Sentences with phrase «plant community composition»

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

«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.»

It doesn't stop there though, these interactions also alter plant communities composition and diversity», explains the research group leader Dr. Simon Scheiter, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre.

Not exact matches

The duo analyzed 370 communities throughout Massachusetts and found that hazardous industrial facilities, power plants, municipal solid waste combustors, toxic waste sites, landfills and trash transfer stations were unequally distributed with respect to income and / or racial composition.

Within the soil, the fungal species communities were found to be highly structured and correlated with abiotic variables such as pH and soil horizon, and with the species composition of the understory plant community.

Burghardt said the goal of the research was to understand how the composition of the plants that homeowners plant in their yards affects herbivore communities.

The abundance of two dominant plant species (western wheat grass and blue grama grass) decreased with elevated CO2, which led to the increased presence of subdominant species and hence greater evenness in community composition.

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

23 Effects on Plants Climate change could alter the range of plant species and could change the composition of plant communities.