Caribou on the cover of this issue relates to the paper by Kathy Lewis et al.: Fire and lichen dynamics in the Taiga Shield of the Northwest Territories and implications for barren-ground caribou winter forage.
Prepared by Kathrin Litza & Martin Diekmann
Hedgerows are narrow strips of wooded habitats that are known to provide refuge habitat for forest species, such as herbaceous forest plants, in agricultural landscapes.…
Continue readingThe cover of this new issue shows the threatened caatinga biome in Brazil – see the paper Schulz et al. “Grazing reduces plant species diversity of caatinga dry forests in northeastern Brazil“.
Post provided by Kun Song, Ying-Ji Pan & Yi-Chong Cui
Prepared by Sarah H. Watts, Anna Griffith & Lindsay Mackinlay
In 2000, an electric deer fence was erected around 180 ha at Creag an Lochain in the Ben Lawers Natural Nature Reserve, Scotland.…
Continue readingPrepared by Nicola Alessi, Jakub Tešitel, Stefan Zerbe, Francesco Spada, Emiliano Agrillo & Camilla Wellstein
Prepared by Dirk Hattermann, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Annette Otte & Rolf Lutz Eckstein
Since plants do not move, they have to adapt to changing environmental conditions on the spot or disperse their seeds by means of wind, water or animals to escape unfavourable conditions.…
Continue readingPrepared by Megan J. McNellie, Josh Dorrough and Ian Oliver
Prepared by Jian-Guo Chen, Xiao-Fang He, Song-Wei Wang, Yang Yang & Hang Sun
