[HTML][HTML] Quantifying drought effects in Central European grasslands through regression-based unmixing of intra-annual Sentinel-2 time series

K Kowalski, A Okujeni, M Brell, P Hostert - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe droughts caused unprecedented impacts on grasslands in Central Europe in 2018
and 2019. Yet, spatially varying drought impacts on grasslands remain poorly understood as …

Nitrogen status of functionally different forage species explains resistance to severe drought and post-drought overcompensation

D Hofer, M Suter, N Buchmann, A Lüscher - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Forage species of intensively managed temperate grassland differ substantially in their
drought responses. We investigated whether differences in resistance and resilience, based …

Functional diversity response to geographic and experimental precipitation gradients varies with plant community type

X Zuo, S Zhao, H Cheng, Y Hu, S Wang… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation is a primary determinant of plant community structure in drylands. However, the
empirical evidence and predictions are lacking for how plant functional diversity in desert …

The relationships between biomass allocation and plant functional trait

Q Yin, T Tian, X Han, J Xu, Y Chai, J Mo, M Lei… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding how plants allocate biomass to different organs is of high importance since
biomass allocation among organs determines many growth processes. Biomass allocation …

Grass-legume mixture and nitrogen application improve yield, quality, and water and nitrogen utilization efficiency of grazed pastures in the loess plateau

R Xu, W Shi, M Kamran, S Chang, Q Jia… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Grazing on cultivated grassland is a green agricultural model. However, in China's Loess
Plateau, the type of cultivated grassland suitable for grazing and the amount of nitrogen …

Plasticity to drought and ecotypic differentiation in populations of a crop wild relative

S Matesanz, M Ramos-Muñoz, B Moncalvillo… - AoB Plants, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Populations of widely distributed species often exhibit geographic variation in functional
traits in response to environmental heterogeneity. Such trait variation may be the result of …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic, soil, and vegetation drivers of forage yield and quality differ across the first three growth cycles of intensively managed permanent grasslands

E Perotti, O Huguenin-Elie, M Meisser, S Dubois… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the agroecological mechanisms that determine forage yield and quality in
intensively managed permanent grasslands is crucial to optimize management and provide …

Response of plant functional traits of Leymus chinensis to extreme drought in Inner Mongolia grasslands

X Yue, X Zuo, Q Yu, C Xu, P Lv, J Zhang, AK Knapp… - Plant Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Understanding the effects of climate change, in particular, climate extremes on plant
functional traits can provide a mechanistic basis for predicting how plant communities may …

Variability and drivers of grassland sensitivity to drought at different timescales using satellite image time series

DA Luna, J Pottier, C Picon-Cochard - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity with climate change, leading to
more intense impacts on grasslands and their associated ecosystem services …

Maintaining biodiversity promotes the multifunctionality of social-ecological systems: holistic modelling of a mountain system

Z Mao, J Centanni, F Pommereau, A Stokes… - Ecosystem …, 2021 - Elsevier
Monitoring the provision of multiple ecosystem services (ES) in social-ecological systems is
a major challenge. Most tools usually tackle the problem by modelling individual ES, but do …