The pond and plug meadow restoration method, used for incised meadows in the Sierra Nevada Range, takes available alluvium on site to dam the incised channel in several places. Groundwater storage gained from restoration may alter flow paths and surface water availability. Water flowing through the meadow is elevated, usually to an alternate channel, and slowed by floodplain spreading, meanders...

The basis for the interpretation of fossil-pollen assemblages in terms vegetation and climate is present-day relationship to pollen rain. Detailed modern spectra from Tibetan Plateau are described here explore between rain vegetation. Two hundred thirty four (234) surface samples were collected moss polsters, top soil, lake sediments forests, shrublands, shrub meadows, steppes, deserts Plateau....

The alpine grasslands account for approximately 54.5% of the total carbon in China’s grasslands, and carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) play key roles turnover carbon. However, variation factors influencing gene-encoding plant- microbial-derived decomposition steppes meadows remain unclear. Here, trends microbial their responses to biomass different origins were studied using metagenomics on...

Loxodontomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837) is a cricetid commonly called the southern pericote. A moderately large, heavy-bodied rodent, it is 1 of the 2 species in the genus Loxodontomys. This cricetid occurs in southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It prefers humid, dense grasslands, meadows, shrubby steppes, and mixed or open-canopied Nothofagus forests. L. micropus is categorized as of l...

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plants need different survival strategies in habitats differing in hydrological regimes. This probably has consequences for vegetation development when former floodplain areas that are currently confronted with soil flooding only, will be reconnected to the highly dynamical river bed. Such changes in river management are increasingly important, especially at locations where ...

The relationship between individual performance and nonrandom use of habitat is fundamental to ecology; however, empirical tests of this relationship remain limited, especially for higher orders of selection like that of the home range. We quantified the association between lifetime reproductive success (LRS) and variables describing lifetime home ranges during the period of maternal care (spri...

The Qinghai-Tibet (QT) Plateau Engineering Corridor is located in the hinterland of the QT Plateau, which is highly sensitive to global climate change. Climate change causes permafrost degradation, which subsequently affects vegetation growth. This study focused on the vegetation dynamics and their relationships with climate change and human activities in the region surrounding the QT Plateau E...

Alpine meadow ecosystems are susceptible to climate changes. Still, climate impact on cuticular wax in alpine meadow plants is poorly understood. Assessing the variations of cuticular wax in alpine meadow plants across different latitudes might be useful for predicting how they may respond to climate change. We studied nine alpine meadows in a climate gradient in the east side of Qinghai-Tibeta...

Nature conservation requires classification of vegetation types for site assessment and assignment. Species-rich floodplain meadows are a declining habitat in Britain Europe yet their has been based on just few samples fails to describe community response environmental change adequately. European classification, opposite, from the wide geographical range with no data/analysis supporting choices...