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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"grassland plant species"”.
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Assessing the ecological vulnerability of natural flood defences and risks to agricultural land following seawater flooding
… <br/>Chapter 2 investigates how coastal grassland plant species respond to pulse episodes of simulated seawater flooding in laboratory-based experiments. Taxonomic trends in species responses indicate Fabaceae as extremely sensitive, while Poaceae exhibited considerable tolerance to the …
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Plant community assembly and biodiversity: a spatio-temporal perspective
… and temporal changes in different aspects of plant biodiversity and examine the driving forces that generate and maintain observed biodiversity patterns. Multiple facets of biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic, functional) were characterized in semi-natural grasslands (in plots of 0.5 × 0.5 …
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Microbial diversity and activity in temperate forest and grassland ecosystems
… aimed at investigating the effect of aboveground plant diversity on ammonia oxidizing bacteria diversity and function in forest and grassland soils with focus on the influence of (a) functional group identity of grassland plants (legumes, grasses, forbs), (b) grassland plant species richness and …
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Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Plant and Bird Community Composition in Kane County Forest Preserves
<p>Loss of grassland ecosystems over the past century has increased importance of efforts to improve and restore habitat for native plant species and the biotic communities they support. As a result of these efforts, biotic and abiotic conditions and interactions with the environment are altered. …