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Post‐fire pickings: Large herbivores alter understory vegetation communities in a coastal eucalypt forest

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Fire and herbivores alter vegetation structure and function. Future fire activity is predicted to increase, and quantifying changes in vegetation communities arising from post‐fire herbivory is needed to better manage natural environments.
Matthew Chard, Claire N. Foster, David B. Lindenmayer, Geoffrey J. Cary, Christopher I. MacGregor, Wade Blanchard   +5 more
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Afforestation affects soil seed banks by altering soil properties and understory plants on the eastern Loess Plateau, China

Ecological Indicators, 2021
To solve the serious soil erosion problem on the Loess Plateau, large-scale reforestation efforts have been carried out in the past few decades. However, previous studies on the species diversity of these reforestation plantations focused mainly on the ...
Yao Zhao, Meng Li, Jiayong Deng, Baitian Wang   +3 more
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Response of understory vegetation over 10 years after thinning in an old-growth cedar and cypress plantation overgrazed by sika deer in eastern Japan

Forest Ecosystems, 2017
Background Forest management strategies such as thinning have long been used to enhance ecosystem functions, especially in plantations. Thinning in plantations with high deer density, however, may not yield a desired increase in understory vegetation ...
Atsushi Tamura, Masanobu Yamane
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Spiders in canopy and ground microhabitats are robust to changes in understory vegetation management practices in mature oil palm plantations (Riau, Indonesia)

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022
Conversion of natural habitats to oil palm agriculture has caused declines in biodiversity and changes in ecosystem functions. To preserve biodiversity we must protect natural habitats, but once oil palm plantations are established, developing more ...
Michael D. Pashkevich, Dakota M. Spear, Andreas Dwi Advento, Jean-Pierre Caliman, William A. Foster, Sarah H. Luke, Mohammad Naim, Sudharto Ps, Jake L. Snaddon, Edgar C. Turner   +9 more
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Early snowmelt by an extreme warming event affects understory more than overstory trees in Japanese temperate forests

Ecosphere, 2022
The occurrence of extreme warm events and early snowmelt is predicted to increase in high‐latitude ecosystems, even during periods of time when there is no coincident reduction in total precipitation.
Kobayashi Makoto, Pamela H. Templer, Ayumi Katayama, Osamu Seki, Kentaro Takagi   +4 more
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Effects of Understory Vegetation Heterogeneity on Soil Organic Carbon Components in Cunninghamia lanceolata Plantation

Land, 2022
As one of the important factors affecting forest soil organic carbon stocks, the effect of understory vegetation types on soil organic carbon and its components was explored to provide a theoretical basis for understory vegetation management and ...
Ruipeng Song, Xiaomeng Han, Qifan Yang, Zhiheng Zheng, Dan Xi   +4 more
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Characteristics of Hydrodynamic Parameters of Different Understory Vegetation Patterns

Plants
The presence of understory vegetation not only influences slope-scale soil and water conservation but also exerts a profound effect on hydrodynamic characteristics and the processes of runoff and sediment production. Therefore, in this study, different vegetation types and vegetation coverages (bare land, 30%, 60%, and 90%) were set up by simulating ...
Chenhui Zhang, Jiali Wang, Jianbo Jia
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Method comparison of indirect assessments of understory leaf area index (LAIu): A case study across the extended network of ICOS forest ecosystem sites in Europe

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Leaf area index (LAI) is a key ecological indicator for describing the structure of canopies and for modelling energy exchange between atmosphere and biosphere.
Jan-Peter George, Wei Yang, Hideki Kobayashi, Tobias Biermann, Arnaud Carrara, Edoardo Cremonese, Matthias Cuntz, Silvano Fares, Giacomo Gerosa, Thomas Grünwald, Niklas Hase, Michael Heliasz, Andreas Ibrom, Alexander Knohl, Bart Kruijt, Holger Lange, Jean-Marc Limousin, Denis Loustau, Petr Lukeš, Riccardo Marzuoli, Meelis Mölder, Leonardo Montagnani, Johan Neirynck, Matthias Peichl, Corinna Rebmann, Marius Schmidt, Francisco Ramon Lopez Serrano, Kamel Soudani, Caroline Vincke, Jan Pisek   +29 more
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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording, Erik W. Ertsgaard, David E. Giblin, Iris H. Dimpsey, Owen B. Bard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source