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Toward a Theory of Proactive Health-Oriented Livestock Production: A Testable Conceptual Framework for Alpine Pastoral Systems. [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Li W, Li Y, An QT.
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver, Colin K. Khoury, Anne Frances, Nan McCarry, Luis Diaz‐Garcia, Erin R. Galarneau, Sarah Gora, Megan Haidet, Claire Heinitz, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Surya Sapkota, Carol Spurrier, Jun Wen   +15 more
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Effects of Climatic Factors and Disturbance on Plant Above-Ground Biomass and Species Diversity of Chinese Grasslands: A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Huang W, Yin Y, Wang W, Liu F, Zhao Y, Li J.   +5 more
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CSRcalculator: A reproducible framework for understanding plant ecological strategies

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how plants respond to environmental change is essential for conserving biodiversity and managing ecosystems under climate change. We developed CSRcalculator, an open‐source platform that brings together major competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) models to make ecological strategy classification accessible, reproducible and scalable.
Teddy Gaskin, Ben Crick, Manny Wright, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Katharina Huber, Zoran Nikoloski, John N. Ferguson   +6 more
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Needle in a haystack: Holocene history of European larch in Central Europe revisited

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Defining nativity of species is crucial for their management. However, this is a complex task, especially for species that have been used and spread by humans for a long time. We combined paleoecological records with extensive genetic data to investigate the Holocene history of European larch—a common and economically important tree species in Central ...
Martin Prach, Petr Pokorný, Kristýna Hošková, Daniel Vondrák, Pavel Bednář, Jindřich Prach, Jana Hanzal Šedivá, Hana Drahošová, Kateřina Podrábská, Přemysl Bobek, Jan Smyčka, Tomáš Fér   +11 more
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Remote sensing reveals that wild herbivores limit senescent vegetation accumulation on dryland conservation reserves. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Smith MS, Fisher AG, Finlayson G, Letnic M.   +3 more
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Strong differentiation between source and ex situ populations of rare plant species revealed by next‐generation sequencing

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is being lost rapidly worldwide due to factors such as climate change and habitat loss. To help safeguard plant populations, conservation strategies include seed banks and conservation cultures. However, it remains unclear how cultivation affects genetic variation compared with wild populations.
Maximilian Alexander Steurer, Ellen Gradl, Lena Winkler, Christoph Reisch   +3 more
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A Macroinvertebrate‐Based Flow Index Elucidates Responses to Environmental Water in a Highly Regulated River

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Macroinvertebrate‐based flow indices have potential application to guiding environmental flow allocations and monitoring their effectiveness, but their sensitivity to such flows has seldom been tested. We examined the response of the Australian Macroinvertebrate Flow Index (AMFI), calculated from family‐level data, to three stages of ...
Bruce C. Chessman, Andrew J. Brooks, Daniel W. Coleman, Matthew D. Russell   +3 more
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Soil microbial community assembly drives ecosystem multifunctionality under grazing disturbance by regulating diversity and network structure. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Jiang K, Lv C, Wang Y, Li H, Tuerxunnayi R, Yu P, Zhang Q.   +6 more
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Identification of initial vegetation and habitat changes in small temperate fens using remote sensing

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Temperate fens with only incipient, subtle signs of deterioration can be reliably identified using Sentinel‐2 and aerial imagery, which sensitively detect early productivity‐related structural changes. Abstract Small temperate fens rank among the most endangered habitats in temperate Europe.
Lubomír Tichý, Patricia Singh, Petra Hájková, Anna Müllerová, Tomáš Peterka, Zuzana Plesková, Karel Prach, Adéla Široká, Kamila Vítovcová, Michal Hájek   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source