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Native and Alien Ungulates in North America: Potential for Restoring Herbivore Diversity and Functions

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim Large herbivores play key roles in ecosystems by promoting plant diversity, dispersing seeds, regulating nutrient cycling, and shaping vegetation structure. Since the Late Pleistocene, their declines have led to profound ecosystem changes. While often viewed as problematic, alien herbivores may partly compensate for these losses; yet their
Ming Ni, Joe Atkinson, Erick Lundgren, Pablo Villalva, Wanben Wu, Jens‐Christian Svenning   +5 more
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The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview [PDF]

Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, the reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations.
Chomitz, Kenneth M., Douglas, Ellen M., Sebastian, Kate, Vorosmarty, Charles J., Wood, Stanley   +4 more
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Environmental and biological controls on water and energy exchange in Florida scrub oak and pine flatwoods ecosystems [PDF]

, 2008
Scrub oak and pine flatwoods are two contrasting ecosystems common to the humid subtropical climate of Florida. Scrub oak forests are short in stature (
Bracho, Rosvel, Dore, Sabina, Drake, Bert G., Hinkle, C. Ross, Li, Jiahong, Powell, Thomas L.   +5 more
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Commodity risk assessment of oak and walnut logs from the US

EFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier from the United States proposing the use of a vacuum–steam–heat treatment as a stand‐alone phytosanitary measure to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum, Geosmithia morbida and its vector Pityophthorus juglandis (thousand cankers disease complex) into ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Antonio Vicent Civera, Paula Baptista, Anna Berlin, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Jaime Cubero, Nik Cunniffe, Eduardo de la Peña, Nicolas Desneux, Francesco Di Serio, Anna Filipiak, Beata Hasiów‐Jaroszewska, Hervé Jactel, Blanca B. Landa, Lara Maistrello, David Makowski, Panagiotis Milonas, Nikos T. Papadopoulos, Roel Potting, Hanna Susi, Dirk Jan van Der Gaag, Andrea Battisti, Claude Bragard, Hugo Mas, Daniel Rigling, Massimo Faccoli, Alžběta Mikulová, Fabio Stergulc, Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz, Franz Streissl, Paolo Gonthier   +30 more
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Ozone and haze pollution weakens net primary productivity in China [PDF]

, 2017
Atmospheric pollutants have both beneficial and detrimental effects on carbon uptake by land ecosystems. Surface ozone (O3) damages leaf photosynthesis by oxidizing plant cells, while aerosols promote carbon uptake by increasing diffuse radiation and ...
Feng, Zhaozhong, Harper, Kandice, Li, Jing, Liao, Hong, Unger, Nadine, Xia, Xiangao, Xiao, Jingfeng, Yue, Xu, Zhu, Tong   +8 more
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Compound Drivers of Rising Ozone Extremes in the North China Plain (2013–2023): Aerosol Decline, Hot Droughts, Afforestation‐Driven BVOCs, and Reduced Vegetation Uptake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 24, 28 December 2025.
Abstract Over the past decade (2013–2023), PM2.5 levels in eastern China have dropped by ∼70% due to air pollution controls, yet ground‐level ozone (O3) has risen by 1–3 ppbv/yr, especially in the North China Plain (NCP). Persistent O3 extremes, with daily maximum 8‐hr average (MDA8) of 100–150 ppbv, have become more frequent.
Meiyun Lin, Larry W. Horowitz, Yuanyu Xie, Isabelle De Smedt   +3 more
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The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: factors controlling lotic systems across broad biogeographic scales [PDF]

, 2015
Citation: Dodds, W. K., Gido, K., Whiles, M. R., Daniels, M. D., & Grudzinski, B. P. (2015). The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: factors controlling lotic systems across broad biogeographic scales. Freshwater Science, 34(1), 1-19.
Daniels, M. D., Dodds, Walter K., Gido, Keith, Grudzinski, B. P., Whiles, M. R.   +4 more
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The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America [PDF]

, 2016
Degraded lands—lands that have lost some degree of their natural productivity through human activity—account for over 20 percent of forest and agricultural lands in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ana R. Rios, Luciana Gallardo lomeli, Paul Isbell, Ronnie De Camino, Steven Prager, Walter Vergara   +5 more
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Global patterns of woody residence time and its influence on model simulation of aboveground biomass [PDF]

, 2017
Woody residence time (τw) is an important parameter that expresses the balance between mature forest recruitment/growth and mortality. Using field data collected from the literature, this study explored the global forest τw and investigated its influence
Allen, Baker, Bao-Lin Xue, Beer, Breiman, Carvalhais, Castanho, Chen, Cox, Cramer, Delbart, Dijk, Foley, Friedlingstein, Friend, Friend, Galbraith, Guo, Guoqiang Wang, Harris, Hu, Ito, Jin Liu, Jingfeng Xiao, Keeling, Kobe, Krinner, Kucharik, Kurz, Liaw, Lines, Liu, Lloyd, Luyssaert, Malhi, Malhi, Mantgem, Mantgem, Martin, McDowell, Medvigy, Monteith, Mu, Pavlick, Phillips, Phillips, Piao, Purves, Qinghua Guo, Quesada, Running, Sato, Shengli Tao, Simard, Sitch, Sitch, Smith, Stephenson, Stephenson, Su, Tao, Thurner, Thurner, Tianyu Hu, Vieira, Xiao, Xiaoqian Zhao, Xue, Xue, Yang, Yanjun Su, Yuanhe Yang, Zhang, Zhou, Zhou   +74 more
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Climate and microbial community composition drive shifts in ecosystem function along three parallel elevational gradients

Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 12, December 2025.
Mountains are home to steep elevational gradients in environmental factors, biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Though these gradients are tightly connected, little is known about the relative contribution of environmental and biotic factors in driving elevational changes in ecosystem functionality.
Congcong Shen, Michael K. Borregaard, Marcell K. Peters, Xin Jing, Akira S. Mori, Xinyu Xu, Zhi‐Ming Zhang, Lin Zhang, Jonathan M. Adams, Baodong Chen, Guo‐Xin Sun, Li‐Mei Zhang, Yuan Ge   +12 more
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