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Drivers of inter-year variability of plant production and decomposers across contrasting island ecosystems [PDF]

, 2012
Despite the likely importance of inter-year dynamics of plant production and consumer biota for driving community- and ecosystem-level processes, very few studies have explored how and why these dynamics vary across contrasting ecosystems.
Bardgett, Richard, Jonsson, Micael, Kalela-Brundin, Maarit, Lagerström, Anna, Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Wardle, David A., Yeates, Gregor   +6 more
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Carbon Stock and Environmental Variations of Typical Plantations in Mufu Mountain in Hubei Province, China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest ecosystems play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. As a significant terrestrial carbon sink, plantations exhibit carbon stock patterns that are shaped by tree species composition, stand structure, and environmental conditions. Here, we investigated typical plantation types in the Mufu Mountain, Hubei Province.
Mingyang Ding, Yi Yang, Jiaoyang Xu, Shaoqiang Wang, Lunche Wang, Chunbo Huang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are staple crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the relative role of climate on litterfall in Mediterranean cork oak forests

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2018
Litterfall plays a key role in the dynamic of forest ecosystems, ultimately determining forest productivity and carbon and nutrient cycling. Increasing our understanding on the role of structural and environmental factors controlling litterfall amount ...
Andivia E, Bou J, Fernández M, Caritat A, Alejano R, Vilar L, Vázquez-Piqué J   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The importance of biomass net uptake for a trace metal budget in a forest stand in north-eastern France [PDF]

, 2010
The trace metal (TM: Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) budget (stocks and annual fluxes) was evaluated in a forest stand (silver fir, Abies alba Miller) in north-eastern France.
Gandois, Laure, Nicolas, Manuel, Probst, Anne, VanderHeijden, Gregory   +3 more
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From fertilizer to insecticide: urban leaf litter chemistry alters the survival landscape of Aedes aegypti

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Chemical profiling and bioassays reveal that leaf‐litter leachates from urban trees flip between nourishing and killing Aedes aegypti larvae: dilute Tipuana tipu boosts growth, whereas concentrated, aged extracts are >90% lethal. Species‐specific chemistry thus turns street trees into potential self‐renewing tools for integrated vector control ...
Ana Luiza Caldatto, Gilberto Dinis Cozzer, Heloise Restello Remus, Raquel de Brito, Monica Santin Zanatta Schindler, Cássia Alves Lima‐Rezende, Jacir Dal Magro, Renan de Souza Rezende   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil carbon stocks in a Sitka spruce chronosequence following afforestation [PDF]

, 2013
peer-reviewedIncreasing concentrations ofCO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are leading to concern worldwide due to their contribution to the greenhouse effect.
Bolger, Thomas, Reidy, Brian
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Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop, Jiwei Li, Daryl L. Moorhead, Sasha C. Reed, Katherine E. O. Todd‐Brown, Alexi C. Besser, Dellena Evelyn Bloom, Thomas C. Ingalls, Alejandro Cueva   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential variables forcing litterfall in a lower montane evergreen forest using Granger and superposed epoch analyses

Ecosphere, 2023
The interplay between long‐term environmental variability and litterfall is complex and through this study, we quantified the response of peak leaf, flower, and fruit litterfall production to such variability in a lower montane evergreen forest located ...
Dokrak Marod, Tushar Andriyas, Nisa Leksungnoen, Roger Kjelgren, Sathid Thinkamphaeng, Piyawat Chansri, Lamthai Asanok, Sutheera Hermhuk, Panida Kachina, Jakkaphong Thongsawi, Wongsatorn Phumphuang, Suwimon Uthairatsamee, Phruet Racharak, Tharnrat Kaewgrajang   +13 more
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Litterfall Production and Decomposition in Three Types of Land Use in Bengkulu Protection Forest

Planta Tropika: Jurnal Agrosains, 2021
Most of the social forestry program plantations in Bengkulu are in the form of mixed planting of coffee or rubber trees. The type of land use affects the production and decomposition of litterfall, which play an important role in nutrient cycle.
Enggar Apriyanto, Fajrin Hidayat, Putranto BA Nugroho, Imanta Tarigan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source