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Coastal and Inland Sandy Dry Grassland
Sandy dry grasslands occur on the coasts and in the inland. In addition to the naturally occurring succession stages after disturbance, it is...
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Differential response of graminoid and forb species to precipitation variability in a constructed dry tropical grassland
Precipitation and temperature are the two major drivers of species distribution on the earth. Change in precipitation has severe effects on the...
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Plant species richness increase across crop field–dry grassland edges masks diverging patterns in generalists and specialists
ContextThere is an urgent need to stop the biodiversity loss in European agricultural landscapes. These landscapes, due to their fragmentation,...
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Mesophilic, Wet, and Calcareous Grassland
Grassland is one of the most important elements of the cultural landscapes in Central Europe. Especially extensively managed, moderately or...
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Mycorrhizal fungi respiration dynamics in relation to gross primary production in a Hungarian dry grassland
AimsSoil respiration (R s ) is a complex process including a wide range of soil biota and pathways of carbon cycling, all being under the control of...
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Grassland Plant Community Composition and Dynamics: Disturbance as Determinants of Grassland Diversity
Campos Sulinos grasslands have a long evolutionary history intertwined with fire and grazing: they are disturbance-dependent ecosystems. Disturbance,...
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Insects in Grassland Ecosystems
Insects serve as ecosystem engineers in grasslands. Their impacts are comparable in scale to those of mammals, but because they are so much smaller,...
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Forests in the South Brazilian Grassland Region
The southern region of Brazil is characterized by the dominance of extended grasslands. However, the landscape also contains different types of...
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Impact of Uncontrolled, Rapid Winter Fire in Extensive Grassland
AbstractThe effects of a spontaneously generated, rapid turf fire in January were analyzed in an extensive meadow utilized by the Achilleo-Festucetum...
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Phenology of grassland plants responds to urbanization
Understanding phenological responses of plants to changing temperatures is important because of multiple associated ecological consequences. Cities...
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Fire regimes and management options in mixed grassland-fynbos vegetation, South Africa
BackgroundFire regimes in South African fynbos shrublands have been quantified in the western (winter rainfall) and central (aseasonal rainfall)...
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Subalpine and Alpine Grassland
The high altitudes of the mountains of Central Europe are characterised by extreme site conditions. This poses particular challenges for the...
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Impacts of soil disturbance on plant diversity in a dry grassland
Dry grasslands are not only amongst the most species-rich habitats in Europe but also amongst the most threatened. Threats include habitat...
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Ecological strategies of soil microbes along climatic gradients: contrasting patterns in grassland and forest ecosystems
Background and aimsThe forest–grassland transect in the Greater Khingan Mountains, located in the southern edge of the permafrost region in Eurasia,...
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Reintroduction of large herbivores restored plant species richness in abandoned dry temperate grassland
Naturalistic grazing by large herbivores is an increasingly practiced way of managing habitats with conservational value. It has the potential to...
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Mechanisms and Processes Sha** Patterns of Forest-Grassland Mosaics in Southern Brazil
Mosaics of forest and grassland are frequent in South Brazilian landscapes, both in the highlands of the Atlantic Forest and southward into the Pampa...
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Short-term grazing diminished ecosystem multifunctionality of grassland in northern China
Background and AimsGrasslands play important roles in production as well as having ecological functions. Grazing affects grassland ecosystem...
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Response of a grassland species to dry environmental conditions from water stable isotopic monitoring: no evident shift in root water uptake to wetter soil layers
AimsWe aimed at assessing the influence of above- and below-ground environmental conditions over the performance of Centaurea jacea L., a...
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Determining the harvest frequency to maintain grassland productivity and minimum nutrient removal from soil
BackgroundQuantifying grassland aboveground biomass and soil nutrient removal in response to harvest intensities is essential to balance productivity...
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Herbage allowance, movement and weight of goats in two sites of Caatinga (dry tropical forest)
The objective of this study was to quantify the forage yield, determine its nutritive value, and evaluate the movement pattern, weight variation and...
