Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 57(12), P. 2349 - 2361
Published: July 27, 2020
Abstract A growing number of initiatives at global, regional and national scales propose to plant millions, billions or even trillions trees as a simple solution resolve complex environmental problems. However, tree planting is much more complicated than it seems. We summarize the multifaceted decision‐making process needed offer guidelines increase success proposed ambitious efforts cover world‐wide. Given varied definitions motivations for planting, critical that stakeholders work together clearly define biophysical socioeconomic goals each project. Then series questions must be addressed about where how (e.g. vs. allowing natural forest regrowth) most effectively achieve these minimize unintended negative consequences, well how, when by whom will evaluated. Key successfully include: (a) first addressing underlying drivers deforestation; (b) integrating across from local global; (c) tailoring strategies stated project planning, adaptively managing evaluating over sufficiently long timeframe; (d) focusing on ecosystem whole, not just trees; (e) coordinating different land uses (f) involving all stages planning process. Synthesis applications . Tree along with other in appropriate locations contexts, can make valuable contribution ensuring ecological social well‐being our planet coming decades, but only if are considered one component solutions problems carefully planned, implemented monitored time‐scale stakeholder engagement broader consideration socio‐ecological complexities.
Language: Английский
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256
Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13(1)
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data 170,272 georeferenced assemblages, we created global maps alpha (local species richness) vascular plants at three different grains, forests non-forests. We show that is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), 'scaling anomalies' (deviations from positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly Eurasian temperate with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness many African tropical coarse-grained richness. The influence climatic, topographic biogeographical variables also varies grains. Our multi-grain return a nuanced understanding biodiversity complements classic hotspots will improve predictions change effects biodiversity.
Language: Английский
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108
Forest Ecology and Management, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 477, P. 118496 - 118496
Published: Aug. 17, 2020
Language: Английский
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126
Forestry Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 3(1), P. 0 - 0
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Understory vegetation accounts for a large proportion of floral diversity. It provides various ecosystem functions and services, such as productivity, nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition self-regeneration. This review summarizes the available literature on current status progress ten most studied branches understory both its structural functional aspects based global climate change forest management practices. Future research directions priorities each branch is suggested, where in response to interplay multiple environmental factors long-term monitoring using ground-based surveys combined with more efficient modern techniques highlighted, although critical role processes individually verified context practices or changes have been extensively investigated. In summary, this insights into effective regeneration restoration ecosystems, well maintenance multilevel structures, spatial patterns, ecological functions.
Language: Английский
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39
New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 240(4), P. 1548 - 1560
Published: June 2, 2023
Plant life and growth forms (shortened to 'plant forms') represent key functional strategies of plants in relation their environment provide important insights into the ecological constraints acting on distribution biodiversity. Despite importance, how spectra plant contribute global gradients diversity is unresolved. Using a novel dataset comprising > 295 000 species, we quantify contribution different vascular diversity. Furthermore, establish form distributions biogeographical regions are associated with contemporary paleoclimate conditions, environmental heterogeneity phylogeny. We find major shift representation woody perennials tropical latitudes herb-dominated floras temperate boreal regions, following sharp latitudinal gradient from tropics poles. also significant differences between mirroring responses which mostly explained by climate (18-87%), phylogeny (6-62%), playing lesser role (< 23%). This research highlights variation importance world-wide, shedding light evolutionary pressures constraining plant-trait distributions.
Language: Английский
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34
International Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 185(4), P. 321 - 333
Published: Jan. 16, 2024
Language: Английский
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Ecological Applications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(3)
Published: Feb. 13, 2024
Abstract Across much of the eastern United States, oak forests are undergoing mesophication as shade‐tolerant competitors become more abundant and suppress regeneration. Given historical role anthropogenic surface fires in promoting dominance, prescribed fire has important efforts to reverse sustain oaks. In 2000 we established Ohio Hills Fire Surrogate (FFS) study examine whether repeated (Fire), mechanical partial harvest (Mech), their combined application (Mech + Fire) reduced dominance subcanopy mesophytic competitors, increased abundance large oak–hickory advance regeneration, created a diverse productive ground‐layer flora, produced fuel beds conducive fire, reducing risk high‐severity wildfire. Here report on ~20‐year effects treatments vegetation fuels support for interactive across topographic‐moisture energy gradient. general, found that Mech tended while Mech‐only treatment did not. The moderate occasionally high‐intensity resulted were ultimately very similar between two but modulated by topography with increasing severity drier sites. particular, an interaction effect forest structure tree regeneration responses. generally density midstory sapling strata all site conditions, leading substantial gains dry intermediate landscape positions. also promoted diversity compositionally distinct communities primarily through richness native perennial herbs. However, had limited fine loading woody fuels, potentially wildfire during drought conditions. We conclude decades fires, without reduction, significantly shifted trajectory most landscape, particularly sites, highlighting capacity periodic regime promote plant topography.
Language: Английский
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Plant Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 47(2), P. 282 - 290
Published: Jan. 23, 2025
Herbaceous plants are an essential component of forest diversity and driver ecosystem processes. However, because the growth forms life-history strategies herbaceous differ from those woody plants, it is unclear whether mechanisms that drive patterns plant community structure in these two groups same. In this study, we determined herb communities have similar drivers alpha- beta-diversity. We compared species richness, distribution, abundance herbs to seedlings a 20-ha Donglingshan warm-temperate (Donglingshan FDP), China. also variation richness composition better explained by environmental or spatial variables. accounted for 72% all (81 herbaceous, 31 woody) recorded. Alpha- beta-diversity were higher than seedlings. Although alpha-diversity was not correlated across site, local-site contributions negatively correlated. Habitat type slightly more seedling composition, with highest low-elevation slope. Environmental variables Our results indicate different communities, exhibiting greater sensitivity habitat dependence. These findings contribute understanding communities.
Language: Английский
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Plant Ecology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 223(2), P. 117 - 129
Published: Nov. 12, 2021
Language: Английский
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Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 54, P. 125658 - 125658
Published: Jan. 3, 2022
Language: Английский
Citations
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