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  2. Habitat degradation and flow regime alterations are two of the most prominent and common impact factors to freshwater mussel populations. Knowledge of the correlation between freshwater mussel distribution, de...

    Authors: Chenchen Jia, Chenhuizi Wu, Xiaochen Huang, Chunhua Zhou, Shan Ouyang, Xiongjun Liu and Xiaoping Wu
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:15
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  3. Temperature, as one of the effective environmental stimuli in many aspects of species life and ecosystems, can affect amphibians in many ways. Knowing and predicting temperature change and its possible effects...

    Authors: Peyman Karami, Sajad Tavakoli and Mina Esmaeili
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:14
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  4. In the riverine riparian ecosystem, particularly in India, the knowledge of the effects of habitat disturbance on taxonomic distinctness, functional diversity, and local contribution to β diversity (LCBD) of s...

    Authors: Kritish De, Amar Paul Singh, Arkojyoti Sarkar, Kritika Singh, Manju Siliwal, Virendra Prasad Uniyal and Syed Ainul Hussain
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:13
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  5. Soil microbial communities affect above-ground plant diversity and community composition by influencing plant growth performance. Several studies have tested the effect of soil bacterial microbiome on growth p...

    Authors: Rishabh Kaushik, Meesha Sharma, Ch. V. Ramana, Ch. Sasikala and Maharaj K. Pandit
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:12
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  6. In the climate change context, nature-based solution (NBS) is considered one of the effective tools to increase the resilience of socio-ecological system. The concept coincides with the government’s attempts o...

    Authors: Riffat Mahmood, Li Zhang and Guoqing Li
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:11
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  7. Abiotic factors exert different impacts on the abundance of individual tree species in the forest but little has been known about the impact of abiotic factors on the individual plant, particularly, in a tropi...

    Authors: Girma Ayele Bedane, Gudina Legese Feyisa and Feyera Senbeta Wakjira
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:10
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  8. Understanding and patterning the possible causal variables of global warming is attributed to the development of effective prevention and mitigation strategies for climate change. Therefore, we aimed to patter...

    Authors: Thakur Dhakal, Tae-Su Kim, Do-Hun Lee and Gab-Sue Jang
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:9
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  9. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of four different bioclimatic predictors (current, 2050, 2070, and 2090 under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways SSP2-4.5) and non-bioclimatic variables (soil, habita...

    Authors: Manish Mathur, Preet Mathur and Harshit Purohit
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:8
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  10. Public interest in the way food is produced on the farm and processed along the food-production chain is increasing. The analysis of isotopic signatures (13C) in cow tail hair provides a method to reconstruct the...

    Authors: Friederike Sieve, Johannes Isselstein and Manfred Kayser
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:7
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  11. Rhizosphere fungi play an important role in plant community dynamics and biogeochemical cycling. While the drivers of fungal community assembly have been studied in varied ecosystems, it is still unclear how t...

    Authors: Shuang Liang, Ricardo Arraiano-Castilho, Lena Neuenkamp, Hui Li, Zhen Bai, Mengxu Zhang, Jin Yin, Zuoqiang Yuan and Xugao Wang
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:6
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  12. It is necessary to determine the implications for managing forest stands using variable retention harvesting for maintaining carbon and for calculating the effects of different harvesting practices on above- a...

    Authors: Jimena E. Chaves, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuña, Julián Rodríguez-Souilla, Juan M. Cellini, Nolan J. Rappa, María V. Lencinas, Pablo L. Peri and Guillermo J. Martínez Pastur
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:5
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  13. The rock cut slope (RCS) could cause damage to regional ecological functions and landscapes and requires recovery. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are pioneer and dominant colonizers during the initial recovery ...

    Authors: Maoqiang Zhao, Wanqiu Pu, Jie Du, Wenhu Liu, Qian Zhang, Yanmei Liu, Li Xiao, Yingwei Ai and Chengmin Huang
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:4
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  14. Large-diameter trees have an outsized influence on aboveground forest dynamics, composition, and structure. Although their influence on aboveground processes is well studied, their role in shaping belowground ...

    Authors: Joseph D. Birch, James A. Lutz, Soren Struckman, Jessica R. Miesel and Justine Karst
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:3
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  15. Aquatic invertebrate species that have broad salinity tolerances may be pre-adapted for invasion success and biogeographic distributional range expansions, facilitated by human-mediated dispersal (HMD), leadin...

    Authors: Aldona Dobrzycka-Krahel, Carol A. Stepien and Zofia Nuc
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:2
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  16. Predicting the potential habitat of Phytolacca americana, a high-risk invasive species, can help provide a scientific basis for its quarantine and control strategies. Using the optimized MaxEnt model, we applied ...

    Authors: Yifeng Xu, Xingzhuang Ye, Qianyue Yang, Huiying Weng, Yipeng Liu, Sagheer Ahmad, Guofang Zhang, Qiuliang Huang, Tianyu Zhang and Bao Liu
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2023 12:1
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  17. Nutrient resorption is an important plant nutrient conservation strategy in wetlands. However, how shrub encroachment alters plant nutrient resorption processes is unclear in temperate wetlands. Here, we colle...

    Authors: Le-Lin Yu, Xin-Hou Zhang, Fu-Xi Shi and Rong Mao
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:67
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  18. Information addressing soil quality in developing countries often depends on results from small experimental plots, which are later extrapolated to vast areas of agricultural land. This approach often results ...

    Authors: Isong Abraham Isong, Kingsley John, Paul Bassey Okon, Peter Ikor Ogban and Sunday Marcus Afu
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:66
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  19. Transitional economies in Southeast Asia—a distinct group of developing countries—have experienced rapid urbanization in the past several decades due to the economic transition that fundamentally changed the f...

    Authors: Peilei Fan, Jiquan Chen, Cadi Fung, Zaw Naing, Zutao Ouyang, Khaing Moe Nyunt, Zin Nwe Myint, Jiaguo Qi, Joseph P. Messina, Soe W. Myint and Brad G. Peter
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:65
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  20. Climate change is expected to affect plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs, i.e., the effects of a plant on the growth of another plant or community grown in the same soil via changes in soil abiotic and biotic propertie...

    Authors: Kamrul Hassan, K. M. Golam Dastogeer, Yolima Carrillo and Uffe N. Nielsen
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:64
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  21. Land-use change frequently affects faunistic populations and communities. To achieve successful conservation strategies, we need suitable information about species distribution and the causes of extinction ris...

    Authors: Marco Tulio Oropeza-Sánchez, Ireri Suazo-Ortuño, Julieta Benítez-Malvido, Erandi Monroy-Hernández and Roberto Munguía-Steyer
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:63
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  22. Invasive species can threaten native diversity and alter ecosystem processes while interacting with other components of global environmental change. Invasive plants are becoming increasingly problematic and th...

    Authors: Guangqian Ren, Bin Yang, Miaomiao Cui, Zhicong Dai, Yan Xiang, Haiyan Zhang, Guanlin Li, Jian Li, Qaiser Javed and Daolin Du
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:62
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  23. The impact of climate change on horticultural production is of utmost concern worldwide. One such vulnerable region of horticultural importance is the Madhya Pradesh state in the central part of India. It is c...

    Authors: Gaurav Sharma, Amita Sharma, Nishant Kumar Sinha, Om Prakash Sharma, Ashutosh Singh, Ajai Kumar Pandey, Abhishek Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Trivedi, Bharti Sao and Mukesh Kumar Sahu
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:61
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  25. The exclusion of tourist species from samples is important to avoid bias in community analyses. However, in practice, this is a very difficult task. The commonly used methods by researchers, when the habitat o...

    Authors: María Florencia Nadal, Alda González and Gilberto Avalos
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:59
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  26. Temperate forests are major carbon sinks because of their high storage potential and low decomposition processes. We quantified tree carbon (TC) storage from 143 plots distributed across three major forest ty...

    Authors: Ashaq Ahmad Dar and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:58
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  29. Non-native wild pigs (Sus scrofa) threaten sensitive flora and fauna, cost billions of dollars in economic damage, and pose a significant human–wildlife conflict risk. Despite growing interest in wild pig researc...

    Authors: Derek R. Risch, Shaya Honarvar and Melissa R. Price
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:55
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  30. The evaporative fraction (EF) represents an important biophysical parameter reflecting the distribution of surface available energy. In this study, we investigated the daily and seasonal patterns of EF in a mu...

    Authors: Terenzio Zenone, Luca Vitale, Daniela Famulari and Vincenzo Magliulo
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:54
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  31. Large-scale hunting and various anthropogenic pressures in the recent past have pushed the Asiatic caracal (Caracal caracal schmitzi), an elusive medium-sized and locally threatened felid species towards local ex...

    Authors: Ashish Kumar Jangid, Chandra Prakash Singh, Jai Singh Parihar, Jasbir Singh Chauhan, Rajnish Kumar Singh, Prakash Kumar Verma, Amritanshu Singh, Shantanu Sharma and Shekhar Kolipaka
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:53
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  32. Atmospheric CO2 may double by the year 2100, thereby altering plant growth, photosynthesis, leaf nutrient contents and water relations. Specifically, atmospheric CO2 is currently 50% higher than pre-industrial le...

    Authors: Mthunzi Mndela, Julius T. Tjelele, Ignacio C. Madakadze, Mziwanda Mangwane, Igshaan M. Samuels, Francuois Muller and Hosia T. Pule
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:52
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  33. Habitat loss and fragmentation in the Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO) ecological corridor have negative impacts on the movement and distribution of mammalian species that are of great ecological and evolutionary i...

    Authors: Jonathan O. Huerta-Rodríguez, Octavio C. Rosas-Rosas, Lauro López-Mata, José L. Alcántara-Carbajal and Luis A. Tarango-Arámbula
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:51
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  34. Cameroon’s tropical rainforests are nowadays strewn with rural forests maintained by local populations; however, these forests are not officially recognized in the non-permanent forest domain. Rural forests ar...

    Authors: Olivier Clovis Kengne, Samuel Severin Kenfack Feukeng, Eric Tchatchouang Ngansop, Raissa Gwladys Daghela Meyan-ya and Louis Zapfack
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:50
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  36. Despite the importance of root decomposition in predicting ecosystem responses to future climate change, the effects of branch order on root decomposition and the feedback to soil still remains poorly understo...

    Authors: Yibo Wu, Mengling Zhang, Zhibao Cheng, Fang Wang and Xiaoyong Cui
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:48
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  37. Insufficient knowledge of the genetic and phenotypic diversity in the local Beninese goat population combined with the lack of understanding of its adaptive capacity to ongoing environmental and societal chang...

    Authors: Habib Rainier Vihotogbe Whannou, Cossi Ulriche Afatondji, Côme Agossa Linsoussi, Gnimansou Abraham Favi, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Marcel Romuald Benjamin Houinato and Luc Hippolyte Dossa
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:47
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  38. The relationship between climate and radial growth of trees exhibits spatial variation due to environmental changes. Therefore, elucidation of how the growth–climate responses of trees vary in space is essenti...

    Authors: Jingjing Qiao and Yujun Sun
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:46
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  39. The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus L. 1758) was introduced into different regions of the world, generating significant trade-offs that critically impacted native vegetation. Here, we evaluate the rabbit's...

    Authors: Alejandro Huertas Herrera, Mónica Toro-Manríquez, Laura Borrelli, María Vanessa Lencinas and Guillermo Martínez Pastur
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:45
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  40. With elderly people comprising a growing share of the population, landscape planners need to consider their specific requirements to enhance the opportunities for them to engage in nature-based recreation (NBR...

    Authors: Chen Wen, Christian Albert and Christina von Haaren
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:44
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  43. Altered hydrology is a stressor on aquatic life, but quantitative relations between specific aspects of streamflow alteration and biological responses have not been developed on a statewide scale in Minnesota....

    Authors: Jeffrey R. Ziegeweid, Gregory D. Johnson, Aliesha L. Krall, Kara Fitzpatrick and Sara B. Levin
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:41
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  46. Individual plants can identify their neighbors and adjust their biomass investment to avoid competing with their relatives or jointly cope with external stresses. Maternal effects can improve their offspring a...

    Authors: Zhen Zhang, Xiliang Li, Junjie Duan and Juan Sun
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:38
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  47. Natural abundance of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) has been used to indicate the state and cycle of ecosystem C and N. However, it is still unclear how C and N cycle of boreal ...

    Authors: Guancheng Liu, Zhiwei Yin, Guoyong Yan, Shuang Liu, Xiaochun Wang, Yajuan Xing and Qinggui Wang
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:37
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  48. Nitrogen (N) deposition alters litter decomposition and soil carbon (C) sequestration by influencing the microbial community and its enzyme activity. Natural atmospheric N deposition comprises of inorganic N (...

    Authors: Lili Dong, Björn Berg, Weiping Gu, Zhengwen Wang and Tao Sun
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:36
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  49. There is a long-term trend towards the abandonment of agro-pastoral activities in the mountain areas of Europe: the following encroachment process of semi-natural grasslands by shrubs is one of the main severe...

    Authors: Marcello Verdinelli, Marco Pittarello, Maria Carmela Caria, Giovanna Piga, Pier Paolo Roggero, Gian Marco Marrosu, Stefano Arrizza, Maria Leonarda Fadda, Giampiero Lombardi, Michele Lonati, Ginevra Nota, Maria Sitzia and Simonetta Bagella
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:35
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  50. The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is one of the most iconic tree species of the Mediterranean region, with valuable economic, ecological and cultural value. Carob has been exploited around the Mediterranean r...

    Authors: Jalal Kassout, Younes Hmimsa, Salama El Fatehi, Abdeltif El Ouahrani, Khalil Kadaoui, Soufian Chakkour, David Ariza-Mateos, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez, Rafael Navarro-Cerrillo and Mohammed Ater
    Citation: Ecological Processes 2022 11:34
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