State of knowledge on the effectiveness of management interventions to restore degraded eucalypt woodlands
Restoration Ecology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 17, 2025
To
support
the
persistence
of
Australian
eucalypt
woodlands,
conservation
remnant
vegetation
must
be
augmented
with
ecological
restoration
degraded
ecosystems.
Certainty
about
effectiveness
interventions
is
urgently
required
to
consistently
transition
woodlands
reference
states.
The
aim
this
meta‐analysis
was
quantify
improve
plant
and
edaphic
attributes
in
temperate
semiarid
Australia.
Our
structured
literature
search
retrieved
35
studies
that
were
suitable
for
analysis,
which
enabled
assessment
six
types
11
ecosystem
response
metrics.
Effectiveness
quantified
using
estimates
probability
magnitude
responses
generated
from
Bayesian
multi‐level
models.
We
found
consistent
increases
varying
average
levels
carbon
(via
sugar)
addition
(43%)
burning
(27%)
on
native
plants,
cryptogams
(91%),
woody
debris
soil
moisture
(35%)
(21%).
Native
plants
had
a
low
benefitting
slashing
(0.33)
or
herbicide
application
(0.09).
Slashing
high
increasing
introduced
(0.83).
Planting
almost
always
failed
achieve
communities,
phosphorus.
A
very
level
uncertainty
evident
outcomes
sugar
plants.
Overall,
we
paucity
adequate
studies,
including
insufficient
quantitative
information
combinations
interventions,
lack
common
interventions.
results
indicate
an
urgent
need
experiments
embedded
programs
certainty
effectiveness.
Language: Английский
Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity Shape Plant Performance in a Grassland Biodiversity Experiment
Ecology and Evolution,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(3)
Published: March 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
The
increasing
strength
of
positive
biodiversity
effects
on
plant
community
productivity,
observed
in
long‐term
experiments,
relates
to
mixed
responses
at
the
species
level.
However,
it
is
still
not
well
understood
if
are
adaptations
different
selection
pressures
communities
diversity
or
plastic
adjustments.
We
conducted
a
transplant
experiment
for
nine
17‐year‐old
(Jena
Experiment).
used
offspring
plants
selected
and
from
without
(
naïve
).
In
Community
History
Experiment
,
were
planted
three
test
environments:
their
original
with
old
soil
(of
Jena
Experiment),
newly
assembled
soil,
new
soil.
Selection
we
compared
plants,
both
grown
plants'
environment.
all
environments,
richness
was
associated
decrease
individual
biomass,
reproductive
output,
relative
growth
rate,
height,
leaf
greenness,
nitrogen
concentration,
an
increase
specific
area
(SLA).
Experiment,
had
weaker
decline
taller
stature,
higher
carbon
concentrations
than
richness.
survival
lower,
while
SLA,
nitrogen,
highest
environment
high‐diversity
communities,
individuals
produced
more
grew
taller,
greenness
Overall,
found
that,
despite
crucial
role
phenotypic
plasticity
trait
adjustments
actual
environment,
adaptive
responses,
largely
explained
by
history
plant–soil
feedbacks
established
over
time.
Language: Английский
Interaction effects of organic mulch application rates and rainfall intensities on soil and water loss in karst sloping farmlands: Insights from a laboratory simulation experiment
Panpan Wu,
No information about this author
Rui Li,
No information about this author
Feiyang Cai
No information about this author
et al.
Soil and Tillage Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
252, P. 106574 - 106574
Published: April 11, 2025
Language: Английский
Soil health indicators, farmer concepts and carbon market standards in agroforestation of underutilized lands in West Sumatra (Indonesia)
Kurniatun Hairiah,
No information about this author
Paul Burgers,
No information about this author
Ai Farida
No information about this author
et al.
Soil Advances,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 100051 - 100051
Published: April 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Multi-Omic Advances in Olive Tree (Olea europaea subsp. europaea L.) Under Salinity: Stepping Towards ‘Smart Oliviculture’
Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
14(3), P. 287 - 287
Published: March 11, 2025
Soil
salinisation
is
threatening
crop
sustainability
worldwide,
mainly
due
to
anthropogenic
climate
change.
Molecular
mechanisms
developed
counteract
salinity
have
been
intensely
studied
in
model
plants.
Nevertheless,
the
economically
relevant
olive
tree
(Olea
europaea
subsp.
L.),
being
highly
exposed
soil
salinisation,
deserves
a
specific
review
extract
recent
genomic
advances
that
support
known
morphological
and
biochemical
make
it
relative
salt-tolerant
crop.
A
comprehensive
list
of
98
cultivars
classified
by
salt
tolerance
provided,
together
with
available
genomes
genes
be
involved
response.
Na+
Cl–
exclusion
leaves
retention
roots
seem
most
prominent
adaptations,
but
cell
wall
thickening
antioxidant
changes
are
also
required
for
tolerant
Several
post-translational
modifications
proteins
emerging
as
key
factors,
microbiota
amendments,
making
treatments
biostimulants
chemical
compounds
promising
approach
enable
cultivation
already
salinised
soils.
Low
high-throughput
transcriptomics
metagenomics
results
obtained
from
salt-sensitive
-tolerant
cultivars,
future
advantages
engineering
metacaspases
programmed
death
autophagy
pathways
rapidly
raise
or
rootstocks
discussed.
The
overview
bioinformatic
tools
focused
on
tree,
combined
machine
learning
approaches
studying
plant
stress
multi-omics
perspective,
indicates
development
adapted
progressing.
This
could
pave
way
‘smart
oliviculture’,
promoting
more
productive
sustainable
practices
under
stress.
Language: Английский