Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understory vegetation of temperate forests
Prepared by Marina Roth, Hans-Gerhard Michiels, Heike Puhlmann, Carina Sucker & Markus Hauck
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Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process
By Antonella Ferraina, Cecilia D. Molina, Noemí Mazía, Gervasio Piñeiro, Isabel Miranda & Enrique José Chaneton
Woody-plant invasion in grasslands is a global problem widely reported during the last decade.…
Continue readingFire-triggered flowering is the dominant post-fire strategy in a tropical savanna
Heloiza L. Zirondi, Mark K. J. Ooi & Alessandra Fidelis
In many vegetation types across the globe where fire is present, plants have adaptations to the fire regime to survive and reproduce.…
Continue readingFrost-driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics
Prepared by Manfred Finckh, Janika Wendefeuer & Paulina Meller
A rapid method to quantify small-scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys
Prepared by Liam Butler & Roy Sanderson
The standard vegetation quadrat is probably the most common method to survey plant communities, and thousands of scientific papers have been published in which some field data was collected via quadrats.…
Continue readingBeyond species richness and community composition: using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest
Prepared by Rachel Standish, Aaron Gove, Andrew Grigg and Matthew Daws
Ecological restoration has matured as a science and a practice since its inception in the 1980s.…
Continue readingEnjoying tranquility – Development of ground vegetation after cessation of management in forests on loamy soils in Flanders (Belgium)
Prepared by Kris Vandekerkhove, Arno Thomaes, Luc De Keersmaeker, Peter Van de Kerckhove, Thierry Onkelinx, Hans Van Calster & Kris Verheyen
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
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.…
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