Rehabilitating forest and marginal land using native species in mountainous northern Vietnam
Trees, Forests and People, 2022 Forest cover in Vietnam has increased dramatically over the past 30 years, largely driven by plantations of exotic tree species. The potential to utilise of Vietnam's diverse native flora in reforestation has remained largely unexplored. At two locations
Heidi Zimmer +6 more
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Stability in the face of global decline: a 20-year study of arthropods in an oceanic archipelago [PDF]
Scientific ReportsInsect declines are of global concern, yet no long-term ecological studies (LTER) have confirmed this trend on islands. This study utilises the first available LTER data on island arthropods, targeting epigeal and canopy species from the Azores ...
Gabor Pozsgai +26 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 As important components of the cosmopolitan soil biota, soil nematodes are found at multiple trophic levels of the belowground food web and play an important role in soil function.
Fangyuan Shen +5 more
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Vascular epiphytes in the cloud forests of the Serra da Mantiqueira, Southeastern Region of Brazil [PDF]
Rodriguésia, 2022 Vascular epiphytes represent a remarkable characteristic of the tropical cloud forests. The Serra da Mantiqueira (SM) represents one of the main highland areas of Brazil harboring vegetation remnants, and highlighting the cloud forests.
Samyra Gomes Furtado, Luiz Menini Neto
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Assessing the relative importance of human and spatial pressures on non-native plant establishment in urban forests using citizen science [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2021 Since 2007, more people in the world live in urban than in rural areas. The development of urban areas has encroached into natural forest ecosystems, consequently increasing the ecological importance of parks and fragmented forest remnants.
Katherine Duchesneau +2 more
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Conservation implications of changes in endemic Hawaiian Drosophilidae diversity across land use gradients. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Endemic Hawaiian Drosophilidae, a radiation of nearly 1000 species including 13 federally listed as endangered, occur mostly in intact native forest, 500-1500 m above sea level.
Luc Leblanc +2 more
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Ecological Impacts of Exotic Species on Native Seed Dispersal Systems: A Systematic Review
Plants, 2023 Exotic species are one of the main threats to biodiversity, leading to alterations in the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems. However, they can sometimes also provide ecological services, such as seed dispersal.
Sebastián Cordero +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Cultivation of non‐native tree species is a promising option to adapt managed forests to climate change. However, consequences of non‐native tree species on flora, fauna, and microorganisms that occur in forest ecosystems (forest associates) need to be ...
Jonas Glatthorn +15 more
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Impacts of land use change on native plant-butterfly interaction networks from central Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Land use change is a key catalyst of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Deforestation and conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban areas can profoundly disrupt plant-flower visitor interactions by altering their
Deysi Muñoz-Galicia +4 more
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Plants, 2020 Ailanthus altissima is an invasive alien species (IAS) present throughout Europe and included in the list of alien species of Union concern. In sub-Mediterranean areas of central Italy, there is a lack of knowledge about this invasive species and its ...
Silvia Montecchiari +2 more
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