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Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Yves P. Klinger, Rolf Lutz Eckstein, Wiebke Hansen, Till Kleinebecker, Annette Otte & Kristin Ludewig

Migratory sheep grazing in the study area, the nature reserve “Lange Rhön”. Dung samples were collected weekly over a three month period (July to September).

Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gunnar Keppel, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Stephen A. Smith, Masha T. van der Sande, Brody Sandel, Sam C. Levin, Holger Kreft & Tiffany M. Knight

Key aspects of biodiversity and the major global databases with relevant information. (Figure 1 from the published paper.)

Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Huili Li, Jiayu Guo, Lei Ye, Heng Gui, Kevin David Hyde, Jianchu Xu & Peter Edward Mortimer

From left to right: Samantha C. Karunarathna, Jiayu Guo, Huili Li & Lei Ye with *Macrolepiota procera* at Mengsong Village, Xishuangbanna Prefecture in 2012.

Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Viktoria Wagner, Martin Večeřa, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Jan Pergl, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Petr Pyšek, Emiliano Agrillo, Idoia Biurrun, Juan Antonio Campos, Jörg Ewald, Federico Fernández-González, Ute Jandt, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Urban Šilc, Željko Škvorc, Kiril Vassilev, Thomas Wohlgemuth & Milan Chytrý

*Trachycarpus fortunei* invasion in a mesic temperate deciduous woodland with *Tilia cordata*, *Fraxinus excelsior*, *Acer platanoides*, *Acer pseudoplatanus*, *Corylus avellana*, and *Robinia pseudoacacia* in Switzerland.

Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Sebastián R. Zeballos, Marcelo R. Cabido, Juan J. Cantero, Alicia T.R. Acosta, M. Virginia Palchetti, Juan Argañaraz, Paula I. Marcora1, Paula A. Tecco, Ana Ferreras, Guillermo Funes, Victoria M. Vaieretti, Georgina Conti & Melisa A. Giorgis

Open palm (*Trithrinax campestris*) savanna with a shrubby understory dominated by the thorny *Vachellia caven* on rocky and sandy soils in western Córdoba Province, central Argentina.

Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine-learning algorithms

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Weixue Luo, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao & Jingjing Liang

Mixed temperate coniferous and broad-leaved forest in northeastern China. Photo credit: Xiuhai Zhao.

Large-scale biodiversity patterns have been a focus of ecological studies over the past decades, but it remains unclear which anthropogenic and environmental factors have the strongest impact on tree diversity patterns, especially in temperate forest ecosystems of East Asia.…

Neophyte invasions in European grasslands

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Irena Axmanová, Veronika Kalusová, Jiří Danihelka, Jürgen Dengler, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Martin Večeřa, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Steffen Boch, Timo Conradi, Rosario G. Gavilán, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ilona Knollová, Anna Kuzemko, Jonathan Lenoir, Artem Leostrin, Jana Medvecká, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Dragica Obratov-Petkovic, Jens-Christian Svenning, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Kiril Vassilev & Milan Chytrý

Percentage proportion of invaded plots (records with at least one alien plant) calculated per 50 km × 50 km grid cells.

Plant functional traits involved in the assembly of canopy-recruit interactions

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Antonio J. Perea, Jose L. Garrido & Julio M. Alcántara

Mixed Pine-Oak forest of “Sierra Sur de Jaén” (the sampling site), Jaén, Spain. Photo credit: Antonio J. Perea.

Interactions between established individuals and recruiting plants (canopy-recruit interactions) are key drivers of plant community dynamics.…

The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin

Posted on March 26, 2021April 12, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Luigi Cao Pinna, Irena Axmanová, Milan Chytrý, Marco Malavasi, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Silvia Giulio, Fabio Attorre, Erwin Bergmeier, Idoia Biurrun, Juan Antonio Campos, Xavier Font, Filip Küzmič, Flavia Landucci, Corrado Marcenò, Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo & Marta Carboni

The flow of alien plants to Mediterranean Europe.

Syntaxonomy and biogeography of the Irano-Turanian mires and springs

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Alireza Naqinezhad, Arkadiusz Nowak, Sebastian Świerszcz, Adel Jalili, Asghar Kamrani, Bryan D. Wheeler, Sue C. Shaw, Farideh Attar, Marcin Nobis, Sylwia Nowak & Michal Hájek

A fen site in the Havir area of the Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran. Photo credit: Alireza Naqinezhad

The vegetation of the dry/semi-dry Irano-Turanian phytogeographical region has been documented in numerous publications, but little is known about mountainous wetlands (mires and springs) in this region.…