Plants possess two myosin classes, VIII and XI. The myosins XI are implicated in organelle transport, filamentous actin
organization, and cell and plant growth. Due to the large size of myosin gene families, knowledge of these molecular motors
remains patchy. Using deep transcriptome sequencing and bioinformatics, we systematically investigated myosin...
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, Sergei A. Filichkin, Samuel E. Fox, Pankaj Jaiswal, Kira S. Makarova,
Eugene V. Koonin, and Valerian V
Advances in forest carbon mapping have the potential
to greatly reduce uncertainties in the global carbon
budget and to facilitate effective emissions mitigation strategies
such as REDDC (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation). Though broad-scale mapping
is based primarily on remote sensing data, the accuracy of
resulting forest carbon...
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stocks
M. Réjou-Méchain et al.
Correspondence to:M. Réjou-Méchain (maxime.rejou@gmail.com
Quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are found in diverse habitats throughout North America. While the biogeography of aspens' distribution has been documented, the drivers of the phenotypic diversity of aspen are still being explored. In our study, we examined differences in climate between northern and southwestern populations of aspen, finding...
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calculation is taken from Kira (1976), who originally
referred to it as a ‘warmth index.'
Monthly
Plant invasion and restoration outcomes
are largely driven by the timing and magnitude of seed
dispersal, and by the performance of dispersed species
in an environment. Because seed dispersal controls
recruitment of newly arriving species and facilitates
safe site occupation, assembly will differ depending
on seed dispersal processes and variable...
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on seedlings during
invasion and restoration of shrub-steppe
Schantz, M. C., Sheley, R. L., & James
Mitigation strategies for reducing CO2 emissions include substitution of fossil fuel with bioenergy from forests, where carbon emitted is expected to be re-captured in the growth of new biomass to achieve zero net emissions, and forest thinning to reduce wildfire emissions. Here we use forest inventory data to show that...
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% in California
(Supplementary Table S2). NPP ranges from 100 to 900 g C m-2 across the region and
Accurately monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks is a challenge that remains outstanding. Allometric models that consider tree diameter, height and wood density as predictors are currently used in most tropical forest carbon studies. In particular, a pantropical biomass model has been widely used for approximately a decade, and its most...
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tree stem diameter, H (in m) the total tree
height, ρ (in g cm−3) the wood density and ε the error
Forest ecosystems are removing significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Both abiotic resource availability and biotic interactions during forest succession affect C accumulation rates and maximum C stocks. However, the timing and controls on the peak and decline in C accumulation rates as stands age, trees increase in size,...
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. Whittier, and M. E. Harmon. 2016. Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in
Pacific Northwest forests: role