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Species play essential roles in ecosystems, so local and global species losses could threaten the stability of the ecosystem services on which humans depend (McCann 2000).
"Theory of 'smart' plants may explain the evolution of global ecosystems." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 December 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 12 / 151201130017.htm>.
A research team led by Prof. Li Yuqiang from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese ...
Alain Pierret ¹, Jean-Luc Maeght ², Corentin Clément ³, Jean-Pierre Montoroi ⁴, Christian Hartmann ¹, Santimaitree Gonkhamdee ⁵, Understanding deep roots and their functions in ecosystems, Annals of ...
A current debate in ecology centers on the extent to which ecosystem function depends on biodiversity. Here, we provide evidence from a long-term field manipulation of plant diversity that soil ...
Blue Carbon (BC) drivers and relevant factors. Credit: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109354 ...
As vegetation degraded, key ecosystem functions such as nutrient availability, soil enzymatic activity, microbial biomass, and ecosystem multifunctionality progressively increased.
Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation ...
Project Nutrient-poor grassland on calcareous soil covered by a loess layer in the NP Hainich. (photo: Valentin H. Klaus) ESCAPE: Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly ...
When evaluating the economic value of these various functions, Costanza et al. (1997) concluded that the economic value provided by wetland ecosystems exceeded that provided by lakes, streams ...
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