Biogeography of global drylands

FT Maestre, BM Benito, M Berdugo… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their extent and socio‐ecological importance, a comprehensive biogeographical
synthesis of drylands is lacking. Here we synthesize the biogeography of key organisms …

Ecological costs of livestock grazing in western North America

TL Fleischner - Conservation biology, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock grazing is the most widespread land management practice in western North
America. Seventy percent of the western United States is grazed, including wilderness …

Genera graminum. Grasses of the World.

WD Clayton, SA Renvoize - 1986 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The subject is presented in 2 sections. The first, and much the shorter (28 pages), covers the
morphology, reproduction, anatomy, metabolism, classification and evolution of the family …

Ecology of a grazing ecosystem: the Serengeti

SJ McNaughton - Ecological monographs, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Primary productivity and herbivory were studied in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania,
and Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, during the annual cycle of 1974—1975, and wet …

[图书][B] Flowering plants

A Takhtajan - 2009 - Springer
Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

[图书][B] Fire and plants

WJ Bond, BW Van Wilgen - 2012 - books.google.com
Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However,
despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of …

The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie: Bison increase habitat heterogeneity and alter a broad array of plant, community, and ecosystem …

AK Knapp, JM Blair, JM Briggs, SL Collins, DC Hartnett… - BioScience, 1999 - JSTOR
Plains grasslands, North American bison (Bos bison, also known as Bison bison; Jones et
al. 1992) and other large herbivores were abundant and conspicuous components of the …

[图书][B] Environmental physiology of plants

AH Fitter, RKM Hay - 2012 - books.google.com
This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook. The original
structure and philosophy of the book continue in this new edition, providing a genuine …

Substitution rate comparisons between grasses and palms: synonymous rate differences at the nuclear gene Adh parallel rate differences at the plastid gene rbcL.

BS Gaut, BR Morton, BC McCaig… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded
rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid …

Pre- and Postinvasion Defenses Both Contribute to Nonhost Resistance in Arabidopsis

V Lipka, J Dittgen, P Bednarek, R Bhat, M Wiermer… - science, 2005 - science.org
Nonhost resistance describes the immunity of an entire plant species against nonadapted
pathogen species. We report that Arabidopsis PEN2 restricts pathogen entry of two …