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Time pattern variation of alien plant introductions in an insular biodiversity hotspot: the Balearic Islands as a case study for the Mediterranean region
Allochthonous plant species are considered among the main environmental issues worldwide, being especially accused in the Mediterranean basin. The...
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Hydrogeology and Landform Morphology Affect Plant Communities in a Great Lakes Ridge-and-Swale Wetland Complex
Trajectories of vegetative change in wetlands can be influenced strongly by shifts in water-table elevation driven by evapotranspiration and...
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Sandy Soils: Do We Know Enough?
The Global Conference on Sandy Soils was held in June 2023 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. Distribution and formation; Monitoring,...
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Habitat suitability of an at-risk, monolectic, ground-nesting bee Hesperapis oraria and its floral host Balduina angustifolia at two spatial scales along the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Hesperapis oraria, Snelling and Stage (Hymenoptera: Melittidae) is endemic to northern coastal habitats of the Gulf of Mexico and is a pollen...
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Mangroves of Brazil
Brazil has the third mangrove extension in the world, occupying around one million hectares. These forests occur along almost the entire Brazilian...
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The Role of Halophytic Plant Invasions for the Conservation and Restoration of Degraded Agricultural Lands
Worldwide ecological systems associated with plants have changed because of recent abrupt and fast climatic changes. Physiological, phenological,...
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Observational Support for Regional Policy Implementation: Land Surface Change Under Anthropogenic and Climate Pressure in SALDi Study Sites
South Africa is a vast, very diverse and dynamic country experiencing rapidly changing demands for the utilization of its natural resources. At the...
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Vegetation biomass and carbon stocks in the Parnaíba River Delta, NE Brazil
Coastal ecosystems are considered environments with great potential for carbon storage. Given the difficulties in quantifying biomass, allometric...
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Status, Issues and Challenges of Biodiversity: Higher Plants
India with 2.4% of the total geographical area of the world harbours nearly 8% of the globally known floral species. The Indian flora is concentrated...
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Agroforestry for Climate Change Resilience in Degraded Landscapes
Agriculture constitutes the largest economic sector in Asia and Africa; therefore, issues like land degradation, food security, biodiversity loss and...
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Tidal Forested Wetlands: Mechanisms, Threats, and Management Tools
Tidally influenced coastal forested wetlands can be divided into two broad categories, mangroves and freshwater forested wetlands. These forested...
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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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Tropical Azonal Vegetation
Of all coastal ecosystems, mangroves are in particular need of conservation and restoration because of their widespread degradation and regional...
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Biodiversity of Halophytes of the Arctic Zone: Circumpolar
Arctic coast of Russia taxonomy Coastal ecosystems (coastal wetlands) of Arctic seas are tracts of the Earth’s surface showing a maximum diversity...
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Ecophysiology and Uses of Halophytes in Diverse Habitats
Climate change is decreasing global crop production and altering the balance of ecosystems worldwide, making it urgent to find alternative species...
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Introduction
We come across diverse ecosystems spread over varying habitats, at different altitudes, and climatic features in the Asian continent, with reasonably...
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Geomorphology, Sport Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Tropics
The “geographical” distribution of tropical islands is very uneven. Islands and archipelagos are found in Central America, the eastern Atlantic, the...
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Sand Mining as a Contemporary threat to Sandbar Nesting Birds: a Review
AbstractUrbanization requires enormous amounts of material inputs especially sand to fulfilling the demands of the increasing human population...
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Seed bank longevity and germination ecology of invasive and native grass species from Mediterranean wetlands
Most Mediterranean wetlands are overexploited and degraded by different factors and are especially vulnerable to alien and invasive species....
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Probabilistic patterns of inundation and biogeomorphic changes due to sea-level rise along the northeastern U.S. Atlantic coast
ContextCoastal landscapes evolve in response to sea-level rise (SLR) through a variety of geologic processes and ecological feedbacks. When the SLR...
