Search Results - "Stradic, Soizig LE"
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Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-04-2015)“…We expand the concept of "old growth" to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically…”
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Root traits of grasslands rapidly respond to climate change, while community biomass mainly depends on functional composition
Published in Functional ecology (01-07-2023)“…Current challenges of functional responses in plant communities to climate change call for multi‐factorial experiments. Moreover, studies on climate change…”
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No general support for functional diversity enhancing resilience across terrestrial plant communities
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-10-2024)“…Aim Understanding the mechanisms promoting resilience in plant communities is crucial in times of increasing disturbance and global environmental change. Here,…”
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Variation in biomass allocation and root functional parameters in response to fire history in Brazilian savannas
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-12-2021)“…Fire is a fundamental ecological factor in savannas because it affects vegetation dynamics and ecosystem functioning. However, the effects of fire on…”
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Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change
Published in Global ecology and conservation (01-10-2023)“…Grasslands are ubiquitous globally, and their conservation and restoration are critical to combat both the biodiversity and climate crises. There is increasing…”
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Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Published in Bioscience (01-10-2015)“…Misperceptions about the world’s grassy biomes contribute to their alarming rates of loss due to conversion for agriculture and tree plantations, as well as to…”
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Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-04-2019)“…ABSTRACT Despite growing recognition of the conservation values of grassy biomes, our understanding of how to maintain and restore biodiverse tropical…”
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Copper tolerance of three Crotalaria species from southeastern D.R. Congo at the early development stage
Published in Biotechnologie, agronomie, société et environnement (01-01-2016)“…Microevolutionary processes in metallophytes established on copper enriched soils can lead to a diversity of plant species showing distinct tolerance…”
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No recovery of campo rupestre grasslands after gravel extraction: implications for conservation and restoration
Published in Restoration ecology (01-06-2018)“…Old‐growth grasslands, including savannas and tropical grasslands, need centuries to assemble; they are therefore expected to have low resilience to…”
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CSR analysis of plant functional types in highly diverse tropical grasslands of harsh environments
Published in Plant ecology (01-04-2014)“…The classification of plant species according to the CSR ecological strategy scheme has been proposed as a common language that allows comparison among…”
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Reproductive phenology of two co-occurring Neotropical mountain grasslands
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-01-2018)“…Aim: Climate tends to explain phenological variations in tropical ecosystems. However, water availability and nutrient content in soil strongly affect plant…”
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Flowering phenology of species with similar flower colours in species-rich communities
Published in Flora. Morphologie, Geobotanik, Oekophysiologie (01-07-2023)“…•We tested hypothetical scenarios for the interaction between bee-flower colours and flowering phenology.•Species-rich taxa have similarly coloured flowers in…”
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Ten principles for restoring campo rupestre, a threatened tropical, megadiverse, nutrient‐impoverished montane grassland
Published in Restoration ecology (01-09-2023)“…To achieve the ambitious goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, restoration frameworks should embrace the diversity of ecosystems found on Earth,…”
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Shared-role of vegetation types, elevation and soil affecting plant diversity in an old-tropical mountain hotspot
Published in Journal of mountain science (01-07-2023)“…Despite the exceptional species richness and endemism, the environmental drivers of plant diversity along old tropical mountains remain under-explored. The…”
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Using phytostabilisation to conserve threatened endemic species in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Published in Ecological research (01-07-2018)“…Outcrops in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are recognized as some of the largest copper–cobalt orebodies in the world. They support a…”
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Fire promotes functional plant diversity and modifies soil carbon dynamics in tropical savanna
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-03-2022)“…Fire is an evolutionary environmental filter in tropical savanna ecosystems altering functional diversity and associated C pools in the biosphere and fluxes…”
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Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes
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Plant phenological research enhances ecological restoration
Published in Restoration ecology (01-03-2017)“…While phenology data (the timing of recurring biological events) has been used to explain and predict patterns related to global change, and to address applied…”
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Seed functional ecology in Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation: an integrative synthesis
Published in Annals of botany (09-09-2024)“…Rock outcrop vegetation is distributed worldwide and hosts a diverse and unique flora that evolved under harsh environmental conditions. Unfortunately, seed…”
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Diversity of germination strategies and seed dormancy in herbaceous species of campo rupestre grasslands
Published in Austral ecology (01-08-2015)“…The effects of fire on the vegetation vary across continents. However, in Neotropical fire‐prone grasslands, the relationship between fire and seed germination…”
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