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Aridity and drought: distinct concepts often conflated in ecological research - Knapp - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Aridity and drought: distinct concepts often conflated in ecological research
As well-established drivers of ecological pattern and process, aridity and drought are linked by a common focus on water limitation – with both aridity and especially drought projected to increase in...
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Invasive plants optimize leaf nitrogen allocation in photosynthesis - Griffin‐Nolan - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Invasive plants optimize leaf nitrogen allocation in photosynthesis
Invasive plants often outcompete co-occurring native species by expressing acquisitive functional traits that promote high photosynthetic capacity. However, it remains unclear whether these traits a...
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Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide
Globally, grassy ecosystems (including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, woodlands, and tundra) cover 30 to 40% of the land and provide important benefits such as climate change mitigation and adaptat...
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Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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My experience also... Passionate statistical arguments typically occur between researchers whose expertise lies in other areas The Statistical Competency Paradox in Ecology - Dettogni Guariento - Bull. Ecological Society of America - Wiley esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In the Land of the Blind: The Statistical Competency Paradox in Ecological Research
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Aboveground Biomass C was only ~9% of fixed carbon, was reduced by ~30% with drought & remained below average for years after. !!! Stand density & local climate drive allocation of GPP to aboveground woody biomass - Kannenberg - New Phytologist- Wiley nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Stand density and local climate drive allocation of GPP to aboveground woody biomass
The partitioning of photosynthate among various forest carbon pools is a key process regulating long-term carbon sequestration, with allocation to aboveground woody biomass carbon (AGBC) in particul...
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Shifts in the seasonality of precipitation, even subtle, are an unappreciated aspect of climate change. Nice study... A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (B tectorum) over time - Prevéy - 2025 - Ecosphere esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) over time
Causes, consequences, and potentials for recovery from invasions by the invasive annual grass, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), in western North America have been extensively documented. The vast majori...
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"understanding of multiyear droughts is still lacking..." Could not agree more... The growing threat of multiyear droughts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The growing threat of multiyear droughts
Understanding and monitoring ecological responses is important as droughts last longer
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A well-written, nicely designed and clearly illustrated study. Not my field, but I admire the presentation. Selection‐mediated adaptive responses of native species to an invasive grass: Shade tolerance vs shade avoidance - Stotz - Funct Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Selection‐mediated adaptive responses of native species to an invasive grass: Shade tolerance vs. shade avoidance
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Another great example of the value of long-term data. Precipitation anomalies cryptically influencing resilience Precipitation anomalies may affect productivity resilience by shifting plant community properties - Perez - Journal of Ecology - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Precipitation anomalies may affect productivity resilience by shifting plant community properties
By exploring the impacts of both drought and wet extremes, our work uncovers how precipitation events, which may not necessarily impact productivity directly, could still cryptically influence resili...
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13 sites...nice analysis... multiple lines of evidence are converging on 40% reductions in ANPP in response to extreme drought Aridity-dependent resistance but strong resilience of grassland ANPP to naturally occurring precipitation extremes academic.oup.com/jpe/article/...
Aridity-dependent resistance but strong resilience of grassland ANPP to naturally occurring precipitation extremes
Abstract. Increasing intensity and frequency of climate extremes under climate change are expected to affect rainfall-constrained ecosystems, particularly
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Nice review… Legacy effects of precipitation change: Theories, dynamics, and applic... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Legacy effects of precipitation change: Theories, dynamics, and applications
The intensification of climate-induced precipitation change poses a dual challenge to terrestrial ecosystems: immediate effects on their structure and…
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A call for more coordinated research efforts to understand the ecological consequences of solar energy expansion Network science can improve the sustainable development of solar energy doi.org/10.1088/2753...
Network science can improve the sustainable development of solar energy - IOPscienceSearch
Network science can improve the sustainable development of solar energy, Taylor Bacon, Timothy Ohlert, Christopher Toy, J Alexander Siggers, Matthew A Sturchio
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Nice work! The most abundant species had opposing growth forms & resource-use strategies. Divergent resource‐use strategies of encroaching shrubs: Can traits predict encroachment success in tallgrass prairie? - Wedel - J of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Divergent resource‐use strategies of encroaching shrubs: Can traits predict encroachment success in tallgrass prairie?
Our results show that shrub species encroaching in tallgrass prairie span a spectrum of growth forms and resource-use strategies. Two of the most abundant encroaching species fell at opposite ends of...
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On average, the sensitivity of vegetation to daily rainfall variability is almost as large (95 per cent) as the sensitivity of vegetation to annual rainfall totals.
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Solar power looms large over the snow leopards of Spiti
In October, India surpassed 200 GW of renewable energy capacity, accounting for 46.3% of the country’s electricity generation. It marks a significant milestone, which pushes the world’s third-largest ...
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New study led by Matt Sturchio. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Solar arrays create novel environments that uniquely alter plant responses
Globally, the combustion of fossil fuels represents the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions, and as such, a transition to renewable forms of energy provides the greatest potential for mitigatin...
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Interesting research… agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Increasing Optimum Temperature of Vegetation Activity Over the Past Four Decades
The optimum temperature (Topt) of global vegetation activity has increased rapidly, by 0.63 per decade over 1982–2020 The increase in Topt closely tracked the increase in air temperature, reveali...
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Great use of long-term data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Plant phenology predicts the stability of primary production in three ecosystems of the northern Chihuahuan Desert
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Nice work! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Integrating experiments and monitoring reveals extreme sensitivity of invasive winter annuals to precipitation
In arid and semiarid systems of western North America, the most damaging invasive plants are winter annuals. These plants are destroying wildlife habitat, reducing livestock production, and increasin...
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