2007 National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences;National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30200035, 30670370);the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guangdong & Guangzhou Sci-Tech Planning Project (07118249, 2005B60301001, 2007JI-C0471).
Nurse plants are those that facilitate the growth and development of other plant species (target species) beneath their canopy because they offer benign microhabitats that are more favorable for seed germination and/o...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.30200035 and 30670370);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Grant No. 021627);Field Station Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and theChinese Academy of Sciences Advisory Program (Grant Nos. KSCX2-SW-132 andKSCX2-SW-133)
Tropical forests continue to vanish rapidly,but few long-term studies have ever examined if and how the lost forests can be restored.Based on a 45-year restoration study in south China,we found that a tropical rain fo...