Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world

FT Maestre, DJ Eldridge, S Soliveres… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Understanding how drylands respond to ongoing environmental change is extremely
important for global sustainability. In this review, we discuss how biotic attributes, climate …

Water acquisition, sharing and redistribution by roots: applications to agroforestry systems

J Bayala, I Prieto - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Aims In the face of problems caused by 'intensive agriculture'dominated by large areas of
monocultures, mixed intercrop** mimicking natural ecosystems has been reported to …

Targeting perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes for enhancing ecosystem services

H Asbjornsen, V Hernandez-Santana… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Over the past century, agricultural landscapes worldwide have increasingly been managed
for the primary purpose of producing food, while other diverse ecosystem services …

[КНИГА][B] Phytoremediation in tropical agroforestry

A Atangana, D Khasa, S Chang, A Degrande… - 2014 - Springer
Agroforestry has great potentials for providing numerous environmental services, including,
among others, soil conservation, land rehabilitation, ground water-table stabilization …

The magnitude of hydraulic redistribution by plant roots: a review and synthesis of empirical and modeling studies

RB Neumann, ZG Cardon - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic redistribution (HR)–the movement of water from moist to dry soil through plant
roots–occurs worldwide within a range of different ecosystems and plant species. The …

Using data from Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS and PhenoCams to monitor the phenology of California oak/grass savanna and open grassland across spatial scales

Y Liu, MJ Hill, X Zhang, Z Wang, AD Richardson… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean-type oak/grass savanna of California is composed of widely spaced oak
trees with understory grasses. These savanna regions are interspersed with large areas of …

Walter's two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

D Ward, K Wiegand, S Getzin - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Walter (Jahrb Wiss Bot 87: 750–860, 1939) proposed a two-layer hypothesis, an
equilibrium explanation for coexistence of savanna trees and grasses. This hypothesis relies …

The influence of savanna trees on nutrient, water and light availability and the understorey vegetation

F Ludwig, H de Kroon, F Berendse, HHT Prins - Plant Ecology, 2004 - Springer
Abstract In an East African savanna herbaceous layer productivity and species composition
were studied around Acacia tortilis trees of three different age classes, as well as around …

Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi‐arid plant community

C Armas, FI Pugnaire - Journal of Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 The structure and composition of plant communities are influenced by positive
and negative interactions between plants, the balance of which may change in intensity and …

Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

RS Oliveira, TE Dawson, SSO Burgess, DC Nepstad - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
About half of the Amazon rainforest is subject to seasonal droughts of 3 months or more.
Despite this drought, several studies have shown that these forests, under a strongly …