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Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change is contributing to vegetation changes that threaten life support systems. Yet, inherent climatic variability and past and present human actions—such as clearing, burning and grazing regimes—also alter vegetation and complicate understanding of vegetation change. Australian ecosystems exemplify such complexity.
Laura J. Williams, Rachael V. Gallagher, Sami W. Rifai, Matthew A. Adeleye, Patrick J. Baker, David M. J. S. Bowman, Jake Eckersley, Jacqueline R. England, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Pauline F. Grierson, Assaf Inbar, Jürgen Knauer, Clare M. Stephens, Raphaël Trouvé, Belinda E. Medlyn   +14 more
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Local Forest Structure and Host Specificity Influence Liana Community Composition in a Moist Central African Forest

Ecology and Evolution
Lianas are important components of tropical forest diversity and dynamics, yet little is known about the drivers of their community structure and composition.
Begüm Kaçamak, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Nick Rowe, Vivien Rossi, Nicolas Barbier, Samantha Bazan, Eric Forni, Daniel Guibal, David J. Harris, Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Jean‐Joël Loumeto, Eric Marcon, Bruno X. Pinho, Isaac Zombo, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury   +14 more
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Vegetation of montane bogs in east-flowing catchments of northern New England, New South Wales [PDF]

, 2013
The floristics of the montane bogs in east-flowing catchments of northern New England, north-eastern New South Wales (lat 28° 47’–31° 25’ S; long 151° 50’–152° 30’ E), are described from 62 full floristic survey sites (20 x 20 m in area).
Bell, Dorothy, Hunter, John T.
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High functional diversity is related to high nitrogen availability in a deciduous forest - evidence from a functional trait approach [PDF]

, 2010
The current study tested the assumption that floristic and functional diversity patterns are negatively related to soil nitrogen content. We analyzed 20 plots with soil N-contents ranging from 0.63% to 1.06% in a deciduous forest near Munich (Germany ...
Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus, Fischer, Anton, Kudernatsch, Thomas, Patta Pillar, Valério de, Römermann, Christine   +4 more
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The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient

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Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. Our city‐scale experiment demonstrated that the effect of flower patches on pollinators is complex, and direct benefits to specific insects are difficult to
Emilie E. Ellis, Jill L. Edmondson, Stuart A. Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Alterations can be seen in the Soil Seed Bank after Eucalyptus Harvest?

Floresta e Ambiente, 2020
The objective of this study was to assess the potential and the alterations of the soil seed bank as a mechanism for the regeneration of tree species in disturbed forest fragments after Eucalyptus grandis harvest.
Samara Welter Duarte, Daiane Luchetta Ronchi, Lauri Amândio Schorn, Tatiele Anete Bergamo Fenilli   +3 more
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Floristic Inventory of Woollen’s Gardens Nature Preserve, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA, With Quantitative Vegetation Sampling of Permanent Plots in 2003 and 2016 [PDF]

, 2017
Urban forest fragments face challenges to habitat quality due to small size, isolation from larger natural areas, and close association with anthropogenic disturbance.
Dolan, Rebecca W., Moore, Marcia E.
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Accounting for functional diversity in biodiversity protection measures

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Globally, countries are becoming increasingly committed to conserving biodiversity. Traditional methods of measuring biodiversity are simple and might miss out on capturing some of the more important functional features that comprise ecosystems. We compare a real‐world conservation program with background vegetation data to explore whether these ...
Joshua S. Lee, James Brazill‐Boast, Will Cornwell, Rachael Gallagher   +3 more
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Hidden Partners in Diversity: Acidobacteriota and Their Distribution in the Cape Floristic Region. [PDF]

Microbiologyopen
Acidobacteriota diversity and abundance investigated in nutrient‐poor fynbos soils of the Cape Floristic Region. Nanopore 16S rRNA sequencing of 26 soil samples from Jonkershoek and Kogelberg identified dominant and rare subdivisions, revealed distinct community compositions, and demonstrated correlations between subdivisions and soil properties ...
Pieters J, Jacobs K, Conradie TA.
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New South Wales Vegetation classification and Assessment: Part 3, plant communities of the NSW Brigalow Belt South, Nandewar and west New England Bioregions and update of NSW Western Plains and South-western Slopes plant communities, Version 3 of the NSWVCA database [PDF]

, 2010
This fourth paper in the NSW Vegetation Classification and Assessment series covers the Brigalow Belt South-/1(BBS) and Nandewar (NAN) Bioregions and the western half of the New England Bioregion (NET), an area of 9.3 million hectares being 11.6% of NSW.
Allen, Chris B., Benson, John S., Richards, P. G., Waller, S.   +3 more
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