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Oregon State University
Education•Corvallis, Oregon, United States•
About: Oregon State University is a education organization based out in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Climate change. The organization has 28192 authors who have published 64044 publications receiving 2634108 citations. The organization is also known as: Oregon Agricultural College & OSU.
Topics: Population, Climate change, Gene, Upwelling, Soil water
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TL;DR: In this review, the roles of components of the spore germination machinery of C. perfringens and several Bacillus species and the bioinformatic analysis of germination proteins in the Bacillales and Clostridiales orders are discussed and models for the germination of spores of these two orders are proposed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to organize riparian plants into non-phylogenetic groupings of species with shared traits that are related to components of hydrologic regime: life history, reproductive strategy, morphology, adaptations to fluvial disturbance and adaptations to water availability.
Abstract: SUMMARY 1. Riparian vegetation composition, structure and abundance are governed to a large degree by river flow regime and flow-mediated fluvial processes. Streamflow regime exerts selective pressures on riparian vegetation, resulting in adaptations (trait syndromes) to specific flow attributes. Widespread modification of flow regimes by humans has resulted in extensive alteration of riparian vegetation communities. Some of the negative effects of altered flow regimes on vegetation may be reversed by restoring components of the natural flow regime. 2. Models have been developed that quantitatively relate components of the flow regime to attributes of riparian vegetation at the individual, population and community levels. Predictive models range from simple statistical relationships, to more complex stochastic matrix population models and dynamic simulation models. Of the dozens of predictive models reviewed here, most treat one or a few species, have many simplifying assumptions such as stable channel form, and do not specify the time-scale of response. In many cases, these models are very effective in developing alternative streamflow management plans for specific river reaches or segments but are not directly transferable to other rivers or other regions. 3. A primary goal in riparian ecology is to develop general frameworks for prediction of vegetation response to changing environmental conditions. The development of riparian vegetation-flow response guilds offers a framework for transferring information from rivers where flow standards have been developed to maintain desirable vegetation attributes, to rivers with little or no existing information. 4. We propose to organise riparian plants into non-phylogenetic groupings of species with shared traits that are related to components of hydrologic regime: life history, reproductive strategy, morphology, adaptations to fluvial disturbance and adaptations to water availability. Plants from any river or region may be grouped into these guilds and related to hydrologic attributes of a specific class of river using probabilistic response curves. 5. Probabilistic models based on riparian response guilds enable prediction of the likelihood of change in each of the response guilds given projected changes in flow, and
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TL;DR: The average nitrogen content of shrub leaves, stems, and roots was 1.31,.87, and.80%, respectively as mentioned in this paper, and areas between shrubs averaged 0.19% nitrogen.
Abstract: Total nitrogen incorporated in the shrubs of a low—fertility desert plant community (principally Acacia Gregii, Cassia armata, and Larrea divaricata) was estimated from the nitrogen content of plant parts, the total weight of plants and proportional weight of roots, stems, and leaves, and the number of plants per unit area. The average nitrogen content of shrub leaves, stems, and roots was 1.31%, .87%, and .80%, respectively. Shrub cover occupied 20% of the ground surface and contained an average of 29 kg nitrogen/ha. Legume shrubs were not significantly greater in nitrogen content than nonlegume shrubs. Soil nitrogen content decreased significantly as a function of radial distance from the center of the shrub canopy. Areas between shrubs averaged 0.19% nitrogen in the surface inch of soil. Soil nitrogen content decreased significantly from the surface to 90—cm depth and was closely related to shrub species and their root—distribution patterns. See full-text article at JSTOR
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TL;DR: The persistence of basal dNTP levels in HU-arrested cells and partial bypass of the arrest in cells that had preaccumulated dN TPs suggest that cells have a mechanism for arresting DNA chain elongation when d NTP levels are not maintained above a critical threshold.
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TL;DR: There was a strong link between δ13CR and the vapor saturation deficit of air 5–10 days earlier, both across and within sites, and this relationship is consistent with stomatal regulation of gas exchange and associated changes in photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination.
Abstract: Variation in the carbon isotopic composition of ecosystem respiration (δ 13 C R ) was studied for 3 years along a precipitation gradient in western Oregon, USA, using the Keeling plot approach. Study sites included six coniferous forests, dominated by Picea sitchensis, Tsuga heterophylla, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pinus ponderosa, and Juniperus occidentalis, and ranged in location from the Pacific coast to the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains (a 250-km transect). Mean annual precipita- tion across these sites ranged from 227 to 2,760 mm. Overall δ 13 C R varied from -23.1 to -33.1‰, and within a single forest, it varied in magnitude by 3.5-8.5‰. Mean annual δ 13 CR differed significantly in the forests and was strongly correlated with mean annual precipitation. The carbon isotope ratio of carbon stocks (leaves, fine roots, litter, and soil organic matter) varied similarly with mean precipitation (more positive at the drier sites). There was a strong link between δ13C R and the vapor saturation deficit of air ( vpd) 5-10 days earlier, both across and within sites. This relationship is consistent with stomatal regulation of gas exchange and associated changes in photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination. Recent freeze events caused significant deviation from the δ13C R versus vpd relationship, resulting in higher than expected δ 13 CR values.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Robert Stone | 160 | 1756 | 167901 |
Menachem Elimelech | 157 | 547 | 95285 |
Thomas J. Smith | 140 | 1775 | 113919 |
Harold A. Mooney | 135 | 450 | 100404 |
Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
John F. Thompson | 132 | 1420 | 95894 |
Thomas N. Williams | 132 | 1145 | 95109 |
Peter M. Vitousek | 127 | 352 | 96184 |
Steven W. Running | 126 | 355 | 76265 |
Vincenzo Di Marzo | 126 | 659 | 60240 |
J. D. Hansen | 122 | 975 | 76198 |
Peter Molnar | 118 | 446 | 53480 |
Michael R. Hoffmann | 109 | 500 | 63474 |
David Pollard | 108 | 438 | 39550 |
David J. Hill | 107 | 1364 | 57746 |