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Climate regulates the effect of land-use change on the diversity of soil microbial functional groups and soil multifunctionality.

Published online: 27 Nov 2024

Authors: Zhou Xuan & Cai JinShan & Xu JingWen & Liu ShengEn & Wang Bing & Zhang HuiLing & Yue LinYan & Wu LiJi & Wu Ying & Chen DiMa

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although studies have explored how soil microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality respond to land-use change at local scales, they have rarely b...

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Predicting straw decomposition by a four-species fungal community: a cellular automaton model.

Published online: 21 Oct 1996

Authors: Halley, J. M. & Robinson, C. H. & Comins, H. N. & Dighton, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A cellular automaton model based on the measured and inferred properties of the fungal saprophytes, Mucor hiemalis (MH), Agrocybe gibberosa (AG), Chae...

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Improving dryland seedling recruitment using fungicide seed coatings.

Published online: 14 Jun 2022

Authors: Hoose, B. W. & Geary, B. D. & Richardson, W. C. & Petersen, S. L. & Madsen, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. The success of seed-based restoration in dryland regions of the world is often low or sporadic, with most mortality occurring between germination a...

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Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant invasion success driven by nitrogen fluctuations.

Published online: 22 Feb 2024

Authors: Zhang Xue & Zhang Tao & Liu YanJie

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Both enemies and mutualists play crucial roles in shaping plant invasion processes. Recent studies have suggested that resource fluctuations could ind...

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Changes in soil fungal communities following anthropogenic disturbance are linked to decreased lodgepole pine seedling performance.

Published online: 22 Nov 2020

Authors: Beck, J. L. & Cale, J. A. & Rodriguez-Ramos, J. C. & Kanekar, S. S. & Karst, J. & Cahill, J. F. & Simard, S. W. & Erbilgin, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Disturbances are frequent events across the Canadian boreal forest and can affect both below- and above-ground ecosystem processes. How disturbances c...

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Relative importance of burning, mowing and species translocation in the restoration of a former boreal hayfield: responses of plant diversity and the microbial community.

Published online: 25 May 2005

Authors: Antonsen, H. & Olsson, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The extensive loss of species-rich grasslands in Europe as a result of agricultural intensification has triggered a desire to recreate more diverse an...

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Manipulating plant community composition to steer efficient n-cycling in intensively managed grasslands.

Published online: 04 Mar 2021

Authors: Abalos, D. & Deyn, G. B. de & Philippot, L. & Oram, N. J. & Oudová, B. & Pantelis, I. & Clark, C. & Fiorini, A. & Bru, D. & Mariscal-Sancho, I. & Groenigen, J. W. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Minimizing nitrogen (N) losses and increasing plant N uptake in agroecosystems is a major global challenge. Ecological concepts from (semi)natural gra...

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Long-term change in vegetation and soil microbial communities during the phased restoration of traditional meadow grassland.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Bardgett, R. D. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P. & Evans, P. & Quirk, H. & Hobbs, P. J. & Kometa, S. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoration of high plant species diversity to sites where it has been reduced by intensive grassland management requires identification of appropriat...

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Soil factors preventing revegetation of a denuded area near an abandoned zinc smelter in Oklahoma.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Pancholy, S. K. & Rice, E. L. & Turner, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Watkins & Rice (1974) concluded that the denuded area probably remained bare because of the high concentrations of cadmium and zinc combined with ...

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A field study with genetically engineered alfalfa inoculated with recombinant Sinorhizobium meliloti: effects on the soil ecosystem.

Published online: 18 Feb 2000

Authors: Donegan, K. K. & Seidler, R. J. & Doyle, J. D. & Porteous, L. A. & Digiovanni, G. & Widmer, F. & Watrud, L. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Three genotypes of alfalfa [lucerne] (Medicago sativa) plants (parental, transgenic α-amylase-producing and transgenic lignin peroxidase-producing) we...

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