The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

LR Walker, DA Wardle, RD Bardgett… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Chronosequences and associated space‐for‐time substitutions are an important and often
necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development …

Biochar and forest restoration: a review and meta-analysis of tree growth responses

SC Thomas, N Gale - New Forests, 2015 - Springer
Abstract “Biochar”, or charcoal intended for use as a soil amendment, has received great
attention in recent years as a means of enhancing carbon sequestration and soil properties …

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

MR Carvalho, C Jaramillo, F de la Parra… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The end-Cretaceous event was catastrophic for terrestrial communities worldwide, yet its
long-lasting effect on tropical forests remains largely unknown. We quantified plant …

[BOOK][B] Aboveground-belowground linkages: biotic interactions, ecosystem processes, and global change

RD Bardgett, DA Wardle - 2010 - books.google.com
Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery

T Kattenborn, J Eichel, S Wiser… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) greatly extended our possibilities to acquire high
resolution remote sensing data for assessing the spatial distribution of species composition …

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

DA Peltzer, DA Wardle, VJ Allison… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Over time scales of thousands to millions of years, and in the absence of rejuvenating
disturbances that initiate primary or early secondary succession, ecosystem properties such …

Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna

CN Johnson - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large herbivorous vertebrates have strong interactions with vegetation, affecting the
structure, composition and dynamics of plant communities in many ways. Living large …

Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in an old‐growth tropical forest

X Lu, J Mo, FS Gilliam, G Zhou… - Global Change Biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Response of plant biodiversity to increased availability of nitrogen (N) has been investigated
in temperate and boreal forests, which are typically N‐limited, but little is known in tropical …

Soil organic phosphorus transformations during pedogenesis

BL Turner, LM Condron, SJ Richardson, DA Peltzer… - Ecosystems, 2007 - Springer
A bstract Long-term changes in soil phosphorus influence ecosystem development and lead
to a decline in the productivity of forests in undisturbed landscapes. Much of the soil …

[BOOK][B] Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation

J Ghazoul, D Sheil - 2010 - books.google.com
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …