Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland
Prepared by Sofía Campana & Laura Yahdjian
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Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran
Prepared by Amir Talebi, Farideh Attar, Alireza Naqinezhad, Iwona Dembicz & Jürgen Dengler
More than half of the Iranian plateau is covered by mountains, of which the highest point reaches more than 5000 m a.s.l.…
Continue readingPredictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)
Prepared by Maged M. Abutaha, Ahmed A. El-Khouly, Norbert Jürgens & Jens Oldeland
Gebel Elba, the core of the largest national park in Egypt (Gebel Elba National Park), is situated in the southeast corner of Egypt, nearly 15 km west of the Red Sea coast.…
Continue readingTogether we stand, divided we fall: Effects of livestock grazing on vegetation patches in a desert community
Prepared by Yamila Ivón Pelliza, Anahi Rocío Fernandez, Hugo Saiz & Mariana Tadey
Dryland vegetation structure and ecosystem functioning are mainly driven by the interactions among plant species.…
Continue readingMowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species
Prepared by Yves P. Klinger, Rolf Lutz Eckstein, Wiebke Hansen, Till Kleinebecker, Annette Otte & Kristin Ludewig
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation
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
Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions
By Huili Li, Jiayu Guo, Lei Ye, Heng Gui, Kevin David Hyde, Jianchu Xu & Peter Edward Mortimer
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands
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
Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina
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
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine-learning algorithms
Prepared by Weixue Luo, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao & Jingjing Liang
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.…
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