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Species-specific dung characteristics and selective grazing jointly affect plant diversity in an experimental grassland community [PDF]

Communications Biology
Mammalian herbivores play a pivotal role in nutrient cycling and plant community composition. Their excreta and grazing activity influence plant diversity, but the relative or interactive effects of these influences are unclear.
Xingzhao Sun, Judith Sitters, Leonardo H. Teixeira, Martin J. Wassen, Harry Olde Venterink   +4 more
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Leaf plasticity contributes to plant anti-herbivore defenses and indicates selective foraging: Implications for sustainable grazing

Ecological Indicators, 2021
More accurate determination of leaf plasticity induced by the legacy effect of grazing and immediate ingestion can provide insights on growth–defense tradeoffs, and are of great importance to understanding valuable indicators for grassland management ...
Xiliang Li, Guochen Kenny Png, Yuanheng Li, Saheed Olaide Jimoh, Yong Ding, Fang Li, Shixian Sun   +6 more
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Moderate Grazing Promotes Fine Root Production in a Northern Saline–Alkaline Grassland [PDF]

Plants
Grasslands are key terrestrial ecosystems in which root dynamics regulate soil carbon and nutrient cycling. Although grazing constitutes the predominant land use practice in grassland ecosystems, its impacts on root dynamics remain inadequately ...
Meng Cui, Congcong Zheng, Huajie Diao, Yingzhi Gao   +3 more
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Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction [PDF]

IUCrJ
We demonstrate a grazing-incidence X-ray platform that simultaneously records time-resolved grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) and grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GID) from a femtosecond-laser-irradiated gold film above the ...
Lisa Randolph, Özgül Öztürk, Dmitriy Ksenzov, Lingen Huang, Thomas Kluge, S. V. Rahul, Victorien Bouffetier, Tobias Held, Sebastian T. Weber, Carsten Baehtz, Mohammadreza Banjafar, Erik Brambrink, Fabien Brieuc, Byoung Ick Cho, Sebastian Göde, Hauke Höppner, Gerhard Jakob, Mathias Kläui, Zuzana Konôpková, Changhoo Lee, Gyusang Lee, Mikako Makita, Mikhail Mishchenko, Mianzhen Mo, Pascal D. Ndione, Franziska Paschke-Bruehl, Michael Paulus, Alexander Pelka, Thomas R. Preston, Christian Rödel, Michal Šmíd, Ling Wang, Lennart Wollenweber, Baerbel Rethfeld, Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf, Christian Gutt, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi   +36 more
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Metagenomic analysis revealed the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes of Awang sheep (Ovis aries) gut microbiota [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in livestock is a major contributor to the global AMR crisis, yet little is known about its dynamics in high-altitude pastoral systems.
Siyue Zhao, Xinping Wang, Heran Zhu, Ge Guo, Ghulam Raza Mustafa, Ahsan Mustafa, Yu Chen, Xiangle Li, Ying Wang, Bi Zhao   +9 more
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Can Top-Down Controls Expand the Ecological Niche of Marine N2 Fixers?

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
The ability of marine diazotrophs to fix dinitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most influential yet enigmatic processes in the ocean. With their activity diazotrophs support biological production by fixing about 100–200 Tg N/year and turning otherwise ...
Angela Landolfi, Angela Landolfi, A. E. Friederike Prowe, Markus Pahlow, Christopher J. Somes, Chia-Te Chien, Markus Schartau, Wolfgang Koeve, Andreas Oschlies   +8 more
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Performance of extensive cattle stocking on a reclaimed minerotrophic wet grassland [PDF]

Mires and Peat, 2017
Extensive stocking with cattle is a common type of grassland management in reclaimed fen sites. However, due to the high productivity of grassland on organic soil with a history of intensive management, stocking at low rates may not allow an adequate ...
L. Breitsameter, M. Kayser, J. Strodthoff , J. Müller, J. Isselstein   +4 more
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Animal board invited review: Grassland-based livestock farming and biodiversity

Animal, 2022
Grasslands dominate land cover nationally and globally, and their composition, structure and habitat value are strongly influenced by the actions of domestic and wild grazing animals that feed on them.
M.D. Fraser, H.E. Vallin, B.P. Roberts
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Grazing regime alters plant community structure via patch‐scale diversity in semiarid grasslands

Ecosphere, 2021
Selective grazing of livestock creates lightly and heavily grazed vegetation patches, which together contribute to the whole community in grazed grasslands.
Wenhuai Li, David U. Hooper, Liji Wu, Jonathan D. Bakker, Andros T. Gianuca, X. Ben Wu, Friedhelm Taube, Chaonan Wang, Yongfei Bai   +8 more
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Biophysical controls on seasonal changes in the structure, growth, and grazing of the size-fractionated phytoplankton community in the northern South China Sea [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2021
The size-fractionated phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing are crucial for the temporal change of community size structure, regulating not only trophic transfer but also the carbon cycle of the ocean.
Y. Dong, Y. Dong, Q. P. Li, Q. P. Li, Q. P. Li, Z. Wu, Z. Wu, Y. Shuai, Y. Shuai, Z. Liu, Z. Liu, Z. Ge, Z. Ge, W. Zhou, W. Zhou, Y. Chen, Y. Chen   +16 more
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