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Adaptive silviculture for climate change in North American forests: Operationalizing the resistance-resilience-transition framework. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract The impacts of global climate change have compelled forest managers to evaluate their practices and ecosystems, considering when and how to resist change, promote resilience, or facilitate transitions. Forest adaptation has made significant strides to move from theory to practice over the last two decades, with widespread examples of ...
Clark PW, D'Amato AW, Nagel L, Palik BJ, Battaglia MA, Janowiak MK, Peterson CL, Swanston CW, Vicini MR.   +8 more
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Understanding Beech Predominance Through Sapling and Adult Demography Along Environmental Gradients. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We address the question how species abundances are driven by biotic interactions along environmental gradients by applying a demographic population model to NFI data, substantiating a classical ecological theory by Ellenberg: The dominant species in Central European forests outcompetes other tree species only under favorable environmental conditions ...
Heiland L, Kunstler G, Hülsmann L.
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Native earthworms and roe deer in temperate forests: Friends in the sun, foes in the shade. [PDF]

Ecology
Abstract Given increasing deer populations and rising canopy openness through tree mortality in European forests, understanding how these changes affect above‐belowground communities and ecosystem functioning is becoming more important. Earthworms comprise the largest animal biomass in European forest soils and play a central role in decomposition ...
Lettenmaier L, Eisenhauer N, Cesarz S, Ammer C, Bucharova A, Dittrich S, Hausmann R, Kraus D, Kölbl A, Mallick S, Mamadashvili G, Mysterud A, Pierick K, Schwarz R, Müller J, Ristok C.   +15 more
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The primacy of species turnover over intraspecific variation in the environmental filtering of understory ferns [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionQuantifying community-level trait shifts, driven by species turnover and intraspecific trait variation (ITV), is essential for understanding environmental filtering and elucidating community assembly and species coexistence.
Yuhan Zhou, Zhenzhen Zhang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Heming Liu, Shan Jiang, Zemei Zheng, Guochun Shen, Xihua Wang, Qingsong Yang   +8 more
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Environmental change shapes understory plant diversity and dominance in boreal forests [PDF]

Nature Communications
Ongoing environmental change threatens ecosystems worldwide, yet little is known about its effect on understory plant diversity, which underpins ecosystem functioning and sustainability.
Xinli Chen, Peter B. Reich, Xin Chen, Masumi Hisano, Anthony R. Taylor, Daijiang Li, Scott X. Chang   +6 more
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Multitemporal Sentinel and GEDI data integration for overstory and understory fuel type classification

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Wildfires significantly reshape the landscape of the Mediterranean basin, altering forest composition, structure, and diversity. Consequently, detailed fuel mapping is crucial for improving fire risk assessment and enhancing fire behavior modeling, as ...
Pegah Mohammadpour, Domingos Xavier Viegas, Alcides Pereira, Emilio Chuvieco   +3 more
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Topography‐driven microclimate gradients shape forest structure, diversity, and composition in a temperate refugial forest [PDF]

Plant-Environment Interactions
Macroclimate drives vegetation distributions, but fine‐scale topographic variation can generate microclimate refugia for plant persistence in unsuitable areas.
Bailey H. McNichol, Ran Wang, Amanda Hefner, Chris Helzer, Sean M. McMahon, Sabrina E. Russo   +5 more
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Influence of Lakeshore Riparian Vegetation on Diet, Feeding Rate, and Body Condition of Adfluvial Coastal Cutthroat Trout [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Terrestrial invertebrates provide energy and nutrients to lacustrine systems. However, the extent to which lakeshore and riparian vegetation affects the diet of lake‐associated fish is not well known. We sampled six small lakes (
Tracy Michalski, Heather Klassen, Peter Ott, Carl Schwarz   +3 more
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Pine trees structure plant biodiversity patterns in savannas [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Overstory trees serve multiple functions in grassy savannas. Past research has shown that understory species can vary along gradients of canopy cover and basal area in savannas.
Raelene M. Crandall, Yingen M. Chew, Jennifer M. Fill, Jesse K. Kreye, J. Morgan Varner, Leda N. Kobziar   +5 more
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Community in Roots and Nitrogen Uptake Patterns of Understory Trees Beneath Ectomycorrhizal and Non-ectomycorrhizal Overstory Trees

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Nitrogen (N) is an essential plant nutrient, and plants can take up N from several sources, including via mycorrhizal fungal associations. The N uptake patterns of understory plants may vary beneath different types of overstory trees, especially through ...
Chikae Tatsumi, Chikae Tatsumi, Chikae Tatsumi, Fujio Hyodo, Takeshi Taniguchi, Weiyu Shi, Keisuke Koba, Keitaro Fukushima, Sheng Du, Norikazu Yamanaka, Pamela Templer, Ryunosuke Tateno   +11 more
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