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(e.g.,water conservation in desert animals); others may involve the role of one species in its ecosystem or the ecosystem itself. Food-chain sequences have been determined for various ecosystems, and theefficiencyof the transfer of energy and matter within them has been calculated so that ...
We compared the spatial variations of carbon fluxes of five terrestrial ecosystems (i.e., grassland, cropland, desert, wetland, and forest ecosystems) and explored the responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic factors across different ecosystems. We found that our region exhibits a carbon ...
Furthermore, the coupling of the nitrogen and carbon cycles in climate models22 has enabled nitrogen limitation to more realistically constrain the effects of CO2 fertilization on desert extent23. Finally, recent work has constrained the dust direct radiative effect (DRE) in the present climate1. ...
Not surprisingly, geocarpy, like synaptospermy, is most often encountered in desert plants. However, it also occurs in violet species, in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum)—even when it grows in France and England—and in begonias (Begonia hypogaea) of the African rainforest. Baro...
CO2 uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem. Glob. 57. Nan, S. & Li, J. P. The relationship between the summer precipitation in the Yangtze River valley and the boreal spring Southern Hemisphere annular mode. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30, doi: 10.1029/2003gl018381 (2003). 58. Kalnay, E. et...
Non-crop habitats in the landscape enhance spider diversity in wheat fields of a desert agroecosystem Spiders (Araneae) are an important group of generalist predators in arable land. In temperate climates, spiders recolonise cropland annually from the surro... Therese Pluess a b c,Itai Opatovsky...
Desert habitats have been increasing every year in Northwest China but few native plants grow successfully in these regions. Our over 10 years of experimental field research indicates that yellow horn adapts readily to the desert and arid landscapes of Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China, ...
The soil microbiome of the desert ecosystem was comprised of a high abundance of Gram-positive bacteria of prime importance for pathogen suppression under arid soil conditions. For all three plants, we observed a clearly plant-specific selection of the microbes as well as highly specific ...
Every major ecosystem is inhabited by some type of canine. The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), for example, occupies the barren tundra of the Arctic, whereas the fennec (Vulpes zerda) lives in the Sahara desert. In general, however, canines tend to be animals of open or grassland areas. The...