Publications related to Plant ecology

Experimental warming interacts with soil moisture to discriminate plant responses in an ombrotrophic peatland

Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Edward Mitchell, Luca Bragazza, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Cédric Pochelon

QuestionA better understanding of the response of Sphagnum mosses and associated vascular plants to climate warming is relevant for predicting the carbon balance of peatlands in a warmer world. Open-top chambers (OTCs) have been used to investigate the eff ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Microclimatological consequences for plant and microbial composition in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands

Luca Bragazza, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek

In three Scandinavian peatlands we studied to what extent plant and microbial community compositions are governed by local-scale microhabitat, with a special interest in the effect of aspect (i.e. exposition of slopes). Despite differences in solar irradia ...

Finnish Environment Inst2014

Is phytoremediation a sustainable and reliable approach to clean-up contaminated water and soil in Alpine areas?

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Elena Comino

Background, aim and scope Phytoremediation does exploit natural plant physiological processes and can be used to decontaminate agricultural soils, industrial sites, brownfields, sediments and water containing inorganic and organic pollutants or to improve ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are above-ground and below-ground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors?

François Gillet, Edward Mitchell

P>1. We studied vascular plant and soil-dwelling testate amoeba communities in deglaciated sites across a range of substrate ages in Kenai Fjords, Alaska, USA to test four hypotheses. (i) Patterns of community assembly are similar for vascular plants and t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

On the geographic range of freshwater ﬁsh in river basins

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo

We study the observed geographic distribution of freshwater fish species in the Mississippi-Missouri river system, focusing on the size and spatial distribution of geographic ranges. We use a particular metric of geographic distribution known as environmen ...

American Geophysical Union2009

Multiproxy study of anthropogenic and climatic changes in the last two millennia from a small mire in central Poland

Mariusz Lamentowicz

The Żabieniec kettle-hole is the first peatland in central Poland analysed quantitatively with four biotic proxies (plant macrofossils, pollen, testate amoebae and chironomids) in order to reconstruct past environmental change. Palaeoecological data were s ...

Springer Netherlands2009