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What does the recovery debt really measure? [PDF]

Rethinking Ecology, 2017
Recently, Moreno-Mateos et al. (2017) coined the concept ‘recovery debt’, clearly a close relative of the ecosystem service debt (Isbell et al.
Merja Elo, Tuomas Haapalehto, Santtu Kareksela, Janne Kotiaho   +3 more
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Does selective logging affect litter deposition rates in central Brazilian Amazonia?

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022
Selective logging is one of the main human activities that are drastically modifying tropical forests around the world. Reduced-impact logging emerged as a rational model of timber harvesting that reduces the impacts on the ecosystems and contributes to ...
JARLESON L. BARREIROS, NAIARA S. DE OLIVEIRA, RICARDO A.S. CERBONCINI, LOURI KLEMANN JUNIOR   +3 more
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More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function

Diversity, 2020
Studies of biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF) have long focused on the role of nitrogen (N)-fixing legumes as a functional group that occupies a distinct and important niche relative to other plants.
B. Taylor, E. Simms, K. Komatsu
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Red imported fire ant nesting affects the structure of soil microbial community

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
The red imported fire ants (RIFA, Solenopsis invicta) have become a well-known invasive species that poses significant ecological and economic threats globally.
Jingjie Song, Zhenzhen Tang, Xueqing Zhao, Yanqiong Yin, Xiangyong Li, Fushou Chen, Aidong Chen, Ying Liu   +7 more
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Environmental factors indirectly reduce phytoplankton community stability via functional diversity

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The biodiversity-stability relationship is a fundamental subject of ecological research. Considerable evidence demonstrates that biodiversity can either increase or decrease stability.
Xiaoguang Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lu Tan, Qinghua Cai, Lin Ye   +4 more
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Soil Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycling Microbial Populations and Their Resistance to Global Change Depend on Soil C:N:P Stoichiometry

mSystems, 2020
Maintaining stability of ecosystem functions in the face of global change calls for a better understanding regulatory factors of functionally specialized microbial groups and their population response to disturbance. In this study, we explored this issue
Gongwen Luo, Chao Xue, Qianhong Jiang, Yan Xiao, Fengge Zhang, Shiwei Guo, Qirong Shen, Ning Ling   +7 more
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Linking Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity to Ecosystem Function Across Scales, Trophic Levels, and Realms

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Global declines in biodiversity have the potential to affect ecosystem function, and vice versa, in both terrestrial and aquatic ecological realms. While many studies have considered biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) relationships at local scales ...
Kyla M. Dahlin, Kyla M. Dahlin, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read, Laura A. Twardochleb, Laura A. Twardochleb, Laura A. Twardochleb, Aaron G. Kamoske, Aaron G. Kamoske, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Patricia A. Soranno   +13 more
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Conservation of Abundance: How Fungi can Contribute to Rethinking Conservation

Conservation & Society, 2023
Mainstream biodiversity conservation continues to emphasise the rapid disappearance of charismatic megafauna. Fungi are ignored, partially because many are invisible.
Elizabeth S Barron
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Permafrost condition determines plant community composition and community‐level foliar functional traits in a boreal peatland

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Boreal peatlands are critical ecosystems globally because they house 30%–40% of terrestrial carbon (C), much of which is stored in permafrost soil vulnerable to climate warming‐induced thaw.
Katherine M. Standen, Jennifer L. Baltzer   +1 more
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Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

Functional Ecology, 2019
Wild large herbivores are declining worldwide. Despite extensive use of exclosure experiments to investigate herbivore impacts, there is little consensus on the effects of wild large herbivores on ecosystem function.
Elizabeth S. Forbes, J. Cushman, D. Burkepile, T. Young, M. Klope, H. Young   +5 more
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