A meta-analysis suggests climate change shifts structure of regional communities of soil invertebrates

AA Goncharov, VD Leonov, OL Rozanova… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil animals perform a range of essential ecosystem functions and can modify the effects of
global change on terrestrial ecosystems. We evaluated responses of six major groups of soil …

Ant nests increase litter decomposition to mitigate the negative effect of warming in an alpine grassland ecosystem

B Luo, M Huang, W Wang, J Niu… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Warming can decrease feeding activity of soil organisms and affect biogeochemical cycles.
The ant Formica manchu is active on the nest surface and prefers a hot, dry environment; …

Aridity determines the effects of warming on community stability in Inner Mongolian grassland

Z Liu, S Zhang, TR Lock, RL Kallenbach… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ongoing climate warming affects biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services.
However, the mechanisms underlying the effects of climate warming on biodiversity-stability …

[PDF][PDF] Potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of the relict plant Shaniodendron subaequale

W Lai, C Shi, G Wen, Z Lü, L Ye, Q Huang, G Zhang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Shaniodendron subeaqualis is a tertiary relict plant unique to China. This species has high
greening, ecological, and scientific research value, and has been listed as a national I-level …

Resource co‐limitation of community biomass but not structure of an alpine grassland

J Zhu, N Zong, P Shi, Y He, X Yang, Y Zhang, L Jiang - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic environmental changes are influencing the structure and function of many
ecological communities, but their underlying mechanisms are often poorly understood. We …

The effect of precipitation timing on phylogenetic and functional community structure in a semi-arid steppe

Z Yang, M Wang, J Yang, R Xiao, C Miao, Y Sun… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Changes in the amount and timing of precipitation may affect plant species
coexistence. However, little is known about how these changes in precipitation structure …

Long-term grazing improved soil chemical properties and benefited community traits under climatic influence in an alpine typical steppe

YW Zhang, ZC Peng, SH Chang, ZF Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Grazing and climate change both contribute to diversity loss and productivity fluctuations.
Sensitive climate conditions and long-term grazing activities have a profound influence on …

Multiple dimensions of biodiversity mediate effects of temperature on invertebrate herbivory in a montane grassland

FW Halliday, SL Cappelli, AL Laine - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Invertebrate herbivores are important and diverse, and their abundance and impacts will
likely shift under climate change. Yet, past studies of invertebrate herbivory have …

川西高山-亚高山草地群落特征及稳定性对增温的响应.

宋扎磋, 王腊梅, 张莉, 陆徐伟… - Mountain Research …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
川西高山亚高山区域作为中国长江, 黄河上游的重要生态屏障, 拥有丰富的生物多样性.
川西高山亚高山草地生态系统对增温变化敏感, 但对其草地生态系统群落及其稳定性对增温的 …

Seven-decade forest succession reveals how species colonization and extinction drive long-term community structure dynamics

S Rao, XY Miao, SY Fan, YH Zhao, C Xu… - Journal of Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how community phylogenetic and functional structures change over
succession has gained increasing attention during the last decades, but the lack of long …