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  1. Forage production is the fundamental ecosystem service of grasslands. Although forage consumption occurs at community level, most studies focused on species-level changes of forage quality. The quantitative an...

    Authors: Xiao-Tao Lü, Zhuo-Yi Liu, Seeta Sistla, Guo-Jiao Yang, Yan-Yu Hu, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Shuang-Li Hou and Cong Ding

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:33

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  2. Soil microbial communities cope with an imbalanced supply of resources by adjusting their element acquisition and utilization strategies. Although soil pH has long been considered an essential driver of microb...

    Authors: Tianpeng Li, Ruzhen Wang, Jiangping Cai, Yani Meng, Zhirui Wang, Xue Feng, Heyong Liu, Ronald F. Turco and Yong Jiang

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:32

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  3. Habitat heterogeneity clearly distinguished in terms of availability of food and habitat resources and landscape features (natural or human-modified) play a crucial role in the avian species composition and po...

    Authors: Bibhu Prasad Panda, B. Anjan Kumar Prusty, Biswajit Panda, Abanti Pradhan and Siba Prasad Parida

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:31

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  4. Habitat degradation is known to have a major impact on the composition of bird communities, yet how these communities recover following such disturbance is less understood. This study examined bird community c...

    Authors: Affan Nasruddin-Roshidi, Mohammad Saiful Mansor, Nor Adibah Ismail, Ehwan Ngadi, Mohd Izzat-Husna, Shahril Mod Husin, Farah Shafawati Mohd-Taib, Rahmah Illias and Shukor Md Nor

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:30

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  5. Forest fire incidences in the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India are very common in summers. Pine and oak are the principal and dominant species of Himalayan subtropical forest and Himalayan temperate fore...

    Authors: Devanshi Singh, Priyanka Sharma, Ujjwal Kumar, Achlesh Daverey and Kusum Arunachalam

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:29

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  7. The focus of this study was to investigate the wide use of Eucalyptus spp., an exotic plant with high allelopathic ability, in the reforestation programs of urban parks in São Paulo City, Brazil, over the last ce...

    Authors: Maurício Lamano Ferreira, Marcelo Ferreira Barbosa, Eduardo Pereira Cabral Gomes, Ana Paula Branco do Nascimento, Edgar Fernando de Luca, Karina Gonçalves da Silva, Ulisses Bezerra França, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo and Raffaele Lafortezza

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:27

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  8. As global temperatures continue to rise, species distribution modeling is a suitable tool for identifying rare and endangered species most at risk of extinction, along with tracking shifting geographical range.

    Authors: Debasruti Boral and Saurav Moktan

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:26

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  9. To restore secondary forests (major forest resources worldwide), it is essential to accelerate the natural regeneration of dominant trees by altering micro-environments. Forest gaps are products of various dis...

    Authors: Ting Zhang, Qiaoling Yan, G. Geoff Wang and Jiaojun Zhu

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:25

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  11. Disentangling the relative roles of environmental filtering and spatial processes in structuring ecological communities is a central topic in metacommunity ecology. Metacommunity ecology in the temperate river...

    Authors: Zhenyuan Liu, Tingting Zhou, Yongde Cui, Zhengfei Li, Weimin Wang, Yushun Chen and Zhicai Xie

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:23

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  13. A water-saving cultivation technique of supplementary irrigation based on soil moisture levels has been adopted for winter wheat production in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China, due to the enhanced water-use e...

    Authors: Zhen Zhang, Zhenwen Yu, Yongli Zhang and Yu Shi

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:21

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  14. Fragmentation and habitat loss can restrict species movement and reduce connectivity, negatively impacting biodiversity. Characterising the overall connectivity of an area can inform better management of human...

    Authors: Darrel Chin Fung Tiang, Andrew Morris, Mathew Bell, Christopher N. Gibbins, Badrul Azhar and Alex M. Lechner

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:20

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  16. Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) coupled with freely available multispectral imagery from Sentinel-2 (S2) satellite provides an immense contribution in monitoring invasive species. However, attempts to eva...

    Authors: Nurhussen Ahmed, Clement Atzberger and Worku Zewdie

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:18

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  17. Suitable habitat and landscape structure play a pivotal role in the success of forest restoration projects. This study aimed to model the habitat suitability of wild almond (Amygdalus scoparia Spach) using three ...

    Authors: Hossein Piri Sahragard, Majid Ajorlo and Peyman Karami

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:17

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  18. Land use/cover and management practices are widely known to influence soil organic matter (SOM) quality and quantity. The present study investigated the effect of different land use, i.e., forests viz. mixed fore...

    Authors: Archana Meena and K. S. Rao

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:16

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  19. Studies of the African savannas have used national parks to test ecological theories of natural ecosystems, including equilibrium, non-equilibrium, complex adaptive systems, and the role of top-down and bottom...

    Authors: David Western, Victor N. Mose, David Maitumo and Caroline Mburu

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:15

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  21. The forelands of retreating glaciers are invaluable natural laboratories in which to explore the processes of primary succession. Numerous studies have been conducted on foreland chronosequences to identify te...

    Authors: Haley E. Synan, Mikael A. Melfi and Lawrence H. Tanner

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:13

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  22. An increasing number of ecological processes have been incorporated into Earth system models. However, model evaluations usually lag behind the fast development of models, leading to a pervasive simulation unc...

    Authors: Jian Zhou, Jianyang Xia, Ning Wei, Yufu Liu, Chenyu Bian, Yuqi Bai and Yiqi Luo

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:12

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  24. Iron (Fe) and phosphorus (P) dynamics in sediments have direct and indirect impacts on water quality. However, the mobility of P and Fe in reservoir sediments in Eucalyptus plantation region remains unclear. This...

    Authors: Eyram Norgbey, Yiping Li, Ya Zhu, Amechi S. Nwankwegu, Robert Bofah-Buah and Linda Nuamah

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:10

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  25. The epidemic Dendroctonus rufipennis (spruce beetle) outbreak in the subalpine forests of the Colorado Plateau in the 1990s killed most larger Picea engelmannii (Engelmann spruce) trees. One quarter century later...

    Authors: James A. Lutz, Soren Struckman, Tucker J. Furniss, Joseph D. Birch, Larissa L. Yocom and Darren J. McAvoy

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:9

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  26. The size of lime material is vital for the efficiency of ameliorating soil acidity, thereby influencing soil biochemical processes. However, the effects of different sized lime material application on soil org...

    Authors: Hongtao Wu, Jinli Hu, Muhammad Shaaban, Peng Xu, Jinsong Zhao and Ronggui Hu

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:8

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  27. Syrian juniper is an economically important species and in danger of extinction. For these reasons, the best seedling production methods of the species should be determined and its plantations should be establ...

    Authors: Cengiz Yucedag, Mehmet Cetin, Halil Baris Ozel, Adel Easa Saad Abo Aisha, Osama B. Muragaa Alrabiti and Akram Mohamed Omar AL.JAMA

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:7

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  28. Linear infrastructures (e.g., roads, railways, pipelines, and powerlines) pose a serious threat to wildlife, due to the risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions (roadkills). The placement of mitigation measures, su...

    Authors: Francesco Valerio, Marco Basile and Rosario Balestrieri

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:6

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  29. Senna didymobotrya is a native African flowering shrub. It is suspected that climate change encourages the introduction and spread of invasive alien species. The possible invasion of S. didymobotrya across the co...

    Authors: Elias Ch. Weldemariam and Sintayehu W. Dejene

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:5

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  31. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a concern in kindergartens as children spend much of their time there. Yet, there is a shortage of biological indicators needed for assessing IAQ. Thus, this study evaluated IAQ usi...

    Authors: Azlan Abas, Sytty Mazian Mazlan, Mohd Talib Latif, Kadaruddin Aiyub, Norhayati Muhammad and Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:3

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  32. Forage yield is the fundamental ecosystem service of grasslands. While the quantitative responses of forage yield to nitrogen (N) enrichment are well known, its qualitative responses remain unclear. Even less ...

    Authors: Cong Ding, Guo-Jiao Yang, Xiao-Guang Wang, Zi-Jia Zhang, Yan-Yu Hu, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Shuang-Li Hou and Xiao-Tao Lü

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2021 10:2

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  34. In view of a wide range of on-site and off-site impacts of soil erosion, different soil and water conservation measures have been implemented mainly over the last two decades in the Gumara watershed and Ethiop...

    Authors: Mengie Belayneh, Teshome Yirgu and Dereje Tsegaye

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:66

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  36. Cytisus aeolicus is a narrow endemic species restricted to the Aeolian archipelago (SE Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) and it is one of the most evolutionarily isolated plants in the Mediterranean flora. Historical and li...

    Authors: R. Zaia, S. Pasta, F. Di Rita, V. A. Laudicina, P. Lo Cascio, D. Magri, A. Troia and R. Guarino

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:64

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  37. Grasslands provide a number of ecosystem services for human society. Degradation of grasslands results in the loss of biodiversity and leads to the deterioration of ecosystem functions. In order to accurately ...

    Authors: Xu Han, Yuhui Li, Xiaofang Du, Yingbin Li, Zhengwen Wang, Siwei Jiang and Qi Li

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:63

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  38. How landscape modifications affect functional diversity of floral characteristics pertinent to pollinators is poorly known. Flowers possess functional traits that sometimes coevolved with pollinators, crucial ...

    Authors: Karoline Baptista de Lima, Patrícia Alves Ferreira, Milton Groppo, Renato Goldenberg, Emerson Ricardo Pansarin, Roxana Cardoso Barreto, Guilherme Peres Coelho, Yago Barros-Souza and Danilo Boscolo

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:62

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  40. The habitat resources are structured across different spatial scales in the environment, and thus animals perceive and select habitat resources at different spatial scales. Failure to adopt the scale-dependent...

    Authors: Tahir Ali Rather, Sharad Kumar and Jamal Ahmad Khan

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:60

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  41. Cities are social-ecological systems characterized by remarkably high spatial and temporal heterogeneity, which are closely related to myriad urban problems. However, the tools to map and quantify this heterog...

    Authors: Yuguo Qian, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Wenjuan Yu, Dingpeng Xiong, Weimin Wang and Chuanbao Jing

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:59

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  42. A review of jellyfish aggregations focused on India’s coastal waters was conducted, with the aim to enhance understanding of conducive conditions and subsequent ecological impacts. Jellyfish swarming, as well ...

    Authors: Sanjiba Kumar Baliarsingh, Aneesh Anandrao Lotliker, Suchismita Srichandan, Alakes Samanta, Nimit Kumar and T. M. Balakrishnan Nair

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:58

    Content type: Review

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  43. Elevated atmospheric CO2 has direct and indirect influences on ecosystem processes. The impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on carbon and nitrogen transformations, together with the microbial communi...

    Authors: Dawei Jiang, Lifei Chen, Nan Xia, Eyram Norgbey, Desmond Ato Koomson and Williams Kweku Darkwah

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:57

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  45. Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) is harvested for its edible kernels. It is an important forest tree species, and also plays an important role in afforestation. Successful afforestation activities strongly depend on t...

    Authors: Safa Balekoglu, Servet Caliskan and Hüseyin Dirik

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:55

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  46. Wildfires play a key role in shaping Mediterranean landscapes and ecosystems and in impacting species dynamics. Numerous studies have investigated the wildfire occurrences and the influence of their drivers in...

    Authors: Marina D’Este, Antonio Ganga, Mario Elia, Raffaella Lovreglio, Vincenzo Giannico, Giuseppina Spano, Giuseppe Colangelo, Raffaele Lafortezza and Giovanni Sanesi

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:54

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  47. The dryland area in Ethiopia covers a substantial region endowed with diverse plant resources. However, the landmass has received less attention even if it has high ecological, environmental, and economic uses...

    Authors: Mehari Girmay, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissew and Ermias Lulekal

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:53

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  48. China’s terrestrial ecosystems have been receiving increasing amounts of reactive nitrogen (N) over recent decades. External N inputs profoundly change microbially mediated soil carbon (C) dynamics, but how el...

    Authors: Shu Liao, Siyi Tan, Yan Peng, Dingyi Wang, Xiangyin Ni, Kai Yue, Fuzhong Wu and Yusheng Yang

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:52

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  49. The adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices is expected to improve farmers’ adaptation to climate change and also increase yields while simultaneously curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Thi...

    Authors: Michael Ayeah Israel, Joseph Amikuzuno and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:51

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  50. Soil respiration, soil enzymes, and microbial biomass are important in carbon cycling in the terrestrial ecosystem which is generally limited by environmental factors and soil carbon availability. Hence, we tr...

    Authors: Urvashi Tomar and Ratul Baishya

    Citation: Ecological Processes 2020 9:50

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