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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 +10 more
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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EcosphereGrassland 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 +7 more
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Fractal and FractionalThis 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 +3 more
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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 +8 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-NapocaThis 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 +5 more
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From Ecological Culture to Green Innovation: The Role of Ethnic Minority Corporate Leaders in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do ecological values embedded in ethnic cultures influence the environmental strategies of corporate leaders and their firms' green innovation? We examine this question in China's multiethnic context, where distinct ecological traditions across ethnic groups create sharp cultural contrasts that can be traced into leadership composition and ...
Yuan Du, Yingxin Di, Wei Cui
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionSoil 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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Grass Functional Traits Differentiate Forest and Savanna in the Madagascar Central Highlands
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Grassland, woodland, and forest are three key vegetation types that co-occur across the central highlands of Madagascar, where the woodland has historically been considered as degraded forest.
Cédrique L. Solofondranohatra +12 more
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