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Ecosystem functioning

Estimating the Size and Impact of the Ecological Restoration Economy

Todd BenDor, T. William Lester, Avery Livengood, Adam Davis, Logan Yonavjak

published 17 Jun 2015

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Effects of Grazing and Precipitation on Herbage Biomass, Herbage Nutritive Value, and Yak Performance in an Alpine Meadow on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Fuhong Miao, Zhenggang Guo, Ran Xue, Xianzhi Wang, Yuying Shen

published 03 Jun 2015

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Natural Shorelines Promote the Stability of Fish Communities in an Urbanized Coastal System

Steven B. Scyphers, Tarik C. Gouhier, Jonathan H. Grabowski, Michael W. Beck, John Mareska, Sean P. Powers

published 03 Jun 2015

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Integrating Ontogenetic Shift, Growth and Mortality to Determine a Species' Ecological Role from Isotopic Signatures

Nelson F. Fontoura, Lúcia R. Rodrigues, Cibele B. Batista, Tanilene S. P. Persch, Mariola E. Janowicz

published 21 May 2015

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Biomass Increases Go under Cover: Woody Vegetation Dynamics in South African Rangelands

Penelope J. Mograbi, Barend F. N. Erasmus, E. T. F. Witkowski, Gregory P. Asner, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu, David E. Knapp, Roberta E. Martin, Russell Main

published 13 May 2015

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Patterns in Species Persistence and Biomass Production in Soil Microcosms Recovering from a Disturbance Reject a Neutral Hypothesis for Bacterial Community Assembly

Fen-Guo Zhang, Quan-Guo Zhang

published 11 May 2015

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Pathways of Leymus chinensis Individual Aboveground Biomass Decline in Natural Semiarid Grassland Induced by Overgrazing: A Study at the Plant Functional Trait Scale

Xiliang Li, Zhiying Liu, Zhen Wang, Xinhong Wu, Xinle Li, Jing Hu, Hongxiao Shi, Fenghui Guo, Yong Zhang, Xiangyang Hou

published 05 May 2015

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Metabolic Activity and Functional Diversity Changes in Sediment Prokaryotic Communities Organically Enriched with Mussel Biodeposits

Thomas Pollet, Olivier Cloutier, Christian Nozais, Christopher W. McKindsey, Philippe Archambault

published 29 Apr 2015

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Relative Contributions of Land Use and Climate Change to Water Supply Variations over Yellow River Source Area in Tibetan Plateau during the Past Three Decades

Tao Pan, Shaohong Wu, Yujie Liu

published 23 Apr 2015

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Light Limitation within Southern New Zealand Kelp Forest Communities

Matthew J. Desmond, Daniel W. Pritchard, Christopher D. Hepburn

published 22 Apr 2015

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Simplification of Caribbean Reef-Fish Assemblages over Decades of Coral Reef Degradation

Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Michelle J. Paddack, Ben Collen, D. Ross Robertson, Isabelle M. Côté

published 14 Apr 2015

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Do Reef Fish Habituate to Diver Presence? Evidence from Two Reef Sites with Contrasting Historical Levels of SCUBA Intensity in the Bay Islands, Honduras

Benjamin M. Titus, Marymegan Daly, Dan A. Exton

published 25 Mar 2015

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Inferring Resilience to Fragmentation-Induced Changes in Plant Communities in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Ecosystem

Ángel de Frutos, Teresa Navarro, Yolanda Pueyo, Concepción L. Alados

published 19 Mar 2015

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