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Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:52
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Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China
Selenium (Se) is essential for human health and is predominantly obtained from dietary sources, particularly rice in Hunan Province, a significant rice-producing region in southern China. Investigating the rel...
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Fuzzy evaluation and obstacle factors of urban ecological health changes in the Wei River Basin, northwest China
Urban ecological health is crucial for the long-term sustainable development of watershed. Accurately evaluating the health level of the ecological environment helps to develop reasonable strategies for ecolog...
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Disentangling the invasion process of subtropical native forests of Uruguay by the exotic tree Ligustrum lucidum: establishment and dominance determinants
What factors, processes and mechanisms regulate invasive processes and their effects? This is one of the main questions addressed by the ecology of biological invasions. Ligustrum lucidum, a tree species native t...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:49 -
Autumn sunlight promotes aboveground carbon loss in a temperate mixed forest
Photodegradation of plant litter plays a pivotal role in the global carbon (C) cycle. In temperate forest ecosystems, the exposure of plant litter to solar radiation can be significantly altered by changes in ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:48 -
Understory bamboo removal impacts on woody seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems: a meta-analysis
Tree seedling regeneration in forests is often hindered by the competitive influence of dense understory bamboo competition. While localized studies have investigated the ecological effects of understory bambo...
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Effects of native species richness on reproduction of invasive Bidens pilosa vary with nutrient supply
Both increasing native species diversity and reducing nutrient availability can increase the ability of native plant communities to resist alien plant invasions. Furthermore, native species diversity and nutri...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:46 -
Incidence of controlled water restriction on density and chemical profiles in tree rings of Araucaria araucana seedlings
Dehydration of plant tissues caused by water stress affects the dynamics of the lateral cambium, the rate of cell division and differentiation in cell lumen size, wall thickness and wall chemical properties. B...
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Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on ecosystem multifunctionality of plantations
Mixed forests are better than monoculture forests in biodiversity, stand structure and productivity stability. However, a more comprehensive assessment of the ecosystem functions of monoculture and mixed plant...
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Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils
Globally increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has altered soil phosphorus (P) transformations and availability, and thereby influenced structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems. Edaphic charac...
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Environmental drivers of tree species richness in the southernmost portion of the Paranaense forests
The Rio de la Plata grassland region is dominated by temperate grasslands, with the scarce natural forests, influenced floristically by adjacent biogeographical provinces. Uruguay represents the southern limit...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:42 -
A network meta-analysis on responses of forest soil carbon concentration to interventions
Forests play a crucial role in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. 55% of the carbon in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forests, with the majority of forest carbon stored in soil. To better understand soil org...
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Seasonal freeze‒thaw processes impact microbial communities of soil aggregates associated with soil pores on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Seasonal freeze‒thaw (FT) processes alter soil formation and cause changes in soil microbial communities, which regulate the decomposition of organic matter in alpine ecosystems. Soil aggregates are basic stru...
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Modeling the distribution of Aloe ankoberensis and A. debrana under different climate change scenarios in North Shewa Zone, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
Aloe ankoberensis M.G. Gilbert & Sebsebe and A. debrana Christian are Ethiopian endemic species currently classified as endangered and least concern, respectively under International Union for Conservation of Nat...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:39 -
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed
Intensive and large-scale aquaculture has a high biological density, and a large amount of artificial feed must be provided. As a result, residual feed would be discharged into natural water bodies with water ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:38 -
Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data
Deciduous forests in eastern North America experienced a widespread and intense spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) infestation in 2021. This study quantified the impact of this spongy moth infestation on carbon (C) c...
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Stable carbon isotope composition and intrinsic water use efficiency in plants along an altitudinal gradient on the eastern slope of Yulong Snow Mountain, China
Stable carbon isotope composition (δ13Cp) can be used to estimate the changes in intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) in plants, which helps us to better understand plants’ response strategies to climate change....
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:36 -
Ratio of photosynthetically active radiation to global solar radiation above forest canopy in complex terrain: measurements and analyses based on Qingyuan Ker Towers
Understanding of the ratio of photosynthetic photon flux density (Qp) to global solar radiation (Rs) (Qp/Rs) is crucial for applying Rs to ecology-related studies. Previous studies reported Qp/Rs and its variatio...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:35 -
Transcriptomic responses to drought stress in the Patagonian southern beech Nothofagus alpina
Deciphering the genetic architecture of drought tolerance could allow the candidate genes identification responding to water stress. In the Andean Patagonian forest, the genus Nothofagus represents an ecologicall...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:34 -
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations
Microbial communities are crucial for ecosystems. A central goal of microbial ecological research is to simplify the biodiversity in natural environments and quantify the functional roles to explore how the ec...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:33 -
Prediction of soil organic carbon stock combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images in the Zoige Plateau, the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a critical component of the global carbon cycle, and an accurate estimate of regional SOC stock (SOCS) would significantly improve our understanding of SOC sequestration and cycles...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:32 -
Light grazing alleviates aeolian erosion–deposition effects on microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland
Soil erosion affects the stability of terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem services by directly or indirectly impacting the cycling of soil materials and energy and reducing the fertility of grassland soils. H...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:31 -
An arrow in the quiver: evaluating the performance of Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. in different light levels
Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit., native to the American tropics, is a pantropical annual plant and a major invasive species throughout India. It was anticipated that the availability of sunlight, coupled with its su...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:30 -
Rapid recovery of desert shrubs is attributed to imbalance of water supply to demand after disturbance in Northwest China
Disturbance is a key driver of changes in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in water limited regions. In the desert ecosystem of Northwest China, shrubs are often foraged by camels and this causes the shrubs ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:29 -
Long-term monitoring reveals the effect of precipitation and silviculture on Nothofagus regeneration in Northern Patagonia mixed forests
Tree regeneration is a key component of resilience because it promotes post-disturbance recovery of forests. Northwestern Patagonia from Argentina is occupied by Nothofagus alpina (Na), N. obliqua (No), and N. do...
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Linkages among leaf nutrient concentration, resorption efficiency, litter decomposition and their stoichiometry to canopy nitrogen addition and understory removal in subtropical plantation
The prevalence of understory removal and anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition has significantly altered the ecological processes of forest ecosystems at both regional and global scales. However, it remains a ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:27 -
Vallisneria spiralis L. adaptive capacity improves pore water chemistry and increases potential nitrification in organic polluted sediments
Macrophytes may modify benthic biodiversity and biogeochemistry via radial oxygen loss from roots. This condition contrasts sediments anoxia, allows roots respiration, and facilitates aerobic microbial communi...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:26 -
Response mechanism of soil microorganisms to simulated precipitation in the source wetland of Qinghai Lake
Changes in precipitation patterns crucially impact soil microbial communities, and the ecosystem in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is highly vulnerable to climate change. However, we do not fully understand how s...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:25 -
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species
Recent changes in climatic trends are resulting in an increased frequency and intensity of extreme events, with unknown effect on ecosystem dynamics in the near future. Extreme drought episodes are recognized ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:24 -
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China
Pesticide use contributes to national food security. The dissipation pathways and degradation mechanisms of pesticides have been widely studied and pesticide residues have remained a focus of public concern. H...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:23 -
A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts
The invasion success of introduced freshwater fishes is influenced by many factors, including ecological, species, and socioeconomic characteristics. Most studies that document the importance of these characte...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:22 -
Volatile organic compounds emitted by Megaplatypus mutatus associated fungi: chemical identification and temperature-modulated responses by the ambrosial beetle
In ambrosia and bark beetles–fungi interaction, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play a central role in mediating various aspects of community dynamics of beetles and/or fungi. These functions include facilit...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:21 -
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China
Accurate estimation of potential evapotranspiration (PET) is the key for studying land-air interaction hydrological processes. Several models are used to estimate the PET based on standardized meteorological d...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:20 -
Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile
Araucaria araucana is a mast species that presents a high variability in annual cone production. Researchers have recorded synchronization events in cone production in different populations, which allows the seed...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:19 -
Correction: An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom
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Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands
Grasslands in drylands are increasingly influenced by human activities and climate change, leading to alterations in albedo and radiative energy balance among others. Surface biophysical properties and their i...
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Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Agriculture has greatly influenced water quality, habitats, and fish assemblages in streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) ecoregion. However, MAP streams have historically been understudied compared ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:16 -
Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala
Restocking by introducing hatchery-reared fish into wild habitats aids in the restoration of fishery aquatic ecosystems and reefs to increase the abundance of fish resources, restore the ecological balance of ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:15 -
Comparisons of oxbow lake fish assemblages in relation to bigheaded carp establishment in the lower White River, Arkansas
Since the late 1990s, bigheaded carps (largely silver carp [Hypophthalmichthys molitrix] but also bighead carp [H. nobilis]) have established throughout the lower Mississippi River basin. Using previously studied...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:14 -
Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring
The timing of behavior and habitat use of nocturnal animals can be influenced by the lunar cycle in nature. The prevalence of artificial light at night (ALAN) has been recognized as a source of environmental p...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:13 -
Multi-scale habitat influences sprainting and group size of a freshwater-obligate smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) in Tungabhadra Otter Conservation Reserve, India
The impact of changing land-use patterns and associated anthropogenic threats on scale-dependent habitat use of semi-aquatic mustelids in scent-marking and social behaviour can provide important insights into ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:12 -
Water quality and habitat drive phytoplankton taxonomic and functional group patterns in the Yangtze River
Although phytoplankton are important primary producers in food webs, they are relatively less studied in large rivers compared to other types of systems. To fill this research gap, we studied phytoplankton tax...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:11 -
Extreme drought triggers parallel shifts in wood anatomical and physiological traits in upper treeline of the Mediterranean Andes
Treeline ecotones of Mediterranean ecoregions have been affected by the increasing intensity and severity of droughts. Even though the effect of droughts on forest dynamics has been widely documented, knowledg...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:10 -
Body size induced changes in metabolic carbon of soil nematodes under N deposition and precipitation regime change in a temperate grassland
Global climate change has resulted in precipitation regimes exhibiting an increasing trend in rainfall intensity but a reduction in its frequency. Nitrogen (N) deposition is a crucial component of the global N...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:9 -
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom
Discovering causality in environmental systems is challenging because frequently controlled experiments or numerical simulations are difficult. Algorithms to learn directed acyclic graphs from system data are ...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:8 -
Quality evaluation of Nothofagus pumilio seeds linked to forest management and climatic events
Forest ecosystems undergo significant transformations due to harvesting and climate fluctuations, emphasizing the critical role of seeding in natural regeneration and long-term structural preservation. Climate...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:7 -
Taxonomic dependency and spatial heterogeneity in assembly mechanisms of bacteria across complex coastal waters
Understanding community assembly mechanisms across taxa and space is fundamental for microbial ecology. However, the variability and determinants of assembly processes over taxa and space remain unclear. Here,...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:6 -
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate
Natural and anthropogenic wildfires burn large areas of arid and semi-arid forests with significant socio-economic and environmental impacts. Fire regimes are controlled by climate, vegetation type, and anthro...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:5 -
Priority effects of forbs arriving early: the role of root interaction and asymmetric competition
The priority effect of plant arrival is a key driver of community assembly and ecosystem succession during the restoration of degraded plant communities. However, the significance of the arrival order of diffe...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:4 -
Passivation remediation of weakly alkaline Cd-contaminated soils using combined treatments of biochar and sepiolite
Cadmium (Cd) pollution in agricultural soils has become a priority environmental concern globally. A reasonable application of passivators is critical to address the problem. In this study, we examined the rem...
Citation: Ecological Processes 2024 13:3
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