Despite the rapid economic and population growth, risks related to current dynamics of land use cover (LULC) have attracted a lot attention in Ethiopia. Therefore, complete investigation past future LULC changes is essential for sustainable water resources land-use planning management. Since 1980s, change has been detected upper stream Awash River basin. The main purpose this research was inves...

Ants are among the most ubiquitous and harmful invaders worldwide, but there are few regional studies of their relationships with habitat and native ant communities. New Caledonia has a unique and diverse ant fauna that is threatened by exotic ants, but broad-scale patterns of exotic and native ant community composition in relation to habitat remain poorly documented. We conducted a systematic ...

We investigated modes of regeneration of dominant species of the mexical vegetation after fire. The mexical shrubland shows a remarkable structural, morphological, and floristic similarity to Mediterranean-type vegetation and is considered a relict of the Madro-Tertiary Geoflora under a non-Mediterranean climate. This vegetation provides an ideal scenario to test the role of fire in Mediterrane...

Our objective was to determine if long-term increases in precipitation can maintain grasslands susceptible to desertification, and initiate a reversal of historic regime shifts on desertified shrublands. Perennial grass production and species richness in a multi-year wet period were hypothesized to be greater than expected based on precipitation in a sequence of dry years. These responses were ...

Revealing the patterns of fine root turnover traits can aid our understanding mechanisms roots in adapting to soil nutrient changes. In a karst ecosystem southwest China, rate, production, biomass, necromass, biomass/necromass ratio, as well total and available nitrogen (N) phosphorus (P) concentrations, carbon (C) N concentrations were analyzed upper, middle, lower slope positions two vegetati...