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Variation in plant functional groups indicates land degradation on the Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
AbstractPlant functional groups (PFGs) have been increasingly introduced in land degradation (LD) studies; however, it is unclear whether PFGs can indicate LD. Here, we selected five different degraded lands (i.e., pristine and, lightly, moderately, seriously and extremely degraded) higher than 4650 m on the Tibetan Plateau.
Luo J, Liu X, Yang J, Liu Y, Zhou J.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Size and Reproductive Traits Rather than Leaf Economic Traits Explain Plant-Community Composition in Species-Rich Annual Vegetation along a Gradient of Land Use Intensity

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
Agricultural land use imposes a major disturbance on ecosystems worldwide, thus greatly modifying the taxonomic and functional composition of plant communities.
Inga Dirks, Rita Dumbur, Patrick Lienin, Michael Kleyer, José M. Grünzweig   +4 more
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Drought intensity and duration effects on morphological root traits vary across trait type and plant functional groups: a meta-analysis. [PDF]

BMC Ecol Evol
The increasing severity and frequency of drought pose serious threats to plant species worldwide. Yet, we lack a general understanding of how various intensities of droughts affect plant traits, in particular root traits.
Sun Y, Robert CA, Thakur MP.
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Response of Temperate Leymus chinensis Meadow Steppe Plant Community Composition, Biomass Allocation, and Species Diversity to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Addition

Agronomy, 2023
Studies on the impacts of fertilization on plant production and species diversity are crucial for better maintaining the stability of grassland ecosystems and restoring degraded grasslands.
Chu Zhang, Xiaoping Xin, Yu Zhang, Miao Wang, Sisi Chen, Tianqi Yu, Yingxin Li, Guixia Yang, Ruirui Yan   +8 more
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Effects of Fencing on Vegetation and Soil Nutrients of the Temperate Steppe Grasslands in Inner Mongolia

Agronomy, 2021
Grazing exclusion has been widely implemented in degraded grassland. However, the changes of plant communities and soil nutrients in response to fencing are still controversial.
Shan Cong, Daowei Zhou, Qiang Li, Yingxin Huang   +3 more
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Effects of increased N and P availability on biomass allocation and root carbohydrate reserves differ between N‐fixing and non‐N‐fixing savanna tree seedlings

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
In mixed tree‐grass ecosystems, tree recruitment is limited by demographic bottlenecks to seedling establishment arising from inter‐ and intra‐life‐form competition, and disturbances such as fire.
Varun Varma, Arockia M. Catherin, Mahesh Sankaran   +2 more
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Spectrally derived values of community leaf dry matter content link shifts in grassland composition with change in biomass production

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Leaf traits link environmental effects on plant species abundances to changes in ecosystem processes but are a challenge to measure regularly and over large areas.
H. Wayne Polley, Chenghai Yang, Brian J. Wilsey, Philip A. Fay   +3 more
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Impact of weather on dynamics of plant functional groups in an abandoned limestone grassland

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2011
We examined to what extend the rate and direction of changes in unmanaged grassland depend on fluctuations in climatic conditions. Vegetation data from permanent plots in a semi-natural grassland in southern Poland collected over 12 years were used ...
Zbigniew Dzwonko, Stefania Loster
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Can wetland plant functional groups be spectrally discriminated? [PDF]

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018
Abstract Plant functional traits (PFTs) underpin ecosystem processes and therefore ecosystem service provision. If PFTs are possible to detect and discriminate spectrally, then it may be possible to use remote sensing applications to map ecosystem processes or services within and across landscapes.
Rebelo, Alanna J., Somers, Ben, Esler, Karen J., Meire, Patrick   +3 more
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High functional diversity is related to high nitrogen availability in a deciduous forest - evidence from a functional trait approach [PDF]

, 2010
The current study tested the assumption that floristic and functional diversity patterns are negatively related to soil nitrogen content. We analyzed 20 plots with soil N-contents ranging from 0.63% to 1.06% in a deciduous forest near Munich (Germany ...
Fischer, Anton, Kudernatsch, Thomas, Bernhardt-Roemermann, Markus, Roemermann, Christine, Patta Pillar, Valério de, Christine Römermann, Anton Fischer, Thomas Kudernatsch, Römermann, Christine, Valério DePatta Pillar, Pillar, Valerio D., Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus   +12 more
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