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Topography constrains the climatic response of treeline migration in Taiwan's subalpine forests

Ecography, EarlyView.
Treelines are moving upslope, but the rates and drivers differ among different regions, globally. Many studies have examined the relationship between treeline movement and climate change, particularly rising temperature, while the role of topographical factors has received much less attention, despite the longstanding recognition of its importance.
Kuan‐Yu Chen, Jonathan Peereman, J. Aaron Hogan, Teng‐Chiu Lin   +3 more
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Traits of the Leaf Economics Spectrum Do Not Always Relate to Species Biomass Proportions in Grassland Communities of Varying Diversity

Ecology and Evolution
Traits of the “leaf economics spectrum” (LES) relate to a functional trade‐off between slow and fast return on carbon investment, but it is not clear whether the globally observed trait‐relationships also hold in local plant communities.
Dörte Bachmann, Nina Buchmann, Anne Ebeling, Christiane Roscher   +3 more
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Influence of summer transhumance practice in the Carpathians, Apuseni Mountains, Romania, on cattle milk production and quality

Frontiers in Animal Science
In the Apuseni Mountains, a particular type of short-distance transhumance has been practiced for hundreds of years, in which people move a proportion of their cattle to grassland at higher altitudes, allowing them to save the hay from the grassland ...
Mirela Ranta, Ioana Crișan, Anca Pleșa, Andrada Ihuț   +3 more
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Regeneration failure, fire, topography, and climate interact to drive temperate wet forest landscapes into fire traps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Where early successional forests are more flammable than old‐growth forests, forested landscapes are vulnerable to shifting into ‘fire traps' through positive feedbacks, where fire leads to more fire. These feedbacks are amplified by increased flammability driven by climate change, the presence of non‐native flammable plant species, and slowed ...
George L. W. Perry, Craig E. Simpkins, Kiri Reihana, James M. R. Brock, Peter J. Bellingham   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Content of Grassland in West Songnen Plain Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Sentinel-1/2 Data

Agriculture
Based on multi-source data, including synthetic aperture radar (Sentinel-1, S1) and optical satellite images (Sentinel-2, S2), topographic data, and climate data, this study explored the performance and feasibility of different variable combinations in ...
Haoming Li, Jingyao Xia, Yadi Yang, Yansu Bo, Xiaoyan Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

EFFICIENT USE OF SOME AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE WEST MEDITERRANEAN REGION OF TURKEY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ISPARTA PROVINCE [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013
In this study, the efficient use of some agricultural resources in the West Mediterranean region of Turkey with special reference to Isparta Province to improve agricultural productivity was examined.
Yalçın BOZKURT, Ahmet Ali IŞILDAR, Yusuf UÇAR, Sebahattin ALBAYRAK, Mevlut TURK, Stepan VARBAN   +5 more
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Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening

Ecography, EarlyView.
The local effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plants are well established, yet a global empirical analysis of nitrogen deposition effects on vegetation dynamics is missing. Here, we assess how nitrogen deposition, alongside other global change drivers such as fire, and changes in temperature, precipitation and human land use, is related to ...
Jonas Trepel, Joe Atkinson, Oliver Baines, Matthew Kerr, Elizabeth le Roux, Hannah Rubin, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Robert Buitenwerf   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global threats, local opportunities: ice‐related landforms provide refugia for high‐elevation plants and arthropods

Ecography, EarlyView.
Ice‐related landforms in mountain areas have been hypothesized to play a key role in the survival of cold‐adapted species threatened by climate change. However, our understanding of such landforms acting as refugia remains speculative. Here we analyse occurrence data, collected through a standardized sampling at 471 sampling points across the European ...
Mauro Gobbi, Barbara Valle, Mattia Brambilla, Duccio Tampucci, Marco Caccianiga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source