Effects of abandonment on plant diversity in seminatural grasslands along soil and climate gradients [PDF]
, 2017 Questions: What are the effects of abandonment on plant diversity in semi-natural grasslands? Do the effects of abandonment on taxonomic and functional diversity vary along environmental gradients of climate and soil?
Hovstad, Knut Anders +3 more
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Environmental Drivers of Holocene Forest Development in the Middle Atlas, Morocco
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 In semi-arid regions subject to rising temperatures and drought, palaeoecological insights into past vegetation dynamics under a range of boundary conditions are needed to develop our understanding of environmental responses to climatic changes. Here, we
Jennifer F. E. Campbell +5 more
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Sensitivity of the grassland-forest ecotone in East African open woodland savannah to historical rainfall variation [PDF]
, 2014 . Fossil pollen records provide key insight into the sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change at longer time scales. However, tracing vegetation response to relatively modest historical climate fluctuations is often complicated by the ...
Gelorini, Vanessa +2 more
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Biology, 2023 The Royal Spanish Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the 18th century was one of the most important European expeditions to American territories.
Juan Miguel Arias-Gámez +3 more
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High functional diversity is related to high nitrogen availability in a deciduous forest - evidence from a functional trait approach [PDF]
, 2010 The current study tested the assumption that floristic and functional diversity patterns are negatively related to soil nitrogen content. We analyzed 20 plots with soil N-contents ranging from 0.63% to 1.06% in a deciduous forest near Munich (Germany ...
Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus +4 more
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Essay on the history of study of forests of the Central Ciscaucasia [PDF]
Вопросы лесной науки, 2019 The article gives a brief overview of the history of study of forest flora and vegetation of the Central Ciscaucasia from the late 18th century till present. The entire history of the study of forests in this region can be divided into five periods. Each
N.E. Shevchenko
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Resurvey of the Pentatomoidea (Heteroptera) of the La Rue-Pine Hills Research Natural Area in Union County, Illinois [PDF]
, 2018 A resurvey of the Pentatomoidea of the La Rue-Pine Hills Research Natural Area was conducted from September 1992 to June 1995 and the results compared with those of an earlier survey by McPherson and Mohlenbrock (1976).
McPherson, J. E, Tecic, D. L
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Palaeoecological evidence of agricultural activity and human impact on the environment at the ancient settlement centre of Keava, Estonia [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2010 Peat record from a very small basin, the former mire of Verevainu, in the nearest vicinity of ancient Keava settlements (8th-11th centuries) and hillforts (5th–13th centuries), was investigated by means of palaeoecological approach, namely by pollen ...
Heinsalu, Atko, Veski, Siim
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Community concepts in plant ecology: from Humboldtian plant geography to the superorganism and beyond [PDF]
, 2013 The paper seeks to provide an introduction to, and review of, the history of concepts of the plant community. Eighteenth-century naturalists recognised that vegetation was distributed geographically and that different species of plants and animals were ...
Nicolson, M.
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Land-use history and habitat age are considered highly important regarding the species composition and conservation value of, e.g., grasslands and forests.
Josef Simmel +2 more
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