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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grassland degradation profoundly alters the structure and function of desert steppe ecosystems. However, the responses of herbaceous aboveground biomass (Herb‐AGB) to degradation across different plant community types and the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood.
Huaihai Wang +8 more
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Canscora agni (Gentianaceae), a new species from the fire‐prone Indian savannas
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.We describe Canscora agni from the Indian savannas as a distinct species which differs from its allied species Canscora alata in having fewer and shorter leaves, pedicel‐wings unequal across the length, bracts with glandular hair on the margins, calyx‐wings being four, wider, up to 2.3 mm, with distinct reticulate venation and having ovary length up to
Ashish N. Nerlekar +1 more
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The Effects of Fire on Understory Vegetation in Ponderosa Pine Forests
The UW National Parks Service Research Station Annual Reports, 1980 This was the second year of our study designed to evaluate the nature of vegetation occurring under Pinus ponderosa canopy in Wind Cave National Park and to define the relationship between this vegetation and fire. Fire is known to be a natural phenomenon in ponderosa pine forests (Wright 1978), and to play a major role in determining the position of ...
Jane Bock, Carl Bock
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Habitat loss reshuffles ecological and evolutionary interactions in a seed dispersal network
Oikos, EarlyView.In tropical forests, habitat loss reshapes species composition, favoring generalists and recently emerged lineages while specialists and older evolutionary lineages are lost. However, how changes in species ecological attributes and evolutionary history affect ecological processes is poorly explored.
Fernando César Gonçalves Bonfim +8 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.As habitats change, the effectiveness of animal‐mediated seed dispersal increasingly depends on animal responses to altered structure and resources. With habitat loss and degradation accelerating across the tropics, understanding how dispersers' foraging behavior and movement influence seed removal and deposition is critical to promoting forest ...
Anaid Cárdenas‐Navarrete +2 more
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Düzce University Faculty of Forestry Journal of Forestry, 2019 Forest harvesting and understory vegetation management may disturb the ecological integrity of forest ecosystems. Abrupt change in plant composition in the stand also modifies the nutritional status of the site.
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Biotropika: Journal of Tropical BiologyThis study aimed to examine the ecological aspects and potential utilisation of understory vegetation in the biodiversity area of Sumber Arum, Songgon, Banyuwangi.
Nunuk Nurchayati +3 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan +6 more
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Sensors, 2019 Understory vegetation influences several ecosystem services and functions of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests. Despite this knowledge on the importance of understory vegetation, it is still difficult to measure its three-dimensional ...
Katharina Willim +7 more
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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 +4 more
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