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Post‐Fire Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics: Decline and Recovery Over Two Decades

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildfire can significantly alter soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in forest ecosystems, with complex temporal patterns following fire events. However, research on post‐fire SOC recovery remains limited, particularly in dry‐warm valley regions that are prone to frequent forest fires.
Yuxin Cen, Lei Wang, Bin Zhang, Jun Luo, Qingchun Deng, Haiqing Yang, Hui Liu, Frédéric Darboux   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bauhinia naniflora: a new species of section Amaria (Cercidoideae: Leguminosae) from Colombia

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Bauhinia, the most species‐rich genus of Cercidoideae (Leguminosae), is pantropically distributed and includes four sections in the Americas. During an ongoing taxonomic revision of American Cercidoideae, a new species of Bauhinia sect. Amaria ser. Decandrae currently endemic to Colombia was identified and is here described as Bauhinia naniflorasp nov.
Luis Carlos Casas‐Restrepo, Andrés Fonseca‐Cortés, Rita Fábia da Silva Calixto, Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz, Adilva de Souza Conceição   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing bird communities of an agricultural landscape: declines in arboreal foragers, increases in large species. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2020
Bain GC, MacDonald MA, Hamer R, Gardiner R, Johnson CN, Jones ME.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Two new endemic species of Portulaca (Portulacaceae) from the Brazilian Pampa grasslands

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Portulaca L. is a monophyletic, cosmopolitan genus of succulent plants comprising ca 153 species, with particularly high diversity in xerophytic ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions. Based on morphological evidence, we describe and illustrate two new species from the Brazilian Pampa, Portulaca guaritensis and Portulaca guenoa.
José Roberto Ferraz, Bárbara Pinheiro Moreira, João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga, Leonardo Paz Deble   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treasures of the Serra da Jiboia (Bahia, Brazil): a new species of Racinaea and an overview of the local Bromeliaceae flora

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Serra da Jiboia, located in the south‐central region of Bahia, represents an important ecotone between the Atlantic Forest and the Caatinga and harbors high floristic diversity and numerous endemic species. The Bromeliaceae family, well represented in the region, stands out for its ecological importance and adaptability to various microenvironments ...
Everton Hilo de Souza, Eduardo P. Fernandez, Gláucia C. Ferreira, Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme Aona, Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza, Elton Martiez Carvalho Leme   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns and environmental drivers of root traits across hydrological gradients in old growth boreal forests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Many key ecosystem functions are affected by plant roots and their traits. However, understanding of the patterns in, and drivers of, root traits lags far behind equivalent knowledge of above‐ground tissues, particularly in boreal old growth forests. We surveyed community‐level root traits across 11 old growth forests spanning a wide latitudinal range ...
Naomi Vöhringer, Hanna Axén, Anders Ahlström, Gesche Blume‐Werry, Daniel B. Metcalfe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elevation‐dependent soil and plant responses to a decade of warming and species removal

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding how ecosystems retain or release carbon under warming is a critical challenge. Dominant plant species, which contribute the most biomass, can mediate ecosystem responses to warming by modifying microclimate and nutrient cycling. To investigate how warming and shifts in plant dominance interact to affect carbon and nutrient dynamics, we ...
Anna Wootton, Olivia K. Vought, Isabel E. Thornberry, Carol Adair, Karin Rand, Maxwell Landsman‐Gerjoi, Aimée T. Classen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation trends associated with urban development: The role of golf courses. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2020
Nguyen TT, Barber P, Harper R, Linh TVK, Dell B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mechanisms and impacts of future plant invasions: research agendas and management needs under disruptive social‐ecological change scenarios

Oikos, EarlyView.
No‐analogue futures are characteristic of the Anthropocene, but how global change, and societies' responses, will affect plant invasions remains unclear. Conducting research now to address future needs is crucial for guiding invasion management and policy.
Jennifer L. Bufford, Angela J. Brandt, Rowan Sprague, Christopher E. Buddenhagen, Richard P. Duncan, Nichola Harcourt, Philip E. Hulme, Hao Ran Lai, Kate G. McAlpine, Chris McGrannachan, Fiona J. Thomson, Vincent van Uitregt, Duane A. Peltzer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Common‐garden experimental evaluation of phylogenetic and functional diversity as drivers of plant performance

Oikos, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is known to influence the performance of coexisting species and has been proposed as a management tool to enhance the resilience and functioning of plant communities under drought. However, experimental studies to disentangle the roles of phylogenetic and functional diversity as drivers of plant performance remain extremely scarce.
Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga, Laura Ortiz, Laura Rodríguez, Pablo Ferrandis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source