Karst ecosystems represent a typical heterogeneous habitat, and it is ubiquitous with varying interactive patches of rock and soil associated with differential weathering patterns of carbonate rocks.
Kaiping Shen +14 more
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Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink [PDF]
Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests.
Choi, Sungho +9 more
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Parallel functional and stoichiometric trait shifts in South American and African forest communities with elevation [PDF]
The Amazon and Congo basins are the two largest continuous blocks of tropical forest with a central role for global biogeochemical cycles and ecology. However, both biomes differ in structure and species richness and composition.
C. Taveirne +8 more
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Forest landscape ecology and global change: an introduction [PDF]
Forest landscape ecology examines broad-scale patterns and processes and their interactions in forested systems and informs the management of these ecosystems.
A Alignier +147 more
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Background Granivore-mediated seed dispersal is susceptible to changes in seed availability and silvicultural management, which alters synzoochorous interactions in the antagonism-mutualism continuum and affects the seed dispersal effectiveness (SDE ...
Jing Wang +6 more
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Age and sex-selective predation moderate the overall impact of predators [PDF]
© 2014 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. Acknowledgements: Thanks to J. Reid, S. Redpath, A.
Davison, Martin +6 more
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A checklist of angiosperm flora of low elevation lateritic hills of northern Kerala, India
An inventory to prepare the checklist of angiosperm species in the lateritic hillocks of northern Kerala was conducted in five sampling sites during April 2013–March 2015.
K.A. Sreejith +5 more
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Deep Ecology, Biodiversity and Assisted Natural Regeneration of European Hemiboreal Forests
Climate change and the associated disturbances have disrupted the relative stability of tree species composition in hemiboreal forests. The natural ecology of forest communities, including species occurrence and composition, forest structure, and food ...
Raimundas Petrokas +2 more
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Vertical stratification of selected Hymenoptera in a remnant forest of the Po Plain (Italy, Lombardy) (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae) [PDF]
Communities of the canopy of temperate forests are still relatively unexplored. Furthermore, very little is known on how vertical stratification for some insect groups is related to biological strategies.
Cerretti, Pierfilippo +2 more
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Conversion of agricultural soils in Austria—a case study for a community in Upper Austria
We have analyzed the loss of agricultural land in a case study of the community Eggelsberg in the Innviertel in Upper Austria. The trigger for the project was the attribution of Austria as Europe’s leader in soil sealing.
Aust Günther +5 more
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