Biogeosciences Discussions is the access reviewed discussion forum of Biogeosciences Effects of multiple environmental factors on CO2 emission and CH4 uptake from old-growth forest soils H. Fang, G. Yu, S. Cheng, S. Li, Y. Wang, J. Yan, M. Wang, M. Cao, and M. Zhou Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Graduate Univ...

Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Biodiversity, Macroecology and Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Community Ecology, Helm...

This study focuses on noise pollution in the Botanical Garden in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Equivalent noise levels (Leq) were measured at 21 points throughout the park, and interviews were conducted with park visitors. Some 47.6% of the measurement sites presented Leq levels over 65dB(A), considered by preventive medicine as the maximum tolerable exposure level without risk of health impairment...

Richard G. FitzJohn†, Matthew W. Pennell*†, Amy E. Zanne, Peter F. Stevens, David C. Tank and William K. Cornwell Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z4, Canada; Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolution...

Wei Huang, Evan Siemann, Gregory S. Wheeler, Jianwen Zou, Juli Carrillo and Jianqing Ding* Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Institute ⁄Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Ho...