supported financially by the Dartmouth College Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Forests undergoing ecological succession following abandonment from agricultural use(i.e.,old fields)are ubiquitous in temperate regions of the U.S.and Europe.Ecological succession in old fields involves changes in ve...
Vegetation types alter soil ecosystems by changing soil fauna community activities and soil physi-cal-chemical properties.However,it is unclear how tree species(natural forest,native and exotic tree plantations)promot...
The pub-lication was supported by the SROP-4.2.2.B-15/1/KONV-2015-0001 project;The project has been supported by the European Union,co-financed by the European Social Fund.The research was also supported by OTKA PD 111807 and OTKA K 116639.
In Central-and Eastern Europe,the collapse of socialist regimes resulted in a transformation of state-owned agricultural cooperatives to privately owned lands from the early 1990s onwards.These socioeconomic processes...
Resilience is a key function that affects an ecosystem’s ability to recover from disturbance. Understanding the extent to which forest communities recover after a long period of disturbance without direct interventio...
Aims According to traditional theory,superior competitive ability in plants generally requires relatively large plant body size.Yet even within the most crowded vegetation,most resident species are relatively small;sp...
Aims In this study,we examined the effects of Solidago altissima(hereafter Solidago)and two species in the genus Verbesina,Verbesina virginica and Verbesina occidentalis(hereafter Verbesina),on the structure of an old...
the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior
We quantified microhabitat use by white-footed mice Peromyscus leucopus in forest and old-field habitats occupied by Morrow' s honeysuckle Lonicera morrowii, an invasive exotic shrub imported from Japan. Microhabitat...
Research was sponsored by the US Department of Energy,Office of Science,Biological and Environmental Research Program,Grant No.DE-FG02-02ER63366;the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee,and conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,which is managed by UT Battelle,LLC,for the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Aims The direct effects of atmospheric and climatic change factors—atmospheric[CO_(2)],air temperature and changes in precipitation—can shape plant community composition and alter ecosystem function.It is essential ...