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Understanding the effects of prescribed burning management practices in combination with anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition on soil carbon (C) storage capacity is of crucial importance in Mediterranean mountain shrublands. To address this issue, an experiment was conducted to assess the effects of pr...
Soil nutrientsAbove-ground biomassFynbos biomeLitterThicketDifferences in plant species composition and structure occur within spatial scales of a few meters. Nutrient focusing under shrub-rich clusters appears to enhance biomass production relative to sparsely vegetated intergrowth areas. Litter buildup and...
Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture. Deserts and xeric shrublands receive an annual average rainfall of ten inches or less, and have an arid or hyperarid climate, characterized by a strong moisture deficit, where...
Harrington, G. N.: 1991, ‘Effects of Soil Moisture on Shrub Seedling Survival in Semi-Arid Grassland’,Ecology72, 1138–1149. Google Scholar Harrington, G. N. and Hodgkinson, K. C.: 1986, ‘Shrub-Grass Dynamics in Mulga Communities of Eastern Australia’, in Joss, P. J., Lynch, P...
A source–sink dynamics shaping protist distribution in arid shrubland is proposed.Bare soils harbor fewer protist species than vegetated soils in this biome.Species composition in bare soils was a subset of that found in vegetated soils.Bare soils acted as 'sink' habitats and vegetated soils as ...
The region of the study sites corresponds to the biome desert and xeric shrublands [Olson et al., 2001], has a high degree of vegetation seasonality [Forzieri et al., 2011], and is considered a climate change hot spot in North America [Diffenbaugh et al., 2008]. Here we ask the ...
Historically, fire played a critical role in shaping the autosuccession of this biome, returning in Sierra Nevada foothills every 20-30 years on average. As chaparral shrubland undergoes rapid human-induced changes, such as increasing commercial and residential development, often coupled with strict ...
Arid shrublands are spatially heterogeneous environments composed of shrubs patches surrounded by a matrix of bare soil. In this biome, bare soils harbor fewer protist species than soils covered by shrubs because they represent low quality habitats for most of them. Furthermore, protist species compo...
In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive tra