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Response of Soil Fungal Communities to the Alpine Steppe Degradation Gradient

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The degradation of alpine steppe on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau has become a critical ecological security issue. Soil fungi, as core regulators of grassland ecosystem functioning, play a pivotal role in mediating the feedback between degradation and soil ecological processes.
Xiaoyun Wang, Guoying Zhou, Yuanming Xiao, Wenying Wang, Xinyu Yang, Jinrong Liu   +5 more
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Annual–Perennial Forage Mixtures Improve Forage Productivity and Soil Quality in Patchily Degraded Cultivated Pastures Under Grazing Management

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patchy degradation of cultivated pastures under long‐term grazing is a serious issue limiting grassland productivity. The use of annual and perennial legume–grass mixtures, which offer complementary functional advantages, may provide a practical reseeding‐based approach for improving patchily degraded cultivated pastures; however, limited ...
Shuaibin Lai, Bingchen Yuan, Jiaxing You, Zhen Xu, Meiyan Zhang, Xinrong Yao, Jiating Wang, Fujiang Hou   +7 more
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Assessing and Explaining Human–Nature Coordination at the County Scale in China: Combining an Interpretable Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network and Difference‐In‐Differences

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coordinating high‐intensity human activities with fragile ecosystems remains a major challenge for global sustainability. Accurate assessment of human–nature coordination (HNC) is critical, yet county‐level variations, underlying drivers, and responses to ecological zoning have seldom been examined simultaneously within a unified framework. We
Qi Liu, Yirong Fan, Mengjuan Li, Bo Li, Jiajun Qiao   +4 more
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Topic: Smallholder Farmers' Adaptation Practices to the Effects of Land Degradation on Livelihoods in Semi‐Arid Ghana

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although several environmental challenges exist globally, land degradation is the greatest threat and risk factor wedging human livelihoods. Despite widespread awareness of climate change, little empirical evidence exists on land degradation and its impacts on livelihoods in semi‐arid agroecological systems.
Philip Aniah, Raymond Agyepong Antwi, Miriam Afi Kosi, Makemie Jumanne Mabula   +3 more
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Responses of Soil Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Communities and Functional Potential to Grazing Intensities in Alpine Meadows. [PDF]

Microorganisms
Qie T, Lin D, Fan Q, Sun G, Wang H, Liu Z, Liu X.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rhizosphere microbial community assembly and association networks strongly differ based on vegetation type at a local environment scale. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 2023
Liu L, Ma L, Zhu M, Liu B, Liu X, Shi Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Lectotypifications and taxonomic changes in the holoparasitic Orobanchaceae

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Based on further extensive studies of specimens in various herbaria, lectotypes are designated for many taxa of holoparasitic Orobanchaceae. In particular, 47 names in the genera Boschniakia (incl. Xylanche), Cistanche, Orobanche, Phelipanche and Phelypaea are lectotypified.
Holger Uhlich, Stefan Rätzel, Óscar Sánchez Pedraja, Renata Piwowarczyk, Valerio Lazzeri, Patrice Descombes   +5 more
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The hunt for Scabiosa trenta Hacq: how the pursuit of a phantom ignited a passion for botany and mountaineering

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Scabiosa trenta Hacq. was first described in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet, with its specific epithet referring to the Trenta Valley in Slovenia. Since then, S. trenta has been the focus of numerous mountaineering and botanical expeditions, particularly by the alpinist Julius Kugy during the Golden Age of Alpinism, a period in the second half of 19th ...
Valentina Boscariol, Marco Canella, Sara Natale, Špela Pungaršek, Francesco Dal Grande, Elena Canadelli   +5 more
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Water and nitrogen impacts on water use, forage yield and quality of annual ryegrass. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Varol IS, Ciftci B, Kaymaz E, Kaplan M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Leaf micromorphology and genetic diversity analysis of Iranian Hordeum species using ISSR and SCoT markers

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The genus Hordeum (Poaceae), of the tribe Triticeae, comprises approximately 32 species with substantial potential for barley improvement. Hordeum vulgare is an economically important cereal widely cultivated across diverse environments, from the Arctic to desert and humid regions.
Maryam Keshavarzi, Raheleh Tabaripour, Nasrin Farasat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source