Six open-top chambers were installed on the shortgrass steppe in north-eastern Colorado, USA from late March until mid-October in 1997 and 1998 to evaluate how this grassland will be affected by rising atmospheric CO2. Three chambers were maintained at current CO2 concentration (ambient treatment), three at twice ambient CO2, or approximately 720 mmol mol (elevated treatment), and three noncham...

1. It is well known that climate change alters abiotic factors (temperature and water availability) that directly affect ecosystem properties. However, less is known about the indirect impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function. Here, we show that experimental warming may deteriorate ecosystems via trophic interactions. 2. In a Tibetan alpine meadow, plant species composition...

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Abstract Atmospheric warming and increasing tropospheric ozone (O3) concentrations often co-occur in many cities of the world including China, adversely affecting health status urban trees. However, little information is known about combined interactive effects from increased air temperature (IT) elevated O3 (EO) exposures on tree species. Here, Ginkgo biloba Populus alba ‘Berolinensis’ seedlin...

Little is known of warming effects on growth and defence woody seedlings that potentially invade grasslands. We predicted elevated temperatures would increase spine length Vachellia sieberiana growing (1) with or without grass in the dormant season early season, but (2) only when cover absent mid-late season. To test these predictions, 120 were grown 20 field plots middle late Ten warmed open-t...

The architecture of the subterranean nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, was studied through excavation and casting. Nests are composed of two basic units: descending shafts and horizontal chambers. Shafts form helices with diameters of 4 to 6 cm, and descend at an angle of about 15-20 degrees near the surface, increasing to about 70 degrees below about 50 cm in depth. Supe...

The application of hydrogen fuel in ORP engines makes the engine power density much higher than that a reciprocating engine. This paper investigated impacts combustion characteristics, energy loss, and NOx emissions hydrogen-fuelled by ignition timing over various equivalence ratios using simulation approach based on FLUENT code without considering experiments. simulations were conducted under ...