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- Library Collection RecordNitrous oxide (N2O) flux in the semi-arid Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel. grassland in Inner Mongolia, China was measured for two years (from January 2005 to December 2006) with the enclosed chamber…Publication Date 2012
- grassland
- N2O fluxes
- ecosystem
- Soil.
- inner Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordClimates are changing worldwide at rates not seen previously in geological time. This affects food production itself and the growth and reproduction of plant pathogens which reduce crop yield and…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- climate change
- crop loss
- disease
- food security
- plant pathogens
- population
- resource supply
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordClimate change presents new challenges for managing plant health. Simultaneously, the revolution in sequencing technologies offers an exciting new perspective on whole microbial communities – and…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- metagenomics
- next generation sequencing
- pyrosequencing
- quantitative trait loci
- resilience
- soil microbial communities
- Library Collection RecordEstimation of the sensitivity for soil organic carbon to climate change is critical for evaluating the potential response of the terrestrial biosphere to global change. In this study, we integrated…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- Chinese grasslands
- modeling
- soil organic carbon
- sensitivity
- spatial patterns
- China
- Library Collection RecordLandscape metrics have been widely developed over the last two decades. One of the major recent developments in landscape metrics analysis was the integration of the third dimension. Topography has…Publication Date 2012
- landscape metrics
- local landscape units
- OTALEX II
- three dimensions
- topography
- 3D
- Alentejo
- Portugal
- Library Collection RecordOTALEX II is the Territorial and Environmental Observatory of Alentejo (Portugal) and Extremadura (Spain), co-financed by POCTEP, developed with the cross-border collaboration of several Portuguese…Publication Date 2012
- Landscape indicators
- local landscape units
- OTALEX
- Indicateurs du paysage
- OTALEX
- Unités Locales du Paysage
- Alentejo
- Portugal
- Library Collection RecordIn recent years, the regional environment ministry, conscious of the tremendous economic, social and environmental importance of the pastures of Andalusia, has stimulated a series of projects for the…Publication Date 2012
- bioindicators
- Filabres massif
- pastures
- Phytosociology
- Bioindicateurs
- Filabres massif
- pâturages
- Phytosociology
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordThe studied area is the agricultural region Montes de Navahermosa integrated into the historic natural area Montes de Toledo. It is located in the south-western side of Toledo province (Castille-La…Publication Date 2012
- landscape complexes
- Navahermosa
- Toledo Mountains
- vegetation
- Toledo
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordThis study of the plant landscape of a sub-coastal hilly area in southern Marche, Italy, has allowed the proposal of two main models that are highly correlated with the geomorphological and…Publication Date 2012
- bioclimate
- biodiversity
- central Adriatic
- Geomorphology
- geosynphytosociology
- synphytosociology
- Marche
- Italy
- Library Collection RecordIn the Peruvian sierra near the city of Cajamarca, livelihood options of extensive grazing and plantation forestry often conflict with ecosystem services provided by the native jalca grasslands where…Publication Date 2012
- Algarve
- climatophilous series
- land use planning
- Phytosociology
- Library Collection RecordAlthough portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology is widely accepted for environmental use in field screening test regarding the analytical approach, it needs to be evaluated with sufficient data…Publication Date 2012
- x-ray fluorescence (XRF)
- heavy metal
- inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES)
- soil pollution
- relative proximity
- Library Collection RecordBackground: Agricultural intensification has transformed most grasslands of Central Europe from non-intensive to highly intensive management during the last 50 years, resulting in large reductions of…Publication Date 2012
- below-ground niche complementarity
- GrassMan experiment
- herbicide application
- Land-use intensification
- mowing frequency
- N-fertilisation
- root biomass
- specific root length
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordBackground: Elevated anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition is an important cause of biodiversity decline and disruption of ecosystem function and services, yet these impacts on many globally…Publication Date 2012
- above-ground biomass
- global change
- leaf nitrogen
- shola-grassland
- soil nitrogen
- species richness and diversity
- the Nilgiris
- Western Ghats
- India
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the relationships between soil respiration and environmental factors during foliation and defoliation periods in three ecosystems under the same physical - geographical environmental…Publication Date 2012
- forest ecosystem
- grassland ecosystem
- multiple ecosystems
- phenology
- Q 10
- soil respiration
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordPlant species composition and community functional structure (i.e. trait composition at the community level) result from a hierarchy of environmental filters that constrain which species and traits…Publication Date 2012
- acquisition–conservation trade-off
- environmental gradients
- functional strategies
- Intraspecific variability
- leaf traits
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- root traits
- species turnover
- France
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding how environmental factors drive plant community assembly remains a major challenge in community ecology. The strength of different assembly processes along environmental gradients, such…Publication Date 2012
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- environmental filtering
- functional community structure
- functional convergence
- functional divergence
- null model
- plant traits
- soil resource gradient
- trait–environment relationships
- France
- Library Collection RecordPlant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- Coexistence
- competition-defence hypothesis
- Life History
- mammalian herbivory
- Nutrient Network (NutNet)
- resource limitation
- tolerance
- top-down bottom-up
- trade-offs
- plant production
- fertilisers
- management
- nutrients
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordAmong the most promising approaches of long-term atmospheric CO2 sequestration is terrestrial biogeochemical carbon sequestration. One of the most promising terrestrial biogeochemical carbon…Publication Date 2012
- biogeochemical carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- China
- grassland
- phytolith
- phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC)
- China
- Library Collection RecordEdited by G. Lemaire, J. Hodgson and A. Chabbi. Wallingford UK and Cambridge MA, USA: CABI 2011. Hardback, 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-84593-809-3. £85/ US$160/ €120.Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordLong-term series of vegetation change is one of the key study contents for evaluating terrestrial ecosystems and plays an important role in global change study. The CSCS (Comprehensive and Sequential…Publication Date 2012
- Tibet
- China
- Library Collection RecordFour herbicide (topik, puma super, granstar and derby) treatments at the recommended field dose (RFD) were applied for 5 weeks on wheat (Triticum sativum L. cv. Giza 168) crop. These selected…Publication Date 2012
- Antioxidant enzymes
- herbicides
- nitrate reductase
- photosynthetic pigments
- proline contents
- wheat
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the relationships of net ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE), soil temperature, and moisture with soil respiration rate and its components at a grassland ecosystem. Stable carbon isotopes…Publication Date 2012
- Batavia
- IL
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe outcomes of previous studies have resulted in differing recommendations on the rate and timing of fertilizer N applications for forage maize. In order to gain an improved understanding of the…Publication Date 2012
- hybrid forage maize
- Pioneer 31H50
- Australia
- biomass yield
- sowing date
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe accuracy of two simple methods was compared for the prediction of crude protein (CP) content of above-ground plant material of mixed-species composition on abandoned cultivated land in Japan. The…Publication Date 2012
- cattle grazing
- compound plant community
- feeding value
- generalized linear model
- vegetation survey
- wild plants
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordClassifying grasses into plant functional types (PFT) according to their strategy of nutrient capture (PFT A, B and b) or nutrient conservation (PFT C) is claimed to predict variability in biomass…Publication Date 2012
- grassland
- phenology
- nutritive value
- biomass production
- functional groups
- France
- Library Collection RecordTo support the further development of grazing practices for dairy production systems based on perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), allometric relationships among leaf-stage categories and…Publication Date 2012
- perennial ryegrass
- leaf stage
- regrowth
- nutritive value
- grazing management
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThere is increased global interest in the environmental impacts of farming, including the need to prevent the contamination of soil, water and air with excessive amounts of nitrogen (N) and…Publication Date 2012
- faeces
- urine
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- grazing
- England
- Library Collection RecordThe Grange Feed Costing Model was modified to simulate the economic implications of grassland management strategies for a grass-based suckler beef calf-to-weanling system at the whole-farm level. The…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- conservation
- grassland
- suckler cow
- feed cost
- simulation model
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing the residual water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) concentration in silage may improve the nutritional value but impair aerobic stability. Our aim was to determine whether the residual WSC…Publication Date 2012
- Lolium perenne L. silage
- additive
- cultivar
- water-soluble carbohydrate
- aerobic stability
- Library Collection RecordNitrogen (N) applications can have a significant effect on soil N availability. The effect of 3 years of N fertilization on soil net N mineralization during the growing season (May–September) was…Publication Date 2012
- Managed grasslands
- N fertilization
- N mineralization
- nitrification
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of deferred grazing (no defoliation of pastures for a period generally from spring to autumn) and fertilizer application on plant population density, ground cover and soil moisture in a…Publication Date 2012
- grazing management
- sustainability
- tiller density
- perennial grasses
- phosphorus
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe study evaluated the plasticity of Chloris gayana Kunth cv. Fine Cut to defoliation in terms of tiller size/density compensation (SDC). Twelve mini-swards were grown in a greenhouse under non-…Publication Date 2012
- defoliation
- size/density compensation
- tiller leaf area/volume ratio
- tiller population density
- phenotypic plasticity
- Rhodes grass
- Library Collection RecordGrassland Science in Europe, Vol. 16Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about the immediate effect of high nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) application rates on sown grasslands cut twice per year. We asked how quickly plant species…Publication Date 2012
- fertilizer experiment
- herbage production
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- Galinsoga quadriradiata
- Urtica dioica
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordThere is a growing interest in the use of deficit irrigation and perennial pasture species other than perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) in temperate agriculture, in response to the decreasing…Publication Date 2012
- water stress
- cocksfoot
- perennial ryegrass
- tall fescue
- regrowth
- water-soluble carbohydrate
- leaf water potential
- leaf extension
- Burnie
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis study compared the profitabilities of systems of dairy production based on N-fertilized grass (FN) and grass-white clover (WC) grassland and assessed sensitivity to changing fertilizer N and…Publication Date 2012
- pasture
- Economic Aspects
- grazing
- management
- white clover
- fertilizer N
- grassland
- dairy production
- net margin
- Solohead Research Farm
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to quantify the effect of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L., PRG) sward density on seasonal and total DM yield under simulated grazing and animal grazing by cattle…Publication Date 2012
- perennial ryegrass
- DM yield
- ground score
- defoliation method
- Ireland
- Library Collection RecordThe present study highlights the effects of sheep grazing and precipitation on herbage and animal performance in a grazed steppe of Inner Mongolia. Experimental data were collected during grazing…Publication Date 2012
- grazing experiment
- grazing intensity
- grazing management
- Herbage Quality
- Mongolia
- net primary production
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordGrassland biomass has been identified as a potential energy source. The combustion of mature and fibrous biomass, as occurs in extensive grasslands managed with low cutting frequencies, is one…Publication Date 2012
- bioenergy
- combustion
- diversity
- extensive grassland
- functional groups
- Jena
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordA rising plate meter (RPM) is an instrument used for the measurement of compressed sward height and estimation of yield on grasslands. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of an RPM to…Publication Date 2012
- forage
- perennial legumes
- alfalfa
- indirect method
- sward measurement
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordIn a Green Biorefinery processing green biomass, one possible application for the press-cake fraction is as biomass fuel for combustion. In an industrial setting, the preservation of herbage as…Publication Date 2012
- herbage maturity
- cocksfoot
- red clover
- perennial ryegrass
- biorefinery
- combustion
- silage
- Meath
- Ireland
- Library Collection Record1. The potential resorption of substantial amounts of nutrients from all vegetative organs of plants has large implications for the plant nutrient economy and for biogeochemical cycles. So far, most…Publication Date 2012
- grassland
- Leaf
- nitrogen content
- nutrient resorption efficiency
- organ senescence
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- resorption proficiency
- soil fertility
- Stem
- China
- Library Collection Record1. Understanding large-scale distribution shifts is vital to predict species responses to changes in the environment. Such shifts occur as a consequence of habitat distribution, dispersal processes…Publication Date 2012
- atlas data
- climate
- Colonisation
- dispersal
- distribution change
- extinction
- Habitat change
- plant population and community dynamics
- rainfall
- temperature
- British Isles
- Library Collection RecordThe relative constancy of the lower limit on Earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]a) during major tectonic episodes over the final 24 million years (Ma) of the Cenozoic is surprising because…Publication Date 2012
- biological weathering
- Miocene
- modelling
- mycorrhiza
- plant - climate interactions
- Library Collection Record1.?Although a major part of plant biomass is underground, we know little about the contribution of different species to root biomass in multispecies communities. We summarize studies on root…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- intransitive competition
- niche differentiation
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- root distributions
- root ecology
- soil nutrient availability
- transgressive overyielding
- Library Collection Record1. Despite recent interest in linkages between above- and below-ground communities and their consequences for ecosystem processes, much remains unknown about their responses to long-term ecosystem…Publication Date 2012
- above-ground
- below-ground
- biodiversity
- carbon sequestration
- Chronosequence
- island ecology
- natural experiment
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- retrogression
- succession
- Sweden
- Library Collection Record1. Ecosystem services (ES) lie at the core of the interactions among humans and ecosystems. Fundamental understanding of the ecological mechanisms underlying the simultaneous provision of multiple ES…Publication Date 2012
- Biodiversity effects
- ecological intensification of agriculture
- fertility
- leaf economics spectrum
- Mountain Grassland
- multifunctionality
- Plant Size
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- secondary succession
- structural equation model
- Library Collection Record1. We provide a brief overview of progress in our understanding of introduced plant species. 2. Three main conclusions emerge from our review: (i) Many lines of research, including the search for…Publication Date 2012
- community susceptibility to invasion
- disturbance
- evolution in introduced species
- grazing
- invasion ecology
- traits of successful aliens
- Library Collection RecordMetapopulation and metacommunity theories occupy a central role in ecology, but can be difficult to apply to plants. Challenges include whether seed dispersal is sufficient for population…Publication Date 2012
- colonization
- dispersal
- habitat connectivity
- local vs. regional dynamics
- long-term data
- plant population and community dynamics
- seed bank
- species assembly
- species-sorting
- succession
- ecosystem ecology
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