The Maghreb – one more important biodiversity hot spot for tiger beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae) in the Mediterranean region [PDF]
, 2015 The tiger beetle fauna of the Maghreb region is one of the richest in the Palaearctic, including 22 species and 5 subspecies and 19% of all Palaearctic species of Cicindelinae.
Acciavatti +44 more
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Impact of Extreme Climate on the NDVI of Different Steppe Areas in Inner Mongolia, China
Remote Sensing, 2022 The frequency of extreme climate events has increased resulting in major changes to vegetation in arid and semi-arid areas. We selected 12 extreme climate indices and used trend analysis and multiple linear regression models to analyze extreme climate ...
Kuan Chen +6 more
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Local extinctions in the small mammal's assemblages between late Holocene and historical times in Talagapa mountains (Patagonia, Argentina): The role of land use changes [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this work was to evaluate possible changes in the small mammal composition in the Patagonian arid Extra-Andean steppes between the late Holocene and historical times.
Andrade, Analia, Monjeau, Jorge Adrian
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Currently, the impact of changes in precipitation and increased nitrogen(N) deposition on ecosystems has become a global problem. In this study, we conducted a 8-year field experiment to evaluate the effects of interaction between N deposition and ...
Meiqing Jia +10 more
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Distribution of the Central Asian Genus Dontostemon Andrz. ex. C. A. Mey (Brassicaceae Burnett) [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2006 This paper presents distributional data of eleven species of the genus Dontostemon Andrz. ex. C.A.Mey. (Brassicaceae Burnett.), all of whish are restricted in dispersal to the Central Asian mountain steppe, steppe, desert steppe
Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Tseden Jamsran
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Asymmetric warming significantly affects net primary production, but not ecosystem carbon balances of forest and grassland ecosystems in northern China [PDF]
, 2015 We combine the process-based ecosystem model (Biome-BGC) with climate change-scenarios based on both RegCM3 model outputs and historic observed trends to quantify differential effects of symmetric and asymmetric warming on ecosystem net primary ...
Axmacher, JC, Feng, J, Sang, W, Su, H
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Remote Sensing, 2017 Vegetation phenology in temperate grasslands is highly sensitive to climate change. However, it is still unclear how the timing of vegetation phenology events (especially for autumn phenology) is altered in response to climate change across different ...
Shilong Ren +3 more
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The Algarve climatophilous vegetation series – Portugal: a base document to the planning, management and nature conservation Les séries de végètation climatophiles de l’Algarve - Portugal: un document de base pour la planification, gestion et conservation de la nature [PDF]
, 2012 This work was developed as part of PhD research devoted to the flora and vegetation of the Caldeirão and Monchique mountains that aims to identify the vegetation climatophilous series and use them as an environmental diagnosis of Algarve administrative ...
Cano-Ortiz, Ana +4 more
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Biotope of Corsac Fox and Red Fox in Ikh Nart Natur e Reserve [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2007 Corsac foxes ( Vu lpes corsac ) and red foxes ( V. vulpes ) range widely across northern and central Asia, occupying a variety of arid biotopes. In Mongolia, both species live sympatrically throughout most of the country, but few details of
James D. Murdoch +3 more
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Critical review of the impacts of grazing intensity on soil organic carbon storage and other soil quality indicators in extensively managed grasslands [PDF]
, 2017 Acknowledgements This work contributes to the N-Circle project (grant number BB/N013484/1), and CINAg (BB/N013468/1) Virtual Joint Centres on Agricultural Nitrogen (funded by the Newton Fund via UK BBSRC/NERC), U-GRASS (grant number NE/M016900/1), the ...
Abdalla, M. +7 more
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