Public release of a 20-year collaborative effort to devise a unified and consistent national reporting system for plant communities opens new avenues for broad-scale and long-term analyses of ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of prolonged recreational disturbance on vegetation structure. Therefore, plant species variation along trails was determined in some common ...

This York gum tree is located in Western Australia and is one of the trees included in the database of the Global Vegetation Project recently launched by the UW Biodiversity Institute. The mission of ...

This is just one example of the various roles that vegetation types play in the warming of an area, differences that today's climate models still fail to take fully into account. "Our study shows that ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 419, No. 1/2 (October 2017), pp. 349-361 (13 pages) Background and aims Soil seed banks are an important source of seedling recruits in grassland ecosystems, particularly ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land ...