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Scratching the Surface and Digging Deeper: Exploring Ecological Theories in Urban Soils [PDF]

, 2009
Humans have altered the Earth more extensively during the past 50 years than at any other time in history (Millennium Assessment 2003). A significant part of this global change is the conversion of land covers from native ecosystems to those dominated by
Byrne, Loren B, Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell A.   +1 more
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Relationships between substrate, surface characteristics, and vegetation in an initial ecosystem [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2013
We investigated surface and vegetation dynamics in the artificial initial ecosystem "Chicken Creek" (Lusatia, Germany) in the years 2006–2011 across a wide spectrum of empirical data.
P. Biber, S. Seifert, M. K. Zaplata, W. Schaaf, H. Pretzsch, A. Fischer   +5 more
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Evolution of Industrial Ecology and Analysis of Influencing Factors: The Yellow River Basin in China

Land, 2023
The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological function area and economic zone in China that faces the dual pressure of economic development and ecological protection.
Mengtian Zhang, Huiling Wang
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Ecosystem ecology needs an ecology of molecules

Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Ecosystem ecology needs a framework that explicitly considers the roles of organic compounds. The ecology of molecules integrates compound identity, diversity, and interactions to understand ecosystem processes, such as nutrient and carbon cycling. This approach leverages advances in analytical chemistry and molecular biology to unravel the complex ...
Freeman, Erika C, Peller, Tianna, Altermatt, Florian   +2 more
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Biology of Applied Digital Ecosystems

, 2007
A primary motivation for our research in Digital Ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. Ecosystems are thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic ...
Briscoe, G., Paperin, G., Sadedin, S.
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Ecosystem size predicts eco-morphological variability in a postglacial diversification [PDF]

, 2017
Identifying the processes by which new phenotypes and species emerge has been a long-standing effort in evolutionary biology. Young adaptive radiations provide a model to study patterns of morphological and ecological diversification in environmental ...
Adams, Colin E., Elmer, Kathryn R., Hooker, Oliver E., Recknagel, Hans   +3 more
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Sensitivity of plant species to warming and altered precipitation dominates the community productivity in a semiarid grassland on the Loess Plateau

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Global warming and changes in precipitation patterns can critically influence the structure and productivity of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood.
Fanglong Su, Yanan Wei, Fuwei Wang, Jiuxin Guo, Juanjuan Zhang, Yi Wang, Hui Guo, Shuijin Hu   +7 more
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Seasonality and moisture regime control soil respiration, enzyme activities, and soil microbial biomass carbon in a semi-arid forest of Delhi, India

Ecological Processes, 2020
Soil respiration, soil enzymes, and microbial biomass are important in carbon cycling in the terrestrial ecosystem which is generally limited by environmental factors and soil carbon availability.
Urvashi Tomar, Ratul Baishya
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

Ecology Letters, 2020
A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale dependence in the BEF relationship: (1) a nonlinear change in ...
Andrew Gonzalez, R. Germain, D. Srivastava, É. Filotas, L. Dee, D. Gravel, P. Thompson, F. Isbell, Shaopeng Wang, S. Kéfi, J. Montoya, Yuval R. Zelnik, M. Loreau   +12 more
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil [PDF]

, 2005
1. Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological activities in soils drive many of the key ecosystem processes that govern the global system ...
Finlay B.J., Finlay B.J., Groombridge B., Kowalchuk G.A., Liu W.T., Manefield M., Meselson M., Morton J.B., Torsvik V., Wall D.   +9 more
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