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Reliably mapping low-intensity forest disturbance using satellite radar data
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 In the last decades tropical forests have experienced increased fragmentation due to a global growing demand for agricultural and forest commodities.
Chiara Aquino +14 more
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Diversity–disturbance relationships: frequency and intensity interact [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2012 An influential ecological theory, the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), predicts that intermediate levels of disturbance will maximize species diversity. Empirical studies, however, have described a wide variety of diversity–disturbance relationships (DDRs).
Alex R, Hall +5 more
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Effects of Plateau Pika Disturbance on the Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation in Alpine Meadows
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Herbivory is one of the important factors that influence spatial heterogeneity of vegetation in grasslands. In this study, we focused on plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) to investigate the effects of the presence of small semi-fossorial herbivores and ...
Jie Li +3 more
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Spatiotemporal Coupling Relationship Between Plateau Pika Disturbance and Alpine Meadow Degradation
Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2023 [Objective] Plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a key species in the alpine meadow ecosystem of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. The coupling relationship between pika activity and meadow degradation was analyzed in order to further improve the observation ...
Zhao Jianyun +5 more
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Plants, 2022 Disturbance by small burrowing herbivores often has an impact on plant aboveground biomass of grassland because it makes grasslands into a mosaic of discrete vegetated surfaces and bare soil patches.
Xiaoxing Wei, Zhenggang Guo
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Vigorous human activities have strengthened the development and utilization of land, causing huge damage to the earth’s surface, while mining the disturbance pattern of human activities can capture the influence process and spatial interaction between ...
Xuedong Zhang +4 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 This study quantifies the effect of low- to moderate-intensity anthropogenic activities and natural activities affecting less than 40% of the canopy cover on major plant functional traits and associated soil microbial diversity in western Himalayan ...
Shipra Singh
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Disturbance intensity, disturbance extent and ocean climate modulate kelp forest understory communities [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020 Disturbances often control community structure by removing large dominant species, allowing new species to colonize. Disturbances vary in intensity and extent, and their effects on resident communities can depend on local environmental conditions. We tested the effects of disturbance intensity and extent on different functional groups of understory ...
Wernberg, Thomas +3 more
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Multi-cyclone analysis and machine learning model implications of cyclone effects on forests
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2021 Past studies of cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons, tropical cyclones) disturbance showed that meteorological, topographical, and biological factors affect the patterns of forest disturbance intensity but left open the extent to which these findings were ...
Yanlei Feng +2 more
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Characteristics of the electrojet during intense magnetic disturbances [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2018 Abstract. Hall current variations in different time sectors during six magnetic storms from the summer seasons in 2003 and 2005 (Ritter, 2018) are examined, namely three storms in the day–night meridional sector and three storms in the dawn–dusk sector. The sequence of the phenomena, their structure and positions, and the strength of the polar (PE) and
L. I. Gromova +4 more
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