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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Regeneration and assembly of a plant community after a large-scale natural disturbance are affected by many factors. The relative importance of abiotic factors represented by the external environment and the biological factors inside the plant community ...
Di Kang +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Plant functional traits reflect species ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental changes, however, how dominant species in the Inner Mongolia grassland adapt to different grazing systems by changing their functional traits ...
Zheng Wang +9 more
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Functional traits of expanding, thicket-forming shrubs: contrasting strategies between exotic and native species [PDF]
, 2017 Woody expansion has been documented for decades in many different systems globally, often yielding vast changes in ecosystem functioning. While causes and consequences of woody expansion have been well documented, few studies have addressed plant ...
Shiflett, Sheri A. +2 more
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Understanding woody plant encroachment: a plant functional trait approach
Ecological Monographs, 2023 The increase in the density of woody plants threatens the integrity of grassy ecosystems. It remains unclear if such encroachment can be explained mostly by direct effects of soil conditions and hydrology on woody plant growth or by indirect effects on fire regime and herbivory imposing tree recruitment limitation.
Inger K. de Jonge +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Weed management involving tillage and/or herbicides has generally led to a decline of plant diversity in agroecosystems, with negative impacts on ecosystem services provision.
Jose G. Guerra +5 more
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Can ecosystem properties be fully translated into service values? an economic valuation of aquatic plant services [PDF]
, 2011 Ecological Applications 21. 5 (2011): 3083-3103 copyright by the Ecological Society of AmericaWe carried out an integrated analysis of ecosystem services in the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain), from the providers (different aquatic ...
Díaz, Sandra +3 more
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Linking plant conservatism scores to plant functional traits
Ecological Indicators, 2020 Abstract Many indices to assess ecosystem health involve conservatism scores (C-scores), which are assigned to individual plant species by expert regional botanists and are intended to provide a semi-quantitative metric of a species’ tolerance to environmental perturbation.
Cari D. Ficken, Rebecca C. Rooney
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Using functional traits to model annual plant community dynamics [PDF]
Ecology, 2020 AbstractPredicting the response of biological communities to changes in the environment or management is a fundamental pursuit of community ecology. Meeting this challenge requires the integration of multiple processes: habitat filtering, niche differentiation, biotic interactions, competitive exclusion, and stochastic demographic events.
Metcalfe, H. +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Our ability to measure plant characteristics across space and time is crucial for understanding and tracking the diversity and functioning of ecosystems.
Elisa Van Cleemput +4 more
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Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and their functional traits mediate plant–soil interactions in trace element contaminated soils [PDF]
, 2018 There is an increasing consensus that microbial communities have an important role in mediating ecosystem processes. Trait-based ecology predicts that the impact of the microbial communities on ecosystem functions will be mediated by the expression of ...
Gil-Martínez, Marta +6 more
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