Invertebrate biosecurity challenges in high productivity grassland: the New Zealand example by Stephen Latham Goldson, Barbara Ingeborg Patricia Barratt, Karen Frances Armstrong

“…To protect productive grasslands from pests and diseases, effective pre- and at-border planning and interventions are necessary. …”
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Plant biotype interacting grazing activity shapes grassland ecosystem functions by Li Wang, Shou‐Jiang Feng, Dandi Sun, Junying Wang, Yijia Wang, Soon‐Jae Lee, Peina Lu, Yantai Gan

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Extensive management promotes plant and microbial nitrogen retention in temperate grassland. by Franciska T de Vries, Jaap Bloem, Helen Quirk, Carly J Stevens, Roland Bol, Richard D Bardgett

“…However, the mechanisms that underpin improved N retention in extensively managed, species-rich grasslands are unclear. We combined a landscape-scale field study and glasshouse experiment to test how grassland management affects plant and soil N retention. …”
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Can Machine Learning Algorithms Successfully Predict Grassland Aboveground Biomass? by Yue Wang, Rongzhu Qin, Huzi Cheng, Tiangang Liang, Kaiping Zhang, Ning Chai, Jinlong Gao, Qisheng Feng, Mengjing Hou, Jie Liu, Chenli Liu, Wenjuan Zhang, Yanjie Fang, Jie Huang, Feng Zhang

“…The timely and accurate estimation of grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is important. Machine learning (ML) has been widely used in the past few decades to deal with complex relationships. …”
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Sentinel-2A Images and Spectroradiometry Applied to Degraded Grassland Study by Erli Pinto dos Santos, Taíse Bomfim de Jesus, Ayala de Souza Reis Carneiro, Rosangela Leal Santos, Ayala de Souza ReisRobson Argolo dos Santos Carneiro

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Enclosure in Combination with Mowing Simultaneously Promoted Grassland Biodiversity and Biomass Productivity by Da Li, Yingying Nie, Lijun Xu, Liming Ye

“…Grassland is the primary land use in China, which has experienced extensive degradation in recent decades due to overexploitation. …”
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Endemic Vascular Plants of Marble and Serpentine Parent Materials in Semiarid Grassland by Melda Dölarslan, Ebru Gül, Sabit Erşahin

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Plant compensation to grazing and soil carbon dynamics in a tropical grassland by Mark E. Ritchie

“…Plant compensation to grazing, whereby plants maintain leaf area (C input capacity) despite consumption (C removal) by grazers, has been demonstrated in tropical grasslands but its influence on SOC is largely unexplored. …”
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Factors that influence the beta-diversity of spider communities in northwestern Argentinean Grasslands by Sandra M. Rodriguez-Artigas, Rodrigo Ballester, Jose A. Corronca

“…Spiders were collected with a G-Vac from vegetation in six grassland sites in the Campos & Malezales ecoregion that were separated by a minimum of 13 km. …”
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Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland by Edzo Veldkamp, Marcus Schmidt, Christian Markwitz, Lukas Beule, René Beuschel, Andrea Biertümpfel, Xenia Bischel, Xiaohong Duan, Rowena Gerjets, Leonie Göbel, Rüdiger Graß, Victor Guerra, Florian Heinlein, Martin Komainda, Maren Langhof, Jie Luo, Martin Potthoff, Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Carolin Rudolf, Diana-Maria Seserman, Guodong Shao, Lukas Siebicke, Nikolai Svoboda, Anita Swieter, Andrea Carminati, Dirk Freese, Torsten Graf, Jörg M. Greef, Johannes Isselstein, Martin Jansen, Petr Karlovsky, Alexander Knohl, Norbert Lamersdorf, Eckart Priesack, Christine Wachendorf, Michael Wachendorf, Marife D. Corre

“…Alley-cropping agroforestry enhances carbon sequestration compared to open cropland and open grassland, and improves soil biological habitat and erosion resistance relative to open cropland, based on measured ecosystem functions at five sites in Germany.…”
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Estimation of the nutritive value of grasslands with the Yara N‐sensor field spectrometer by Julien Morel, Zhenjiang Zhou, Leonardo Monteiro, David Parsons

“…We used a handheld version of a field spectrometer already commercialized for cereal adjustable rate fertilization, to evaluate its potential for grassland nutritive quality estimation. Spectral data and samples were acquired over experimental fields and plots in four locations in Northern Sweden; samples were analyzed using wet chemistry to determine the crude protein concentration, the in vitro true digestibility, the neutral detergent fiber and the neutral detergent fiber digestibility. …”
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Occupational structure and determinants of household income of pastoralists in Banni grasslands of Gujarat by B L MANJUNATHA, M SHAMSUDHEEN, M SURESHKUMAR, PRATIBHA TEWARI, O P YADAV

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Rapid decline of a grassland system and its ecological and conservation implications. by Gerardo Ceballos, Ana Davidson, Rurik List, Jesús Pacheco, Patricia Manzano-Fischer, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Juan Cruzado

“…One of the most important conservation issues in ecology is the imperiled state of grassland ecosystems worldwide due to land conversion, desertification, and the loss of native populations and species. …”
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Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems by Yuxi Guo, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Stephanie Bohlman, Carl Bernacchi, Patrick J. Bohlen, Raoul Boughton, Evan DeLucia, John E. Fauth, Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, David G. Jenkins, Gene Lollis, Ryan S. Miller, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Grégory Sonnier, Jed Sparks, Hilary M. Swain, Jiangxiao Qiu

“…Here we aim to understand the effects of land-use intensification on multiple ecosystem services of spatially connected grasslands and wetlands, where management practices were applied to grasslands but not directly imposed to wetlands. …”
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Response of net primary productivity to grassland phenological changes in Xinjiang, China by Renping Zhang, Jing Guo, Gang Yin

“…In this study, the NPP of grassland in Xinjiang, China, was simulated using the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford approach (CASA) model with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) grassland phenological (MCD12Q2) data to study trends in phenological metrics, grassland NPP, and the relations between these factors from 2001–2014. …”
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Quiet in the nest: The nest environment attenuates song in a grassland songbird by Sarah L. Dobney, Mikayla M.K. Bornais, D. Ryan Norris, Amy E.M. Newman, Heather Williams, Stéphanie M. Doucet, Daniel J. Mennill

“…In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the nest environment attenuates song of Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis), grassland songbirds that build nests on the ground under cover of dense vegetation. …”
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Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands. by Petermann, J, Fergus, A, Turnbull, L, Schmid, B

“…In a controlled greenhouse experiment with 24 plant species and using soils from established field monocultures, we reveal community-wide soil-based Janzen-Connell effects between the three major functional groups of plants in temperate European grasslands. The effects are much stronger and more prevalent if plants are grown in interspecific competition. …”

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales by Hautier, Y, Zhang, P, Loreau, M, Wilcox, KR, Seabloom, EW, Borer, ET, Byrnes, JEK, Koerner, SE, Komatsu, KJ, Lefcheck, JS, Hector, A, Adler, PB, Alberti, J, Arnillas, CA, Bakker, JD, Brudvig, LA, Bugalho, MN, Cadotte, M, Caldeira, MC, Carroll, O, Crawley, M, Collins, SL, Daleo, P, Dee, LE, Eisenhauer, N, Eskelinen, A, Fay, PA, Gilbert, B, Hansar, A, Isbell, F, Knops, JMH, MacDougall, AS, McCulley, RL, Moore, JL, Morgan, JW, Mori, AS, Peri, PL, Pos, ET, Power, SA, Price, JN, Reich, PB, Risch, AC, Roscher, C, Sankaran, M, Schütz, M, Smith, M, Stevens, C, Tognetti, PM, Virtanen, R, Wardle, GM

“…Our findings suggest that preserving grassland functional stability requires conservation of plant diversity within and among ecological communities.…”

Conversion of grassland to arable decreases microbial diversity and alters community composition by French, K, Tkacz, A, Turnbull, L

“…The conservation of species-rich grasslands and their associated microbial diversity could therefore be a key resource for sustainable agriculture in the future.…”

Population of brown shrike (Lanius cristatus) in grassland of University Putra Malaysia by Ahmed Eshkab, Ibrahim

“…The purpose of the study is to determine Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) population size at grassland area of University Putra Malaysia. Transect survey method was employed for the data collection. …”
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