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Eldridge DJ, Ding J, Dorrough J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sala O, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Mallen-Cooper M, Saiz H, Asensio S, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Martínez-Valderrama J, Plaza C, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Ahumada RJ, Alcántara JM, Amghar F, Azevedo L, Ben Salem F, Berdugo M, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker M, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Cesarz S, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila YC, Deák B, Díaz-Martínez P, Donoso DA, Dougill AD, Durán J, Eisenhauer N, Ejtehadi H, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Foronda A, Franzese J, Fraser LH, Gaitán J, Geissler K, Gonzalez SL, Gusman-Montalvan E, Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Hughes FM, Jadan O, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Lehmann A, Liancourt P, Linstädter A, Louw MA, Ma Q, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Marais E, McClaran M, Mendoza B, Mokoka V, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson S, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Osborne B, Peter G, Pierre M, Pueyo Y, Emiliano Quiroga R, Reed S, Rey A, Rey P, Gómez VMR, Rolo V, Rillig MC, le Roux PC, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Sebei PJ, Sharkhuu A, Stavi I, Stephens C, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Tielbörger K, Robles ST, Travers S, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Velbert F, von Heßberg A, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Maestre FT. Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nat Plants 2024:10.1038/s41477-024-01708-w. [PMID: 38689079 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01708-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- David J Eldridge
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
| | - Josh Dorrough
- Department of Planning and Environment, Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia
- Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Seville, Spain
| | - Osvaldo Sala
- Schools of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
| | - Nicolas Gross
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
| | - Hugo Saiz
- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
| | - Sergio Asensio
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Victoria Ochoa
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Beatriz Gozalo
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Emilio Guirado
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Miguel García-Gómez
- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Enrique Valencia
- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA), CSIC, Campus UAL, Almería, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Laboratoire Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (Biodev), Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algeria
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
| | - Farah Ben Salem
- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Universidad Nacional de Luján-CONICET, Luján, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRAE/UPEC, Bondy, France
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- Gobabeb - Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, University of Limpopo, Mankweng, South Africa
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Normandie Universite, Unirouen, Inrae, Ecodiv, Rouen, France
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Mara Research Station, Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Makhado, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
- Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Kaye College of Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Eldridge DJ, Ding J, Dorrough J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sala O, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Mallen-Cooper M, Saiz H, Asensio S, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Martínez-Valderrama J, Plaza C, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Ahumada RJ, Alcántara JM, Amghar F, Azevedo L, Ben Salem F, Berdugo M, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker M, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Cesarz S, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila YC, Deák B, Díaz-Martínez P, Donoso DA, Dougill AD, Durán J, Eisenhauer N, Ejtehadi H, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Foronda A, Franzese J, Fraser LH, Gaitán J, Geissler K, Gonzalez SL, Gusman-Montalvan E, Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Hughes FM, Jadan O, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Lehmann A, Liancourt P, Linstädter A, Louw MA, Ma Q, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Marais E, McClaran M, Mendoza B, Mokoka V, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson S, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Osborne B, Peter G, Pierre M, Pueyo Y, Emiliano Quiroga R, Reed S, Rey A, Rey P, Gómez VMR, Rolo V, Rillig MC, le Roux PC, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Sebei PJ, Sharkhuu A, Stavi I, Stephens C, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Tielbörger K, Robles ST, Travers S, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Velbert F, von Heßberg A, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Maestre FT. Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nat Plants 2024:10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7. [PMID: 38609675 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
Abstract
Perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing by livestock, the most prevalent land use in drylands, remain virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the relative importance of grazing pressure and herbivore type, climate and plant functional traits on 24 soil physical and chemical attributes that represent proxies of key ecosystem services related to decomposition, soil fertility, and soil and water conservation. To do this, we conducted a standardized global survey of 288 plots at 88 sites in 25 countries worldwide. We show that aridity and plant traits are the major factors associated with the magnitude of plant effects on fertile islands in grazed drylands worldwide. Grazing pressure had little influence on the capacity of plants to support fertile islands. Taller and wider shrubs and grasses supported stronger island effects. Stable and functional soils tended to be linked to species-rich sites with taller plants. Together, our findings dispel the notion that grazing pressure or herbivore type are linked to the formation or intensification of fertile islands in drylands. Rather, our study suggests that changes in aridity, and processes that alter island identity and therefore plant traits, will have marked effects on how perennial plants support and maintain the functioning of drylands in a more arid and grazed world.
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Affiliation(s)
- David J Eldridge
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
| | - Josh Dorrough
- Department of Planning and Environment, Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia
- Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Seville, Spain
| | - Osvaldo Sala
- Schools of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
| | - Nicolas Gross
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
| | - Hugo Saiz
- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
| | - Sergio Asensio
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Victoria Ochoa
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Beatriz Gozalo
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Emilio Guirado
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Miguel García-Gómez
- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Enrique Valencia
- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Jaime Martínez-Valderrama
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA), CSIC, Campus UAL, Almería, Spain
| | - César Plaza
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mehdi Abedi
- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
| | - Negar Ahmadian
- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
| | - Rodrigo J Ahumada
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
| | - Julio M Alcántara
- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
| | - Fateh Amghar
- Laboratoire Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (Biodev), Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algeria
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Universidad Nacional de Luján-CONICET, Luján, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRAE/UPEC, Bondy, France
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- Gobabeb - Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, University of Limpopo, Mankweng, South Africa
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Normandie Universite, Unirouen, Inrae, Ecodiv, Rouen, France
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Mara Research Station, Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Makhado, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
- Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Kaye College of Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Smith MD, Wilkins KD, Holdrege MC, Wilfahrt P, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Sala OE, Dukes JS, Phillips RP, Yahdjian L, Gherardi LA, Ohlert T, Beier C, Fraser LH, Jentsch A, Loik ME, Maestre FT, Power SA, Yu Q, Felton AJ, Munson SM, Luo Y, Abdoli H, Abedi M, Alados CL, Alberti J, Alon M, An H, Anacker B, Anderson M, Auge H, Bachle S, Bahalkeh K, Bahn M, Batbaatar A, Bauerle T, Beard KH, Behn K, Beil I, Biancari L, Blindow I, Bondaruk VF, Borer ET, Bork EW, Bruschetti CM, Byrne KM, Cahill Jr. JF, Calvo DA, Carbognani M, Cardoni A, Carlyle CN, Castillo-Garcia M, Chang SX, Chieppa J, Cianciaruso MV, Cohen O, Cordeiro AL, Cusack DF, Dahlke S, Daleo P, D'Antonio CM, Dietterich LH, S. Doherty T, Dubbert M, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Fischer FM, Forte TGW, Gebauer T, Gozalo B, Greenville AC, Guidoni-Martins KG, Hannusch HJ, Vatsø Haugum S, Hautier Y, Hefting M, Henry HAL, Hoss D, Ingrisch J, Iribarne O, Isbell F, Johnson Y, Jordan S, Kelly EF, Kimmel K, Kreyling J, Kröel-Dulay G, Kröpfl A, Kübert A, Kulmatiski A, Lamb EG, Larsen KS, Larson J, Lawson J, Leder CV, Linstädter A, Liu J, Liu S, Lodge AG, Longo G, Loydi A, Luan J, Curtis Lubbe F, Macfarlane C, Mackie-Haas K, Malyshev AV, Maturano-Ruiz A, Merchant T, Metcalfe DB, Mori AS, Mudongo E, Newman GS, Nielsen UN, Nimmo D, Niu Y, Nobre P, O'Connor RC, Ogaya R, Oñatibia GR, Orbán I, Osborne B, Otfinowski R, Pärtel M, Penuelas J, Peri PL, Peter G, Petraglia A, Picon-Cochard C, Pillar VD, Piñeiro-Guerra JM, Ploughe LW, Plowes RM, Portales-Reyes C, Prober SM, Pueyo Y, Reed SC, Ritchie EG, Rodríguez DA, Rogers WE, Roscher C, Sánchez AM, Santos BA, Cecilia Scarfó M, Seabloom EW, Shi B, Souza L, Stampfli A, Standish RJ, Sternberg M, Sun W, Sünnemann M, Tedder M, Thorvaldsen P, Tian D, Tielbörger K, Valdecantos A, van den Brink L, Vandvik V, Vankoughnett MR, Guri Velle L, Wang C, Wang Y, Wardle GM, Werner C, Wei C, Wiehl G, Williams JL, Wolf AA, Zeiter M, Zhang F, Zhu J, Zong N, Zuo X. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2309881120. [PMID: 38190514 PMCID: PMC10823251 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2309881120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term (~1 y) drought events-the most common duration of drought-globally. Yet the impact of this intensification of drought on ecosystem functioning remains poorly resolved. This is due in part to the widely disparate approaches ecologists have employed to study drought, variation in the severity and duration of drought studied, and differences among ecosystems in vegetation, edaphic and climatic attributes that can mediate drought impacts. To overcome these problems and better identify the factors that modulate drought responses, we used a coordinated distributed experiment to quantify the impact of short-term drought on grassland and shrubland ecosystems. With a standardized approach, we imposed ~a single year of drought at 100 sites on six continents. Here we show that loss of a foundational ecosystem function-aboveground net primary production (ANPP)-was 60% greater at sites that experienced statistically extreme drought (1-in-100-y event) vs. those sites where drought was nominal (historically more common) in magnitude (35% vs. 21%, respectively). This reduction in a key carbon cycle process with a single year of extreme drought greatly exceeds previously reported losses for grasslands and shrublands. Our global experiment also revealed high variability in drought response but that relative reductions in ANPP were greater in drier ecosystems and those with fewer plant species. Overall, our results demonstrate with unprecedented rigor that the global impacts of projected increases in drought severity have been significantly underestimated and that drier and less diverse sites are likely to be most vulnerable to extreme drought.
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Affiliation(s)
- Melinda D. Smith
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
- Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Department of Wildland Resource and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT84322
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN55108
| | - Scott L. Collins
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM87131
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
- Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- School of Life Sciences, Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ85281
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA94305
| | | | - Laura Yahdjian
- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresC1417DSE, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C1958, Denmark
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BCV2C 0C8, Canada
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth95447, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA95064
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW2751, Australia
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- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing100083, China
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT59717
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ86001
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor46417-76489, Iran
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor46417-76489, Iran
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Restauración, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza50059, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Técnica (CONICET), CC 1260 Correo Central, Mar del PlataB7600WAG, Argentina
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- School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv69978, Israel
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Ningxia University, Yinchuan750021, China
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- City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, Boulder, CO80301
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN55108
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- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle06120, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig04103, Germany
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS66506
- LI-COR Biosciences, 4647 Superior Street, Lincoln, NE68505
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor46417-76489, Iran
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck6020, Austria
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2E9, Canada
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2P5, Canada
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853
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- Department of Wildland Resource and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT84322
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Department of Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Bonn53115, Germany
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, University of Greifswald, GreifswaldD-17498, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresC1417DSE, Argentina
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- Biological Station of Hiddensee, Department of Biology, University of Greifswald, KlosterD-18565, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresC1417DSE, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN55108
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2P5, Canada
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Técnica (CONICET), CC 1260 Correo Central, Mar del PlataB7600WAG, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental Science and Management, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA95521
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2E9, Canada
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), Sede Atlántica–CONICET, Viedma8500, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, ParmaI-43124, Italy
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Técnica (CONICET), CC 1260 Correo Central, Mar del PlataB7600WAG, Argentina
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2P5, Canada
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Restauración, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza50059, Spain
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABT6G 2E3, Canada
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW2751, Australia
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- School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv69978, Israel
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Biological Station of Hiddensee, Department of Biology, University of Greifswald, KlosterD-18565, Germany
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Técnica (CONICET), CC 1260 Correo Central, Mar del PlataB7600WAG, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA93106
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
- US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS39180
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW2006, Australia
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- Isotope Biogeochemistry and GasFluxes, Leibniz-Zentrum fürAgrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF), Müncheberg15374, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena07743, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig04103, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universitat Valencia (UV) - Generalitat Valenciana (GV),Valencia46113, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, ParmaI-43124, Italy
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- Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, FreiburgD-79104, Germany
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW2006, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX77843
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen5007, Norway
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CH, Netherlands
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CH, Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre91501-970, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck6020, Austria
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Técnica (CONICET), CC 1260 Correo Central, Mar del PlataB7600WAG, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN55108
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- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, CA95814
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- School of Life Sciences, Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ85281
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
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- Global Water Security Center, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL35487
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, University of Greifswald, GreifswaldD-17498, Germany
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót2163, Hungary
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- Departamento de Gestión Agropecuaria, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica, Viedma85009, Argentina
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg79110, Germany
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- Department of Wildland Resource and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT84322
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SKS7N5A8, Canada
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C1958, Denmark
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- Range and Meadow Forage Management Research, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, US Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service, Burns, OR97720
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- Brackenridge Field Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX78747
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), Sede Atlántica–CONICET, Viedma8500, Argentina
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- Department of Biodiversity Research and Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam14469, Germany
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- Prataculture Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haerbin150086, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing100091, China
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX77843
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- Programa de Posgrado en Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente–Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB58051-900, Brazil
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida–CONICET, Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur,Bahía Blanca8000FTN, Argentina
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- Institute of Resources and Environment, International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration and Beijing for Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, Beijing100102, China
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Wembley, WA6913, Australia
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- School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences,Zollikofen3052, Switzerland
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, University of Greifswald, GreifswaldD-17498, Germany
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado,Boulder, CO80309
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, UmeåS-901 87, Sweden
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo,Meguro, Tokyo153-8904, Japan
- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama240-8501, Japan
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- Conservancy-Communities Living Among Wildlife Sustainably (CLAWS) Botswana, Seronga00000, Botswana
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK73019
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW2751, Australia
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- Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW2640, Australia
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth95447, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO74690-900, Brazil
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- Range and Meadow Forage Management Research, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, US Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service, Burns, OR97720
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- Global Ecology Unit Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)-National Research Council (CSIC)-Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra, Catalonia08194, Spain
- Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Catalonia08193, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresC1417DSE, Argentina
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót2163, Hungary
- Department of Biodiversity Research and Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam14469, Germany
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- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT84532
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- Department of Biology, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MBR3B 2E9, Canada
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, TartuEE50409, Estonia
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- Global Ecology Unit Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)-National Research Council (CSIC)-Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra, Catalonia08194, Spain
- Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Catalonia08193, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria–Universidad Nacional d ela Patagonia Austral–CONICET, Río Gallegos, Caleta OliviaZ9011, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), Sede Atlántica–CONICET, Viedma8500, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, ParmaI-43124, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, VetAgro Sup, Research Unit for Grassland Ecosystems, Clermont-Ferrand63000, France
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- Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre91501-970, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos AiresC1417DSE, Argentina
- Laboratório de Ecologia Aplicada e Conservação, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB58051-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907
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- Brackenridge Field Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX78747
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Wembley, WA6913, Australia
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Restauración, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza50059, Spain
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT84532
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC3125, Australia
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida–CONICET, Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur,Bahía Blanca8000FTN, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX77843
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig04318, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Geology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid28032, Spain
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB58051-900, Brazil
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida–CONICET, Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur,Bahía Blanca8000FTN, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN55108
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- Institute of Grassland Science, Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Northeast Normal University, Changchun130024, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK73019
- Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK73019
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- School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences,Zollikofen3052, Switzerland
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern3013, Switzerland
- Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern3012, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern3013, Switzerland
- Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University,Murdoch, WA6150, Australia
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- School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv69978, Israel
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- Institute of Grassland Science, Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Northeast Normal University, Changchun130024, China
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig04103, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg3201, South Africa
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- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Department of Landscape and Biodiversity, Tjøtta8860, Norway
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100101, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen72076, Germany
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen72076, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen5007, Norway
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- Nova Scotia Community College, Annapolis Valley Campus, Applied Research, Middleton,NSB0S 1P0, Canada
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- College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong030801, China
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- Institute of Resources and Environment, International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration and Beijing for Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, Beijing100102, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW2006, Australia
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- Ecosystem Physiology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg79110, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100093, China
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Wembley, WA6913, Australia
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- Department of Geography and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BCV6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX78712
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- School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences,Zollikofen3052, Switzerland
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern3013, Switzerland
- Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern3012, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai810008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100101, China
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- Urat Desert-grassland Research Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou730000, China
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Toledo S, Bondaruk VF, Yahdjian L, Oñatibia GR, Loydi A, Alberti J, Bruschetti M, Pascual J, Peter G, Agüero WD, Namur PR, Blanco L, Peri PL. Environmental factors regulate soil microbial attributes and their response to drought in rangeland ecosystems. Sci Total Environ 2023:164406. [PMID: 37245802 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
In ecosystems, soil microbial variables characterization are used to determine soil biological health and the response of soils to environmental stress. Although there are strong associations between plants and soil microorganisms, they may respond asynchronously to environmental factors and severe droughts. We aimed to: I) evaluate the special variation of soil microbiome such as microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and nitrogen (MBN), soil basal respiration (SBR) and microbial indexes in eight rangeland sites located across an aridity gradient (distributed from arid to mesic climates); II) analyze the relative importance of main environmental factors (climate, soils, and plants) and their relationships with microbial variables in the rangelands; and III) assess the effect of drought on microbial and plant variables in field-based manipulative experiments. First, we found significant changes of microbial variables along a precipitation and temperature gradient. The responses of MBC and MBN were strongly dependent on soil pH, soil nitrogen (N), soil organic carbon (SOC), C:N ratio and vegetation cover. In contrast, SBR was influenced by the aridity index (AI), the mean annual precipitation (MAP), the soil pH and vegetation cover. MBC, MBN and SBR were negatively related with soil pH compared to the other factors (C, N, C:N, vegetation cover, MAP and AI) that had a positive relationship. Second, we found a stronger soil microbial variables response to drought in arid sites compared to humid rangelands. Third, the responses of MBC, MBN, and SBR to drought showed positive relationships with vegetation cover and aboveground biomass, but with different regression slopes, this suggest that plant and microbial communities responded differently to drought. The results from this study improve our understanding about the microbial response to drought in different rangelands, and may facilitate the development of predictive models on responses of soil microorganisms in carbon cycle under global change scenarios.
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- Santiago Toledo
- CIT-CONICET/Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS), CONICET, DBByF, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET - Universidad de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET - Universidad de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET - Universidad de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Viedma, Argentina; CONICET, Argentina.
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - EEA La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina.
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - EEA La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina.
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - EEA La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina.
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), EEA Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
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Maestre FT, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Eldridge DJ, Saiz H, Berdugo M, Gozalo B, Ochoa V, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Gaitán JJ, Asensio S, Mendoza BJ, Plaza C, Díaz-Martínez P, Rey A, Hu HW, He JZ, Wang JT, Lehmann A, Rillig MC, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Martínez-Valderrama J, Moreno-Jiménez E, Sala O, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Alados CL, Aramayo V, Amghar F, Arredondo T, Ahumada RJ, Bahalkeh K, Ben Salem F, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker MA, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro H, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Currier CM, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Deák B, Donoso DA, Dougill AJ, Durán J, Erdenetsetseg B, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Ferrante D, Frank ASK, Fraser LH, Gherardi LA, Greenville AC, Guerra CA, Gusmán-Montalvan E, Hernández-Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Huber-Sannwald E, Hughes FM, Jadán-Maza O, Jeltsch F, Jentsch A, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Koopman JE, Leder CV, Linstädter A, le Roux PC, Li X, Liancourt P, Liu J, Louw MA, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Manzaneda AJ, Marais E, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson SM, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Peter G, Pivari MOD, Pueyo Y, Quiroga RE, Rahmanian S, Reed SC, Rey PJ, Richard B, Rodríguez A, Rolo V, Rubalcaba JG, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Schuchardt MA, Spann S, Stavi I, Stephens CRA, Swemmer AM, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Throop HL, Tielbörger K, Travers S, Val J, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Ayuso SV, Velbert F, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Singh BK, Gross N. Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 2022; 378:915-920. [DOI: 10.1126/science.abq4062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil, and biodiversity are critical to explain the delivery of fundamental ecosystem services across drylands worldwide. Increasing grazing pressure reduced ecosystem service delivery in warmer and species-poor drylands, whereas positive effects of grazing were observed in colder and species-rich areas. Considering interactions between grazing and local abiotic and biotic factors is key for understanding the fate of dryland ecosystems under climate change and increasing human pressure.
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- Fernando T. Maestre
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
- Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Planning and Environment, c/o Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biología Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Instituto de Suelos-CNIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Luján, Departamento de Tecnología, Luján, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Laboratoire de Recherche: Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (BioDev), Faculté des Sciences, Université M’hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algérie
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- Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C., San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia
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- University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela
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- Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia
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- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
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- School of Agriculture, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
- University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany Group, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic
- Botany Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institut d’Écologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Université Paris Est Creteil, Université de Paris, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy, France
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
- Cátedra de Manejo de Pastizales Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
- Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Phalaborwa, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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- Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Science Division, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, New South Wales Government, Buronga, New South Wales, Australia
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- Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Mobile Post Negev, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Bondaruk VF, Oñatibia GR, Fernández RJ, Agüero W, Blanco L, Brusquetti M, Kröpfl A, Loydi A, Pascual J, Peri P, Peter G, Quiroga RE, Yahdjian L. Forage provision is more affected by droughts in arid and semi‐arid than in mesic rangelands. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Viviana F. Bondaruk
- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)‐EEA La Rioja La Rioja Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)‐EEA La Rioja La Rioja Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET‐Universidad de Mar del Plata Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro Viedma Argentina
- Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica (CURZA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue Viedma Argentina
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS), CONICET‐Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), CONICET‐Universidad de Mar del Plata Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), EEA CONICET‐Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral Río Gallegos Santa Cruz Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro Viedma Argentina
- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS), CONICET‐Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)‐EEA La Rioja La Rioja Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Cátedra de Ecología, Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Gastón R. Oñatibia
- CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) Av. San Martín 4453 (C1417DSE) Buenos Aires1417Argentina
- Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires1417Argentina
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- CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) Av. San Martín 4453 (C1417DSE) Buenos Aires1417Argentina
- Departamento de Producción Animal Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires1416Argentina
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- CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) Av. San Martín 4453 (C1417DSE) Buenos Aires1417Argentina
- Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires1417Argentina
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- CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) Av. San Martín 4453 (C1417DSE) Buenos Aires1417Argentina
- Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información Facultad de Agronomía Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires1417Argentina
- INIA La Estanzuela Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria Ruta 50 km 11 Colonia Uruguay
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Oñatibia GR, Amengual G, Boyero L, Aguiar MR. Aridity exacerbates grazing‐induced rangeland degradation: A population approach for dominant grasses. J Appl Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Gastón R. Oñatibia
- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente Cátedra de Ecología Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Facultad de Agronomía Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente Cátedra de Ecología Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente Cátedra de Ecología Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA) CONICET‐Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
- Facultad de Agronomía Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente Cátedra de Ecología Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
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Oñatibia GR, Aguiar MR. Grasses and grazers in arid rangelands: Impact of sheep management on forage and non-forage grass populations. J Environ Manage 2019; 235:42-50. [PMID: 30669092 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Ecological modeling that includes plant population processes as a critical determinant of vegetation dynamics is useful for sustainable rangeland management. However, we know little about how long-term sheep grazing pressure drives the plant community structure through changes in different native grass species at both individual and population levels. In this study, we hypothesized that plant populations perform differently under different grazing management due to their specified preference by livestock animals. We also tested whether grazing-rest management, aimed at increasing long-term rangeland sustainability, improves the plant growth of forage grass species. We evaluated plant density, individual morphology and plant-size distribution of dominant grass populations in permanent exclosures and open fields under moderate and intensive grazing pressures in Patagonian steppes (South America). We also examined the effects of seasonal grazing-rest managements on the growth and tillering (asexual reproduction) of forage species plants, using temporary mobile exclosures. Grazing intensity changed population density and structure according to species. Compared to permanent exclosures, moderate grazing maintained the plant density of palatable species highly preferred by sheep, reduced the standing-dead biomass proportion of individual plants, and promoted the green biomass of tussocks. Conversely, intensive grazing (double stocking rates) decreased the plant density and individual size of species highly preferred by sheep, and increased the plant density of non-preferred species. Grazing-rest enhanced forage grass species growth and reproduction compared with year-round grazing management, especially during the growing season of a wet year. Our studies support that sheep can be managed to control the plant-size distribution of dominant grass species, their population dynamics, and thereby the overall forage availability at the community level. Both moderate grazing and grazing-rest management can improve the forage availability and preserve the dominant native grasses. We suggest applying a plant population dynamics perspective to facilitate sustainable management of global rangelands.
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- Gastón R Oñatibia
- IFEVA, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Av. San Martín 4453, Buenos Aires, C1417DSE, Argentina.
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- IFEVA, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Av. San Martín 4453, Buenos Aires, C1417DSE, Argentina
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Oñatibia GR, Boyero L, Aguiar MR. Regional productivity mediates the effects of grazing disturbance on plant cover and patch-size distribution in arid and semi-arid communities. OIKOS 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.05104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Gastón R. Oñatibia
- IFEVA, Dept of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agronomy; Univ. of Buenos Aires; CONICET. Av. San Martín 4453 Buenos Aires C1417DSE Argentina
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- IFEVA, Dept of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agronomy; Univ. of Buenos Aires; CONICET. Av. San Martín 4453 Buenos Aires C1417DSE Argentina
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- IFEVA, Dept of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agronomy; Univ. of Buenos Aires; CONICET. Av. San Martín 4453 Buenos Aires C1417DSE Argentina
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