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Mapping biodiversity conservation priorities for protected areas: A case study in Xishuangbanna Tropical Area, China
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Global biodiversity is declining rapidly, posing a severe threat to ecosystem functions and services. Protected Areas (PAs) can be extremely effective in protecting biodiversity, but conservation gaps arise as a result of ...
Biomass loss in village ecosystems in Western Himalaya due to wild monkey interactions: A case study
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Conservation faces the challenge of reconciling human activities with the simultaneous presence of wildlife in cultivated landscapes. In a study carried out in two villages of Pauri Garhwal, Western Himalaya, an attempt ...
Climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in Yangi Qala District, Takhar, Afghanistan
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Smallholder farmers in Afghanistan are already facing various risks in agricultural production due to past continuous insurgencies. Climate change is likely to amplify the risk and make them even more ...
Legacy effects of experimental environmental change on soil micro-arthropod communities
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wiley
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Authors. Global change experiments such as experimental warming and nutrient addition strongly affect the structure and functioning of high latitude and altitude ecosystems. However, it is often unknown to what ...
Decomposition rate and stabilization across six tundra vegetation types exposed to >20 years of warming
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Authors Aims: Litter decomposition is an important driver of soil carbon and nutrient cycling in nutrient-limited Arctic ecosystems. However, climate change is expected to induce changes that directly or indirectly ...
SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature
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wiley
, 2020 , Report)
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated ...
Scale effects on the relationships between land characteristics and ecosystem services- a case study in Taihu Lake Basin, China
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. It is generally recognized that marginal changes in landscape characteristics can influence multiple ecosystem services, but the causal relationships involved are still very unclear due to lack of ...
Effects of ambient climate and three warming treatments on fruit production in an alpine, subarctic meadow community
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
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Climate change is having major impacts on alpine and arctic regions, and inter‐annual variations in temperature are likely to increase. How increased climate variability will impact plant reproduction is ...
Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Alpine ecosystems are under increasing pressure due to tourism and recreational activities. When leaving designated trails as is frequently observed, visitors can cause unintentional damage to vegetation. This study ...
Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a globally distributed group of soil organisms that play critical roles in ecosystem function. However, the ecological niches of individual AM fungal taxa are poorly understood. ...