The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

L Erdős, D Ambarlı, OA Anenkhonov… - Applied Vegetation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Eurasian forest‐steppes are among the most complex non‐tropical terrestrial
ecosystems. Despite their considerable scientific, ecological and economic importance …

How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe

L Erdős, P Török, JW Veldman, Z Bátori… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in ecology and biogeography demonstrate the importance of fire and large
herbivores–and challenge the primacy of climate–to our understanding of the distribution …

[HTML][HTML] A global view of aspen: Conservation science for widespread keystone systems

PC Rogers, BD Pinno, J Šebesta, BR Albrectsen… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Across the northern hemisphere, six species of aspen (Populus spp.) play a
disproportionately important role in promoting biodiversity, sequestering carbon, limiting …

Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances

K Chytrý, W Willner, M Chytrý, J Divíšek… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence and origin of dry grasslands and their rich biota in the moderately humid
Central‐European climate have fascinated scientists for over a century. Modern …

Recent drought stress leads to growth reductions in Larix sibirica in the western Khentey, Mongolia

C Dulamsuren, M Hauck, C Leuschner - Global change biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Trends in air temperature and precipitation in the forest‐steppe ecotone of the western
Khentey, northern Mongolia were studied and related to stem increment and shoot water …

Late Pleistocene spread of (cool-) temperate forests in Northeast China and climate changes synchronous with the North Atlantic region

M Stebich, J Mingram, J Han, J Liu - Global and Planetary Change, 2009 - Elsevier
The results presented here from the annually laminated sedimentary sequence of
Sihailongwan lake provide the first comprehensive palaeoecological record covering the …

Diversity of forest vegetation across a strong gradient of climatic continentality: Western Sayan Mountains, southern Siberia

M Chytrý, J Danihelka, S Kubešová, P Lustyk… - Plant Ecology, 2008 - Springer
Southern Siberian mountain ranges encompass strong climatic contrasts from the relatively
oceanic northern foothills to strongly continental intermountain basins in the south …

Late Holocene Mongolian climate and environment reconstructions from brGDGTs, NPPs and pollen transfer functions for Lake Ayrag: Paleoclimate implications for …

L Dugerdil, G Ménot, O Peyron… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A coupled pollen-brGDGT paleoclimate reconstruction approach has been tested to provide
independent and robust estimates of Holocene climate and environment changes in the …

Evaluating tree species spatial diversity based on neighborhood relationships

G Hui, X Zhao, Z Zhao, K von Gadow - Forest Science, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This contribution presents a method for describing forest tree species diversity based on the
analysis of tree neighborhoods. The proposed measure of tree species spatial diversity …

Leaf hydraulic distance is a good predictor of growth response to climate aridity within and across conifer species in a Taiga ecosystem

X Li, D Fan, Z Liu, Z Fu, C Gan, Z Lin, C Xu… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite inter-specific differences in hydraulic traits at broad scale have been
comprehensively studied, intra-specific hydraulic variability in situ is less well known. Which …