Publications
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2020
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Svenja B. Kroeger Daniel T. Blumstein Kenneth B. Armitage Jane Margaret Reid Julien G.A. MartinAbstract
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Selamawit Araya Kidane Beira H. Meressa Solveig Haukeland Trine Hvoslef-Eide Christer Magnusson Marjolein Couvreur Wim Bert Danny L. CoyneAbstract
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Matti Maltamo Janne Räty L. Korhonen E. Kotivuori M. Kukkonen H. Peltola J. Kangas P. PackalenAbstract
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Willem-Jan Emsens Rudy van Diggelen Camiel J. S. Aggenbach Tomáš Cajthaml Jan Frouz Agata Klimkowska Wiktor Kotowski Łukasz Kozub Yvonne Liczner Elke Seeber Hanna Marika Silvennoinen Franziska Tanneberger Jakub Vicena Mateusz Wilk Erik VerbruggenAbstract
Many of the world’s peatlands have been affected by water table drawdown and subsequent loss of organic matter. Rewetting has been proposed as a measure to restore peatland functioning and to halt carbon loss, but its effectiveness is subject to debate. An important prerequisite for peatland recovery is a return of typical microbial communities, which drive key processes. To evaluate the effect of rewetting, we investigated 13 fen peatland areas across a wide (>1500 km) longitudinal gradient in Europe, in which we compared microbial communities between drained, undrained, and rewetted sites. There was a clear difference in microbial communities between drained and undrained fens, regardless of location. Community recovery upon rewetting was substantial in the majority of sites, and predictive functional profiling suggested a concomitant recovery of biogeochemical peatland functioning. However, communities in rewetted sites were only similar to those of undrained sites when soil organic matter quality (as expressed by cellulose fractions) and quantity were still sufficiently high. We estimate that a minimum organic matter content of ca. 70% is required to enable microbial recovery. We conclude that peatland recovery after rewetting is conditional on the level of drainage-induced degradation: severely altered physicochemical peat properties may preclude complete recovery for decades.
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L.T. Ellis Olga M. Afonina I.V. Czernyadjeva L.A. Konoreva A.D. Potemkin V.M. Kotkova M. Alataş Hans Blom M. Boiko R.A. Cabral S. Jimenez D. Dagnino C. Turcato L. Minuto P. Erzberger T. Ezer Olga Galanina N. Hodgetts M.S. Ignatov Elena A. Ignatova S.G. Kazanovsky T. Kiebacher H. Köckinger E.O. Korolkova J. Larraín A.I. Maksimov D. Maity A. Martins M. Sim-Sim F. Monteiro L. Catarino R. Medina M. Nobis Arkadiusz Nowak Ryszard Ochyra I. Parnikoza V. Ivanets V. Plášek M. Philippe P. Saha Md. N. Aziz A.V. Shkurko S. Ştefănuţ G.M. Suárez A. Uygur K. Erkul M. Wierzgoń A. GraulichAbstract
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Rein Drenkhan Beccy Ganley Jorge Martín-García Petr Vahalík Kalev Adamson Katarína Adamčíková Rodrigo Ahumada Lior Blank Helena Bragança Paolo Capretti Michelle Cleary Carolina Cornejo Kateryna Davydenko Julio J. Diez Hatice Tugba Doğmuş Lehtijärvi Miloň Dvořák Rasmus Enderle Gerda Fourie Margarita Georgieva Luisa Ghelardini Jarkko Hantula Renaud Ioos Eugenia Iturritxa Loukas Kanetis Natalia N. Karpun András Koltay Elena Landeras Svetlana Markovskaja Nebai Mesanza Ivan Milenković Dmitry L. Musolin Konstantinos Nikolaou Justyna A. Nowakowska Nikica Ogris Funda Oskay Tomasz Oszako Irena Papazova-Anakieva Marius Paraschiv Matias Pasquali Francesco Pecori Trond Rafoss Kristina Raitelaityte Rosa Raposo Cecile Robin Carlos A. Rodas Alberto Santini Antonio V. Sanz-Ros Andrey V. Selikhovkin Alejandro Solla Mirkka Soukainen Nikoleta Soulioti Emma T. Steenkamp Panaghiotis Tsopelas Aleksandar Vemic Anna Maria Vettraino Michael J. Wingfield Stephen Woodward Cristina Zamora-Ballesteros Martin S. MullettAbstract
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Sandra Rojas-Botero Jairo Solorza-Bejarano Johannes Kollmann Leonardo H. TeixeiraAbstract
Degraded tropical forests that were converted into pastures dominated by exotic grasses are a challenge for restoration due to arrested succession. Nucleation is a suitable strategy to restore such abandoned pastures as it can overcome seed and site limitation, and would foster the recovery of structural, functional, and species diversity. To explore the outcomes of different nucleation techniques in terms of richness, functional diversity, resource offer, and species and trait composition during the first year after implementation in an abandoned pasture in the tropical Andes, we conducted a field experiment with four nucleation treatments established in 1-m2 subplots, i.e. natural regeneration (control), seed rain transfer, seed bank transfer, and pre-grown plant mats. Number of species, functional diversity, proportion of natives, flowering and fruiting were response variables of the nucleation treatments and time since restoration using linear mixed-effects models. Species and trait composition trajectories over time were depicted with NMDS. Species richness and functional diversity of understory vegetation increased over time and with nucleation, being significantly higher by the final survey. Seed bank transfer introduced most species to the area in comparison to natural regeneration. Functional diversity, proportion of native, flowering, and fruiting species changed with time albeit with no differences among treatments. Species and trait composition showed convergence over time, which stresses the strong influence of environmental filtering in early restoration of abandoned pastures. Although positive aspects of planting trees and shrubs cannot be neglected, we argue that the incorporation of (several) more sophisticated nucleation techniques is beneficial for restoration of tropical forests.
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Daniel Flø Trond Rafoss Per Hans Micael Wendell Leif SundheimAbstract
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L. Genesio Ryan Bright G. Alberti A. Peressotti G. Delle Vedove G. Incerti P. Toscano M. Rinaldi O. Muller F. MigliettaAbstract
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