Plant composition depends on a balance between air, soil, and water.
Buffer type differed in plant composition, but not in maximum percent removal of contaminants.
Only landscape composition at the 400-ha scale showed a critical pure effect on plant composition.
Isolated wetlands are often degraded by agriculture, increasing sediment accretion and altering plant composition.
This was confirmed by path analyses, which further showed that indirect effects of woody plant composition on multifunctionality via decomposer species richness weakened direct plant effects on multifunctionality.
In addition to studying the plant composition, the team is tracking soil temperature and humidity, incoming sunlight levels, wind direction and velocity, and rainfall in this plot.
The zone within 300 m of the sea had a higher density of vegetation with a distinctly different plant composition.
We evaluated plant composition, height, coverage, density, and aboveground biomass to estimate primary productivity and plant diversity.
Biolog™ was more sensitive than PCR-DGGE to detect changes in soil microbial communities induced by glyphosate and plant composition.
Numbers of weed seeds collected on the soil surface seems to be of greater importance than specific plant composition.
However, a large proportion of the variability in multifunctionality was explained by changes in woody plant species composition that were not directly related to leaf- or wood-trait composition and diversity (represented by PC2 of woody plant composition).
