Filters: Tags: woody plant encroachment (X)
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Conclusions:Landscapes dominated by woody vegetation had significantly more patches, smaller patches and patch core areas, more total edge, and higher patch diversity than landscapes dominated by anthropogenic cover types. Results indicate that expanding juniper is exacerbating the fragmentation process initiated by previous human activityThresholds/Learnings:
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Great Plains grasslands,
Land use configuration,
Landscape fragmentation,
Natural cover amount,
Oklahoma,
Abstract (from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12571/full): 1.Changing winter climate extremes are expected to result in the poleward migration of mangrove forests at the expense of salt marshes. Although mangroves and marshes are both highly valued ecosystems, the ecological implications of mangrove expansion have not been fully investigated. 2.Here we examined the effects of mangrove expansion on below-ground properties related to peat development and carbon storage. We investigated plant-soil interactions in marshes and across mangrove forest structural gradients in three locations in the northern Gulf of Mexico (USA). We compared our results to those from terrestrial grasslands where the...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Landscapes,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast CASC,
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