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Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Organisms' energy requirements increase with body mass, leading to larger home range areas and lower population density. Previous research has highlighted the differential scaling of these variables in mammals, where species with large home ranges have higher density than expected due to increased home range overlap. Here we investigate this phenomenon
Luca Santini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forage herbaceous legumes evaluation for Conservation Agriculture Production Systems

open access: yes, 2014
This poster provides a brief description of a study on the use of forage herbaceous legumes in conservation agriculture production systems.LTRA-12 (Conservation agriculture for food security in Cambodia and the ...
Reyes, Manuel R.   +3 more
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Plant adaptive strategies respond to environmental change across European grassland habitats

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Grassland ecosystems are facing rapid and ongoing change driven by intensified land‐use and accelerated climate change, highlighting the urgent need to understand their potential adaptation and response to environmental change. We analyzed data from 52 980 vegetation plots spanning all major grassland habitats in Europe (including alpine, rocky, sandy,
Xiao‐Peng Tan   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation of Acetic Acid-Producing Bacterial Strains and Utilization as Microbial Inoculants in Sorghum Silages

open access: yesAgriculture
This study aimed to isolate, characterize, and identify acetic acid-producing lactic acid bacteria from fresh sorghum plants and silage, and to evaluate the effect of the isolates as microbial inoculants on taxonomic diversity and silage fermentation ...
Guilherme Medeiros Leite   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Additives on the Fermentation Quality and Bacterial Community of Silage Prepared from Giant Juncao Grass Grown in Saline–Alkali Soil

open access: yesAgronomy
This study investigated the effects of different additives on the fermentation quality and bacterial community of silage prepared from Giant Juncao grass (Cenchrus fungigraminus) grown in saline–alkali soil. Four treatments were compared: a control group
Xiaobin Chen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Macroecological relationships of ant diversity with increasing aridity in Australian tropical savannas: contrasting responses of epigaeic and hypogaeic assemblages

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Studies using climatic gradients play a key role in our understanding of the importance of rainfall and temperature as factors regulating species diversity and distribution, and thus of likely responses to climate change. However, such studies currently consider above‐ground species only, ignoring the diverse hypogaeic (subterranean) invertebrate fauna.
François Brassard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Ecologists often aim to reduce conceptual ambiguity by attempting to create rigid shared lexicons. These efforts imply that ambiguity is undesirable. In some contexts, however, conceptual flexibility comes with under‐discussed benefits. Here, we use the lens of pollinator gardening to explore how conceptual flexibility is built into participatory ...
Atticus W Murphy   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing the Drivers of Cropland Footprint in Leading Agricultural Nations: Evidence From MMQR Approach

open access: yesGeological Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change represents the biggest current challenge for us and for future generations. Its impact on agriculture is undeniable, considering the food security goal. Thus, the cropland footprint has been distinguished as a comprehensive index for assessing the impact of environmental changes in agricultural areas determined by the increased ...
Ibrahim Cutcu, Magdalena Radulescu
wiley   +1 more source

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