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- Library Collection RecordAbstract The knowledge of relative performance of plants across environmental gradients is critical for their effective management and for understanding future range expansion. Pennisetum setaceum is…Publication Date 2014
- Alien grass
- Ecological invasions
- competition
- disturbance
- Seedling translocation
- Transplant experiment
- Alien invasive species
- management
- grasslands
- savanna
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe link between species' functional traits and competitive abilities has been described as a major factor structuring plant communities. However, two diverging hypotheses have been proposed to…Publication Date 2014
- functional trait
- community ecology
- grasses
- competition
- ecosystem ecology
- soil moisture
- soil nutrients
- root ecology
- plant competition
- root length density
- root phosphorus use efficiency
- specific root length
- trait hierarchy
- trait similarity
- France
- Library Collection RecordThe well-described pattern of a few common and many rare species in plant communities (dominance-diversity curves) also has been documented within populations of dominant plant species. Understanding…Publication Date 2014
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- community dynamics
- genotypes
- competition
- Andropogon gerardii
- competition
- genotype richness
- grassland
- intergenotypic competition
- intragenotypic competition
- light
- neighborhood effects
- nitrogen
- water
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSmoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that…Publication Date 2014
- modelling
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- climate change
- smoke transport
- feedbacks
- coupled models
- Library Collection RecordFacilitation among species may promote non-native plant invasions through alteration of environmental conditions, enemies or mutualists. However, the role of non-trophic indirect facilitation in…Publication Date 2014
- disturbance
- invasion ecology
- Invasional meltdown
- plant invasion
- positive interactions
- resource availability
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- Bloomington
- Indiana
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSeed dispersal is thought to be unpredictable and outside a plant's control. But directed seed dispersal by mutualistic birds can increase probabilities of germination and survival by the non-…Publication Date 2014
- abiotic stress
- dispersal in time
- facilitation
- frugivory
- plant demography
- plant neighbourhoods
- plant-plant interactions
- risk spreading
- Desert Grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- Arizona
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSubantarctic islands form ideal sentinels to climate change. These islands support terrestrial and marine ecosystems that are relatively simple and extremely sensitive to perturbations.1 They provide…Publication Date 2014
- Prince Edward Islands
- Subantarctic Front
- Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- climate change
- oceanography
- ecosystem ecology
- Prince Edward Islands
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Savannas are characterized by sparsely distributed woody species within a continuous herbaceous cover, composed mainly by grasses and small eudicot herbs. This vegetation structure is…Publication Date 2014
- cerrado
- Growth forms
- Herbaceous layer
- niche partitioning
- Resource Use
- water uptake
- Woody layer
- savanna
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- soil moisture
- rainfall
- Distrito Federal
- Brazil
- Library Collection RecordSavannah ecosystems are important carbon stocks on the Earth, and their quantification is crucial for understanding the global impact of climate and land-use changes in savannahs. The estimation of…Publication Date 2014
- allometry
- biomass estimations
- Kalahari
- savannah
- ecosystem ecology
- climate change
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAllelopathy has traditionally been viewed as a phytotoxic disruption of recipient plant metabolism, and allelopathic effects are generally strongest on species lacking historic exposure to particular…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- allelopathy
- autotoxicity
- Centaurea maculosa
- competition avoidance strategy
- historic interactions
- intraspecific recognition
- novel weapons hypothesis
- plant population and community dynamics
- spatiotemporal biodiversity
- sympatric species recognition
- germination
- United States
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordFew assessments of the effects of fire and grazing on the herbaceous components of savannas have been reported for Africa. In the Kruger National Park, South Africa, range condition was monitored at…Publication Date 2014
- fire ecology
- grazing
- management
- savanna
- game
- rangeland condition
- rainfall gradient
- grasses
- forage
- ecosystem ecology
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPlants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits is…Publication Date 2014
- community assembly
- curse of dimensionality
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- ecosystem processes
- intrinsic dimension
- isomap
- nonlinear data reduction
- plant spectrums
- plant strategies
- plant traits
- ecosystem ecology
- Arizona
- California
- USA
- Sheffield
- United Kingdom
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment has been recognised in southern Africa since the late nineteenth century. Our review of 23 studies showed that the rate of woody cover change has ranged from ?0.131 to 1.275% y?1.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- grasses
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPopulations of the common perennial herb Plantago lanceolata L. have been exposed to nearly two decades of summer drought at the Buxton Climate Change Experiment (BCCIL), a controlled manipulation of…Publication Date 2014
- adaptation
- climate change
- drought
- functional traits
- grassland
- plant population and community dynamics
- Plantago lanceolata
- soils
- genetics
- ecosystem ecology
- northern England
- Library Collection RecordAccording to the insurance hypothesis, more diverse plant communities are more likely to be resistant to drought. Whilst many experiments have been carried out to determine the effects of plant…Publication Date 2013
- biomass-dependent hypothesis
- drought
- ecosystem stability
- global change
- insurance hypothesis
- isotopes
- plant hierarchy
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation
- ecosystem ecology
- grassland
- Library Collection RecordLarge herbivores are key drivers of nutrient cycling in ecosystems worldwide, and hence they have an important influence on the productivity and species composition in plant communities. Classical…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- trampling
- soil compaction
- soil texture
- Soil Type
- Water logging
- nutrient cycling
- Decomposition
- Excreta (dung and urine)
- Soil Aeration
- herbivores
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- browsiing
- soils nutrients
- Library Collection RecordThe development of models of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF) has advanced rapidly over the last 20 years, incorporating insights gained through extensive…Publication Date 2013
- modelling
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- Ecosystem function
- species richness
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordPlant-soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics, the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and how terrestrial ecosystems respond to…Publication Date 2013
- vegetation dynamics
- plant-soil interactions
- Alien invasive species
- community dynamics
- succesion
- climate change
- biodiversity
- restoration
- ecosystem services
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection RecordDespite a good understanding on how dispersal in space structures plant communities in fragmented landscapes, we know little about dispersal in time. Empirical evidence on temporal dispersal - the…Publication Date 2013
- grasslands
- seed banks
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- Diversity partitioning
- Historical ecology
- seed bank
- Semi-natural grassland
- species diversity
- Storage effect
- Lake Mälaren
- central Sweden
- Library Collection RecordQuestions What are the main drivers of variation in beta-diversity for Bromus erectus semi-natural dry grasslands of habitat 6210(*) at different scales? How should environmental variables and…Publication Date 2013
- biogeography
- Calcareous dry grasslands
- Conservation prioritization
- Habitat 6210(*)
- Habitats Directive
- Multiple regression on distance matrices
- Variation partitioning
- grasslands
- species diversity
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- Central Italy
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How do fragment-level characteristics affect remnant grassland functioning in a highly transformed landscape? Are artificial neural networks (ANNs) a better statistical tool to model…Publication Date 2013
- Enhanced vegetation index
- fragmentation
- Landscape structure
- MODIS data
- neural networks
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- Tall-tussock grassland
- grassland
- Ecosystem function
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- soils
- Tandilia Range
- Southern Pampa
- Buenos Aires Province
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Increasingly biologists and ecologists are becoming aware of the vital importance of soil to processes observed aboveground and are incorporating soil analyses into their research. Because…Publication Date 2013
- Soil Sampling
- texture
- Sterilization
- Greenhouse
- nitrogen
- Soil core
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection RecordMany studies have examined positive feedbacks between invasive plant traits and nutrient cycling, but few have investigated whether feedbacks arise from introduction of pre-adapted species or from…Publication Date 2013
- C:N ratio
- competition
- Genotypic diversity
- Litter:biomass ratio
- Phalaris arundinacea
- wetlands
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Bohemia
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordThe shifting baseline syndrome suggests that our perceptions of previous conditions may change over time as ecosystems degrade. Although most discussion of the topic relates to decreasing species…Publication Date 2013
- generalist
- generational amnesia
- invasive species
- predator extirpation
- reference conditions
- shifting baseline syndrome
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- Library Collection RecordThe nutrition of animal consumers is an important regulator of ecological processes due to its effects on their physiology, life-history and behaviour. Understanding the ecological effects of poor…Publication Date 2013
- Ecological stoichiometry
- lipid profiling
- metabolism
- nutrient-stress
- nutrition
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
- ecosystem ecology
- nutrition
- community ecology
- Library Collection RecordSavannahs are widespread vegetation type in Sudanian zone of Africa. As protected areas are often assumed to be the best way to conserve biodiversity, we assessed the effectiveness of the Pendjari…Publication Date 2013
- conservation
- diversity
- savannah
- Structure
- Woody Species
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe restoration of disturbed ecosystems is challenging and often unsuccessful, particularly when non-native plants are abundant. Ecosystem restoration may be hindered by the effects of non-native…Publication Date 2013
- restoration ecology
- Algae
- biological soil crusts
- disturbance
- Exotic
- Florida scrub
- fungi
- Melinis repens
- nitrogen
- Paspalum notatum
- pasture
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- Florida
- USA
- Library Collection RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe present study assessed the effects of deferred grazing management on rangeland condition using aboveground biomass, vegetation cover and species composition as indicators of range condition. The…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- vegetation
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- rangeland
- biomass
- grazing management
- ngitili
- species diversity
- vegetation cover
- Shinyanga
- Meatu districts
- Tanzania
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Dominance of the widespread fire-altering invasive grass, Bromus tectorum, is markedly reduced at upper elevations in the Great Basin Desert. Here, we evaluated whether increased…Publication Date 2013
- cheatgrass
- downy brome
- Great Basin Desert
- invasive species
- nitrogen deposition
- sagebrush steppe
- Sierra Nevada
- indigenous encroaching species
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- species richness
- Sierra Nevada
- CA
- US
- Library Collection RecordNon-random spatial patterns are a common feature of plant communities. However, the mechanisms leading to their formation remain unknown. The clonal dispersal ability of a species, that is, the…Publication Date 2013
- clonal plants
- competitive neighbourhood characteristics
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- O-ring statistics
- phalanx vs. guerilla strategy
- spatial structure
- species interaction
- grassland
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- France
- Library Collection RecordEuclea divinorum, a fast establishing, unpalatable, and fire resistant bush is considered an invasive species in some parts of its range. In Ol Pejeta Conservancy (OPC), Kenya, E. divinorum bushes…Publication Date 2013
- Acacia drepanolobium
- encroachment
- Euclea divinorum
- grassland
- invasion
- seedlings
- indigenous encroaching species
- grasslands
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLarge mammalian herbivores are well recognized to play important roles in regulating woody cover and biomass in savannas, but the extent to which browsing ungulates are capable of regulating woody…Publication Date 2013
- browsing
- dik-dik
- elephant
- mortality
- plant-herbivore interactions
- recruitment
- shrub encroachment
- top-down control
- ecosystem ecology
- savanna
- biomass
- Plant Productivity
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of soil erosion on the nutrient dynamics in alpine grassland soils is still an essential problem. Selecting a grass-covered hillslope in eastern Tibet Plateau, the cesium-137 (137Cs)…Publication Date 2013
- soils
- erosion
- organic carbon
- grasslands
- soil nutirents
- ecosystem ecology
- nutrient dynamics
- Tibet
- Library Collection RecordThere has been much debate on the impact of large herbivores on biodiversity, especially given that large mammals are becoming locally extinct in many places. The use of evolutionary information on…Publication Date 2013
- herbivores
- species diversity
- community structure
- savanna
- ecosystem ecology
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- extinction
- functional diversity
- phylogenetics
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Woody plant encroachment is a common consequence of disturbance in savannas. Grazers and browsers interfere with sapling establishment dynamics by direct consumption of plant tissue,…Publication Date 2013
- Acacia
- browsing
- grazing
- mesic savanna
- tree sapling biomass
- woody plant encroachment
- indigenous encroaching species
- savanna
- soil nutrients
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordVariation in functional community composition is expected to influence the extent of exotic species invasions. Yet, whether resident functional groups control invasion through their relative biomass…Publication Date 2013
- biodiversity
- biotic resistance
- invasion ecology
- mass ratio hypothesis
- phenological niches
- rank abundance
- removal experiment
- subadditive effect
- grasslands
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- management
- Flooding Pampa grassland
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordWith ever-increasing human pressure on ecosystems, it is critically important to predict how ecosystem functions will respond to such human-induced perturbations. We define perturbations as either…Publication Date 2013
- biodiversity
- ecological thresholds
- environment
- evolution
- interaction network
- perturbation
- species traits
- stability
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- Library Collection RecordDioecious plants frequently face sex-related resource allocation trade-offs. Differential traits of male and female plants can have important consequences that influence their direct and indirect…Publication Date 2013
- arid ecosystems
- dioecy
- life-history traits
- O-ring statistics
- plant-herbivore interactions
- plant-plant interactions
- sex ratio
- Sexual dimorphism
- spatial pattern
- trade-offs
- grasslands
- grazing
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Patagonian steppe
- south-western Chubut
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordThe mechanisms driving nonrandom assembly patterns in plant communities have long been of interest in ecological research. Competing ecological theories predict that coexisting species may either be…Publication Date 2013
- community assembly
- competition
- Complementarity
- disturbance
- environmental filtering
- limiting similarity
- spatial scales
- plant community analysis
- ecosystem ecology
- Sweden
- Library Collection RecordAnthropogenic acid deposition–induced soil acidification is one of the major threats to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services. Few studies, however, have explored in detail how above-…Publication Date 2013
- base mineral cations
- nitrogen cycling
- plant species richness
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- productivity
- semi-arid steppe
- soil aluminium ions
- soil microbial organisms
- soil nematodes
- structural equation modelling
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- Ecosystem function
- soils
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordSoil is a complex ecosystem comprised of several and mutually interacting components, both abiotic (organomineral associations) and biotic (microbial and pedofaunal populations and plants), where a…Publication Date 2013
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- soil atmosphere
- soil microbial activity
- Soil Condition
- soil carbon dioxide
- soil fertility
- management
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of exotic grasses into savannas is occurring globally. Despite threats to ecosystem processes and biodiversity, few studies have investigated factors that facilitate invasion success. *…Publication Date 2013
- cattle grazing
- exotic grass
- facilitation
- grass-fire cycle
- savanna
- wind dispersal
- grazing
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- grasses
- fire ecology
- grazing
- soils
- rainfall
- drought
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Several multi-year biodiversity experiments have shown positive species richness-productivity relationships which strengthen over time, but the mechanisms which control productivity are not…Publication Date 2013
- biomass production
- Community mean traits
- environmental filtering
- functional diversity
- niche differentiation
- Species identity
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- community analysis
- vegetation dynamics
- species richness
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Whether or not niche conservatism is common is widely debated. Despite this uncertainty, closely related species are often assumed to be ecologically similar. This principle has led to the…Publication Date 2013
- Phylogenetic community ecology
- phylogenetic signal
- Phylogenetic niche conservatism
- Belowground ecology
- grazing
- mycorrhizae
- conservation
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- soils
- Kinsella
- Alberta
- Canada
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Quantifying the association of plant functional traits to environmental gradients is a promising approach for understanding and projecting community responses to land use and climatic…Publication Date 2013
- connectivity
- Drought-stress
- Habitat filtering
- limiting similarity
- Null models
- plant height
- Seed mass
- Seed number
- Specific leaf area (SLA)
- plant functional traits
- land use
- climate
- ecosystem ecology
- drought
- plant production
- Southern Judean Lowlands
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Long-term palaeoecological records are needed to test ecological hypotheses involving time, as short-term observations are of insufficient duration to capture natural variability. In this…Publication Date 2013
- Long-term ecology
- Non-analogue communities
- community stability
- Climate–vegetation disequilibrium
- Origin of biodiversity
- biodiversity conservation
- palaeobotany
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- climate change
- human impact
- conservation
- fire
- pollen
- Venezuelan Gran Sabana region
- northern South America
- Library Collection RecordReserve site selection models can be enhanced by including habitat conditions that populations need for food, shelter, and reproduction. We present a new population protection function that…Publication Date 2013
- Reserve design
- Life history-based protection
- Spatial optimization
- 0-1 Programming
- conservation
- planning
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- Lopez Island
- United States
- Library Collection RecordUbiquitous linear developments, such as dirt tracks and firebreaks, termed ‘soft’ linear developments (SLD), represent weaker landscape modifications than paved roads and highways but still could…Publication Date 2013
- biodiversity
- connectivity
- dirt tracks
- endozoochory
- firebreaks
- fragmentation
- human structures
- linear developments
- Mediterranean scrubland
- reforestation
- seeds
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordDisturbances (pulse, press and ramp) constitute a major force influencing, even determining, the structure and functions of ecological components – populations, communities and ecosystems. The…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- degradation
- disturbance
- ecological restoration
- resilience
- resistance
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology