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Plant Functional Group Diversity as a Mechanism for Invasion Resistance [PDF]

Restoration Ecology, 2005
Abstract A commonly cited mechanism for invasion resistance is more complete resource use by diverse plant assemblages with maximum niche complementarity. We investigated the invasion resistance of several plant functional groups against the nonindigenous forb Spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa).
Pokorny, Monica L, Sheley, Roger L, Zabinski, Catherine A, Engel, Richard E, Svejcar, Tony J, Borkowski, John J   +5 more
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Impact of soil legacy on plant–soil feedback in grasses and legumes through beneficial and pathogenic microbiota accumulation

Frontiers in Microbiology
Plants shape their surrounding soil, influencing subsequent plant growth in a phenomenon known as plant–soil feedback (PSF). This feedback is driven by chemical and microbial legacies. Here, we cultivated six crops from two functional groups, i.e., three
Mohamed Idbella, Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad, Fatima Ezzahra Chouyia, Giuliano Bonanomi, Giuliano Bonanomi   +4 more
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Mapping Plant Functional Groups in Subalpine Grassland of the Greater Caucasus

Mountain Research and Development, 2018
Plant functional groups—in our case grass, herbs, and legumes—and their spatial distribution can provide information on key ecosystem functions such as species richness, nitrogen fixation, and erosion control.
Anja Magiera, Hannes Feilhauer, Rainer Waldhardt, Martin Wiesmair, Annette Otte   +4 more
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Plant Species and Functional Group Combinations Affect Green Roof Ecosystem Functions

PLoS ONE, 2010
Green roofs perform ecosystem services such as summer roof temperature reduction and stormwater capture that directly contribute to lower building energy use and potential economic savings. These services are in turn related to ecosystem functions performed by the vegetation layer such as radiation reflection and transpiration, but little work has ...
Lundholm, Jeremy T. (Jeremy Todd), 1970-, MacIvor, J. Scott, MacDougall, Zachary, Ranalli, Melissa   +3 more
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Model parameters for representative wetland plant functional groups [PDF]

Ecosphere, 2017
AbstractWetlands provide a wide variety of ecosystem services including water quality remediation, biodiversity refugia, groundwater recharge, and floodwater storage. Realistic estimation of ecosystem service benefits associated with wetlands requires reasonable simulation of the hydrology of each site and realistic simulation of the upland and wetland
Amber S. Williams, James R. Kiniry, David Mushet, Loren M. Smith, Scott McMurry, Kelly Attebury, Megan Lang, Gregory W. McCarty, Jill A. Shaffer, William R. Effland, Mari‐Vaughn V. Johnson   +10 more
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The Plant Short-Chain Dehydrogenase (SDR) superfamily:genome-wide inventory and diversification patterns [PDF]

, 2012
Background Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDRs) form one of the largest and oldest NAD(P)(H) dependent oxidoreductase families. Despite a conserved 'Rossmann-fold' structure, members of the SDR superfamily exhibit low sequence similarities, which
Moummou, Hanane, Persson, B, van der Rest, Benoit,, Libert Brice Tonfack, Tonfack, LB, Tonfack, Libert Brice, Kallberg, Yvonne, Persson, Bengt, Bengt Persson, Kallberg, Y,, Benoît van der Rest, Moummou, Hanane,, Yvonne Kallberg, Brice Tonfack, Libert, Persson, Bengt,, Hanane Moummou, Van der Rest, Benoît, Kallberg, Yvonne,, Brice Tonfack, Libert,, van, der Rest B, Moummou, H, Moummou Hanane, Tonfack Libert Brice, Persson Bengt, Kallberg Yvonne, van der Rest Benoît   +25 more
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Complementing endozoochorous seed dispersal patterns by donkeys and goats in a semi-natural island ecosystem

BMC Ecology, 2017
Background Endozoochory is, in grazing systems, a substantial vector for seed dispersal. It can play an important role in vegetation dynamics, especially in colonization processes through seed input on the vegetation and on the soil seed bank.
Julia Tabea Treitler, Tim Drissen, Robin Stadtmann, Stefan Zerbe, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras   +4 more
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Infant Embryonal CNS Tumors: Molecular Insights and Treatment Considerations for Contemporary Pediatric Neuro‐Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Embryonal tumors comprise the majority of malignant central nervous system (CNS) neoplasms diagnosed in children under 3 years of age. Compared with their counterparts in older children, these tumors exhibit distinct molecular biology and a more aggressive clinical phenotype, while their management is complicated by the heightened ...
Sudarshawn Damodharan, Mariah Wright‐Nadkarni, Mohamed S. Abdelbaki, Girish Dhall   +3 more
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Functional trait responses to grazing are mediated by soil moisture and plant functional group identity [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2015
AbstractAbundant evidence has shown that grazing alters plant functional traits, community structure and ecosystem functioning of grasslands. Few studies, however, have tested how plant responses to grazing are mediated by resource availability and plant functional group identity.
Shuxia Zheng, Wenhuai Li, Zhichun Lan, Haiyan Ren, Kaibo Wang   +4 more
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Plant diversity and functional identity alter ant occurrence and activity in experimental grasslands

Ecosphere, 2022
Increasing plant species richness has been shown to positively affect the diversity of a range of other organisms, both above‐ and belowground. Although ants have a multitude of interactions with other organisms through their role as predators and ...
Rafael Achury, Lars Clement, Anne Ebeling, Sebastian Meyer, Winfried Voigt, Wolfgang W. Weisser   +5 more
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