Changes in nitrogen and phosphorus availability driven by secondary succession in temperate forests shape soil fungal communities and function. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 The soil fungal community plays an important role in forest ecosystems and is crucially influenced by forest secondary succession. However, the driving factors of fungal community and function during temperate forest succession and their potential impact
Geng X +8 more
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Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2021 The study of ecological succession to determine how plant communities re-assemble after a natural or anthropogenic disturbance has always been an important topic in ecology. The understanding of these processes forms part of the new theories of community
Pérez-Hernández J, Gavilán RG.
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Soil, Plant, and Microorganism Interactions Drive Secondary Succession in Alpine Grassland Restoration. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Plant secondary succession has been explored extensively in restoring degraded grasslands in semiarid or dry environments. However, the dynamics of soil microbial communities and their interactions with plant succession following restoration efforts ...
Han C +6 more
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Carbon stock increases up to old growth forest along a secondary succession in Mediterranean island ecosystems. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 The occurrence of old-growth forests is quite limited in Mediterranean islands, which have been subject to particularly pronounced human impacts. Little is known about the carbon stocks of such peculiar ecosystems compared with different stages of ...
Badalamenti E +8 more
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Nitrogen cycling during secondary succession in Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Carbon accumulation in tropical secondary forests may be limited in part by nitrogen (N) availability, but changes in N during tropical forest succession have rarely been quantified.
Winbourne JB +5 more
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Changes in Species Diversity Patterns and Spatial Heterogeneity during the Secondary Succession of Grassland Vegetation on the Loess Plateau, China. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2017 Analyzing the dynamic patterns of species diversity and spatial heterogeneity of vegetation in grasslands during secondary succession could help with the maintenance and management of these ecosystems.
Sun C, Chai Z, Liu G, Xue S.
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Resilience in plant-herbivore networks during secondary succession. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2012 Extensive land-use change in the tropics has produced a mosaic of successional forests within an agricultural and cattle-pasture matrix. Post-disturbance biodiversity assessments have found that regeneration speed depends upon propagule availability and the intensity and duration of disturbance. However, reestablishment of species interactions is still
Villa-Galaviz E, Boege K, del-Val E.
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Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool- and warm-temperate forests. [PDF]
J Veg Sci, 2022 Aims Light availability varies drastically in forests, both vertically and horizontally. Vertical light heterogeneity (i.e., patterns of light attenuation from the forest canopy to the floor) may be related to light competition among trees, while ...
Matsuo T, Hiura T, Onoda Y.
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Changes in the Distribution Preference of Soil Microbial Communities During Secondary Succession in a Temperate Mountain Forest. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2022 Soil microbes play a crucial role in a forest ecosystem. However, whether the distribution of bacteria and fungi in different forest succession stages is random or following ecological specialization remains to be further studied.
Li P +6 more
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Successional trajectory of bacterial communities in soil are shaped by plant-driven changes during secondary succession. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 This study investigated the potential role of a nitrogen-fixing early-coloniser Alnus Nepalensis D. Don (alder) in driving the changes in soil bacterial communities during secondary succession.
Krishna M +6 more
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