The carbon footprint of young-beef cattle finishing systems in the Eastern Plains of the Orinoco River Basin of Colombia by Carlos A. Ramírez-Restrepo, Carlos A. Ramírez-Restrepo, Carlos A. Ramírez-Restrepo, Raul R. Vera-Infanzón, Raul R. Vera-Infanzón, Idupulapati M. Rao

“…Overall, this study projects the positive impact of the design of plausible fattening strategies on grasslands for improving cattle productivity and reducing emission intensities with concomitant increases in technical efficiency.…”
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Grazing intensity and driving factors affect soil nitrous oxide fluxes during the growing seasons in the Hulunber meadow steppe of China by Ruirui Yan, Huajun Tang, Xiaoping Xin, Baorui Chen, Philip J Murray, Yunchun Yan, Xu Wang, Guixia Yang

“…Grazing had a long-term effect on the soil N _2 O flux in the grasslands. After 4–5 years of grazing, the N _2 O fluxes under increased levels of grazing intensity began to decrease significantly by 31.4%–60.2% in 2013 and 32.5%–50.5% in 2014 compared to the non-grazing treatment. …”
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Bacterial but Not Fungal Rhizosphere Community Composition Differ among Perennial Grass Ecotypes under Abiotic Environmental Stress by Soumyadev Sarkar, Abigail Kamke, Kaitlyn Ward, Aoesta K. Rudick, Sara G. Baer, QingHong Ran, Brandi Feehan, Shiva Thapa, Lauren Anderson, Matthew Galliart, Ari Jumpponen, Loretta Johnson, Sonny T. M. Lee

“…ABSTRACT Environmental change, especially frequent droughts, is predicted to detrimentally impact the North American perennial grasslands. Consistent dry spells will affect plant communities as well as their associated rhizobiomes, possibly altering the plant host performance under environmental stress. …”
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Florix, an index to assess plant species in floodplains for nature conservation – Developed and tested along the river Danube by B. Stammel, C. Damm, C. Fischer-Bedtke, A. Rumm, M. Gelhaus, P. Horchler, S. Kunder, F. Foeckler, M. Scholz

“…The region with dominant agricultural use showed significantly lower values than that with a higher portion of forests and grasslands.Florix can be used for a floristic conservation status assessment at single habitat level or for the entity of a study region in comparison to a reference region. …”
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Soil Moisture Dynamics and Its Temporal Stability under Different-Aged <i>Caragana korshinskii</i> Shrubs in the Loess Hilly Region of China by Haibin Liang, Yani Li, Xiaoxu An, Jie Liu, Naiqing Pan, Zongshan Li

“…In summary, the findings indicate that natural recovery with low-water consumption grasslands and manual management measures, such as thinning and mowing, should be strengthened to minimize the high soil moisture consumption rates that occur in a healthy soil moisture environment and maintain sustainable vegetation restoration.…”
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Integration of Sentinel-3 OLCI Land Products and MERRA2 Meteorology Data into Light Use Efficiency and Vegetation Index-Driven Models for Modeling Gross Primary Production by Fengji Zhang, Zhijiang Zhang, Yi Long, Ling Zhang

“…Strong correlations were obtained across deciduous broadleaf forests, mixed forests, grasslands, and croplands. At the same time, there are overestimations and underestimations in croplands, evergreen needleleaf forests and deciduous broadleaf forests. …”
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Habitats change of Tibetan antelope and its influencing factors on the North Tibetan Plateau from 2020 to 2050 by Ziqian Wei, Zengrang Xu, Tian Qiao, Shouxing Wang, Natarajan Ishwaran, Mingxin Yang

“…We recommend setting up systems for monitoring habitats changes of Tibetan antelope that could help in defining the national park area to cover critical antelope habitats and manage herdsmen and livestock uses of the areas within the carrying capacity of grasslands, particularly through diversification of livelihoods and support to green development of local communities.…”
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Nitrogen and phosphorus pools and fluxes in upland and seasonally flooded forests and woodlands of the Cerrado-Pantanal transition of Brazil by George L Vourlitis, Osvaldo Borges Pinto, Jr., Higo J. Dalmagro, Paulo Enrique Zanella de Arruda, Francisco de Almeida Lobo

“…Brazilian tropical savanna (referred to as Cerrado) has enormous structural variability ranging from tree- and shrub-free grasslands to tall, dense forests that are found in both well-drained upland and seasonally flooded (hyperseasonal) landforms. …”
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Crop Mapping without Labels: Investigating Temporal and Spatial Transferability of Crop Classification Models Using a 5-Year Sentinel-2 Series and Machine Learning by Tomáš Rusňák, Tomáš Kasanický, Peter Malík, Ján Mojžiš, Ján Zelenka, Michal Sviček, Dominik Abrahám, Andrej Halabuk

“…This finding underscores the importance of employing a multi-classifier analysis. Rapeseed, grasslands, and sugar beet consistently show stable transferability across seasons. …”
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Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5) by Y. Chen, J. Hall, D. van Wees, N. Andela, S. Hantson, L. Giglio, G. R. van der Werf, D. C. Morton, J. T. Randerson

“…The global reduction is primarily driven by a decrease in fires in savannas, grasslands, and croplands. Forest, peat, and deforestation fires did not exhibit significant long-term trends. …”
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Microclimate mapping using novel radiative transfer modelling by F. Zellweger, E. Sulmoni, J. T. Malle, A. Baltensweiler, T. Jonas, N. E. Zimmermann, C. Ginzler, D. N. Karger, P. De Frenne, D. Frey, C. Webster, C. Webster, C. Webster

“…We also found that, in open grasslands, maximum temperatures at 5 cm above ground are, on average, 3.4 <span class="inline-formula">^∘</span>C warmer than those of the macroclimate, suggesting that, in such habitats, heat exposure close to the ground is often underestimated when using macroclimatic data. …”
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Predictions Based on Different Climate Change Scenarios: The Habitat of Typical Locust Species Is Shrinking in Kazakhstan and Xinjiang, China by Rui Wu, Jing-Yun Guan, Jian-Guo Wu, Xi-Feng Ju, Qing-Hui An, Jiang-Hua Zheng

“…The Italian locust (<i>Calliptamus italicus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758)), Asian migratory locust (<i>Locusta migratoria migratoria</i> Linnaeus, 1758), and Siberian locust (<i>Gomphocerus sibiricus</i> (Linnaeus, 1767)) are common pests widely distributed in the semidesert grasslands of Central Asia and its surrounding regions. …”
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The contrasted impacts of grasshoppers on soil microbial activities in function of primary production and herbivore diet by Ibanez, Sébastien, Foulquier, Arnaud, Brun, Charles, Colace, Marie-Pascale, Piton, Gabin, Bernard, Lionel, Gallet, Christiane, Clément, Jean-Christophe

“…During two consecutive years, we conducted an experiment controlling the presence of three grasshopper species consuming either grasses, forbs or both in twelve natural and managed alpine grasslands with contrasted productivities. In order to assess the effects of herbivory on soil microbes, we measured their extracellular enzymatic activities, biomass and potential nitrogen mineralization (PNM). …”
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A novel approach for surveying flowers as a proxy for bee pollinators using drone images by Michele Torresani, David Kleijn, Jan Peter Reinier de Vries, Harm Bartholomeus, Ludovico Chieffallo, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Vítězslav Moudrý, Daniele Da Re, Enrico Tomelleri, Duccio Rocchini

“…Here we surveyed bees and flowering plants using conventional field methods in 30 grasslands along a land-use intensity gradient in the Southeast of the Netherlands. …”
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Unraveling biogeographical patterns and environmental drivers of soil fungal diversity at the French national scale by C. Djemiel, S. Dequiedt, W. Horrigue, A. Bailly, M. Lelièvre, J. Tripied, C. Guilland, C. Guilland, S. Perrin, G. Comment, N. P. A. Saby, C. Jolivet, A. Bispo, L. Boulonne, A. Pierart, P. Wincker, C. Cruaud, P.-A. Maron, S. Terrat, L. Ranjard

“…They varied hugely and showed a loss of 75 % of the complexity in crop systems and grasslands compared to forests and up to 83 % in vineyard systems. …”
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Overridingly increasing vegetation sensitivity to vapor pressure deficit over the recent two decades in China by Miao Liu, Guijun Yang, Wenping Yuan, Zhenhong Li, Meiling Gao, Yun Yang, Huiling Long, Yang Meng, Changchun Li, Haitang Hu, Heli Li, Zhanliang Yuan

“…The positive sensitivities are relatively high for Deciduous Broadleaf Forests (DBF), Deciduous Needleleaf Forests (DNF), Grasslands (GL), and Croplands (CL) types, while the negative sensitivities are larger for Shrublands (SL) and Savannas (SA) types. …”
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The contribution of Earth observation technologies to the reporting obligations of the Habitats Directive and Natura 2000 network in a protected wetland by Adrián Regos, Jesús Domínguez

“…The habitat maps obtained from the two ensemble classification approaches showed a reduction in habitat classes dominated by salt marshes and meadows (24.6–26.5%), natural and semi-natural grasslands (25.9–26.5%) or sand dunes (20.7–20.9%) and an increase in forest (31–34%) and reed bed (60.7–67.2%) in the study area. …”
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Simultaneous Metabarcoding and Quantification of <i>Neocallimastigomycetes</i> from Environmental Samples: Insights into Community Composition and Novel Lineages by Diana Young, Akshay Joshi, Liren Huang, Bernhard Munk, Christian Wurzbacher, Noha H. Youssef, Mostafa S. Elshahed, Christina D. Moon, Katrin Ochsenreither, Gareth W. Griffith, Tony M. Callaghan, Alexander Sczyrba, Michael Lebuhn, Veronika Flad

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The Nasopharyngeal, Ruminal, and Vaginal Microbiota and the Core Taxa Shared across These Microbiomes in Virgin Yearling Heifers Exposed to Divergent In Utero Nutrition during Thei... by Samat Amat, Devin B. Holman, Kaycie Schmidt, Ana Clara B. Menezes, Friederike Baumgaertner, Thomas Winders, James D. Kirsch, Tingting Liu, Timothy D. Schwinghamer, Kevin K. Sedivec, Carl R. Dahlen

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Emissions of atmospherically reactive gases nitrous acid and nitric oxide from Arctic permafrost peatlands by Hem Raj Bhattarai, Maija E Marushchak, Jussi Ronkainen, Richard E Lamprecht, Henri M P Siljanen, Pertti J Martikainen, Christina Biasi, Marja Maljanen

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