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Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity [PDF]

Mountain Research and Development, 2007
High-Elevation Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functioning Christian Korner, Gia Nakhutsrishvili, and Eva Spehn Diversity of Afroalpine Vegetation and Ecology of Treeline Species in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, and the Influence of Fire Masresha Fetene, Yoseph Assefa, Menassie Gashaw, Zerihun Woldu, and Erwin Beck Is Afroalpine Plant ...
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Hologenomics Reveals Specialized Dietary Adaptations in the Mengla Snail‐Eating Snake

Advanced Science
Serpents, as highly adaptable vertebrates, provide robust models for studying the mechanisms of dietary specialization. Using an integrative multi‐omics approach, encompassing host genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, gut metagenomic, and enzymatic ...
Chaochao Yan, Xin‐Ning Li, Zhong‐Liang Peng, Wei Wu, Zeng Wang, Zhao‐Ran Zhu, Jia‐Chang Liu, Yao Wang, Jin‐Long Ren, Zhi‐Yi Zhang, Jia‐Tang Li   +10 more
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Stochastic and deterministic processes influencing mountain mire diatom communities across spatial scales

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how deterministic and stochastic processes influence the shape of microorganism community assembly across different spatial scales is essential for disentangling biodiversity patterns. Mires are nutrient‐poor and heterogeneous wetlands that form isolated habitats supporting highly diverse diatom assemblages, particularly in mountainous ...
Fernanda Gonzalez‐ Saldias, Angel Rain‐ Franco, Joan Gomà, Jorge García‐ Girón, Aaron Pérez‐ Haase   +4 more
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Global loss of mountain vegetated landscapes and its impact on biodiversity conservation

Nature Communications
Accelerating human encroachment and natural disasters are causing substantial loss of mountain vegetated landscapes, threatening biodiversity conservation and ecosystem sustainability.
Chao Yang, Haiying Xu, Qingquan Li, Xuqing Wang, Bohui Tang, Junyi Chen, Wei Tu, Yinghui Zhang, Tiezhu Shi, Min Chen, Wei Ma, Huizeng Liu, Jonathan M. Chase   +12 more
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A study on the characteristics of Songyang Duanwu tea, a classic traditional knowledge of Southwest Zhejiang, China

Trees, Forests and People
Duanwu Tea is a popular and ancient biodiversity-related traditional knowledge in Songyang, China. It has the remarkable function of dispelling dampness and relieving summer heat.
Yue Ma, Xiaoping Guo, Zhenhua Zhang, Cigang Yu, Mingzhuo Hao, Min Gu, Delin Tang, Wanyue Zhu, Xu Xu, Changyong Wang, Yan Liu   +10 more
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Plant adaptive strategies respond to environmental change across European grassland habitats

Ecography, EarlyView.
Grassland ecosystems are facing rapid and ongoing change driven by intensified land‐use and accelerated climate change, highlighting the urgent need to understand their potential adaptation and response to environmental change. We analyzed data from 52 980 vegetation plots spanning all major grassland habitats in Europe (including alpine, rocky, sandy,
Xiao‐Peng Tan, Petr Pyšek, Milan Chytrý, Irena Axmanová, Jan Divíšek, Ilona Knollová, Svetlana Aćić, Idoia Biurrun, Hans Henrik Bruun, Jürgen Dengler, Tetiana Dziuba, Emmanuel Garbolino, Attila Lengyel, Jonathan Lenoir, Ricarda Pätsch, Aaron Pérez‐ Haase, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Eszter Ruprecht, Urban Šilc, Kiril Vassilev, Yi‐Jun Wang, Wen‐Yong Guo   +21 more
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Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud, Florian Carrière, Arthur Bayle, Christian Devlieger, Philippe Choler, Christophe Corona, Sandra Lavorel   +6 more
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Characterizing the composition, metabolism and physiological functions of the fatty liver in Rana omeimontis tadpoles

Frontiers in Zoology, 2019
Background Fat storage is required for the life cycle of many organisms. The primary fat depot for most vertebrates is white adipose tissue. However, in primitive vertebrates (e.g., agnathan group and elasmobranchs), the liver is usually responsible for ...
Wei Zhu, Meihua Zhang, Liming Chang, Wenbo Zhu, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Huan Zhang, Tian Zhao, Jianping Jiang   +8 more
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Standardised inventories of lepidopterans and odonates from Serra da Estrela Natural Park (Portugal) - setting the scene for mountain biodiversity monitoring. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J, 2023
Boieiro M, Antunes S, Figueiredo H, Soares A, Lopes A, Monteiro E, Garcia-Pereira P, Rego C, Conde J, Borges PAV, Serrano ARM.   +10 more
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Simulating past and future refugia for temperate trees in northern Italy

Ecography, EarlyView.
During the Quaternary, trees responded to the climatic changes of glacial–interglacial cycles with large‐scale range shifts. Over cold glacials, temperate tree species contracted their ranges and survived in areas known as refugia. Several studies point to the Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei), in Veneto, northern Italy, as one of the northernmost ...
Azzurra Pistone, Paul D. Henne, Petra Boltshauser‐ Kaltenrieder, Willy Tinner, Christoph Schwörer   +4 more
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