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Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

Ecological Applications, 2019
There are increasing calls to provide greenspace in urban areas, yet the ecological quality, as well as quantity, of greenspace is important. Short mown grassland designed for recreational use is the dominant form of urban greenspace in temperate regions
Briony A. Norton, G. Bending, Rachel Clark, R. Corstanje, N. Dunnett, K. Evans, D. Grafius, Emily Gravestock, Samuel M. Grice, J. Harris, Sally Hilton, Helen E. Hoyle, Edward Lim, Theresa G. Mercer, M. Pawlett, O. Pescott, J. Richards, Georgina E. Southon, P. Warren   +18 more
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Modeling the impacts of grazing management on livestock behavior and performance: A case study in the Peruvian Andes

Grassland Research
Background In the Peruvian Andes, rangelands play a critical role in livestock production. A major challenge for sustainable livestock production systems in this remote region is the limited understanding of how management affects livestock performance ...
Melody R. Zarria Samanamud, Randall B. Boone   +1 more
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Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery Time of Grasslands in Response to Different Drought Patterns

Remote Sensing
Resistance, resilience, and recovery time are critical for quantifying the stability of grasslands in response to drought disturbances. Few studies have simultaneously considered both drought intensity and duration to analyze the stability of different ...
Huilin Yu, Lin Zhu, Xinrui He, Yun Chen, Yishu Zhu, Futian Liu   +5 more
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Spatial interaction of archaeal ammonia-oxidizers and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in an unfertilized grassland soil

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Interrelated successive transformation steps of nitrification are performed by distinct microbial groups – the ammonia-oxidizers, comprising ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB), and nitrite-oxidizers such as Nitrobacter and Nitrospira ...
Barbara eStempfhuber, Tim eRichter-Heitmann, Kathleen M. Regan, Angelika eKölbl, Pia eKaul, Sven eMarhan, Johannes eSikorski, Joerg eOvermann, Michael W. Friedrich, Ellen eKandeler, Michael eSchloter   +10 more
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Breeding bird response to adaptive multi‐paddock and continuous grazing practices in Southeastern United States

Ecosphere
Grassland bird populations are declining steeply, reflecting the degradation and loss of native grassland habitats. To assess how grazing management affects declining grassland bird populations, we compared breeding avifaunal communities in adaptive ...
Michael J. McGraw, Steven I. Apfelbaum, Ry Thompson, Fugui Wang, Michael A. Szuter, Richard Teague, Peter Byck, Russ Conser   +7 more
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Forecasting Carbon Sequestration Potential in China’s Grasslands by a Grey Model with Fractional-Order Accumulation

Fractal and Fractional
This study aims to predict the carbon sequestration capacity of Chinese grasslands to address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality goals. Grassland carbon sequestration is a crucial part of the global carbon cycle.
Lei Wu, Chun Wang, Chuanhui Wang, Weifeng Gong   +3 more
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Florística dos campos de murundus do Pantanal do Araguaia, Mato Grosso, Brasil Floristics of floodplain 'murundus' of the Pantanal of Araguaia, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2012
O presente estudo teve como objetivo determinar e comparar a riqueza e a composição de espécies de angiospermas entre campos de murundus (CM) do Parque Estadual do Araguaia (PEA), em uma das maiores planícies de inundação do Brasil.
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Henrique Augusto Mews, Halina Soares Jancoski, Daniel David Franczak, Herson Souza Lima, Eddie Lenza, Amintas Nazareth Rossete, Micheli Cristina Moresco   +8 more
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Changes in the plant composition of an Amelichloa clandestina (Hack.) grassland after non-selective grazing

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
This study evaluated the effect of intensive non-selective grazing on the richness, diversity, and structure of a grassland dominated by Amelichloa clandestina (Hack.) Arriaga & Barkworth at Rancho “Los Ángeles”, Saltillo, Coahuila.
Sait JUANES-MARQUEZ, Perpetuo ALVARES-VÁZQUEZ, Miguel MELLADO-BOSQUE, Juan A. ENCINA-DOMÍNGUEZ, Aurelio PEDROZA-SANDOVAL, Martin CADENA-ZAPATA   +5 more
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Soil-specific enzyme activity provides novel insight into the soil microbial necromass accumulation during sand dune fixation

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionSoil enzymes are critical to plant growth and soil carbon turnover. However, the traditional method of assessing enzyme activity per unit of soil may be insufficient; instead, soil-specific enzyme activity per unit of soil organic carbon ...
Qing Qu, Qing Qu, Xuying Hai
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Extraction of Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation Cover in Typical Grasslands Using UAV Imagery and an Improved SegFormer Model

Remote Sensing
Accurate monitoring of the coverage and distribution of photosynthetic (PV) and non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV) in the grasslands of semi-arid regions is crucial for understanding the environment and addressing climate change. However, the extraction
Jie He, Xiaoping Zhang, Weibin Li, Du Lyu, Yi Ren, Wenlin Fu   +5 more
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