Insect herbivores reduce plant biomass loss and enhance plant recovery in response to extreme drought. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Plant species are responding to anthropogenic climate change by expanding their distributions to higher latitudes and altitudes. This is generating novel communities consisting of a mixture of range‐expanding and native plant species. These communities are increasingly subject to extreme droughts and are shaped by herbivory.
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Extreme Droughts Push Heterotrophic Functions Above Baseline Levels in a Neotropical Ecosystem. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolUsing tank bromeliads, we experimentally assessed post‐drought resistance and recovery of ecosystem multifunctionality under realistic drought scenarios. We focused on three key functions in these small yet abundant Neotropical freshwater ecosystems: litter decomposition, microbial respiration, and photosynthetic efficiency.
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Impact of drying, freezing and re-wetting events soil leachate in acidic versus calcareous soils [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical SocietyThis study investigates the impact of drying-rewetting and freezing-rewetting events on soil leachate ion composition across two contrasting geochemical settings through a series of controlled laboratory experiments.
Hukić Emira +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Increased periods of prolonged droughts followed by severe precipitation events are expected throughout South America due to climate change. Freshwater sediments are especially sensitive to these changing climate conditions.
José R Paranaíba +12 more
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The Response of Microbial Communities to Peatland Drainage and Rewetting. A Review
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Peatlands are significant global carbon stores and play an important role in mediating the flux of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. During the 20th century substantial areas of northern peatlands were drained to repurpose the land for industrial or
Ezra Kitson, Nicholle G. A. Bell
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Rewet-wetland observatories for the rewetting of drained peatlands
, 2022 Rewet- wetland observatories for the rewetting of drained ...
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Nonisothermal Spreading Dynamics of Self-Rewetting Droplets [PDF]
Langmuir, 2018 We experimentally studied the spreading dynamics of binary alcohol mixtures (and pure liquids for reference) deposited on a heated substrate in a partially wetting situation under nonisothermal conditions. We show that the spreading mechanism of an evaporating droplet exhibits a power-law growth with early-stage exponents that depend strongly and ...
Dimitrios Mamalis +2 more
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Community perceptions of peat rewetting in Tumbang Nusa Village, Indonesia [PDF]
Mires and PeatIndonesia is committed to rewetting peatlands to reduce the risk of fires and to decrease national greenhouse gas emissions. The three main approaches currently being implemented for rewetting peatlands in Indonesia are: 1) installing dams in drainage ...
Aysha Fleming +11 more
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Towards more sustainable hydrological management and land use of drained coastal peatlands - A biogeochemical balancing act [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2020 Worldwide, drainage-based water management is applied to facilitate agricultural use of coastal peatland areas, leading to large-scale peat oxidation and land subsidence.
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Controls on plot-scale growing season CO2 and CH4 fluxes in restored peatlands: Do they differ from unrestored and natural sites? [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2016 This study brings together plot-scale growing season fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from six Canadian peatlands restored by the moss layer transfer technique (MLTT) and compares them with fluxes from adjacent unrestored and natural ...
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