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- Library Collection RecordQuestions Is it possible to restore a target herbaceous plant community on ex-arable land by sowing foundation species? What is the impact of sheep grazing on the restoration of this ecosystem? How…Publication Date 2012
- ex-arable fields
- mediterranean grasslands
- native species
- Nurse species
- sheep grazing
- steppe
- France
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How does sowing a regional seed mix compare with a commercial grass mix and natural regeneration for re-creating species-rich hay meadow vegetation? What is the trajectory of vegetation…Publication Date 2012
- Ancient hay meadows
- colonization
- Field experiment
- grassland restoration
- natural regeneration
- Sown strips
- Target vegetation
- White Carpathian Mountains
- BÃlé Karpaty
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordQuestion Is a high-resolution remote-sensing system based on a radio-controlled helicopter (the ‘Falcon-PARS system’) an effective tool to obtain images that can be used to identify herbaceous…Publication Date 2012
- High positioning accuracy
- Non-destructive survey
- Portable remote-sensing system
- Radio-controlled helicopter
- wetland
- Japan
- Library Collection Record
- Weeds
- invasive species
- education
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordQuestion Low quantities of soil nutrients often restrict plant establishment and growth in arid lands and have been partially attributed to the scarcity of organic matter in these ecosystems. Refuse…Publication Date 2012
- Acromyrmex lobicornis
- facilitation
- germination
- grazing
- seedling vigour
- soil nutrients
- Monte Desert
- Neuquén Province
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Biomass is an important ecological property, but its measurement is destructive and time-consuming and therefore generally missing for historical vegetation plots. Here we propose and test…Publication Date 2012
- Ellenberg indicator values
- plant cover
- plant height
- productivity
- species richness–productivity relationship
- Czech Republic
- western Slovakia
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How does horse or sheep grazing affect species richness, diversity and functional composition of plant communities in sub-Mediterranean grasslands? What are the implications of grazing…Publication Date 2012
- Dominant species control
- Functional plant traits
- Grazing avoidance
- grazing management
- grazing tolerance
- Plant diversity conservation
- grazing
- sheep
- horses
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- diversity
- Italy
- Library Collection RecordMost results of restoration efforts are species-specific and/or site-specific and therefore are not general enough to be easily applied to other species and other sites. Our research addresses the…Publication Date 2012
- British Columbia
- Bunchgrass prairies
- grasslands
- modelling
- Oregon
- Pacific Northwest
- predictive models
- prairies
- Washington
- Oregon
- Washington
- USA
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Library Collection RecordQuestion Does the below-ground bud bank mediate response to drought in restored grasslands? Location Platte River Valley region of south-central Nebraska, USA. Methods We imposed severe drought for…Publication Date 2012
- below-ground
- climate change
- community
- forb
- grass
- Lag
- meristem
- Plant
- prairie
- Rainfall manipulation
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- drought
- Nebraska
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for plant species richness? The species–area…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- Canonical hypothesis
- macroecology
- Oligo- to mesotrophic grassland
- Paradox of the Plankton
- Power function
- Rooted presence
- Scale dependence
- Shoot presence
- Spatial grain
- Spatial scale
- Species-area relation
- Tropical rain forest
- World flora
- Library Collection RecordIntensive grazing leads to land degradation and desertification of grassland ecosystems followed by serious environmental and social problems. The Xilingol steppe grassland in Inner Mongolia, China,…Publication Date 2012
- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer data
- dust emission and deposition
- soil-adjusted vegetation index
- semiarid grassland
- wind erosion
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordQuantifying the vegetation heterogeneity in pastures is important to understand the behavior and performance of grazing animals. In this study, we developed a technique for mapping spatial…Publication Date 2012
- Field map
- herbage mass
- image processing
- Plant Species
- spectral analysis
- Hokkaido
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordSite-specific soil moisture and groundwater levels are key input parameters for ecological modeling. Obtaining such information in a comprehensive manner is difficult for large regions. We studied a…Publication Date 2012
- Ellenberg indicator values
- groundwater table
- satellite data
- soil moisture
- Brandenburg
- Germany
- Library Collection Record
25965 BLM Learning Landscapes
Abstract not available- wildlife management
- wildlife
- wildfires
- wild plants
- geology
- fires
- fire ecology
- environmental management
- environment
- educational resources
- education
- ecosystems
- ecology
- Library Collection RecordIn productive agricultural grasslands the relative importance of species identity, species richness and functional group composition for production and yield stability is not clear. We, therefore,…Publication Date 2012
- diversity
- forbs
- grasses
- legume
- Species identity
- Library Collection RecordTo evaluate the nationwide status of grasslands and their soil organic carbon stocks in Japan, we used 1990 as a base year and estimated: (i) the area and the spatial distribution of grasslands, and…Publication Date 2012
- grassland
- mapping
- soil organic carbon
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordCattle activities may affect pasture biodiversity and productivity. This study investigated the effects of type and size of gaps simulating cattle activities on the recovery and similarity of…Publication Date 2012
- gap size
- grazing
- trampling
- Library Collection RecordMultiple predators often have effects on their common prey populations that cannot be predicted by summing the effects of each predator at a time. When predators forage on the same vegetation…Publication Date 2012
- cerrado vegetation
- intraguild interactions
- multiple predator effects
- top-down effect
- Minas Gerais
- Brazil
- Library Collection RecordThis article describes a place and people undergoing rapid transition using some of the preliminary findings from two years of ongoing ethnographic field work. Through exploring what ethnographic…Publication Date 2012
- shale gas development
- social impacts
- collective trauma
- Pennsylvania
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: In species response modelling, can a hierarchical logistic regression framework compete against GAM in terms of statistical inference? Are bimodal shapes useful to model species responses…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- modelling
- ecosystem analysis
- Bioindication
- environmental gradient
- Hierarchical modelling
- logistic regression
- Realized niche
- Species optimum
- species turnover
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordDue to the high altitude of over 4000 m, scattered inhabitation, and prevalent pastoral system, Tibet (Xizang Autonomous Region) is regarded as a unique geographic zone, possessing the most abundant…Publication Date 2012
- solar energy
- carbon effect
- vegetation effect
- nitrogen effect
- reduction of carbon emissions
- reduction of deforestation
- reduction of nitrogen loss
- Tibet
- China
- Library Collection RecordThis article deals with the development of irrigated agriculture in the Upper Indus Basin of Central Ladakh in Northern India. Artificial irrigation, fed by meltwater from glaciers and snow cover,…Publication Date 2012
- Irrigation systems
- land use change
- socio-hydrology
- high mountains
- Ladakh
- Trans-Himalaya
- India
- India
- Library Collection RecordInvestigating how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)-plant interactions vary with edaphic conditions provides an opportunity to test the context-dependency of interspecific interactions. The…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordTo gain insight into the ecological processes driving community reassembly in disturbed ecosystems, we assessed the phylogenetic dispersion of early- and late-successional tree species occurring in…Publication Date 2012
- community assembly
- Costa Rica
- life-history stages of plants
- mortality
- phylogenetic structure
- recruitment
- succession
- vegetation dynamics
- Costa Rica
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available
- planning
- endangered species
- Library Collection RecordSoil heterotrophic respiration and nutrient mineralization are strongly affected by environmental conditions, in particular by moisture fluctuations triggered by rainfall events. When soil moisture…Publication Date 2012
- bacteria
- fungi
- heterotrophic respiration–soil moisture relations
- soil respiration
- solute diffusion
- water potential
- water stress
- Library Collection RecordThe world's grassland ecosystems are shaped in part by a key functional group of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals. Through herbivory and ecosystem engineering they create distinctive and…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of declining plant biodiversity on ecosystem processes are well studied, with most investigations examining the role of species richness declines rather than declines of species abundance…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordThere is much concern that the functioning of ecosystems will be affected by human-induced changes in biodiversity, of which land-use change is the most important driver. However, changes in…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- carbon sequestration
- ecosystem services
- functional diversity
- grasslands
- grazing intensity
- litter decomposition
- long-term experiment
- primary production
- resource availability
- structural equation modeling
- Mackenzie Basin
- South Island
- New Zealand
- Library Collection RecordEcosystem stability in variable environments depends on the diversity of form and function of the constituent species. Species phenotypes and ecologies are the product of evolution, and the…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity–ecosystem function
- Cedar Creek
- ecophylogenetics
- ecosystem reliability
- niche partitioning
- phylogenetic complementarity
- Minnesota
- USA
- Library Collection RecordPhylogenetic diversity-area curves are analogous to species-area curves and quantify the relationship between the phylogenetic diversity of species assemblages and the area over which assemblages are…Publication Date 2012
- Anolis
- elevation
- environmental gradient
- island biogeography
- phylogenetic community structure
- phylogeny
- Random Placement
- Spatial scale
- species area relationship
- species richness
- species sorting
- Mt. Hood
- Oregon
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere may double during this century. Plant responses to such an increase depend strongly on their nitrogen status, but the reasons have been uncertain.…Publication Date 2012
- ecology
- C3
- C4
- climate change
- CO2 acclimation
- Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
- nitrogen
- plant distributions
- grasslands
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- Library Collection RecordPatterns in biodiversity and species coexistence are the result of multiple interacting processes including evolutionary history, trait variation, species interactions, dispersal, environmental…Publication Date 2012
- community phylogenetics
- comparative biology
- Gradient analysis
- metacommunity
- multi-scale analyses
- Multivariate analyses
- spatial analysis
- stochastic simulation
- trait-based community assembly
- Library Collection RecordFire is a major force driving the evolution of plants and the structure and function of ecosystems globally. It thus likely operates as an important environmental filter that selects for species that…Publication Date 2012
- Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
- climatic perturbation
- community-weighted means
- depth of turnover
- fire frequency
- functional traits
- oak savanna
- Phylogenetic niche conservatism
- phylogeny
- Minnesota
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of exotic species invasions on biodiversity vary with spatial scale, and documentation of local-scale changes in biodiversity following invasion is generally lacking. Coupling long-term…Publication Date 2012
- grasslands
- community assembly
- competition
- exotic species
- invasion
- livestock grazing
- propagule limitation
- recruitment limitation
- Alien invasive species
- biodiversity
- community ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- monitoring
- California
- USA
- Library Collection RecordWhat does this manual do? The manual aids users in establishing their own monitoring program in grasslands, shrublands, and grass/shrub mixes. It is not designed for use in measuring riparian or…Publication Date 2013
- range management
- grazing management
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThe demand for knowledge about the tree of life is steadily rising in ecology and other fields, but bioinformatic resources designed to meet these needs remain poorly developed. Ecologists pursuing…Publication Date 2012
- community phylogenetics
- Phylografter
- Phylomatic
- supermatrix
- supertree
- Library Collection RecordThe intentional introduction of specialist insect herbivores for biological control of exotic weeds provides ideal but understudied systems for evaluating important ecological concepts related to top…Publication Date 2012
- biological control
- Centaurea maculosa
- Centaurea stoebe
- compensation
- context dependence
- Cyphocleonus achates
- exotic plant
- herbivory
- indirect effects
- Pseudoroegneria spicata
- spotted knapweed
- top-down control
- Missoula
- Montana
- USA
- Library Collection RecordDemographic transition matrices are among the most commonly applied population models for both basic and applied ecological research. The relatively simple framework of these models and simple,…Publication Date 2012
- conservation
- Demographic matrix models
- ecological forecasting
- Extinction Risk
- matrix population models
- Plant population dynamics
- population growth rate
- Library Collection RecordVegetation at the aquatic-terrestrial interface can alter landscape features through its growth and interactions with sediment and fluids. Even similar species may impart different effects due to…Publication Date 2012
- Ammophila arenaria
- Ammophila breviligulata
- ecomorphology
- ecosystem engineer
- Ecosystem service
- Elymus mollis
- foredune
- Geomorphology
- invasive species
- sediment deposition
- sediment transport
- wind tunnel
- Oregon
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe relationship between plant nutrient content and insect herbivore populations and community structure has long interested ecologists. Insect herbivores require multiple nutrients, but ecologists…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordEffects of anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition and the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to store carbon (C) depend in part on the amount of N retained in the system and its partitioning among…Publication Date 2012
- atmospheric nitrogen deposition
- carbon storage
- data synthesis
- meta-analysis
- nitrogen retention and loss
- stable isotopes
- Library Collection RecordWoody encroachment is a widespread and acute phenomenon affecting grasslands and savannas worldwide. We performed a meta-analysis of 29 studies from 13 different grassland/savanna communities in…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem structure
- global change
- primary productivity
- productivity–richness relationship
- shrub encroachment
- species richness
- tree encroachment
- tree–grass coexistence
- woody release
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe argument that the threat posed by introduced species is overblown is often buttressed by the observation that native species sometimes also become invasive. An examination of the literature on…Publication Date 2012
- disturbance
- fire suppression
- introduced species
- invasion
- native invader
- nonnative
- succession
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSpecies interactions affect plant diversity through the net effects of competition and facilitation, with the latter more prevalent in physically stressful environments when plant cover ameliorates…Publication Date 2012
- community assembly
- competition
- diversity
- dominance
- facilitation
- invasion
- prairies
- stress gradient hypothesis
- Library Collection RecordIn the face of unprecedented loss of biodiversity, cross-taxon correlates have been proposed as a means of obtaining quantitative estimates of biodiversity for identifying habitats of important…Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1970
- monitoring
- methodology
- vegetation
- Utah
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordUncertainty about the effects of warming and grazing on soil nitrogen (N) availability, species composition, and aboveground net primary production (ANPP) limits our ability to predict how global…Publication Date 2012
- alpine meadow
- global warming
- herbivore
- N addition
- Plant functional group
- primary production
- species diversity
- Tibetan Plateau
- Tibet
- China
- Library Collection RecordRecent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments in temperate grasslands have shown that productivity positively correlates with plant species richness. Resource partitioning (in particular,…Publication Date 2012
- 15N
- biodiversity–ecosystem functioning
- niche
- nitrogen
- proportional
- similarity
- resource partitioning
- rooting depth
- species richness
- temperate grassland
- Zurich
- Switzerland
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