Outputs (98)

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests (2022)
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Sousa, T. R., Schietti, J., Ribeiro, I. O., Emílio, T., Fernández, R. H., ter Steege, H., Castilho, C. V., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Baker, T., Pontes-Lopes, A., Silva, C. V., Silveira, J. M., Derroire, G., Castro, W., Mendoza, A. M., Ruschel, A., Prieto, A., Lima, A. J. N., Rudas, A., Araujo-Murakami, A., …Morandi, P. S. (2022). Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13531

Aim: Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soi... Read More about Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests.

High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island (2022)
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Hanz, D. M., Beloiu, M., Wipfler, R., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Jentsch, A., Vetaas, O. R., & Irl, S. D. H. (2022). High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33(1), Article e13120. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13120

Questions: Both species turnover and intraspecific trait variation can affect plant assemblage dynamics along environmental gradients. Here, we asked how community assemblage patterns in relation to species turnover and intraspecific variation differ... Read More about High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island.

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
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Cervellini, M., Di Musciano, M., Zannini, P., Fattorini, S., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Agrillo, E., Attorre, F., Angelini, P., Beierkuhnlein, C., Casella, L., Field, R., Fischer, J., Genovesi, P., Hoffmann, S., Irl, S. D. H., Nascimbene, J., Rocchini, D., Steinbauer, M., Vetaas, O. R., & Chiarucci, A. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18111-18124. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8409

Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration (2021)
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England, J., Angelopoulos, N., Cooksley, S., Dodd, J., Gill, A., Gilvear, D., Johnson, M., Naura, M., O’hare, M., Tree, A., Wheeldon, J., & Wilkes, M. A. (2021). Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration. Water, 13(23), Article 3352. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233352

Nature-based solutions are widely advocated for freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration. As increasing amounts of river restoration are undertaken, the need to understand the ecological response to different measures and where measures are... Read More about Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration.

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma (2021)
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Weiser, F., Sauer, A., Gettueva, D., Field, R., Irl, S. D., Vetaas, O., Chiarucci, A., Hoffmann, S., Fernández-Palacios, J. M., Otto, R., Jentsch, A., Provenzale, A., & Beierkuhnlein, C. (2021). Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma. Forests, 12(12), Article 1638. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12121638

Forest fires are drivers of spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of vegetation and biodiversity. On the Canary Islands, large areas of pine forest exist, dominated by the endemic Canary Island pine, Pinus canariensis C. Sm. These mostly natural for... Read More about Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma.

Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications (2021)
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Torgersen, C. E., Le Pichon, C., Fullerton, A. H., Dugdale, S. J., Duda, J. J., Giovannini, F., Tales, É., Belliard, J., Branco, P., Bergeron, N. E., Roy, M. L., Tonolla, D., Lamouroux, N., Capra, H., & Baxter, C. V. (2022). Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications. Biological Reviews, 97(2), 481-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12810

Landscape perspectives in riverine ecology have been undertaken increasingly in the last 30 years, leading aquatic ecologists to develop a diverse set of approaches for conceptualizing, mapping and understanding ‘riverscapes’. Spatiotemporally explic... Read More about Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications.

Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin (2021)
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Rodrigues, M., Mariani, M., Russo, A., Salis, M., Galizia, L., & Cardil, A. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19), Article e2021GL094238. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094238

This work explores the main climate teleconnections influencing the Western Mediterranean Basin to outline homogeneous fire-prone weather domains combining cross-correlation time series and cluster analysis. We found a zonal effect of the Scandinavia... Read More about Spatio-Temporal Domains of Wildfire-Prone Teleconnection Patterns in the Western Mediterranean Basin.

Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management? (2021)
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Green, D., O'Donnell, E., Johnson, M., Slater, L., Thorne, C., Zheng, S., Stirling, R., Chan, F. K., Li, L., & Boothroyd, R. J. (2021). Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(6), Article e1560. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1560

Urban flooding is a key global challenge which is expected to become exacerbated under global change due to more intense rainfall and flashier runoff regimes over increasingly urban landscapes. Consequently, many cities are rethinking their approach... Read More about Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?.

Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2021)
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Fletcher, M.-S., Pedro, J., Hall, T., Mariani, M., Joseph, A., Beck, K., Blaauw, M., Hodgson, D., Heijnis, H., Gadd, P., & Lise-Pronovost, A. (2021). Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 271, Article 107189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107189

Inter-hemispheric asynchrony of climate change through the last deglaciation has been theoretically linked to latitudinal shifts in the southern westerlies via their influence over CO2 out-gassing from the Southern Ocean. Proxy-based reconstructions... Read More about Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal.

Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia (2021)
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Fletcher, M. S., Romano, A., Connor, S., Mariani, M., & Yoshi Maezumi, S. (2021). Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia. Fire, 4(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030061

The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the recorded history of Southeast Australia. These bushfires were one of several recent global conflagrations across landscapes that are homelands of Indigenous peoples,... Read More about Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia.

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021)
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Sabatini, F. M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E. A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., De Ruffray, P., Hennekens, S. M., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Kattge, J., Levesley, A., Pillar, V. D., Purschke, O., Sandel, B., Sultana, F., Aavik, T., Aćić, S., Acosta, A. T. R., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1740-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species c... Read More about sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots.

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales (2021)
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Jandt, U., Sporbert, M., Welk, E., Seidler, G., Aćić, S., Biurrun, I., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Cerabolini, B. E., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., Dengler, J., De Sanctis, M., Dziuba, T., Fagúndez, J., Field, R., Golub, V., He, T., Jansen, F., Lenoir, J., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(2), Article e13016. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13016

Aim: Plant functional traits summarize the main variability in plant form and function across taxa and biomes. We assess whether geographic range size, climatic niche size, and local abundance of plants can be predicted by sets of traits (trait syndr... Read More about Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales.

The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021)
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Cai, Q., Welk, E., Ji, C., Fang, W., Sabatini, F. M., Zhu, J., Zhu, J., Tang, Z., Attorre, F., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Çoban, S., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Frink, J. P., Gholizadeh, H., Indreica, A., Jandt, U., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, 48(5), 1240-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074

Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size–niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additio... Read More about The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide.

Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study (2021)
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Reinecke, R., Müller Schmied, H., Trautmann, T., Seaby Andersen, L., Burek, P., Flörke, M., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Pokhrel, Y., Thiery, W., Wada, Y., Yusuke, S., & Döll, P. (2021). Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(2), 787-810. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-787-2021

Billions of people rely on groundwater as being an accessible source of drinking water and for irrigation, especially in times of drought. Its importance will likely increase with a changing climate. It is still unclear, however, how climate change w... Read More about Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: A global-scale multi-model ensemble study.

Characteristics and source attribution of PM₂.₅ during 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou: Efficacy of radical measures to reduce source emissions (2021)
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Chen, K., Metcalfe, S. E., Yu, H., Xu, J., Xu, H., Ji, D., Wang, C., Xiao, H., & He, J. (2021). Characteristics and source attribution of PM₂.₅ during 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou: Efficacy of radical measures to reduce source emissions. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 106, 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2021.01.010

A field campaign was conducted to study the PM2.5 and atmospheric gases and aerosol's components to evaluate the efficacy of radical measures implemented by the Chinese government to improve air quality during the 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou China. T... Read More about Characteristics and source attribution of PM₂.₅ during 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou: Efficacy of radical measures to reduce source emissions.

Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change (2021)
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Pokhrel, Y., Felfelani, F., Satoh, Y., Boulange, J., Burek, P., Gädeke, A., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Gudmundsson, L., Hanasaki, N., Kim, H., Koutroulis, A., Liu, J., Papadimitriou, L., Schewe, J., Müller Schmied, H., Stacke, T., Telteu, C. E., Thiery, W., …Wada, Y. (2021). Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change. Nature Climate Change, 11(3), 226-233. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00972-w

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been increasingly studied, future changes in TWS and the linkages to dro... Read More about Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change.

Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions (2017)
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Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J., & the RAINFOR collaboration. (2017). Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions. Carbon Balance and Management, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-016-0069-2

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Several independent lines of evidence suggest that Amazon forests have provided a significant carbon sink service, and also that the Amazon carbon sink in intact, mature forests may now be threatened as a result of d... Read More about Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions.

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling (2015)
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Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo M., A., Brienen, R. J., Feldpausch, T. R., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Malhi, Y., Ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Baraloto, C., Engel, J., Pétronelli, P., Andrade, A., Camargo, J. L. C., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Chave, J., Allie, E., …Phillips, O. L. (2015). Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7857

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few â € hyperdominantâ €™ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian t... Read More about Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.