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Changes in soil labile and recalcitrant carbon pools after land-use change in a semi-arid agro-pastoral ecotone in Central Asia

, 2020
Soil organic matter is a heterogeneous and complex entity that consists of a diverse range of compounds. However, the responses of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions with different biochemical stabilities to land-use change are inadequately addressed ...
Xiang Liu, Ditao Chen, Tao Yang, Fa-rong Huang, S. Fu, Lan-hai Li   +5 more
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Ecotone as Methodology

GeoHumanities, 2021
This article is a critical reflection upon Interim—a project I undertook at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore.
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East Asian summer monsoon and topography co-determine the Holocene migration of forest-steppe ecotone in northern China

, 2020
Forest-steppe ecotones are generally regarded as very sensitive to climate change. However, it is still unclear whether they can be used to track past climate changes due to the combined effects of climate forcing and topographic factors.
Ying Cheng, Hongyan Liu, Z. Dong, K. Duan, Hongya Wang, Yue Han   +5 more
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Response of aggregate associated organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous to re-vegetation in agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China

Geoderma, 2019
The agro-pastoral ecotone is an ecologically fragile transition zone and suffers from extensive human-induced land-use changes. To understand how soil organic carbon (OC) and nutrients will respond to re-vegetation practices in such an ecotone zone, we ...
Yufei Yao, Nannan Ge, Siyang Yu, Xiaorong Wei, Xiang Wang, Jingwei Jin, Xuetong Liu, M. Shao, Yanchun Wei, Li Kang   +9 more
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Anthropogenic contributions dominate trends of vegetation cover change over the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China

Ecological Indicators, 2018
Separating anthropogenic contributions from observed vegetation change is helpful for improving our understanding of the effects of human activities on regional ecosystems.
Zheng-jia Liu, Yan-sui Liu, Yurui Li
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Stable or unstable? Landscape diversity and ecosystem stability across scales in the forest–grassland ecotone in northern China

Landscape Ecology, 2023
Zhouyuan Li, Tianxiao Ma, Yimeng Cai, Tingting Fei, Chen Zhai, Wenxiao Qi, S. Dong, Jixi Gao, Xuguang Wang, Shaopeng Wang   +9 more
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Ecotonal Networks (ENTs)

2017
A sustainable and holistic management approach—Ecotonal Networks (ENTs)—is proposed to preserve the internal hydrologic connectivity of the entire catchment. Its application to wetland habitats is discussed within the theoretical framework of Resilience Theory.
Gianluca Polgar, Zeehan Jaafar
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Analyzing Historic Ecotonal Shifts

Ecological Applications, 1993
Complex chains of mutual causation in human—environment relations may be analyzed by tracing past human interaction with the environment at the global, regional, and local scales. Historical analogues can be effectively employed to model the range of potential climate anywhere in the world.
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Factors that alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on the fertile island in a desert-oasis ecotone.

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
Dryland vegetation forms a "fertile island effect" due to water and nutrient retention. However, there has been little research on the mechanism underlying C-, N-, P-accumulation and overall fertile island at the community level.
Hengfang Wang, Yan Cai, Qi Yang, Y. Gong, G. Lv   +4 more
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Evidence on ecotone concepts from switch, environmental and anthropogenic ecotones

Journal of Vegetation Science, 2000
Abstract. Four contrasting ecotones were sampled to address three questions: (1) Are there ‘ecotonal’ species, (2) Do ecotones possess higher (or lower) species richness than the adjacent communities? and (3) Are exotic species more likely to occur in ecotones?
Kelvin M. Lloyd, Amelia A.M. McQueen, Beatrice J. Lee, Robert C.B. Wilson, Susan Walker, J. Bastow Wilson   +5 more
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