Effects of mowing and grazing on a Leymus chinensis grassland in the Songnen plain of northeastern China were studied using eight replicates of four grazing and mowing treatments. Canopy cover and biomass of the dominant species (L. chinensis) were lower, and cover of the halophyte Suaeda corniculata higher, on grazed than ungrazed; ungrazed plots showed a response to mowing, but not grazing; s...

SLIDE 4 The marsh plain in Californian salt marshes, which extend from Point Concepción near Santa Barbara, down to Baja California, are well suited to the study of species composition and species assemblages and their relationship to ecosystem function because: The herbaceous vegetation is easily sampled. The marsh plain coexists without interference from invasive species. Halophyte traits are...

Environmental changes, for example, in rainfall and land use, lead to changes the environment experienced by subsequent generations of plant species. conditions maternal plants can influence fitness phenotypes via non-genetic mechanisms: transgenerational plasticity (TGP). However, relevant empirical evidence remains scarce ambiguous. What are adaptive consequences TGP face environmental change...

Soil salinity is an increasingly global problem which hampers plant growth and crop yield. Plant productivity depends on optimal water-use efficiency photosynthetic capacity balanced by stomatal conductance. Whether how behavior contributes to salt sensitivity or tolerance currently unknown. This work identifies guard cell-specific signaling networks exerted a salt-sensitive salt-tolerant under...