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The Effects of Shrub Removal on Soil Microbial Communities in Primary Forest, Secondary Forest and Plantation Forest on Changbai Mountain
Shrub removal is a common management method in forest ecosystems, but comparatively little is known regarding the effects of shrub removal on soil...
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Are There Mountain Xerphytes in the Mountains of South Siberia?
AbstractThe regularities of biomorphological, ecological, and species differentiation of phytocenoses in the most arid southeastern sector of the...
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Dynamics of Tree and Shrub Vegetation in the Eastern Sayan Mountain Tundra
Abstract—Climate change entails shifts in the ranges of woody plants along both latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in the boreal forest biome. In...
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Lowland and Mountain Heaths
As ecosystems created by traditional land use in past centuries, lowland and mountain heaths in Central and Western Europe today have a high nature...
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Relationships between Phenolic Compounds, Tannins, Lignin, Nitrogen, and Carbon in the Plants of Dwarf Shrub-Green Moss Spruce Forests of the Kola Peninsula, Russia
AbstractThe study presents an analysis of aging (falling) organs (leaves/needle-foliage) of Siberian spruce ( Picea abies ssp. obovata (Ledeb.)...
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Tall, large-diameter trees and dense shrub layer as key determinants of the abundance and composition of bird communities in oak-dominated forests
Increasing human activity is altering the structure of forests, which affects the composition of communities, including birds. However, little is...
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Exploring how disturbance and light availability shape the elevation ranges of multiple mountain tree and shrub species in the tropics
ContextTropical mountains are hotspots of plant diversity, with a remarkable density of narrow ranged and endemic species. To develop effective in...
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Biodiversity and Geography of the Boreal Mountain Forests of the Northern Baikal Region
AbstractBiodiversity geography is now rapidly successfully developed within general biogeography, encompassing many aspects of biota differentiation...
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Distribution of Trophic Resources in a Rodent Community in the High-Mountain Zone of the Republic of Dagestan
AbstractQuantitative and qualitative characteristics of nutrition of some cohabiting rodent species in the High-Mountain Zone of the Republic of...
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Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests
BackgroundFire-adapted forests in western North America are experiencing rapid changes to fire regimes that are outside the range of historic norms....
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Butterfly population trends track vegetation encroachment but not climate warming in a Mediterranean mountain
Climate and land cover changes are known to exert strong pressure on mountain biodiversity, but the potential interactions between these drivers...
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Ericaceous shrub expansion and its relation to fire history in temperate pine-oak (Pinus-Quercus) forests of the eastern U.S.A.
Shrub expansion is widespread in forests, but unlike the case for grasslands, contributing factors such as fire suppression have not been widely...
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Reciprocal interactions between a non-native shrub and the dominant native trees of a high mountain woodland: who benefits?
Facilitation by nurse plants is a common interaction, whereby climatic harshness and/or other limiting factors are reduced under the canopy of the...
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Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goats
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), and to a lesser extent mountain goats (Oreamanos americanus), historically occupied much of the mountainous...
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The Mountain Regions of the United Arab Emirates: An Ecosystem Perspective
The mountains of the eastern UAE and northern Oman have long been recognized as a distinct biogeographical province hosting a mix of regional,...
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Effect of burn season and grazing deferment on mountain big sagebrush plant communities
Fire and grazing play an important role in managed rangeland ecosystems. These disturbances interact to shape plant communities and outcomes for...
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Slope aspect of a mountainous grassland landscape shapes the structure of an encroaching shrub (Euryops floribundus N.E. Br): insights from communal grazing sites located at varying distances from rural homesteads
Mountainous grassland landscapes are severely threatened by the proliferation of shrub encroachment. So far, it remains unclear though how slope...
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Thermodynamic Parameters of Khubsugul Mountain Forests (Khordol-Sardag, Mongolia)
AbstractThe results of using a thermodynamic approach to study the functioning of mountain forest biogeocenoses based on Landsat 8 OLI TIRS...
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‘Fertile island’ effects on the soil microbial community beneath the canopy of Tetraena mongolica, an endangered and dominant shrub in the West Ordos Desert, North China
BackgroundThe fertile islands formed by shrubs are major drivers of the structure and function of desert ecosystems, affecting seedling...
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Legacy effects post removal of a range-expanding shrub influence soil fungal communities and create negative plant-soil feedbacks for conspecific seedlings
AimsSoil legacy effects can have long-term impacts on soil microbial communities with implications for plant growth and community structure. These...
