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Disentangling the effect of topography and microtopography on near-ground growing-season frosts at the boreal-temperate forest ecotone (Québec, Canada)
Permanent landscape attributes such as topography (elevation [m]) and microtopography (local variation in elevation [cm]) can increase the risk of...
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Ecological Restoration of Degraded Supratidal Wetland Based on Microtopography Modification: a Case Study in the Yellow River Delta
In the past two decades, the supratidal wetland in the Yellow River Delta experienced severe saline-alkalization and vegetation degradation....
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Characterizing Peatland Microtopography Using Gradient and Microform-Based Approaches
Peatlands represent an important component of the global carbon cycle, storing 180–621 Gt of carbon (C). Small-scale spatial variations in elevation,...
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Bog Microtopography and the Climatic Sensitivity of Testate Amoeba Communities: Implications for Transfer Function-Based Paleo-Water Table Reconstructions
Although the use of sub-fossil testate amoebae as a proxy for raised bog hydrology in Holocene paleoecological studies is well-established, some...
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Responses of plant productivity and diversity to drought in Carex schmidtii tussock wetlands, Northeast China
Global change projections predict more recurrent and intense drought events that along with their legacy effects have potentially long-term impacts...
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Stable reverse J-shaped diameter distribution occurs in an old-growth karst forest
The reverse J-shaped diameter distribution is considered an inherent attribute of natural forests, crucial for forest resource utilization and...
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Effects of Microtopography on Absorptive and Transport Fine Root Biomass, Necromass, Production, Mortality and Decomposition in a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland, Southeastern USA
Forested wetlands are an important carbon (C) sink. Fine roots (diameter < 2 mm) dominate belowground C cycling and can be functionally defined into...
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Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning
BackgroundIn 2019, a wildfire impacted an area of blanket bog and wet heath > 60 km 2 in the Flow Country peatlands of northern Scotland, a site of...
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Rewilding Risks for Peatland Permafrost
Permafrost thaw is projected to reinforce climate warming by releasing large stocks of stored carbon. Rewilding northern high latitude regions with...
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Vegetation Composition and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes on Rewetted Milled Peatlands — Comparison with Undisturbed Bogs
Rewetting is the most common restoration approach for milled peatlands in Europe, with the aim of creating suitable conditions for the development of...
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Small Mammal Communities of the Nadym Hills and Changes They Undergo along a Landscape Catena
AbstractThis paper discusses the species composition and population structure of small mammals inhabiting the north-taiga landscape of the Nadym...
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Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog
Warming is expected to increase the net release of carbon from peatland soils, contributing to future warming. This positive feedback may be...
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Impact of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) burrowing-induced microtopography on ecosystem respiration of the alpine meadow and steppe on the Tibetan plateau
BackgroundAlpine ecosystem underlain by permafrost is considered as one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to disturbance, especially the alpine...
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Physical and biogeochemical characterization of a tropical karst marsh in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Karst wetlands provide important ecosystem services such as maintenance of hydrological balance, flood regulation, drinking water supply and...
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Microtopography Alters Hydrology, Phenol Oxidase Activity and Nutrient Availability in Organic Soils of a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland
Hummock-hollow microtopography is a unique feature of wetland ecosystems, but our understanding of its effects on soil carbon and nutrient cycling is...
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Decomposition processes interacting with microtopography maintain ecosystem heterogeneity in a subalpine grassland
AimsGrasslands are among the largest ecosystems in the world and store up to 30% of the global reserves of carbon. Decomposition processes have a...
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Characterizing northern white-cedar communities in harvested and unharvested lowland forests of Michigan, USA
Understanding the complexity of forest community dynamics is essential in forest management planning and stewardship, yet lowland northern...
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Microtopography determines the habitat quality of a threatened peatland butterfly at its southern range margin
Knowledge of the ecology of pre-adult stages of an organism at its species’ range margins is a prerequisite for conserving species, especially for...
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Growth of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Oriented Microstructured Films and Electrospun Scaffolds
AbstractThe study involved the fabrication of films with different roughness and scaffolds made of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate using various methods....
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CO2 uptake decreased and CH4 emissions increased in first two years of peatland seismic line restoration
Oil and gas exploration has resulted in over 300,000 km of linear disturbances, known as seismic lines, throughout boreal peatlands across Canada....
