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Braking effect of climate and topography on global change-induced upslope forest expansion
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
Forests are expected to expand into alpine areas due to global climate change. It has recently been shown that temperature alone cannot realistically explain this process and that upslope tree advance in a warmer scenario ...
Impacts of land management on ecosystem service delivery in the Baiyangdian river basin
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
As the largest freshwater lake in northern China, Lake Baiyangdian provides a diversity of ecosystem services: it guarantees water flow to a number of beneficiaries and is an important component of sustainable regional ...
Community and species-specific responses of plant traits to 23 years of experimental warming across subarctic tundra plant communities
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2017 , Article)
To improve understanding of how global warming may affect competitive interactions among plants, information on the responses of plant functional traits across species to long-term warming is needed. Here we report the ...
Variation in plant litter decomposition rates across extreme dry environments in Qatar
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article Review)
Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as respired CO2, a greenhouse gas that contributes to ...
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2017 , Other)
Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is important for land management and policy ...
Comparing connection to theory in Bachelor's theses: Old research university versus new regional university college
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Article)
Quality of higher education is often assumed to be linked to the size of the faculty. Therefore, this study tested the hypothesis whether Bachelor's theses in ecology at a large, old research university would have more ...
Rural development program in tribal region: A protocol for adaptation and addressing climate change vulnerability
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Tribal peoples globally are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change and variability. This is due to a combination of their relative poverty and their dependence on agriculture and natural support systems (NSS). ...
Exploring the compass of potential changes induced by climate warming in plant communities
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
New models are required to predict the impacts of future climate change on biodiversity. A move must be made away from individual models of single species toward approaches with synergistically interacting species. The ...
China's ecological civilization program-Implementing ecological redline policy
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
China is one of the first countries to explicitly attempt to institute coordinated, ecosystem-based management across local, regional, and national scales. Chinese scientists have been urging policymakers to manage landscapes ...
Climate change will seriously impact bird species dwelling above the treeline: A prospective study for the Italian Alps
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
High mountain systems are predicted to be especially vulnerable to the impact of climate change, with the climatically-constrained tree limit rapidly shifted upslope. In turn, the impact of upward treeline migration on ...