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Lin Hou, Zhe Li, Chunlin Luo, Longlong Bai and Ningning Dong
Forest thinning is a silviculture treatment for sustainable forest management. It may promote growth of the remaining individuals by decreasing stand density, reducing competition, and increasing light and nutrient availability to increase carbon sequest...
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Kenneth L. Clark, Heidi J. Renninger, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael Gallagher and Karina V. R. Schäfer
Understanding processes underlying forest carbon dynamics is essential for accurately predicting the outcomes of non-stand-replacing disturbance in intermediate-age forests. We quantified net ecosystem production (NEP), aboveground net primary production...
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Conflicts between ecological conservation and socio-economic development persisted over many decades in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH). Ecosystem services were affected drastically by rapid urbanization and ecological res...
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Yushuo Zhang, Xiao Lu, Boyu Liu and Dianting Wu
Conflicts between ecological conservation and socio-economic development persisted over many decades in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH). Ecosystem services were affected drastically by rapid urbanization and ecological res...
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Abram DaSilva, Y. Jun Xu, George Ice, John Beebe and Richard Stich
Stream metabolism can be used as a measure of freshwater ecosystem health because of its responsiveness to natural and anthropogenic changes. In this study, we used stream metabolic rates to test for the effects of a timber harvest with Louisiana?s curre...
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Pamela Soto-Rogel, Juan-Carlos Aravena, Wolfgang Jens-Henrik Meier, Pamela Gross, Claudio Pérez, Álvaro González-Reyes and Jussi Griessinger
Spatio-temporal patterns of climatic variability have effects on the environmental conditions of a given land territory and consequently determine the evolution of its productive activities. One of the most direct ways to evaluate this relationship is to...
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Ace Mugssy L. Agustin, Jeremias L. Ordonio, Marie Bie S. Natividad, Nonawin B. Lucob-Agustin, Roel R. Suralta, Hiroshi Ehara, Shiro Mitsuya and Mana Kano-Nakata
This study aimed to identify superior genotypes of specialty rice (SR) with comparable or higher grain yield than the drought-tolerant check variety under rainfed and controlled-drought conditions. A total of 17 SR varieties (six aromatic, six pigmented,...
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Zhenwang Li, Quan Tang, Xu Wang, Baorui Chen, Chengming Sun and Xiaoping Xin
Land use and land cover (LULC) change has greatly altered ecosystem carbon storage and exerted an enormous impact on terrestrial carbon cycling. Characterizing its impact on ecosystem carbon storage is critical to balance regional carbon budgets and make...
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Dengpan Li, Lei Tian, Mingyang Li, Tao Li, Fang Ren, Chunhong Tian and Ce Yang
Exploring the temporal and spatial changes, as well as driving factors, of net primary productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems is essential for maintaining regional carbon balance. This work focuses on the spatiotemporal variation and future trends ...
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Kathi Jo Jankowski, Linda A. Deegan, Christopher Neill, Hillary L. Sullivan, Paulo Ilha, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Nubia Marques and Marcia N. Macedo
Intensive agriculture alters headwater streams, but our understanding of its effects is limited in tropical regions where rates of agricultural expansion and intensification are currently greatest. Riparian forest protections are an important conservatio...
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Yu Zhang, Mingjun Zhang, Deye Qu, Wenguang Duan, Jiaxin Wang, Pengyan Su and Rong Guo
Water is a key and limiting factor for ecosystem processes (carbon dioxide fixation, vegetation growth, respiration, etc.) and functions (NPP, Net Primary Productivity) in arid and semi-arid areas. As the main regulator, knowledge of plant water use patt...
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Maria Calderó-Pascual, Elvira de Eyto, Eleanor Jennings, Mary Dillane, Mikkel René Andersen, Sean Kelly, Harriet Louise Wilson and Valerie McCarthy
Between May and July 2018, Ireland experienced an exceptional heat wave, which broke long-term temperature and drought records. These calm, stable conditions were abruptly interrupted by a second extreme weather event, Atlantic Storm Hector, in late June...
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Bin Wang, Mingze Li, Wenyi Fan, Ying Yu and Jing M. Chen
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key component in the terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle, and it varies according to stand age and site class index (SCI) for different forest types. Here we report an improved method for describing the relationships be...
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Marie Dury, Lenni Mertens, Adeline Fayolle, Hans Verbeeck, Alain Hambuckers and Louis François
African tropical ecosystems and the services they provide to human society suffer from an increasing combined pressure of land use and climate change. How individual tropical tree species respond to climate change remains relatively unknown. In this stud...
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Sergio Marconi, Tommaso Chiti, Angelo Nolè, Riccardo Valentini and Alessio Collalti
Understanding the dynamics of organic carbon mineralization is fundamental in forecasting biosphere to atmosphere net carbon ecosystem exchange (NEE). With this perspective, we developed 3D-CMCC-PSM, a new version of the hybrid process based model 3D-CMC...
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Ze Han, Wei Song, Xiangzheng Deng and Xinliang Xu
The Three-Rivers Headwaters region (TRHR) is an ecological shelter located in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau, China, that provides environmental protection and regional sustainable development. This region also provides ecosystem services including...
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Ze Han, Wei Song, Xiangzheng Deng, Xinliang Xu
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The Three-Rivers Headwaters region (TRHR) is an ecological shelter located in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau, China, that provides environmental protection and regional sustainable development. This region also provides ecosystem services including...
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Stephen J. Déry, Heidi K. Knudsvig, Marco A. Hernández-Henríquez and Darwyn S. Coxson
This study examines the net snow accumulation and ablation characteristics and trends in the Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR) of the Upper Fraser River Basin, British Columbia (BC), Canada. It intends to establish whether elevation and/or air temperatur...
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A. I. MONTERROSO RIVAS,J. D. GÓMEZ DÍAZ,M. L. TOLEDO MEDRANO,J. A. TINOCO RUEDA,C. CONDE ÁLVAREZ,C. GAY GARCÍA
In this paper the concept of Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is used as a way to estimate the capacity of the ecosystem to produce dry matter which may be available for livestock to meet the forage requirements. The method allows the simulation of the pos...
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