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RUE fell by more than 80%.

Taxon: grasslandst0
Outcome: RUEe0
Direction: decreasee0
Value: more than 80 %e0

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“RUE responded to flash droughts within 10 days, with a decrease of more than 80 % in magnitude”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1321–1415

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“grasslands”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 51–61

Title

Productivity response characteristics of different grasslands to flash drought and their relationship with drought tolerance

Xiaoxu Liu; Xiaoxu Liu; Xiaomin Liu; et al. Ecological Indicators 2024. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111761

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Association Flash drought affected grassland NPP most in summer.
Association Flash drought affected grassland RUE most in spring.
Association More frequent and intense flash droughts had greater vegetation impacts.
Observation Flash drought caused moderate negative NPP and RUE anomalies in over 90% of grasslands.
Observation The longest NPP response lag was two months.
Observation NPP anomalies persisted for nearly two months after flash drought.
Observation RUE was more sensitive to flash drought than NPP.
Observation RUE responded within ten days.
Association Highly drought-sensitive grasslands had shorter response durations, fewer anomalies, better recovery and greater drought tolerance.
Association Large NPP and RUE values were not associated with increased drought tolerance.
Observation Desert grasslands were the most drought tolerant.
Observation Meadow grasslands were least drought tolerant and at highest flash drought risk.

Observationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Carbon stocks decreased in cocoa farms relative to natural forest.

Taxon: cocoaTheobroma cacaoe0
Outcome: carbon stockse0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: natural foreste0
Setting: cocoa farmse0

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“The magnitude of carbon stocks decrease in the cocoa farms compared to the natural forest.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1078–1168

Title

Effect of cocoa farming intensification on biodiversity and ecosystem properties in southern Ghana

A. Tetteh Daniel; Asase Alex; Ofori-Frimpong Kwesi; et al. Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment 2018. doi:10.5897/jene2017.0673

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The decrease was greater under high than moderate utilization.

Taxon: Treet0
Outcome: tree species richness, tree species diversity, and carbon storagee1
Direction: greatere0
Comparator: moderate utilization regimese0
Setting: high utilizatione0

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“The magnitude of decrease was greater in high utilization compared to moderate utilization regimes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1393–1491

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“tree species richness, tree species diversity, and carbon storage”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1326–1391

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“Tree”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 29–33

Title

Impact of Land Use Change on Tree Diversity and Aboveground Carbon Storage in the Mayombe Tropical Forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Opelele Omeno Michel; Ying Yu; Wenyi Fan; et al. Land 2022. doi:10.3390/land11060787

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Association High utilization reduced tree species richness.
Association Moderate utilization reduced tree species richness.
Association High utilization reduced tree species diversity.
Association Moderate utilization reduced tree species diversity.
Association High utilization reduced carbon storage.
Association Moderate utilization reduced carbon storage.
Observation Biodiversity indices and carbon storage were high under low utilization.
Observation After more than ten undisturbed years, previously utilized fallow land could recover carbon storage.
Observation After more than ten undisturbed years, previously utilized fallow land could recover acceptable tree species biodiversity.
Association Recovered fallow land remained significantly different from the low utilization regime.
Recommendation The authors recommend regulating forest land utilization in Mayombe.

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Declines in native gamma richness were an order of magnitude greater than declines in native alpha richness, 32.0 vs 2.2 species.

Taxon: alien plant speciese0
Outcome: declines in native γ ‐richnesse3
Direction: greatere3
Value: 32.0 vs. 2.2 speciese3

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“In an analysis of 47 widespread alien plant species occurring across a 1,000 km 2 landscape, we examined the relationship between their local abundance and native plant species richness in 594 grassland plots”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 327–535

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“declines in native γ ‐richness were, on average, an order of magnitude (32.0 vs. 2.2 species) greater”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1203–1304

Title

Alien plants can be associated with a decrease in local and regional native richness even when at low abundance

Maud Bernard‐Verdier; Philip E. Hulme Journal of Ecology 2018. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13124

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Outcrossed seed germination decreased by 5.9% from laboratory to field.

Taxon: Blandfordia grandifloraBlandfordia grandiflorat0
Material: outcrossed seedse0
Outcome: germinatione0
Direction: decreasee0
Value: 5.9%e0
Setting: laboratory and fielde0

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“The decrease in germination between the laboratory and field was only 5.9% for outcrossed seeds”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 728–823

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“Blandfordia grandiflora”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 128–151

Title

Effect of Environment on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression in Seed Germination in a Partially Self-Fertile Perennial Herb (Blandfordia grandiflora, Liliaceae)

Mike Ramsey; Glenda Vaughton International Journal of Plant Sciences 1998. doi:10.1086/297525

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Lower fine-root sucrose concentration under long-term warming was related to lower A. odoratum abundance.

Taxon: A. odoratumAnthoxanthum odoratume0
Organ / stage: fine rootse0
Outcome: sucrose concentration in fine rootse0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: abundance of A. odoratume0

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“The decrease in sucrose concentration in fine roots in LTW was related to a decrease in the abundance of A. odoratum”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1806–1922

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Influence of soil warming magnitude and duration on soluble sugar pool in fine roots and rhizomes of subarctic grasslands: Differences at species and plant community level adaptation

Biplabi Bhattarai; Andreas Richter; Dennis Metze; et al. Plant Stress 2024. doi:10.1016/j.stress.2024.100406

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Observation R. acris had the highest soluble sugar concentrations in fine roots and rhizomes among three species.
Observation Rhizomes had higher total soluble sugars than fine roots in A. odoratum.
Observation Rhizomes had higher total soluble sugars than fine roots in Equisetum. spp.
Observation Fine roots had higher total soluble sugars than rhizomes in R. acris.
Intervention effect Soil warming did not affect total soluble sugars in Equisetum.
Intervention effect Soil warming did not affect total soluble sugars in R. acris.
Intervention effect Soil warming increased total soluble sugars in A. odoratum fine roots and rhizomes under medium-term warming.
Intervention effect Soil warming increased total soluble sugars in A. odoratum fine roots under long-term warming.
Intervention effect Medium-term warming did not affect community fine-root soluble sugar concentration.
Intervention effect Medium-term warming increased rhizome total soluble sugar concentration at community level.
Intervention effect Medium-term warming increased rhizome sucrose concentration at community level.
Association Rhizome soluble sugar concentrations correlated positively with grass abundance.
Intervention effect Medium-term warming decreased the fine-root total soluble sugar pool; biomass decline explained 70 % of that decline.
Intervention effect Long-term warming decreased the fine-root total soluble sugar pool, with lower concentration explaining 74 % of the decline.

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Removing plant functional types decreased net ecosystem CO2 exchange, with variation among microhabitats and types.

Taxon: Plant functional typest0
Treatment: removal of PFTse0
Outcome: NEEe0
Direction: decreasee0

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“The removal of PFTs caused a decrease of NEE, but the rate differed between microhabitats (i.e., hummocks and lawns) and the type of PFTs.”
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“Plant functional types”
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Title

Plant functional types define magnitude of drought response in peatland CO₂ exchange

Jan J. Kuiper; Wolf M. Mooij; Luca Bragazza; et al. Ecology 2013. doi:10.1890/13-0270.1

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Intervention effect Ericoid removal had a large effect on NEE in hummocks.
Observation Graminoids played a major role in lawn NEE.
Intervention effect Removing plant functional types did not affect drought resistance or recovery.
Observation Vascular plant functional types controlled when the system switched from carbon sink to source during drought.
Observation The authors expect shifts or loss of plant functional types to affect future carbon dynamics under stress.

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Selfed seed germination decreased by 20.8% from laboratory to field.

Taxon: Blandfordia grandifloraBlandfordia grandiflorat0
Outcome: selfed seedse0
Direction: decreaseinferrede0
Value: 20.8%e0

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“but was 20.8% for selfed seeds.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 825–856

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“Blandfordia grandiflora”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 128–151

Title

Effect of Environment on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression in Seed Germination in a Partially Self-Fertile Perennial Herb (Blandfordia grandiflora, Liliaceae)

Mike Ramsey; Glenda Vaughton International Journal of Plant Sciences 1998. doi:10.1086/297525

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