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Understory vegetation recovery after forest fire

Journal of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology, 2022
Moe MURAKAMI, Akira KATO, Masuto EBINA
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Rethinking intensification: Biodiversity‐inclusive management sustains coconut yields

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Coconut palm expansion in West Africa will shape rural livelihoods and ecosystems. Our findings show that intensive practices reduce beneficial soil fungi and increase pathogens, threatening long‐term productivity. Lower‐intensity management that retains ground vegetation can sustain or boost yields while improving soil health.
Benjamin J. Roberts, C. M. ( Tilly) Collins, Konan Engueran Djaha, Hamish Duncalf‐Youngson, Konan Jean Louis, Hala N'klo, Emma Ransome, Doubi Bi Tra Serges, Jahcub Trew, Jake Williams, Vincent Savolainen   +10 more
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Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

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Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
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Monitoring Autumn Phenology in Understory Plants with a Fine-Resolution Camera

Remote Sensing
Autumn phenology plays a crucial role in shaping the capacity for carbon sequestration. However, understories, a vital yet often neglected ecosystem component, have complicated autumn phenology prediction.
Huanhuan Yuan, Jianliang Zhang, Haonan Zhang, Wanggu Xu, Jie Peng, Xiaoyue Wang, Peng Chen, Pinghao Li, Fei Lu, Jiabao Yan, Zhi Wang   +10 more
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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

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Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
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Informing the potential of mature temperate forests as natural climate solutions: Changed fine root biomass and morphology under elevated CO2

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The land carbon sink absorbs approximately 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, with forests accounting for most. Managing forests as Natural Climate Solutions is therefore a societal imperative, requiring models of where and how long carbon resides within these ecosystems. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 on fine roots, the primary source of
Grace Handy, Angeliki Kourmouli, Marie Arnaud, Carolina Mayoral, Richard J. Norby, Michaela K. Reay, Sami Ullah, Iain P. Hartley, R. Liz Hamilton, Robert Grzesik, Andy R. Smith, Elena Vanguelova, A. Rob MacKenzie, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert   +13 more
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CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA VEGETAÇÃO RASTEIRA NA EVAPOTRANSPIRAÇÃO TOTAL EM DIFERENTES ECOSSISTEMAS DO BIOMA CERRADO, DISTRITO FEDERAL

Ciência Florestal, 2010
The objectives this study were to: (a) quantify the seasonality evapotranspiration of understory vegetation (ET rasteira), (b) quantify the influence of ET rasteira on total evapotranspiration (total ET) and (c) verify the relation between ET rasteira ...
Otacílio Antunes Santana, Geraldine Cuniat, José Imaña-Encinas   +2 more
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Close‐to‐nature management regulates ecosystem carbon storage through its effects on vegetation community structure in Pinus massoniana plantations

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Forest plantations play an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration, yet management strategies that enhance long‐term ecosystem carbon storage remain insufficiently understood. We investigated the effects of more than a decade of close‐to‐nature management on community structure and ecosystem carbon storage ...
Yuwen Luo, Yunliang Ni, Zongzheng Chai
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Chemical diversity and phylogenetic insights into Hawaiian ʻākia (Wikstroemia) species used in traditional fishing practices

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Traditional fishing with plant‐based piscicides is a global practice in decline, facing increasing restrictions. We investigated the chemical diversity of endemic Wikstroemia species historically used to stun or poison fish in Hawaiʻi. Using 1‐H‐NMR, principal component analysis, targeted HPLC, and target‐capture sequencing, we characterized compounds ...
Louise Winther, Isaac Lichter‐Marck, Louise Kjaerulff, David Lorence, Uma Nagendra, Mike Opgenorth, Sverre J. Schou, Kenneth R. Wood, Felipe Zapata, Dan Staerk, Nina Rønsted   +10 more
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From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

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Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Jasmine S. Peters, Juan Pablo Jordán, Alison G. Power   +3 more
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