Weeds are major constraints on crop production, yet as part of the primary producers within
farming systems, they may be important components of the agroecosystem. Using published …

Grasslands used to be vital landscape elements throughout Europe. Nowadays, the area of
grasslands is dramatically reduced, especially in industrial countries. Grassland restoration …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Biochar application to soil is currently being widely posited as a means to improve soil
quality and thereby increase crop yield. Next to beneficial effects on soil nutrient availability …

Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many
thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as …

摘要生态学100 多年的探索和发展主要集中在地上部分. 然而, 当今的生态学家已经越来越强烈
地认识到, 鲜为人知的地下部分已成为生态系统结构, 功能与过程研究中最不确定的因素 …

Despite decades of research, it remains controversial whether ecological communities
converge towards a common structure determined by environmental conditions irrespective …

A coupling of above-ground plant diversity and below-ground microbial diversity has been
implied in studies dedicated to assessing the role of macrophyte diversity on the stability …

Lessons learned from the study of ecological succession have much to offer contemporary
environmental problem solving but these lessons are being underutilized. As anthropogenic …