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- 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
- Library Collection Record1.?Recent studies have suggested that the simultaneous maintenance of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) is positively supported by species richness. However, little is known regarding…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- biological soil crusts
- community attributes
- ecosystem functioning
- lichens
- nutrient cycling
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- spatial pattern
- species evenness
- Spain
- Library Collection Record1. The effects of habitat fragmentation on plant population genetic structure and diversity are relatively well studied. Yet, most of these studies used molecular tools focusing on neutral genetic…Publication Date 2012
- dispersal
- habitat fragmentation
- mating system
- nectar
- phenotypic variation
- population dynamics
- selection
- Library Collection Record1.?Calcareous grasslands are communities of high conservation value, often characterized by high plant species richness. These grasslands have experienced a major decline in area throughout Europe,…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- conservation
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- Environmental change
- extinction
- floristic tracking
- taxonomic homogenization
- Europe
- Library Collection Record1. A change in a climate variable may alter a species' abundance not only through a direct effect on that species vital rates, but also through 'indirect' effects mediated by species…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- community ecology
- competition
- demography
- integral projection model
- niche
- plant population and community dynamics
- sagebrush steppe
- Dubois
- Idaho
- Library Collection Record1.?Rhizosphere bacteria antagonistic to fungal pathogens improve plant performance by preventing infection. In temperate grasslands, primary productivity often increases with plant diversity, and we…Publication Date 2012
- 2
- 4-diacetylphloroglucinol
- biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship
- plant–microbe interactions
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- Pseudomonas fluorescens
- pyrrolnitrin
- soil feedbacks
- soil suppressiveness
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection Record1.?Soil resource availability and disturbance are widely recognized as key drivers of plant community structure. However, the relative importance of different plant traits in determining species…Publication Date 2012
- assembly rules
- community-weighted trait
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- environmental filtering
- functional composition
- grassland
- land-use change
- maximum entropy
- New Zealand
- Library Collection Record1. Callitris intratropica is a long-lived, obligate-seeding, fire-sensitive overstorey conifer that typically occurs in small groves (0.1ha) of much higher tree densities than the surrounding,…Publication Date 2012
- Aboriginal landscape burning
- alternative stable states
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- fire ecology
- fire-sensitive species
- habitat complexity
- patch dynamics
- pyrodiversity
- tropical savanna
- vegetation boundaries
- Arnhem Plateau
- Australia
- Library Collection Record1.?There are now approximately 10 examples of plants that use volatile cues emitted by damaged neighbours to adjust their defences against herbivores. For two of these examples, preliminary evidence…Publication Date 2012
- Artemisia tridentata
- communication
- fitness
- flowering
- neighbours
- plant–herbivore interactions
- reproduction
- seedlings
- survival
- volatiles
- Mammoth Lakes
- CA
- USA
- Library Collection RecordTheoretical models show that environmental heterogeneity and dispersal are major determinants of species diversity at multiple scales, yet there are few studies from real landscapes that adequately…Publication Date 2012
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- dispersal
- environmental niche
- island
- meta-community
- spatial heterogeneity
- species assemblage
- species coexistence
- structural equation modelling
- Stockholm
- Library Collection Record1. Foliar endophytic fungi in herbaceous plants are known to be diverse, yet studies characterizing the fungal communities in roots and shoots of plants across time are absent. These fungi are…Publication Date 2012
- Arbuscular mycorrhiza
- Cirsium arvense
- endophyte community
- forbs
- fungal diversity
- Plantago lanceolata
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- Rumex acetosa
- England
- Library Collection RecordRecent evidence suggests that soil nutrient heterogeneity, a ubiquitous feature of terrestrial ecosystems, modulates plant responses to ongoing global change (GC). However, we know little about the…Publication Date 2012
- changes in rainfall regime
- CO 2
- community-level studies
- ecosystem functioning
- global change
- N enrichment
- Plant performance
- plant–soil (below-ground) interactions
- root foraging
- soil nutrient heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordBoth plant species diversity and genetic diversity within a plant species can affect community properties and ecosystem processes. However, the relative contribution of species diversity and genetic…Publication Date 2012
- additive effects
- Ammophila breviligulata
- biodiversity-ecosystem function
- dominance
- intersimple sequence repeat
- non-additive effects
- plant–plant interactions
- sand dunes
- species richness
- Great Lakes
- USA
- Library Collection RecordFacilitation (positive interaction) has received increasing attention in plant ecology over the last decade. Just as for competition, distinguishing different modes of facilitation (mutualistic,…Publication Date 2012
- asymmetry
- competition
- metabolic scaling theory
- plant population and community dynamics
- plant–plant interaction
- self-thinning
- spatial pattern
- Stress-gradient hypothesis
- symmetry
- Library Collection RecordRecent declines in biodiversity have given new urgency to questions about the relationship between land-use change, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Despite the existence of a large body of…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- ecosystem functioning
- functional plant group
- land use
- productivity
- species richness
- structural equation modelling
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordGrime's CSR and Tilman's resource-ratio theories are two major contributions to our understanding of plant community dynamics. They have both been corroborated empirically, whilst providing…Publication Date 2012
- community modelling
- disturbance
- plant competition
- plant population and community dynamics
- plant strategy
- resource competition
- size dependence
- Library Collection RecordLocal plant community assembly is influenced by a series of filters that affect the recruitment and establishment of species. These filters include regional factors that limit seeds of any given…Publication Date 2012
- community assembly
- competition
- disturbance
- exotic species
- invasion
- plant population and community dynamics
- Post-dispersal seed predation
- recruitment
- seed limitation
- seed size
- Montana
- USA
- Library Collection RecordMallee-heath and mallee communities occur in a mosaic across large areas of south-western Australia, in topographically subdued and fire-prone landscapes. Consequently, it could be expected that…Publication Date 2012
- fire ecology
- carbon sequestration
- fire interval
- initial floristic composition
- mallee
- senescence
- succession
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2012
- Library Collection RecordThe radiation use efficiency (RUE) model is one of the most used tools to generate large spatial and temporal scale net primary productivity (NPP) estimations by remote sensing. It involves two key…Publication Date 2012
- grassland
- Light-use efficiency
- primary productivity
- remote sensing
- stress
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordIn the semiarid Chaco savannas, the balance between herbaceous and woody species affects landscape configuration and ecosystem services such as forage production. Therefore, understanding the factors…Publication Date 2012
- burning
- Plant functional group
- range management
- shrubland
- water addition
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordAccording to the global latitudinal diversity gradient, a decrease in animal and plant species richness exists from the tropics towards higher latitudes. The aim of this study was to describe the…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity conservation
- biogeography
- Chilean flora
- macroecology
- regionalization
- Chile
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