Loss of understory vegetation led to simplified communities, with skewed dominance of a few species.
From the 1950s to 1980s, the rapid disappearance of vegetation led to severe environmental degradation in the karst region of southwest China.
The classification error of the best predictive model of 12.80% as well as disturbance factors such as channels and areas with weeds or ruderal vegetation lead to misclassifications of BBCH macro-stages at the landscape level.
In Quercus leucotrichophora forest sites dense vegetation led to higher accumulation of soil organic carbon as compared to coniferous sites.
It is an open question as to what extent vegetation succession leads to changes in the number of adaptive peaks and corresponding changes in mean fitnesses of species' populations such that multiple species can persist in the same habitat.
The presence of vegetation also led to significant differences, especially in hot periods, between the vegetated and the bare soils treatments: the amount of water stored into the soil was up to 210 L m− 2 higher for bare soil.
Strong covering of aquatic plant vegetation can lead to problems in the operational use of waterways and negatively influence flood protection and hydroelectric power generation.
