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Mugloo JA, Khanday MUD, Dar MUD, Saleem I, Alharby HF, Bamagoos AA, Alghamdi SA, Abdulmajeed AM, Kumar P, Abou Fayssal S. Biomass and Leaf Nutrition Contents of Selected Grass and Legume Species in High Altitude Rangelands of Kashmir Himalaya Valley (Jammu & Kashmir), India. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:plants12071448. [PMID: 37050074 PMCID: PMC10097080 DOI: 10.3390/plants12071448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The yield and nutritional profile of grass and legume species in Kashmir Valley's rangelands are scantly reported. The study area in this paper included three types of sites (grazed, protected, and seed-sown) divided into three circles: northern, central, and southern Kashmir. From each circle, three districts and three villages per district were selected. Most sites showed higher aboveground biomass (AGB) compared to belowground biomass (BGB), which showed low to moderate effects on biomass. The comparison between northern, central, and southern Kashmir regions revealed that AGB (86.74, 78.62, and 75.22 t. ha-1), BGB (52.04, 51.16, and 50.99 t. ha-1), and total biomass yield (138.78, 129.78, and 126.21 t. ha-1) were the highest in central Kashmir region, followed by southern and northern Kashmir regions, respectively. More precisely, AGB and total biomass yield recorded the highest values in the protected sites of the central Kashmir region, whereas BGB scored the highest value in the protected sites of southern Kashmir region. The maximum yield (12.5 t. ha-1) recorded among prominent grasses was attributed to orchard grass, while the highest crude fiber and crude protein contents (34.2% and 10.4%, respectively), were observed for Agrostis grass. The maximum yield and crude fiber content (25.4 t. ha-1 and 22.7%, respectively), among prominent legumes were recorded for red clover. The highest crude protein content (33.2%) was attributed to white clover. Those findings concluded the successful management of Kashmir rangelands in protected sites, resulting in high biomass yields along with the considerable nutritional value of grasses and legumes.
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- Javed A. Mugloo
- Division of Silviculture and Agro Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Kashmir 190025, India; (J.A.M.); (M.u.d.D.); (I.S.)
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- Division of Soil Science, Faculty of Horticulture, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Kashmir 190025, India;
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- Division of Silviculture and Agro Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Kashmir 190025, India; (J.A.M.); (M.u.d.D.); (I.S.)
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- Division of Silviculture and Agro Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Kashmir 190025, India; (J.A.M.); (M.u.d.D.); (I.S.)
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; (H.F.A.); (A.A.B.); (S.A.A.)
- Plant Biology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; (H.F.A.); (A.A.B.); (S.A.A.)
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; (H.F.A.); (A.A.B.); (S.A.A.)
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- Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Umluj 46429, Saudi Arabia;
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- Agro-Ecology and Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Environmental Science, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to Be University), Haridwar 249404, India;
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- Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Forestry, 10 Kliment Ohridski Blvd, 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Lebanese University, Beirut 1302, Lebanon
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Yan F, Zuo A, Qi W, Zhou Z. The Effect of Ecological Management on Regional Health Inequality. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:3037. [PMID: 36833731 PMCID: PMC9966462 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20043037] [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] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Ecological management has been implemented to improve individual well-being. However, it remains unclear whether this management has improved health inequality over time. Aiming to examine whether health inequality is caused by ecological management in China, we harnessed a macro-level dataset from 2001 to 2019 across 31 Chinese provinces-combined with gene and dietary culture data-and utilized a bilateral approach to pair provincial data. Empirical results of system Generalized Method of Moments (sys-GMM) estimations in benchmark and extensive models which suggest a negative and statistically significant causal effect of ecological management on health inequality. Specifically, ecological management contributes to decreasing the inequality in the population death rate, the death rate among pregnant women, the underweight newborn rate, the child malnutrition rate, and the infectious disease mortality. The results are robust to weak instruments in the sys-GMM setting and a delayed effect of ecological management. Additionally, the heterogeneity analysis shows that the causal effect of ecological management on decreasing regional health inequality is more significant and higher for subsamples in identical regions than in different regions.
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- Fafa Yan
- Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Centre for Global Food and Resources, School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- School of Finance and Economics, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, China
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Ali A, Elrys AS, Liu L, Iqbal M, Zhao J, Huang X, Cai Z. Cover Plants-Mediated Suppression of Fusarium Wilt and Root-Knot Incidence of Cucumber is Associated With the Changes of Rhizosphere Fungal Microbiome Structure-Under Plastic Shed System of North China. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:697815. [PMID: 35444626 PMCID: PMC9015784 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.697815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cover crops are known to alleviate the adverse effects of continuous cropping by influencing plant health and changing host fungal-microbiome structures. However, insight into the shift of rhizomicrobiota composition and their effects on plant growth performance and resistance mechanism is still limited under plastic shed cultivation (PSC). Four leafy vegetable rotations namely spinach rotation (SR), non-heading Chinese cabbage rotation (NCCR), coriander rotation (CR), and leafy lettuce rotation (LLR) were used as cover crops in 7-years of continuous cucumber planted soil (CC). Their ecological impacts were studied for plant growth performance, replant diseases incidence rate, and rhizosphere fungal microbiome. Compared to CC, SR showed a highly suppressive effect on fusarium wilt, i.e., by 13.2% in the spring season, while NCCR decreased the root-knot nematode incidence rate by 8.9% in the autumn season. Such protective effects caused a significant increase of shoot and fruit biomass and thus sustained the fruit quality of cucumber. High-throughput sequencing revealed that the CR, SR, and NCCR treatments altered the fungal community composition by increasing the abundance of the beneficial fungal genera, decreasing pathogenic taxa, and fostering the saprotrophic and symbiotic functions. However, the relative abundance of most of the potentially pathogenic fungal genera increased in CC and LLR cropping. There were 8 potential pathogens and 10 beneficial or biocontrol fungi characterized. It was found that Paecilomyces, Chaetomium, Cladorrhinum, Zopfiella, Purpureocillium, and Metarhizium were the putative biocontrol microbes that positively affected plant growth and replanted diseases inhibition. The characterized Fusarium, Dactylonectria, Alternaria, Gibberella, and Aspergillus were the key pathogenic fungal agents found to be negatively associated with plant growth characters, suggesting that rhizomicrobiome may play an important role in the occurrence of disease incidence of cucumber plants. Considering the ecological potential of some cover plants, this study suggested that rotation with spinach, non-heading Chinese cabbage, or coriander can enhance rhizosphere immunity by triggering the development of plant-protective fungal microbiomes under plastic shed cucumber cultivation.
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- Ahmad Ali
- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Soil Science, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China
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Wang LS, Li X, Li YY, Zhang MY, Wu JS. [Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal in Surface Flow Constructed Wetland Planted with Myriophyllum elatinoides Treating Swine Wastewater in Subtropical Central China]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2021; 42:1433-1442. [PMID: 33742940 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202007073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The loss of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from aquaculture has caused eutrophication of freshwater systems. Here, surface flow constructed wetland (SFCW) planted with Myriophyllum elatinoides were used to treat swine wastewater from a medium-sized hoggery in subtropical Central China. Inflow concentrations of NH4+-N, TN, TP, and COD ranged from 535.4 to 591.09, 682.09 to 766.96, 57.73 to 82.29, and 918.4 to 1940.43 mg·L-1, respectively. The mean removal efficiencies of NH4+-N, TN, TP, and COD were 97.4%, 97.1%, 91.0%, and 90.2%, respectively, and CW1 had the largest contributions of 37.3%, 38.4%, 43.3%, and 27.4%, respectively. Plant N and P uptake ranged 23.87-79.96 g·m-2 and 5.34-18.98 g·m-2, accounting for 19.1% and 20.2% of removal, respectively. Sediment N and P accumulation ranged 19.17-56.62 g·m-2 and 10.59-26.62 g·m-2, accounting for 19.8% and 61.7% of removal, respectively. Multiple linear regression showed that environmental factors explained 79.9% of the N removal and 70.1% of the P removal; DO was the main factor affecting N removal, and sediment adsorption was the key process in P removal. These results show that M. elatinoides constructed wetland can efficiently treat swine wastewater, thereby reduce the discharge of pollutants downstream.
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- Li-Sha Wang
- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Regions, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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Dassou AG, Vodouhè SD, Bokonon-Ganta A, Goergen G, Chailleux A, Dansi A, Carval D, Tixier P. Associated cultivated plants in tomato cropping systems structure arthropod communities and increase the Helicoverpa armigera regulation. Bull Entomol Res 2019; 109:733-740. [PMID: 30968787 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485319000117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Cultivating plant mixtures is expected to provide a higher productivity and a better control of pests and diseases. The structure of the arthropod community is a major driver of the magnitude of natural pest regulations.With the aim of optimizing pest management, a study was carried out to determine the effect of the cropping system type (tomato mono-cropping vs. mixed-cropping) on the diversity and abundance of arthropods from three trophic groups (herbivores, omnivores, predators) and the abundance of Helicoverpa armigera. Therefore, the diversity of cultivated plants and arthropod communities was assessed within tomato fields from 30 farmer's fields randomly selected in South of Benin. Results showed that the arthropod abundance was significantly higher in mixed-cropping systems compared with mono-cropping systems, although the crop type did not alter significantly the arthropod diversity, evenness, and richness. At the level of taxa, the abundances of generalist predators including ants (Pheidole spp., and Paltothyreus tarsatus) and spiders (Araneus spp. and Erigone sp.) were significantly higher in mixed fields than in mono-crop fields. Then, the abundances of omnivore-predator trophic groups have a negative significant effect on the H. armigera abundance. This study allowed better understanding of how plant diversity associated to tomato fields structures arthropod's food webs to finally enhance the ecological management of H. armigera.
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- A G Dassou
- Laboratory of Biotechnology, Genetic Resources and Plant and Animal Breeding (BIORAVE); Faculty of Sciences and Technology; BP 14 Dassa; UNSTIM, Benin
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- Department of Economics, Socio-Anthropology and Communication for Rural Development (DESAC), Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA), UAC, Cotonou, Benin
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- Department of Plant Production (DPV), Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), 01 BP 526 RC, Cotonou, Benin
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- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Benin Station), 08 BP 0932 Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin
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- Biopass, Cirad-ISRA-UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal
- CIRAD, UPR Hortsys, 18524 Dakar, Sénégal
- GECO, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratory of Biotechnology, Genetic Resources and Plant and Animal Breeding (BIORAVE); Faculty of Sciences and Technology; BP 14 Dassa; UNSTIM, Benin
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- GECO, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UPR GECO, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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- GECO, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UPR GECO, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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White ER, Cox K, Melbourne BA, Hastings A. Success and failure of ecological management is highly variable in an experimental test. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:23169-73. [PMID: 31659053 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911440116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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When managing natural systems, the importance of recognizing the role of uncertainty has been formalized as the precautionary approach. However, it is difficult to determine the role of stochasticity in the success or failure of management because there is almost always no replication; typically, only a single observation exists for a particular site or management strategy. Yet, assessing the role of stochasticity is important for providing a strong foundation for the precautionary approach, and learning from past outcomes is critical for implementing adaptive management of species or ecosystems. In addition, adaptive management relies on being able to implement a variety of strategies in order to learn-an often difficult task in natural systems. Here, we show that there is large, stochastically driven variability in success for management treatments to control an invasive species, particularly for moderate, and more feasible, management strategies. This is exactly where the precautionary approach should be important. Even when combining management strategies, we show that moderate effort in management either fails or is highly variable in its success. This variability allows some management treatments to, on average, meet their target, even when failure is probable. Our study is an important quantitative replicated experimental test of the precautionary approach and can serve as a way to understand the variability in management outcomes in natural systems which have the potential to be more variable than our tightly controlled system.
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Williams JW, Burke KD, Crossley MS, Grant DA, Radeloff VC. Land-use and climatic causes of environmental novelty in Wisconsin since 1890. Ecol Appl 2019; 29:e01955. [PMID: 31199539 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1955] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Revised: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Multiple global change drivers are increasing the present and future novelty of environments and ecological communities. However, most assessments of environmental novelty have focused only on future climate and were conducted at scales too broad to be useful for land management or conservation. Here, using historical county-level data sets of agricultural land use, forest composition, and climate, we conduct a regional-scale assessment of environmental novelty for Wisconsin landscapes from ca. 1890 to 2012. Agricultural land-use data include six cropland types, livestock densities for four livestock species, and human populations. Forestry data comprise biomass-weighted relative abundances for 15 tree genera. Climate data comprise seasonal means for temperature and precipitation. We found that forestry and land use are the strongest cause of environmental novelty (NoveltyForest = 3.66, NoveltyAg = 2.83, NoveltyClimate = 1.60, with Wisconsin's forests transformed by early 20th-century logging and its legacies and multiple waves of agricultural innovation and obsolescence. Climate change is the smallest contributor to contemporary novelty, with precipitation signals stronger than temperature. Magnitudes and causes of environmental novelty are strongly spatially patterned, with novelty in southern Wisconsin roughly twice that in northern Wisconsin. Forestry is the most important cause of novelty in the north, land use and climate change are jointly important in the southwestern Wisconsin, and land use and forest composition are most important in central and eastern Wisconsin. Areas of high regional novelty tend also to be areas of high local change, but local change has not pushed all counties beyond regional baselines. Seven counties serve as the best historical analogues for over one-half of contemporary Wisconsin counties (40/72), and so can offer useful historical counterparts for contemporary systems and help managers coordinate to tackle similar environmental challenges. Multi-dimensional environmental novelty analyses, like those presented here, can help identify the best historical analogues for contemporary ecosystems, places where new management rules and practices may be needed because novelty is already high, and the main causes of novelty. Separating regional novelty clearly from local change and measuring both across many dimensions and at multiple scales thus helps advance ecology and sustainability science alike.
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- John W Williams
- Department of Geography and Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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- Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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- Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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- SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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Huang YL, Li ZB, Su H, Wang SS, Li YL, Liu CG. [Comparison of soil organic matter, bulk density and clay content in small watersheds under different ecological managements of Loess Plateau, China]. Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 2019; 30:370-378. [PMID: 30915786 DOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201902.013] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To explore the effects of small watersheds with different ecological managements on soil properties, the spatial differences of soil organic matter (SOM), bulk density (BD), and clay content (CC) in the four facets, including slope aspect, slope position, zone, and soil layer, were analyzed between Yangjiagou (YJG, artificial Robinia pseudoacacia forest watershed) and Dongzhuanggou (DZG, closed grassland watershed). The results showed that SOM, BD and CC were 12.78 g·kg-1, 1.24 g·cm-3, 19.2% for YJG and 11.13 g·kg-1, 1.21 g·cm-3, 18.2% for DZG, respectively. The values for YJG were slightly higher than those for DZG, but the difference was insignificant. All indices in the east slope were bigger than those in the west slope. Across different slope positions, the variation of BD was small, SOM and CC showed increasing trends from top to bottom. BD and CC declined downward the watershed, whereas SOM changed in an opposite trend. From the soil surface down to 60 cm soil depth, BD and CC increased and SOM decreased. The spatial sensitivity followed CC > SOM > BD, and the effects of the spatial factors can be ordered as soil layer > zone > slope aspect > slope position. There were significant differences in CC of the upper reaches, BD and CC of the middle reaches between the two basins. The sensitivity of each index to slope position, zone and soil layer in YJG was lower than that in DZG.
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- Yan Li Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dry-land Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
- College of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, Henan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dry-land Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Northwest Water Resources and Environment Ecology, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Acade-my of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang 453003, Henan, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Acade-my of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- Xifeng Experiment Station of Soil and Water Conservation, Yellow River Conservancy Committee, Xifeng 745000, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dry-land Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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Terefe Y, Vitecek S, Graf W. Description of the larva of Oecetis mizrain Malicky & Graf, 2012 (Trichoptera, Leptoceridae) and Lepidostoma scotti (Ulmer, 1930) (Trichoptera, Lepidostomatidae) from Chilimo Forest, Central Ethiopia. Zookeys 2018:63-77. [PMID: 29930479 PMCID: PMC6010509 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.766.24544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The Ethiopian caddisfly fauna comprises 85 species, including 10 Oecetis species and three Lepidostoma species. In this context we provide the first species-level descriptions of Ethiopian caddisfly larvae. We describe and illustrate the larvae of O.mizrain and L.scotti, with additional notes on their habitats and distribution.
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- Yonas Terefe
- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia
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- Department for Limnology & Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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