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Granivory reduces biomass and lignin concentrations of plant tissue during grassland assembly
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2014 Small mammals can influence grassland assembly by selecting against palatable plants – the community can become dominated by the plants they avoid. This predation-based selection could have indirect effects on community biomass and tissue quality, especially given how untasty plants may have higher concentrations of recalcitrant carbon compounds ...
Emily Drystek, Andrew S. MacDougall
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Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.Restoration practitioners often seek to reestablish native plant communities through seed sowing; however, the effectiveness can vary across species and soil resource gradients. We asked how seeding density and first‐year, plot‐level soil moisture affect the abundances of 11 tallgrass prairie species 4 years after seeding and whether species‐level ...
Isabelle A. Turner +2 more
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Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems [PDF]
, 2008 We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by ...
Enright, N.J., Thomas, I.
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Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1025-1040, October 2025.Phylogenomic analysis of 2524 ultraconserved‐element loci from 58 Messor harvester ant species helps in redefining taxonomic groups of the genus. Messor ants emerged in the Irano‐Indian area around 20 million years ago, rapidly dispersing to the Western Palaearctic and Northeastern Africa during the early Miocene.
Yannick Juvé +10 more
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, 2015 Deciding when to plant a prairie is a challenge. Some species establish better when spring planted, other species establish better when fall planted and some species are hard to establish whenever they are planted. Seeding rates of some species may need
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Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2025.Abstract Alpine areas such as the headwaters of California's Sierra Nevada are increasingly imperiled by climate change and other human‐induced stressors. For one, the introduction of non‐native fishes into over 60% of its historically fishless watersheds has profoundly restructured the aquatic food web, depressed the abundance, biomass, and diversity ...
Mary K. Clapp +2 more
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Geographic distribution of mammal diets [PDF]
Web EcologyThe study of trophic interactions might be key to understanding the distribution of species on Earth. Particularly, the biogeography of heterotrophic species – such as mammals – could be strongly driven by trophic interactions (diet).
M. Losada, M. Suárez-Couselo, M. Sobral
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Frugivory and ornitochorous fruits removal in Chaco forest fragments of Córdoba (Argentina) [PDF]
, 2012 La pérdida de bosques naturales y su fragmentación en el paisaje por actividad agrícola pueden afectar procesos ecológicos como la dispersión biótica y también el mantenimiento de la diversidad de especies nativas y la invasión de plantas exóticas. En el
Galetto, Leonardo +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 4, Page 1080-1094, July 2025.Ecosystems are rapidly being transformed, pushing us towards irreversible losses and even extinctions. The Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework aims to curb biodiversity decline. An intriguing solution lies in seed banks—where plants store seeds in the soil. Restoration efforts can revive lost ecosystems by leveraging these seed banks. In the
Alanna J. Rebelo +6 more
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Successional change in species composition alters climate sensitivity of grassland productivity. [PDF]
, 2018 Succession theory predicts altered sensitivity of ecosystem functions to disturbance (i.e., climate change) due to the temporal shift in plant community composition.
Guo, Xue +12 more
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