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Welcome (back) to the first “real” post of my @LNeuenkamp guest tweets at @GfoeSoc sharing the ideas of my #MYFUN @MSCActions project @UA_Universidad @Maestrelab
Focus of today: DRYLANDS – why to study and worry about them
Let’ s move to the thread
Focus of today: DRYLANDS – why to study and worry about them
Let’ s move to the thread
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Recap-time:
#MYFUN is about understanding how drylands, mycorrhizal fungi, global change, and ecosystem functioning are related.
Summary
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/835472
Recap-time:
#MYFUN is about understanding how drylands, mycorrhizal fungi, global change, and ecosystem functioning are related.
Summary
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/835472
1/6 Drylands:
Drylands form under high temperatures & low precipitation, resulting in low fertility and patchy vegetation structure: grass and shrub islands intermingled with bare soil or soil covered by biocrusts.
review by @ftmaestre et al. (2012, http://rb.gy/cds0mi )
Drylands form under high temperatures & low precipitation, resulting in low fertility and patchy vegetation structure: grass and shrub islands intermingled with bare soil or soil covered by biocrusts.
review by @ftmaestre et al. (2012, http://rb.gy/cds0mi )
2/6 Drylands are important!
Because drylands:
1. are large - covering 41% of the world’s surface
2. support livelihoods of 38% of human
population.
3. are home to a vast number of animals and
plants
review by @ftmaestre et al. (2016, https://cut.ly/iTP1SE2 )
Because drylands:
1. are large - covering 41% of the world’s surface
2. support livelihoods of 38% of human
population.
3. are home to a vast number of animals and
plants
review by @ftmaestre et al. (2016, https://cut.ly/iTP1SE2 )
3/6 Drylands are vulnerable to desertification!
Why? Watch the very nice summary video on this topic by @ftmaestre about his @ERC_Research in @UA_Universidad
http://bit.ly/3fu4kmh
#ClimateChange #drylands #MissionClimate
#ClimateAction 
needed!
Why? Watch the very nice summary video on this topic by @ftmaestre about his @ERC_Research in @UA_Universidad
http://bit.ly/3fu4kmh #ClimateChange #drylands #MissionClimate
#ClimateAction needed!
4/6 The role of plant composition and diversity…
Decreasing plant diversity and altered plant composition in response to aridity reduces #dryland productivity, and multiple other ecosystem processes (i.e. dryland #EcosystemMultifunctionality), as well as drylands' stability.
Decreasing plant diversity and altered plant composition in response to aridity reduces #dryland productivity, and multiple other ecosystem processes (i.e. dryland #EcosystemMultifunctionality), as well as drylands' stability.
5/6 And grazing effects?
... might be similar to aridity, if intensive grazing reduces plant cover & excludes grazing sensitive species.
... but likely depends on grazing type or history and aridity.
E.g.
Pelizza et al. 2021 @HugoSaiz ( https://cut.ly/JrPvoLt )
... might be similar to aridity, if intensive grazing reduces plant cover & excludes grazing sensitive species.
... but likely depends on grazing type or history and aridity.
E.g.
Pelizza et al. 2021 @HugoSaiz ( https://cut.ly/JrPvoLt )
6/6 Are you curious for more?
Follow my guest tweets #MYFUN at @GfoeSoc during May (usually Fridays)!
Next week: Let’ s dig into the #soil of #drylands
@theGSBI @mrillig @shabana_hoosein @NadiaEcology @Hoelzel_Lab @LNeuenkamp @naturealexk @joana_bergmann
Follow my guest tweets #MYFUN at @GfoeSoc during May (usually Fridays)!
Next week: Let’ s dig into the #soil of #drylands
@theGSBI @mrillig @shabana_hoosein @NadiaEcology @Hoelzel_Lab @LNeuenkamp @naturealexk @joana_bergmann
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to @Maestrelab and @Pescador_DS for the pictures and loads of published content to present
, and @ERC_Research for the nice video material!
Have a nice weekend!!! Buen fin de semana!
Thanks to @Maestrelab and @Pescador_DS for the pictures and loads of published content to present
, and @ERC_Research for the nice video material!Have a nice weekend!!! Buen fin de semana!
