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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
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Leaf phenological characters of main tree species in urban forest of Shenyang.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundPlant leaves, as the main photosynthetic organs and the high energy converters among primary producers in terrestrial ecosystems, have attracted significant research attention.
Sheng Xu, Wenduo Xu, Wei Chen, Xingyuan He, Yanqing Huang, Hua Wen   +5 more
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Simultaneous selection on vegetative and reproductive phenology in a perennial herb

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The timing of different life‐history events is often correlated, and selection might only rarely be exerted independently on the timing of a single event. In plants, phenotypic selection has often been shown to favor earlier flowering. However, little is
Elsa Fogelström, Giulia Zacchello, Johan Ehrlén   +2 more
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‘MultiTraits': an integrated R package for analysis and visualization of multidimensional plant traits

Ecography, EarlyView.
The multidimensional characteristics of plant traits and their trade‐offs are central to ecology. However, there is a lack of systematic and standardized tools for analyzing these intricate relationships. To fill this gap, we developed the ‘MultiTraits' R package, which incorporates four complementary analytical modules: competitors–stress tolerators ...
Yan He, Zhaogang Liu, Jiangshan Lai, Lingfeng Mao   +3 more
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Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding [PDF]

Nature, 2015
Earlier spring leaf unfolding is a frequently observed response of plants to climate warming. Many deciduous tree species require chilling for dormancy release, and warming-related reductions in chilling may counteract the advance of leaf unfolding in response to warming.
Fu, Yongshuo, Zhao, Hongfang, Piao, Shilong, Peaucelle, Marc, Peng, Shushi, Zhou, Guiyun, Ciais, Philippe, Huang, Mengtian, Menzel, Annette, Peñuelas, Josep, Song, Yang, Vitasse, Yann, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Janssens, Ivan   +13 more
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Selection for persistence of endophyte‐free meadow fescue under intensive grazing versus frequent mowing

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Cattle grazing meadow fescue pasture in remnant oak savanna near Fennimore, Wisconsin. Abstract Background Meadow fescue (Schedonorus pratensis (Huds.) P. Beauv.) is highly adapted to managed rotational grazing systems with sufficient rest periods to promote regrowth and sward longevity.
Michael D. Casler
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Water Addition Prolonged the Length of the Growing Season of the Desert Shrub Nitraria tangutorum in a Temperate Desert

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Climate models often predict that more extreme precipitation events will occur in arid and semiarid regions, where plant phenology is particularly sensitive to precipitation changes.
Fang Bao, Fang Bao, Minghu Liu, Yanli Cao, Jiazhu Li, Bin Yao, Zhiming Xin, Zhiming Xin, Qi Lu, Qi Lu, Bo Wu, Bo Wu   +11 more
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LEAF PHENOLOGY OF WOODY SPECIES IN A NORTH AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL SAVANNA [PDF]

Ecology, 1997
Leaf phenology was monitored for 49 woody species (trees and tall shrubs) each month over a 2.5-year period in a humid, wet-dry tropical eucalypt savanna at Solar Village, near Darwin, Australia. In the 10 most common species, which spanned the range of phenological types, phenology was monitored every two weeks.
Williams, Rikkaine J., Myers, Bronwyn A., Muller, W. J., Duff, Gordon A., Eamus, Derek   +4 more
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Human appreciation of flower colours as cultural ecosystem service in grasslands: A methodological approach

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
This literature‐based method estimates human appreciation of flower colours on target grasslands. Step 1: search literature sources (floristic surveys, national floras, web datasets and preference studies). Step 2: flower trait extraction (flower colour and area, flowering period and human colour appreciation scale).
Marco Bianchini, Matteo Francioni, Giulio Tesei, Marina Allegrezza, Paride D'Ottavio   +4 more
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Divergence in leaf and cambium phenologies among three temperate tree species of different wood types with special reference to xylem hydraulics

Frontiers in Plant Science
Leaf and cambium phenologies are both important aspects of tree environmental adaptation in temperate areas. Temperate tree species with non-porous, diffuse-porous and ring-porous woods diverge substantially in the strategy of coping with freezing ...
Ai-Ying Wang, Ai-Ying Wang, Si-Qi Li, Si-Qi Li, Han-Xiao Cui, Han-Xiao Cui, Ya-Nan Liu, Ya-Nan Liu, Yi-Jun Lu, Yi-Jun Lu, Guang-You Hao   +10 more
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