Introduction Livestock overgrazing represents one of the most destructive uses land in terrestrial ecosystems and threatens biodiversity. However, understanding effects livestock on below-ground soil microbial diversity is limited, despite microbes representing majority biodiversity determining ecosystem functioning. Materials Methods To investigate richness, a long-term grazing exclusion exper...

Effects of rock fragments on the water infiltration and hydraulic conductivity in soils desert steppes Inner Mongolia, China | Xiaolong Wu, Zhongju Meng, Xiaohong Dang, Ji Wang Agricultural Journals

In 2020–2022, the complete taxonomic composition of flora for botanical-geographical plot “Steppes Ukraine” at M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden NAS Ukraine (NBG) was studied and analyzed. This established NBG in 1949 to demonstrate floristic diversity Ukrainian Steppes ex situ. According inventory results, 347 species infraspecific taxa from 196 genera 53 families higher vascular plants w...

Aim The steppe grasslands of eastern Central Europe are exceptionally species rich and valuable from a nature conservation point view. However, their historical biogeography is still poorly understood. Here we use the regional diversity habitat specialists chloroplast DNA data to investigate potential long-term refugia in this region. Location Pannonian Basin adjacent regions; SW Russia. Taxon ...

The Mongolian steppes with a long history of nomadic pastoralism cover large area the Palaearctic steppe biome and are still relatively intact. As livestock number has increased over last two decades, grazing been considered as main reason pasture degradation. However, impact on vegetation dynamics, its interaction climate, is not clear. We reviewed 44 publications in language, covering 109 sit...

Burrow-dwelling rodents are often considered ecosystem engineer species in arid environments. They create distinct habitat patches by building burrows: they move large amounts of soil, mix soil layers and change properties locally. Our aim was to explore the role Steppe Marmot as an shaping plant composition diversity steppes. First, we made a literature search gather information on engineering...

Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835), the Asia Minor ground squirrel, is a group-living, diurnal, obligately hibernating marmotine squirrel. It inhabits the steppes and alpine meadows throughout central lowland and eastern highland Anatolia and adjacent Armenia and northwestern Iran. Its preferred elevation appears to range from about 800 to 2,900 m. The species displays sexual dimorphism...

The recent development of paleogenetics has had a large impact on much archaeology. Particularly surprising been the discovery connection between Iberian Peninsula and Eurasian steppes, an unexpected link first stages metallurgy at opposite ends Europe. Recent studies human remains from Copper Bronze Age Spain Portugal have shown significant presence genomes types geneticists attribute to Yamna...