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Vegetation-environment relationships in alpine mires of the West Carpathians and the Alps
QuestionsHow do two distant mountain ranges differ in their vegetation-environment relationships, overall species composition and its variability and species richness of vascular plants and bryophytes in alpine fens and bogs? Is the floristic difference co ...
Wiley-Blackwell2013Seasonal patterns of testate amoeba diversity, community structure and species-environment relationships in four Sphagnum-dominated peatlands along a 1300 m altitudinal gradient in Switzerland
Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell, Luca Bragazza, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Mariusz Lamentowicz
Altitudinal gradients are useful to study the potential effects of climate change on ecosystems. Historically, studies on elevation gradients have primarily focused on macro-organisms and ecosystem processes, while microorganisms have been mostly ignored d ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013Patterns of earthworm communities and species traits in relation to the perturbation gradient of a restored floodplain
Edward Mitchell, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Bertrand Fournier
Little is known about the diversity and ecology of earthworms in flocdplains, as well as their response to natural and anthropic perturbations (e.g. floods, river channelisation, floodplain restoration). We characterised the patterns of earthworm communiti ...
Elsevier Science Bv2012Testate amoeba analysis of lake sediments: impact of filter size and total count on estimates of density, species richness and assemblage structure
Testate amoebae are informative about palaeoecological conditions, but the methods generally used for their analyses in lake sediments differ from those used for their analyses in peats, making comparisons difficult. This study examines how filter mesh siz ...
2010Long-term dynamics of aboveground fungal communities in a subalpine Norway spruce forest under elevated nitrogen input
Rita Bütler Sauvain, François Gillet, Simon Egli
As anthropogenic N deposition has been suspected to be the main reason for the decline of macromycetous sporocarp production in forest ecosystems, various N-fertilization experiments were started in the mid 1990s. The dynamics of ectomycorrhizal (root-inha ...
Springer Verlag2010Soil-vegetation patterns in secondary slash and burn successions in Central Menabe, Madagascar
Alexandre Buttler, Jean-Michel Gobat
Slash and burn agriculture is a traditional and predominant land use practice in Madagascar and its relevance in the context of forest preservation is significant. At the end of a cycle of culture, the fields become mostly weed covered and the soil fertili ...
2010Biogeography, Evolution and Diversity of Free-Living Protists
Although widely recognized as essential actors of ecosystem processes and representing a significant part of the Earth's biodiversity, free-living protists are poorly known. Major questions concerning their diversity, ecology, and evolution remain complete ...
EPFL2010Effect of Lead Pollution on Testate Amoebae Communities living in Sphagnum fallax: an experimental study
We studied the effects of lead pollution on testate amoebae communities living on Sphagnum fallax by growing this moss under controlled conditions. A progressive series of lead (Pb) concentration was used in the growing solution of the mosses: 0 (control), ...
2008Assessing functional diversity in the field -methodology matters!
- Interpreting the functional diversity of vegetation is important in unravelling the relationship between environmental change, community composition and ecosystem processes. Functional diversity is the range and distribution of functional trait values i ...