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- Library Collection RecordThe success of ecological restoration is often judged by the number and abundance of species, especially rare ones that have established since restoration. However, the effects of habitat improvement…Publication Date 2013
- assignment tests
- dispersal
- first-generation migrants
- habitat fragmentation
- Lychnis flos-cuculi
- pollen flow
- restoration ecology
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- molecular genetics
- Switzerland
- Library Collection RecordEcosystem restoration is now globally recognized as a key component in conservation programs and essential to the quest for the long-term sustainability of our human-dominated planet. Restoration…Publication Date 2013
- CBD COP11
- enabling factors
- Hyderabad Call
- restoration ecology
- conservation
- sustainability
- policies
- biodiversity
- Hyderabad
- India
- Library Collection RecordThis article examines the question of how well the rangeland management profession has served conservation of patterns and processes that support multiple ecosystem services. We examine the paradigms…Publication Date 2012-11-01
- biodiversity
- fire
- grazing
- landscape ecology
- pyric herbivory
- shifting mosaic
- Library Collection RecordProtected areas constitute strategy for biodiversity conservation. Unfortunately, these sanctuaries of biodiversity are submitted to a high human pressure in Togo. This study carried out in the Alé…Publication Date 2012
- vegetation
- diversity
- Pressure
- management
- Togo
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the last few decades unimproved semi-natural grasslands have been affected by intensification of land use and habitat fragmentation. Because of their biodiversity these species-rich grasslands are…Publication Date 2012
- Rhinanthus minor
- population genetics
- Hemiparasite
- Habitat restoration
- grasslands
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- seeds
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- 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 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 RecordAbstract The contribution of non-domestic grazing pressure to pastoral areas of western NSW has been reported to increase grazing intensity by at least 50%. Any control of these external grazing…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Australia
- ground cover
- 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.?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.?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 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 RecordEffective biodiversity monitoring is critical to evaluate, learn from, and ultimately improve conservation practice. Well conceived, designed and implemented monitoring of biodiversity should: (i)…Publication Date 2012
- Conservation effectiveness
- management intervention
- monitoring
- biodiversity
- National Biodiversity Strategy
- management
- conservation
- policies
- Library Collection RecordMany studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possible effects of climate change that can…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- climate change
- species extinctions
- Library Collection RecordI pose eight questions central to understanding how biological invasions affect ecosystems, assess progress towards answering those questions and suggest ways in which progress might be made. The…Publication Date 2012
- Alien species
- biodiversity
- ecological engineering
- Ecosystem function
- ecosystem management
- exotic species
- invasive species
- long-term studies
- non-native species
- Traits
- Library Collection RecordLarge-scale (circa 500 ha) restoration of species-rich dry grasslands was conducted using a high-diversity regional seed mixture in the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere…Publication Date 2012
- grassland restoration
- regional seed mixture
- species diversity
- target species
- vegetation
- White Carpathian Mountains
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- Acrididae
- habitats
- vegetation
- meadows
- compensation
- biological control
- Acrididae
- vegetation
- Acrididae
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- Acrididae
- habitats
- vegetation
- meadows
- compensation
- biological control
- Acrididae
- vegetation
- Acrididae
- Library Collection RecordQuestions What are the differences in speed and pathway of vegetation development on nutrient-poor, unvegetated slopes sown with low-diversity seed mixtures of cultivars and high-diversity seed…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- Grass cultivars
- Local provenance
- marginal land
- mining
- mulching
- productivity
- Species introduction
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordQuestion In many industrialized countries biodiversity is declining. Although changes in species composition and species richness have been documented for many individual systems, little long-term…Publication Date 2012
- Agricultural intensification
- Agri-environment schemes (AES)
- Floristic value
- Nature reserves
- Nutrient richness
- species richness
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- agriculture
- conservation
- management
- Netherlands
- 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 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 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 RecordPublication Date 2012
- control methods
- fires
- rangelands
- Ethiopia
- grazing
- Nature conservation
- biodiversity
- species
- land use
- 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 RecordBioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- biogeography
- climate change
- climate envelopes
- conservation planning
- ecological niches
- Invasions
- niche conservation
- restoration ecology
- species distributions
- translocation experiments
- uncertainty in prediction
- modelling
- decision support systems
- Library Collection RecordHealthy ecosystems include many species (high richness) with similar abundances (high evenness). Thus, both aspects of biodiversity are worthy of conservation. Simultaneously conserving richness and…Publication Date 2012
- abundance
- agriculture
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem management
- evenness
- fire
- metadata
- organic farming
- species richness
- Library Collection RecordHuman-induced increases in nitrogen (N) deposition are common across many terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Greater N availability not only reduces biological diversity, but also affects the…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- C3 grasses
- C4 grasses
- ecosystem functioning
- ecosystem services
- fire
- nitrogen deposition
- root mass
- soil carbon sequestration
- Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
- Minnesota
- USA
- Library Collection RecordIn 2010, we launched the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD; http://www.givd.info), an internet-based re-source offering metadata of existing electronic vegetation databases. On 11 May…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- data sharing
- ecoinformatics
- metadata
- Phytosociology
- relevé
- Library Collection RecordWarmer temperatures can alter the phenology and distribution of individual species. However, differences across species may blur community-level phenological responses to climate or cause biotic…Publication Date 2012
- altitudinal gradient
- beta diversity
- biodiversity
- biotic homogenization
- biotic invasion
- climate change
- community structure
- Hope River Valley
- interactive drivers
- Lepidoptera
- nitrogen
- phenology
- Alien invasive species
- North Canterbury
- New Zealand
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper the analysis of Land sat images and plant ecological assessment were used to determine the land use change, plant diversity and the main plant community patterns in most environmentally…Publication Date 2012
- Normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)
- land use change
- biodiversity
- plant community
- North Africa
- North Togo
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- vegetation
- grasslands
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The conflict that exists between the competing needs of biological conservation and those of pastoral production is well recognised, however, few studies examine these conflicts due to…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- production
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- vegetation
- photosynthesis
- biomass
- grasslands
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- landscape
- Coleoptera
- Nature conservation
- biodiversity
- soil management
- pastures
- Coleoptera
- Coleoptera
- Library Collection RecordAchieving economically optimum livestock production on rangelands can conflict with conservation strategies that require lower stocking rate to maintain wildlife habitat. Combining the spatial and…Publication Date 2011-11-01
- biodiversity
- conservation grazing
- fire
- heterogeneity
- patch burn
- vegetation structure
- Library Collection RecordLandspraying while drilling (LWD) is an approved disposal method for water-based drilling mud (WBM) systems in western Canada. The mud is applied either on cultivated land, where it is incorporated…Publication Date 2011-07-01
- biodiversity
- energy exploitation
- hydrocarbon extraction
- native rangelands
- oil and natural gas
- Library Collection RecordEffects of mine dump pollution on semiarid savanna vegetation were investigated in Kombat, Namibia. Vegetation structure, species richness, composition and diversity were compared between polluted…Publication Date 2011
- heavy metals
- Kombat
- ordination
- vegetation
- pollution
- savanna
- mining
- mine dump
- species richness
- species diversity
- toxicity
- decision support systems
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 127-131Publication Date 2011
- farming systems
- biodiversity
- meadows
- Nature reserves
- management
- research
- Norway
- Library Collection RecordPollen records from Lake Malawi, Africa spanning the last 135 160;kyr show substantial and abrupt vegetation response to multiple episodes of extreme aridity between 135 and 75 160;ka. Peaks in both…Publication Date 2011
- pollen
- vegetation
- Pleistocene
- Paleoclimate
- East Africa
- Library Collection RecordArthropods are valuable biological indicators owing to strong relationships with primary producers. The supposition that arthropod-plant interactions are constant over seasons was tested using Mantel…Publication Date 2011
- arthropod community composition
- Bloemfontein Dry Grassland
- Mantel test
- plant community composition
- trophic interactions
- insects
- biological indicators
- plant production
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- grasslands
- Free State province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 10-17Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- natural grasslands
- wetlands
- biodiversity
- pastures
- grazing
- grassland management
- beef
- species
- agricultural economics
- projects
- research
- Sweden
- Library Collection RecordMopane savannah is one of the predominant dry vegetations of southern Africa. Despite the extensive number of previous studies, there are few quantitative descriptions of the vegetation types where…Publication Date 2011
- Colophospermum mopane
- Combretaceae
- savannah
- Zambezi Valley
- species richness
- biodiversity
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 52-61Publication Date 2011
- private farms
- agriculture
- grasslands
- beef cattle
- grazing
- meat production
- forestry
- biodiversity
- water conservation
- Organic agriculture
- Finland
- agriculture
- Library Collection RecordAim Woody plants were not widely considered to be important invasive alien species until fairly recently. Thousands of species of trees and shrubs have, however, been moved around the world. Many…Publication Date 2011
- biological invasions
- dispersal modes
- invasive species
- management
- natural experiment
- reasons for introduction
- shrub invasions
- tree invasions
- alien invsive species
- biodiversity
- species richness
- Library Collection RecordWe review the relevance and use of stable isotopes for the study of plant community succession. Stable isotope measurements provide information on the origin of resources acquired by plants, the…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- plant community
- succession
- isotypes
- soil nutrients
- soil organic matter
- vegetation dynamics
- biodiversity
- species richness
- fire ecology
- Library Collection RecordFirst page of Land, Food, and Biodiversity Agriculture currently occupies over 40% of Earth's land area and consumes 70% of available freshwater. Production systems have increased food output in…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- animal production
- plant production
- Economic Aspects
- ecology
- conservation
- land use
- management
- Library Collection RecordNordic-Baltic-Belarus solutions in farming for biodiversity, Reihmanis, J..- Riga (Latvia): Latvijas Dabas fonds, 2011.- 978-9984-49-329-9.- p. 82-97Publication Date 2011
- Organic agriculture
- Farms
- plant production
- animal production
- cooperation
- Agricultural products
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- environmental factors
- research
- cooperation