Chemical fertilizers are gradually being replaced with new biological fertilizers, which can improve the soil and microorganisms. In this experiment, leguminous forage (Medicago sativa cv. Beilin 201) was used as research object. By measuring alfalfa root systems properties using high-throughput sequencing technology, we investigated effect of (rhizobial) fertilizer at different concentrations ...

The nematode communities of 36 grassland ecosystems in Romania, belonging to different plant associations and soil types, were studied. The abundance of nematodes, the species and trophic types present, as well as their distribution in relation to plant community and soil characteristics are analyzed and discussed. The abundance of nematodes from the 36 grasslands studied ranged between 0.41 × ...

Whether and how alpine organismic communities respond to ongoing environmental changes is difficult assess quantitatively, given their intrinsically slow responses, remote locations limited data. Here we provide a synthesis of the first five years multidisciplinary, highly standardized, long-term monitoring programme terrestrial aquatic ecosystems in Austrian Hohe Tauern National Park companion...

Aim Global warming is assumed to restructure mountain insect communities in space and time. Theory observations along climate gradients predict that abundance richness, especially of small-bodied species, will increase with increasing temperature. However, the specific responses single species rising temperatures, such as spatial range shifts, also alter communities, calling for intensive monit...

Knowledge of plant functional traits and trait-environment interactions is important for characterizing species strategies and understanding ecological processes. However, comprehensive field data on both above- and belowground traits, together with their environmental variables are scarce. Biome-scale studies are particularly lacking. Here we present two large-scale data sets that include func...

Dynamic of sandy alpine grasslands affect the progress and reversal desertification in source regions Yangtse Rivers. To understand geomorphic driving mechanism species distribution pattern, we examined compositions delineated most important landform factors influencing grassland using two-way indicator analysis (TWINSPAN), detrended correspondence (DCA), canonical (CCA). Field survey were cond...

Changes in global precipitation patterns have had important impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. However, the relationship between alpine vegetation species composition and remained uncertain. Based situ observations, long-term datasets of monthly aboveground biomass (AGB) daily were applied an grassland Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), order to characterize responses multi-species changing rainfall ...