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Plant behaviour and communication [PDF]

open access: yesEcology Letters, 2008
AbstractPlant behaviours are defined as rapid morphological or physiological responses to events, relative to the lifetime of an individual. Since Darwin, biologists have been aware that plants behave but it has been an underappreciated phenomenon. The best studied plant behaviours involve foraging for light, nutrients, and water by placing organs ...
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Unpacking a crop diversity hotspot: farmer practice and preferences in Northern Malawi

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2019
Crop diversity is a key principle of sustainable food production systems. Yet, inter and intra specific diversification is declining in many regions of the world.
Sieglinde Snapp   +5 more
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Vegetation changes over the last centuries in the Lower Lake Constance region reconstructed from sediment‐core environmental DNA

open access: yesEnvironmental DNA, 2022
Many European lake ecosystems, including their respective catchment areas, underwent anthropogenic environmental changes over the last centuries. This has resulted in changes in the aquatic and terrestrial vegetation, but historical records on the ...
Anan Ibrahim   +5 more
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Genus-Physiognomy-Ecosystem (GPE) System for Satellite-Based Classification of Plant Communities

open access: yesEcologies, 2021
Vegetation mapping and monitoring is important as the composition and distribution of vegetation has been greatly influenced by land use change and the interaction of land use change and climate change.
Ram C. Sharma
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Above-ground phytomass and chemical composition dynamics of Stipeta Zalesskii phytocenosis in Ural-Ilek interfluves

open access: yesActa Biologica Sibirica, 2022
We carried our investigationsin one of the typical phytocenosesof the Trans-Volga-Kazakhstan herb bunchgrass steppes underprotected regime conditions. Forb-fescue-feather grass steppe community (Stipa zalesskii, S.
Neilya V. Dusaeva   +2 more
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Aphid Assemblages Associated with Urban Park Plant Communities

open access: yesInsects, 2021
Some aphid species are important agricultural pests, sometimes also found on plants growing in urban areas. In this work, we set out to identify the plant species, communities or habitats that are more attractive to aphids in order to limit their spread ...
Tadeusz Barczak   +4 more
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Fruit yield of european cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris Pers.) in different plant communities of peatlands (northern Wielkopolska, Poland)

open access: yesActa Agrobotanica, 2012
The aim of this study was to determine fruit yield of Oxycoccus palustris under the climatic and habitat conditions of northern Wielkopolska (the Greater Poland region), depending on the type of occupied plant community.
Artur Adamczak   +2 more
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The evolution of hummock–depression micro‐topography in an alpine marshy wetland in Sanjiangyuan as inferred from vegetation and soil characteristics

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
The hummock–depression micro‐topography characteristics of the alpine marshy wetland in Sanjiangyuan are indicative of wetland degradation and the process by which healthy wetlands are transformed into flat grasslands. The aim of the present study was to
Guiling Wu, Xilai Li, Jay Gao
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Successional Changes in Vegetation Communities near Mine Pits

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
This study investigates demutational changes in plant communities of phosphorite mines between 2005 and 2021. A total of 23 plant species were initially found in the surveyed areas in 2005, while 68 species were identified in spring 2021.
Dmitry Gura, Irina Semenycheva
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THE PLANT COVER OF MEADOWS AND HEATHS OF DRY KARST-GLACIAL VALLEYS IN SOYANSKYI STATE BIOLOGICAL NATURE RESERVE OF THE REGIONAL LEVEL (ARKHANGELSK REGION)

open access: yesTransactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017
Soyanskiy regional-level biological nature reserve is located in the north of the Arkhangelsk Region mainland, in the center of the White Sea - Kuloy Plateau.
Oksana Sidorova, Elena Churakova
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