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Murendeni Kwinda, Stefan John Siebert, Helga Van Coller and Tlou Samuel Masehela
Weed responses in disturbance-prone agroecosystems are linked to specific plant traits that enable their persistence. Understanding how weeds adapt to thrive in these systems in response to herbicide application is important for farmers to improve weed m...
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Guillermo Aguilera Nuñez, Anders Glimskär, Giulia Zacchello, Richard M. Francksen, Mark J. Whittingham and Matthew Hiron
Permanent grasslands cover more than a third of European agricultural land and are important for a number of ecosystem services. Permanent grasslands used for agriculture are broadly separated into agriculturally improved and semi-natural grasslands. Hig...
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Kaiyang Qiu, Zhigang Li, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu, Chen He and Richard Pott
Desertification reversal is globally significant for the sustainable development of land resources. However, the mechanisms of desertification reversal at the level of plant community are still unclear. We hypothesized that desertification reversal has c...
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Zhiyuan Yang, Jiayi Xu, Junlin Li, Lirong He, Hongwei Xu, Xinrong Guo, Sha Xue and Yang Cao
The ecological niche gradient is an important determinant of microbial community structure. In this paper, we studied variation in rhizosphere bacterial diversity and community composition along an ecological niche gradient. We used the high-throughput s...
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Aikaterini Molla, Alexandra D. Solomou, Miltiadis Tziouvalekas, Alexios Lolas and Elpiniki Skoufogianni
Nowadays, there is an increasing negative environmental effect of using chemical fertilizer. For this reason, the use of biofertilizers is promoted in the agriculture sector. The purpose of this investigation was to carry out an evaluation of the effects...
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José Ramón Arévalo, Juan A. Encina-Domínguez, Cristina González-Montelongo, Miguel Mellado and Arturo Cruz-Anaya
Grasslands and pastures are extensively studied due to their geographic variation, species richness, ecological functioning, and economic importance. They are vital components of land use in many parts of the world. The impact of grassland management on ...
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Lixiang Liu, Yongwei Han, Weiwei Liu and Yuemin Liu
Grazing exclusion (GE) and rest grazing (RG) are important management systems for the restoration of degraded grassland ecosystems. In order to evaluate the effects and mechanisms of different grazing management systems on the scale dependency of species...
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David A. White and Jenneke M. Visser
Deltaic landscapes go through cycles of birth, growth, decline, and death governed by intertwined geological, biological, and ecological processes. In this study, we tracked deltaic lobes in the Balize Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA, over 28 yea...
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Matthew Chekwube Enebe and Mariana Erasmus
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are biotrophic fungi that form an association with plant roots and render benefits in nutrient uptake, disease control and plant tolerance to stress conditions. Plant?mycorrhizal fungi interaction has been proposed as a suita...
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Amy-Marie Gilpin, Conrad Kobel, Laura E. Brettell, Corey O?Brien, James M. Cook and Sally A. Power
Co-flowering plants can experience an array of interactions, ranging from facilitation to competition, the direction and strength of which are often dependent on the relative abundance and diversity of the plant species involved and the foraging behavior...
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