The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Climate change, human activity, and plant diversity [PDF]
Plant DiversityAs the highest and largest plateau in the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) covers wide geological, topographical and climatic gradients and thus acts as a major center for biodiversity and houses a diverse array of high elevation ecosystems ...
Yang Yang +6 more
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Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003 Spatial variation in plant diversity has been attributed to heterogeneity in resource availability for many ecosystems. However, urbanization has resulted in entire landscapes that are now occupied by plant communities wholly created by humans, in which diversity may reflect social, economic, and cultural influences in addition to those recognized ...
Diane, Hope +8 more
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Celebrating Plant Diversity [PDF]
Plant Physiology, 2001 The “typical” plant about which we biology professors often pontificate does not exist: It is a fictional entity we have created in our feeble attempts to bring order and simplicity to the amazing complexity and diversity presented by the plant world.
Natasha V. Raikhel, Peter V. Minorsky
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Phytochemical diversity drives plant–insect community diversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Significance Phytochemical diversity is a key component of functional diversity. Challenges in quantifying phytochemical diversity have limited our understanding of the causes and consequences of variation in phytochemical diversity across plant species and families.
Richards, Lora A. +6 more
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Climate and plant community diversity in space and time. [PDF]
, 2020 Climate strongly shapes plant diversity over large spatial scales, with relatively warm and wet (benign, productive) regions supporting greater numbers of species.
Harrison, Susan +2 more
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Plant Diversity Enhances Soil Fungal Diversity and Microbial Resistance to Plant Invasion [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 Our study newly showed that plant invasion significantly altered relationships between aboveground and belowground diversity. Specifically, plant richness indirectly promoted soil fungal richness through the increase of soil total carbon (TC) without plant invasion, while plant richness had a direct positive effect on soil fungal richness under plant ...
Congcong Shen +4 more
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Dissimilar response of plant and soil biota communities to long-term nutrient adition in grasslands [PDF]
, 2009 The long-term effect of fertilizers on plant diversity and productivity is well known, but long-term effects on soil biota communities have received relatively little attention.
Geerts, R.H.E.M. +6 more
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Effects of large herbivores on grassland arthropod diversity [PDF]
, 2015 Both arthropods and large grazing herbivores are important components and drivers of biodiversity in grassland ecosystems, but a synthesis of how arthropod diversity is affected by large herbivores has been largely missing. To fill this gap, we conducted
Olff, H +4 more
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Effects of abandonment on plant diversity in seminatural grasslands along soil and climate gradients [PDF]
, 2017 Questions: What are the effects of abandonment on plant diversity in semi-natural grasslands? Do the effects of abandonment on taxonomic and functional diversity vary along environmental gradients of climate and soil?
Hovstad, Knut Anders +3 more
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Does functional soil microbial diversity contribute to explain within-site plant beta-diversity in an alpine grassland and a dehesa meadow in Spain? [PDF]
, 2017 Questions: Once that the effects of hydrological and chemical soil properties have been accounted for, does soil microbial diversity contribute to explain change in plant community structure (i.e. within-site beta-diversity)?
Araya, Yoseph N. +4 more
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