Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research [PDF]
, 2018 Urban metabolism studies have gained momentum in recent years as a means to assess the environmental performance of cities and to point to more resource-efficient strategies for urban development.
Perrotti, Daniela, Stemke, Sven
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Physical access for residue-mineral interactions controls organic carbon retention in an Oxisol soil
Scientific Reports, 2017 Oxisol soils are widely distributed in the humid tropical and subtropical regions and are generally characterized with high contents of metal oxides.
Chenglong Ye +7 more
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2023 According to the IUCN Red List the anadromous houting Coregonus oxyrinchus is categorized as ‘extinct’. However, this extinct status might be incorrect because taxonomic difference between C. oxyrinchus and the closely related C.
R. Kroes +7 more
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Do Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions Affect Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Tropical Mosses?
Plants, 2023 Tropical cloud forests are characterized by abundant and biodiverse mosses which grow epiphytically as well as on the ground. Nitrogen (N)-fixing cyanobacteria live in association with most mosses, and contribute greatly to the N pool via biological ...
Lina Avila Clasen +4 more
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Plant energetics and the synthesis of population and ecosystem ecology
, 2017 Historical conceptual divisions in ecology are dissolving as ecologists seek general currencies for understanding plant function, population dynamics, species interactions and ecosystem processes.
J. Fridley
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Population–reaction model and microbial experimental ecosystems for understanding hierarchical dynamics of ecosystems [PDF]
, 2016 Understanding ecosystem dynamics is crucial as contemporary human societies face ecosystem degradation. One of the challenges that needs to be recognized is the complex hierarchical dynamics.
Hosoda, Kazufumi +3 more
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2020 Political ecology is supposed to be a field of two parts of equal importance – "politics" and "ecology." However, critics have pointed to the fact that it dwells on the politics, while rendering ecology secondary in its focus.
Michael Acheampong
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Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration [PDF]
, 2014 Manipulating community assemblages to achieve functional targets is a key component of restoring degraded ecosystems. The response-and-effect trait framework provides a conceptual foundation for translating restoration goals into functional trait targets,
Laughlin, Daniel C.
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Grassland ecology in China: perspectives and challenges [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2018 During the last few decades, there have been an increasing number of studies on grassland ecology in China, involving the classic ecology concepts or theories and the applicable ecological principles of grassland conservation or management.
Deli WANG, Ling WANG, Jushan LIU, Hui ZHU, Zhiwei ZHONG
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The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development [PDF]
, 2010 1. Chronosequences and associated space-for-time substitutions are an important and often necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development across multiple time-scales.
Bardgett, Richard D. +3 more
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