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Ecology
Jacob Levine, Jonathan M. Levine, Theo Gibbs, Stephen W. Pacala
Summary: Competition for water and phenological variation are important factors influencing plant community structure. A new study demonstrates that phenological variation alone can maintain high species diversity in water-limited plant communities through the mechanism of shortening competitors' growing season.
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Biodiversity Conservation
B. Stammel, C. Damm, C. Fischer-Bedtke, A. Rumm, M. Gelhaus, P. Horchler, S. Kunder, F. Foeckler, M. Scholz
Summary: Natural floodplains are diverse ecosystems threatened by human activities. To improve sustainable management, it is necessary to develop an assessment index for their ecological value. This index can be combined with existing methods to evaluate floodplain plants.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Mariana Y. Lopez-Chavez, T. Alvarez-Legorreta, Dulce Infante-Mata, Michael F. Dunn, Karina Guillen-Navarro
Summary: The study evaluated five plant species from locations with a history of glyphosate exposure and found that Panicum maximum exhibited the highest glyphosate removal efficiency. The plant-microbe-substrate interactions played a significant role in the elimination of glyphosate.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Shuqi Yu, Huapeng Qin
Summary: In this study, an eco-hydrological model was proposed to evaluate the effects of plant nitrogen uptake on the nitrogen removal performance of bioretention systems. The results showed that plant nitrogen uptake significantly affects the system's performance, especially during rainy seasons.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rosa Caponetto, Massimo Cuomo, Maurizio Detommaso, Giada Giuffrida, Antonio Lo Presti, Francesco Nocera
Summary: The potential use of giant reed as a natural material in construction has been insufficiently investigated. This study focuses on assessing the performance of lime/cement-reeds mixtures as base materials for new bio-based building components. The evaluation of physical, mechanical, and thermal properties shows promising results for non-bearing and thermal building blocks made from lime-reed composites, with good mechanical performance and thermo-physical behavior compared to conventional building materials.
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Environmental Sciences
C. M. Stephens, L. E. Band, F. M. Johnson, L. A. Marshall, B. E. Medlyn, M. G. De Kauwe, A. M. Ukkola
Summary: This study used an ecohydrologic model to examine the changes in ecohydrologic behavior in a water supply catchment in Melbourne, Australia, during and after the Millennium Drought. The results showed that despite a significant decrease in rainfall, the average transpiration of vegetation remained unchanged, leading to a reduction in streamflow. The spatial distribution of vegetation behavior played a role in maintaining high green water use during the drought. After the drought, there was an increase in vegetation transpiration and a decrease in subsurface water storage, suggesting a long-term change in water partitioning. The findings have important implications for water supply in Australia's second largest city under projected drying conditions.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alexander J. Norton, Peter J. Rayner, Ying-Ping Wang, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Latha Baskaran, Peter R. Briggs, Vanessa Haverd, Russell Doughty
Summary: Vegetation growth plays an important role in land-atmosphere interactions, but the impact of water movement on vegetation response has been underestimated. This study shows that ecosystems with high hydrologic connectivity have higher interannual variability in vegetation productivity, driven by differences in soil moisture and water capacity. These ecosystems contribute significantly to regional carbon uptake through higher rates of photosynthesis and also affect annual anomalies. Global land surface models need to consider the role of water connectivity in order to accurately simulate carbon uptake.
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yanfeng Wang, Ying Liu, Maohua Ma, Zhi Ding, Shengjun Wu, Weitao Jia, Qiao Chen, Xuemei Yi, Jing Zhang, Xiaohong Li, Gaohang Luo, Jinxia Huang
Summary: The riparian ecosystem is structurally unstable due to water fluctuation, which is exacerbated by dams triggering fundamental changes in plant communities. The study investigated spatial distribution of invasive plant species and their correlation with dam-triggered flooding stresses. It found that new invasive species were mainly concentrated at intermediate elevations of the reservoir, with weak resistance from native species to plant invasion. There is a persistent invasiveness of alien species after a decade of riparian community succession, with potential invasion sites located in the intermediate sections along both vertical and longitudinal dimensions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Weiwei Jiang, Huimin Pan, Nan Yang, Henglin Xiao
Summary: This study quantitatively evaluated the limiting factors for riparian vegetation restoration in reservoirs and found that inundation duration had a significantly greater effect on vegetation distribution, cover, and diversity compared to other environmental factors. Inundation for 5 months is close to the tolerance limit of most plants and poses a significant limitation on the vegetation restoration in reservoir riparian areas.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
Celeste Wieting, Jonathan M. M. Friedman, Sara Rathburn
Summary: Invasive riparian plants introduced in the 19th century have led to narrowing river channels and slower migration rates in the American Southwest. Efforts to remove these plants have been widespread since 1990. A study comparing treated and untreated sections of rivers in the Southwest USA found that the treatment significantly increased channel width and floodplain destruction. The study highlights the importance of considering geomorphic processes in restoration planning.
EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Antonio J. Molina, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Javier Perez-Romero, Reyes Alejano, Juan F. Bellot, Juan A. Blanco, Jesus J. Camarero, Arnaud Carrara, Victor M. Castillo, Teresa Cervera, Gonzalo G. Barbera, Maria Gonzalez-Sanchis, Alvaro Hernandez, Juan B. Imbert, Maria N. Jimenez, Pilar Llorens, Manuel E. Lucas-Borja, Gerardo Moreno, Mariano Moreno-de las Heras, Francisco B. Navarro, Guillermo Palacios, Noemi Palero, Maria A. Ripoll, David Regues, Francisco J. Ruiz-Gomez, Alberto Vilagrosa, Antonio D. del Campo
Summary: Adaptive forest management (AFM) is urgently needed to address the uncertainty of climate change impacts on forests. Research groups in Spain have produced valuable expertise in ecophysiology, ecohydrology, and forest ecology, which can enhance AFM implementation. Establishing logical frameworks will help define appropriate treatments for AFM.
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Environmental Sciences
Yaohua Zhang, Xianli Xu, Zhenwei Li, Chaohao Xu, Wei Luo
Summary: This study evaluated the effects of different vegetation succession on soil quality in karst areas of southwest China. It found that secondary forest had the highest soil quality, followed by shrub and grass, with cropland having the lowest. Principal component analysis identified key indicators for soil quality, and the Minimum Data Set method effectively represented the Total Data Set method in quantifying the effects of vegetation succession on soil quality.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Athanasios Paschalis, Sara Bonetti, Yanran Guo, Simone Fatichi
Summary: This study quantifies the impact of uncertainties in using different pedotransfer functions on ecosystem dynamics. The results show that these uncertainties can affect both hydrological and vegetation dynamics, especially in water-limited ecosystems. The uncertainties in evapotranspiration, plant productivity, and vegetation structure are around 10% at annual time scales, while uncertainties in runoff and groundwater recharge are one order of magnitude larger.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Dusanka Vujanovic, Gianalberto Losapio, Stanko Milic, Dubravka Milic
Summary: Despite increasing evidence of the harm caused by invasive species to biodiversity and ecological systems, the impacts of multiple species invasion and their interactions with plant and soil communities are not well understood. This study found that the co-occurrence of three invasive plant species had a greater impact on soil conditions and native plant diversity compared to single species invasion.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Huijuan Zhang, Qi Wang, Qijing Xu, Wumei Xu, Silin Yang, Xue Liu, Lena Q. Ma
Summary: The study investigated a riparian wetland near a Zn-smelting operation in karst areas in southwest China, revealing high contamination levels in the sediment with low metal availability and limited plant uptake.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Paul A. Klockow, Eric B. Putman, Jason G. Vogel, Georgianne W. Moore, Christopher B. Edgar, Sorin C. Popescu
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Water Resources
Christian Birkel, Alicia Correa-Barahona, Marco Martinez-Martinez, Sebastian Granados-Bolanos, Nelson Venegas-Cordero, Kenneth Gutierrez-Garcia, Sara Blanco-Ramirez, Rafael Quesada-Mora, Vanessa Solano-Rivera, Jasson Mussio-Mora, Andres Chavarria-Palma, Katherine Vargas-Arias, Georgianne W. Moore, Ana Maria Duran-Quesada, Javier Vasquez-Morera, Chris Soulsby, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Edgar Espinoza-Cisneros, Ricardo Sanchez-Murillo
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Christopher Adkison, Caitlyn Cooper-Norris, Rajit Patankar, Georgianne W. Moore
Article
Plant Sciences
Sebastien Rivest, Genevieve Lajoie, David A. Watts, Mark Vellend
Summary: Our study shows that climate change could decrease gene flow by reducing flowering synchrony among populations along climatic gradients. We also introduce a novel method for quantifying potential pollen-mediated gene flow using flowering phenology data, based on a quantitative, more biologically interpretable model than other available metrics.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Jaeyoung Song, Gretchen R. Miller, Anthony T. Cahill, Luiza Maria T. Aparecido, Georgianne W. Moore
Summary: This study updated the multi-layered Community Land Model for hillslopes and compared the predictions against observations in tropical montane rainforest in Costa Rica. The modifications allowed for a wider array of vertical leaf area distributions, prediction of CO2 profiles, accounting for soil respiration, and adjusting wind forcings for difficult topographic settings. Test results indicated that the modified model successfully replicated micrometeorological profiles under the canopy, improving on issues noted in single-layer models.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Mark Vellend, Melanie Behe, Alexis Carteron, Anna L. Crofts, Victor Danneyrolles, Hasanki T. Gamhewa, Ming Ni, Christina L. Rinas, David A. Watts
Summary: The study shows clear effects of long-term anthropogenic disturbances and recent climate warming on montane plants, but there is considerable uncertainty about how climatic and non-climatic factors will interact to determine the future of this ecosystem.
NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Manuel R. Flores, Luiza Maria Teophilo Aparecido, Gretchen R. Miller, Georgianne W. Moore
Summary: The death of a large emergent tree in a tropical forest caused an increase in water usage by understory plants, leading to a redistribution of resources within the forest canopy.
Article
Ecology
Rebecca Ostertag, Carla Restrepo, James W. Dalling, Patrick H. Martin, Iveren Abiem, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Roxana Aragon, Michelle Ataroff, Hazel Chapman, Augusta Y. Cueva-Agila, Belen Fadrique, Romina D. Fernandez, Grizelle Gonzalez, Sybil G. Gotsch, Achim Hager, Jurgen Homeier, Carlos Iniguez-Armijos, Luis Daniel Llambi, Georgianne W. Moore, Rikke Reese Naesborg, Laura Nohemy Poma Lopez, Patricia Vieira Pompeu, Jennifer R. Powell, Jorge Andres Ramirez Correa, Klara Scharnagl, Conrado Tobon, Cameron B. Williams
Summary: The hierarchy of factors hypothesis suggests that decomposition rates are primarily controlled by climatic, biological, and soil variables. This study conducted a common litter decomposition experiment in tropical montane forests (TMF) across the Americas, Asia, and Africa, finding that litter type was the main biological factor influencing decomposition within TMF. Climate was identified as the predominant control over decomposition rates and differences in controlling factors between biomes highlight the importance of explicitly considering TMF when developing theories and models for understanding carbon cycling rates in the tropics.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eric Post, Christian Pedersen, David A. Watts
Summary: This study investigates the impact of warming and exclusion of large herbivores on 14 tundra taxa, showing that experimental warming reduces commonness across all taxa, while herbivore exclusion has a stronger effect on rare taxa. The findings suggest that commonness itself may be a strong predictor of species' responses to climate change, but large herbivores may mediate such responses in rare taxa.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Elin Linden, Mariska te Beest, Ilka Aubreu, Thomas Moritz, Maja K. Sundqvist, Isabel C. Barrio, Julia Boike, John P. Bryant, Kari Anne Brathen, Agata Buchwal, C. Guillermo Bueno, Alain Currier, Dagmar D. Egelkraut, Bruce C. Forbes, Martin Hallinger, Monique Heijmans, Luise Hermanutz, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Milena Holmgren, Diane C. Huebner, Toke T. Hoye, Ingibjorg S. Jonsdottir, Elina Kaarlejarvi, Emilie Kissler, Timo Kumpula, Juul Limpens, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Signe Normand, Eric Post, Adrian Rocha, Niels Martin Schmidt, Anna Skarin, Eeva M. Soininen, Aleksandr Sokolov, Natalia Sokolova, James D. M. Speed, Lorna Street, Nikita Tananaev, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Christine Urbanowicz, David A. Watts, Heike Zimmermann, Johan Olofsson
Summary: Spatial variation in plant chemical defence can help understand herbivore top-down control and shrub responses to global warming. This study measured defense compounds and leaf digestibility in shrub birches across the Arctic and found biogeographical patterns in defense composition and resin gland density. The results indicate a trade-off between triterpene- or tannin-dominated defenses and highlight the importance of previously neglected tannins in anti-herbivore defense.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Rafael Poyatos, Victor Granda, Victor Flo, Mark A. Adams, Balazs Adorjan, David Aguade, Marcos P. M. Aidar, Scott Allen, M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Luiza Maria Aparecido, M. Altaf Arain, Ismael Aranda, Heidi Asbjornsen, Robert Baxter, Eric Beamesderfer, Z. Carter Berry, Daniel Berveiller, Bethany Blakely, Johnny Boggs, Gil Bohrer, Paul Bolstad, Damien Bonal, Rosvel Bracho, Patricia Brito, Jason Brodeur, Fernando Casanoves, Jerome Chave, Hui Chen, Cesar Cisneros, Kenneth Clark, Edoardo Cremonese, Hongzhong Dang, Jorge S. David, Teresa S. David, Nicolas Delpierre, Ankur R. Desai, Frederic C. Do, Michal Dohnal, Jean-Christophe Domec, Sebinasi Dzikiti, Colin Edgar, Rebekka Eichstaedt, Tarek S. El-Madany, Jan Elbers, Cleiton B. Eller, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Brent Ewers, Patrick Fonti, Alicia Forner, David Forrester, Helber C. Freitas, Marta Galvagno, Omar Garcia-Tejera, Chandra Prasad Ghimire, Teresa E. Gimeno, John Grace, Andre Granier, Anne Griebel, Yan Guangyu, Mark B. Gush, Paul J. Hanson, Niles J. Hasselquist, Ingo Heinrich, Virginia Hernandez-Santana, Valentine Herrmann, Teemu Holtta, Friso Holwerda, James Irvine, Supat Isarangkool Na Ayutthaya, Paul G. Jarvis, Hubert Jochheim, Carlos A. Joly, Julia Kaplick, Hyun Seok Kim, Leif Klemedtsson, Heather Kropp, Fredrik Lagergren, Patrick Lane, Petra Lang, Andrei Lapenas, Victor Lechuga, Minsu Lee, Christoph Leuschner, Jean-Marc Limousin, Juan Carlos Linares, Maj-Lena Linderson, Anders Lindroth, Pilar Llorens, Alvaro Lopez-Bernal, Michael M. Loranty, Dietmar Luttschwager, Cate Macinnis-Ng, Isabelle Marechaux, Timothy A. Martin, Ashley Matheny, Nate McDowell, Sean McMahon, Patrick Meir, Ilona Meszaros, Mirco Migliavacca, Patrick Mitchell, Meelis Molder, Leonardo Montagnani, Georgianne W. Moore, Ryogo Nakada, Furong Niu, Rachael H. Nolan, Richard Norby, Kimberly Novick, Walter Oberhuber, Nikolaus Obojes, A. Christopher Oishi, Rafael S. Oliveira, Ram Oren, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Teemu Paljakka, Oscar Perez-Priego, Pablo L. Peri, Richard L. Peters, Sebastian Pfautsch, William T. Pockman, Yakir Preisler, Katherine Rascher, George Robinson, Humberto Rocha, Alain Rocheteau, Alexander Roll, Bruno H. P. Rosado, Lucy Rowland, Alexey Rubtsov, Santiago Sabate, Yann Salmon, Roberto L. Salomon, Elisenda Sanchez-Costa, Karina V. R. Schafer, Bernhard Schuldt, Alexandr Shashkin, Clement Stahl, Marko Stojanovic, Juan Carlos Suarez, Ge Sun, Justyna Szatniewska, Fyodor Tatarinov, Miroslav Tesar, Frank M. Thomas, Pantana Tor-ngern, Josef Urban, Fernando Valladares, Christiaan van der Tol, Ilja van Meerveld, Andrej Varlagin, Holm Voigt, Jeffrey Warren, Christiane Werner, Willy Werner, Gerhard Wieser, Lisa Wingate, Stan Wullschleger, Koong Yi, Roman Zweifel, Kathy Steppe, Maurizio Mencuccini, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta
Summary: Plant transpiration plays a crucial role in linking physiological responses of vegetation to water supply and demand with hydrological, energy, and carbon budgets. The SAPFLUXNET dataset provides a global compilation of whole-plant transpiration data, offering insights into plant water use, responses to drought, and ecohydrological processes worldwide. This valuable resource enhances our understanding of the complex interactions between plants and their environment.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Ajinkya G. Deshpande, Thomas W. Boutton, Ayumi Hyodo, Charles W. Lafon, Georgianne W. Moore
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jaeyoung Song, Gretchen R. Miller, Anthony T. Cahill, Luiza Maria T. Aparecido, Georgianne W. Moore
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2020)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Kurt C. Solander, Brent D. Newman, Alessandro Carioca de Araujo, Holly R. Barnard, Z. Carter Berry, Damien Bonal, Mario Bretfeld, Benoit Burban, Luiz Antonio Candido, Rolando Celleri, Jeffery Q. Chambers, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Matteo Detto, Wouter A. Dorigo, Brent E. Ewers, Savio Jose Filgueiras Ferreira, Alexander Knohl, L. Ruby Leung, Nate G. McDowell, Gretchen R. Miller, Maria Terezinha Ferreira Monteiro, Georgianne W. Moore, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Scott R. Saleska, Christian Stiegler, Javier Tomasella, Chonggang Xu
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Paul A. Klockow, Christopher B. Edgar, Georgianne W. Moore, Jason G. Vogel
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2020)