as a result of deforestation of the most fertile habitats and the preference for Pinus sylvestris in ...
Ewa Stefańska-Krzaczek, Rafał Krzaczek, Natalia Mazurek, Damian Chmura   +3 more
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Different forest cover and its impact on eco-hydrological traits, invertebrate fauna and biodiversity of spring habitats

Nature Conservation, 2018
Headwater springs in the German Low Mountain Ranges are local ecotone habitats and biogeographical islands embedded in and interlinked with their adjacent landscape.
Martin Reiss, Peter Chifflard
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Associations of forest type, parasitism and body condition of two European passerines, Fringilla coelebs and Sylvia atricapilla. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Human-induced forest modification can alter parasite-host interactions and might change the persistence of host populations. We captured individuals of two widespread European passerines (Fringilla coelebs and Sylvia atricapilla) in southwestern Germany ...
Bruntje Lüdtke, Isabelle Moser, Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Markus Fischer, Elisabeth K V Kalko, H Martin Schaefer, Marcela Suarez-Rubio, Marco Tschapka, Swen C Renner   +8 more
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Kin discrimination in plants: overview and implications for population and community ecology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the discovery of identity discrimination, particularly self and kin discrimination amongst plant competitors, research on interplant interactions has advanced significantly within plant physiology and evolutionary ecology. This review synthesizes current knowledge on how both self and kin discrimination influence plant growth ...
Akira Yamawo
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Thermal adaptation of net ecosystem exchange [PDF]

, 2011
Thermal adaptation of gross primary production and ecosystem respiration has been well documented over broad thermal gradients. However, no study has examined their interaction as a function of temperature, i.e.
Janssens, I.A., Lindroth, Anders, Lindroth, Anders,, DRAGONI D., J. Chen, MATTEUCCI Giorgio, Stoy, P., B. Gielen, LINDROTH A., GOUGH C.M., COOK B., E. Moors, SEUFERT Guenther, C. M. Gough, COOK D. R., A. R. Desai, R. L. Scott, Liang, S., LUND M., ARAIN Altaf M., Moors, E., W. Yuan, Janssens, Ivan, BERNHOFER Christian, D. R. Cook, S. Liang, I. Janssens, JANSSENS I. A., NIU Shuli, Gough, C.M., Lindroth, A., Dragoni, D., Cook, B., S. Niu, Longdoz, B., A. Lindroth, Moors, E.J., Stoy, J., CHEN J., Ceulemans, Reinhart, Lund University., Yuan, W., Matteucci, G., Gough, C. M., G. Seufert, LUO Yiqi, Varner, R., GIELEN B., SCOTT R., YU G., Gielen, Birgit, G. Yu, Lund, M., Desai, A. R., Ceulemans, R., H. Liu, D. Dragoni, Cook, D. R., Y. Luo, Seufert, G., R. Varner, Bernhofer, C., Gielen, B., LIU H., LONGDOZ B., Longdoz, Bernard, Liu, H., Desai, A.R., Cook, D.R., VARNER R., B. Longdoz, Janssens, I. A., B. Cook, LIANG Shunlin, Scott, R. L., Scott, R.L., Arain, A., I. A. Janssens, YUAN Wenping, A. Arain, STOY P., Ceulenmans, R., Longdoz, Bernard, B., C. Bernhofer, G. Matteucci, Niu, S., MOORS Eddy, R. Ceulemans, DESAI A.R., Chen, J., CEULEMANS R., P. Stoy, YU, G., M. Lund, Varner, Ruth K., Luo, Y.   +95 more
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Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler, Natasha Barbolini, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan, Marian Schubert, Catarina Rydin, Olwen M. Grace, Aelys M. Humphreys   +6 more
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The influence of canopy-layer composition on understory plant diversity in southern temperate forests

Forest Ecosystems, 2017
Background Understory plants represents the largest component of biodiversity in most forest ecosystems and plays a key role in forest functioning. Despite their importance, the influence of overstory-layer composition on understory plant diversity is ...
Luciana Mestre, Mónica Toro-Manríquez, Rosina Soler, Alejandro Huertas-Herrera, Guillermo Martínez-Pastur, María Vanessa Lencinas   +5 more
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Resolving the biome debate: ecological and palaeo‐data concur that the extensive tree‐limited grassy biomes of central and north‐western Madagascar are largely anthropogenic

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For millennia, human activities have transformed ecosystems globally. Determining which landscapes are predominantly anthropogenic is crucial to conservation and habitat restoration. Madagascar, a critically‐threatened biodiversity hotspot, is a prominent example.
Grant S. Joseph, Sean Hixon, Colleen L. Seymour, Laurie R. Godfrey, Miguel Pedrono, Karen E. Samonds, Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Brooke E. Crowley   +7 more
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Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on topographic variations of soil respiration [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2010
Soil respiration rates were measured along different parts of a slope in (a) an evergreen forest with common brown forest soil and (b) a deciduous forest with immature soil.
K. Tamai
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