Sentences with phrase «plant communities»

«The transformation of plant communities on a continental scale within less than a decade can be considered a rapid ecosystem response to ongoing climate warming,» the researchers write.

These native plant communities will help prevent further erosion and create important habitat for native wildlife.

Several surveys have suggested that highly diverse plant communities are more resistant than species - poor ones, changing less from their normal state during periods of drought — and recovering more rapidly afterwards.

Teachers and staff are always seeking ways for the school to give back to the community, whether by planting a community garden or helping cook meals for a local community center.

But until now little was understood about how the roots under different plant communities affect the physical condition of the soil.

This research highlights the potential for plant communities to change in the face of changing climates.

This canopy prevents the dense under storey growth that may be seen in other plant communities.

Many insect species which feed on nectar and pollen have a higher reproduction rate when they benefit from a better food supply through species - rich plant communities.

Changing climatic conditions not only affect the plants themselves, but also other organisms that influence plant communities.

Rising CO2 is therefore likely to have complex effects on the growth and composition of natural plant communities.

Nine aquatic plant communities and 43 water - dependent species were recorded across 12 wetlands.

In addition, he notes, the results point to the importance of plant - fungi relationships in determining the composition of plant communities — and their vulnerability.

The native plant communities are slowly recovering since the removal of feral sheep and pigs.

In the sheltered central regions of the island, where the dunes are stable and there are more nutrients for growth, diverse plant communities and rainforests are found.

Others can start with a community need, such as planting a community garden because some low - income families in the area might not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

Increased temperatures, shifting species distributions, increased drought stress for plant communities and aquatic systems and amplified pest and disease outbreaks are among the potential impacts of climate change.

Changing climate conditions not only affect the plants themselves, but also other organisms that influence plant communities.

«But what we've found is that the associated changes in plant community composition in the polar regions could lead to way more carbon being released into the atmosphere as methane.»

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But a closer look reveals one of the most diverse plant communities on Earth.

Since Cuomo announced the project last May, community members have continued to push back against the microgrid proposal that would continue to be powered by natural gas — a facility that seemed all too similar to the ANSWERS plant the community members rallied against only a couple of decades prior.

Such changes in plant community structures also have long - term impacts on forest regeneration, Averill said.

Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests.

«Overall, deer reduce community diversity, lowering native plant richness and abundance and benefiting certain invasive plants, showing that deer have a pervasive impact on forest understory plant communities across broad swaths of the eastern U.S.,» said Kristine Averill, a research associate in Cornell's Section of Soil and Crop Sciences and lead author of the study.

Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits — Jonathan W. Leff — The ISME Journal

«Strong species - environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients» was published online in October 2013 in the open access journal Ecology and Evolution.

The purpose of the watering was to contribute to environmental outcomes such as supporting the condition of floodplain trees, understorey vegetation and submerged plant communities and to provide habitat for bird and frog species.

A survey of the local plant community by soil biologist and co-author John Moore found that dwarf birch shrubs increased by 94 percent, while lichens were almost completely wiped out.

Smart et al. monitored the understory plant community in forest plots before and after the storm, and compared affected and unaffected sites.

Hummingbirds with even smaller ranges exist but were not included in the study because no information is available on their interactions with plant communities.

After all, the positive effects of mixed crops are not just evident in plant communities like meadows and forests, but also in the mixed cultivation of different varieties or genotypes of a single crop such as wheat.

Redwood forests are interspersed with several other plant communities throughout this ecoregion.

«Our study also nicely confirms something that pollination biologists have known for a long time: even in the presence of a highly abundant species that pollinates many plant species, we still need healthy populations of other pollinators for entire plant communities to receive adequate pollination services,» said Hung.

A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.

By studying the kinds of pollen, diatoms (defined), and other materials in the layers of sediment, scientists can determine how plant communities shifted in response to climate changes and how lakes levels rose and fell with time.

, community members have continued to push back against the microgrid proposal that would continue to be powered by natural gas — a facility that seemed all too similar to the ANSWERS plant the community members rallied against only a couple of decades prior.

As the introduction of non-native species increases, protection of intact plant communities and their associated herbivores may become critical to guarding against the non-native species invaders.

Furthermore, changes in coflowering patterns were observed, which indicates that even small changes in timing could alter alpine plant communities.

I work in researching and propagating edible perennial plants and also in designing forest gardens - an ingenious system of growing food through an interconnected perennial plant community, modeled on a natural woodland.

«It's not really clear which mechanisms and processes take place after soil inoculation [that] end up triggering the establishment of a particular plant community,» he says.

To the extent that herbivory impacts plant communities, these results suggest that deer promote the spread of some plant invaders by avoiding them.»

Located between Greenland and Russia, Svalbard experienced a near - complete loss of its vegetation during the last ice age and was quite sparse even 10,000 years ago, but today it is home to a thriving plant community.

Strong species - environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients.

The work builds on earlier research on the responsiveness to climate change of both tropical and Arctic plant communities.

«We have around us today plant communities that still look intact, that still seem intact.

This is due to the fact that in species - rich ecosystems, plant communities develop whose growth is more energetically efficient.

In Sverdrup Pass, central Ellesmere Island, rapid glacier retreat is exposing intact plant communities whose radiocarbon dates demonstrate entombment during the Little Ice Age (1550 — 1850 AD)...