The last 20 years witnessed a real paradigm shift concerning the impact of biotic factors on
ecosystem functions as well as on vegetation structure of mangrove forests. Before this small …

While sexual regeneration of plants after disturbance is relatively well understood,
vegetative regeneration has attracted some attention only recently. Its role along …

Plant tolerance to herbivory has been accepted as a mechanism of defense that can be
expressed jointly with resistance. Recent advances have partially validated previous …

Mowing is a common practice in grassland management. It removes the majority of current
year's aboveground plant biomass and thus substantial amounts of nutrients residing in …

For a diverse pollinator fauna it is important that pollen and nectar are available over the
entire summer at spatially relevant scales. Semi-natural hay meadows are among the most …

Soil bacteria play a key role in the ecological and evolutionary responses of agricultural
ecosystems. Domestic herbivore grazing is known to influence soil bacterial community …

The grassland degradation caused by overgrazing is the result of imbalance of energy flow
and material cycle under grazing pressure in the ecosystem, and numerous ecological …

Biomass removal by herbivores usually incurs a fitness cost for the attacked plants, with the
total cost per unit lost tissue depending on the value of the removed tissue (ie, how costly it …

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America: Ecology, Life History, and Systematics brings
together a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North …

Herbivory and resource interact to influence plant regrowth following grazing, but few
detailed investigations on grazing tolerance at population levels are available. We …