supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2020YFA0608100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,No.32071842 and 32101588)。
Assessing the sensitivities of ecosystem functions to climatic factors is essential to understanding the response of ecosystems to environmental change.Temperate plantation forests contribute to global greening and cl...
funded by the Tuscany region(project Nat-NET);Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan(NRRP),Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4-Call for tender No.3138 of 16 December 2021,rectified by Decree n.3175 of 18 December 2021 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU;Project code CN_00000033,Concession Decree No.1034 of 17 June 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research,CUP B63C22000650007,Project title“National Biodiversity Future Center-NBFC”.
European beech(Fagus sylvatica L.)forests can have a high variability in plant species richness and abundance,from monospecific stands to highly species-rich communities.To understand what causes the low plant diversi...
supported by the MITACS Accelerate grant with Greenfirst,industry partner in La Sarre,QC,Canada.
Fire disturbances are increasing under global climate change and ecological transformations of forests are occurring.Specifically,shifts from productive closed-canopy feather moss forests to low-productivity open-cano...
funded by the National Research,Development and Innovation Office(NKFIH FK 142428 grant);The contribution of Z.B.was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research,Development and Innovation Fund(ÚNKP-23-5-SZTE-697);K.F.was supported by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research,Development and Innovation Fund(ÚNKP-23-3-SZTE-441);C.T.was supported by the NKFIH K 146137 grant;A.E-V.was supported by the long-term research development project of the Czech Academy of Sciences(RVO 67985939).
Topographic complexity supports the maintenance of a high diversity of microhabitats,which may act as important‘safe havens’-or microrefugia-for biodiversity.Microrefugia are sites with specific environmental condit...
supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council under Grant 202106910006.
Branch angles are an important plant morphological trait affecting light interception within forest canopies.However,studies on branch angles have been limited due to the time-consuming nature of manual measurements u...
Funded by PotlatchDeltic Corporation,grant number RGPSQ17。
A common concern to planting for reforestation is seedling failure that is directly measurable by seedling early field performance of growth and survival.Root growth potential(RGP)is a commonly used metric of seedling...
supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project GREEN-RISK(Evaluation of past changes in ecosystem services and biodiversity in forests and restoration priorities under global change impacts-PID2020-119933RB-C21);A.C.received a pre-doctoral fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation(PRE2021-099642).
Conservation and enhancement of old-growth forests are key in forest planning and policies.In order to do so,more knowledge is needed on how the attributes traditionally associated with old-growth forests are distribu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42371038);the Basic Research Innovation Group Project of Gansu Province(No.22JR5RA129);the 2022 Major Scientific Research Project Cultivation Program of Northwest Normal University(No.WNU-LKZD2022-04);the 2022 Northwest Normal University Graduate Research Grant Program(No.2022KYZZ-B066).
The survival and mortality of conifer trees in response to climate change,particularly drought stress,have received considerable attention.However,it is crucial to explore the growth dynamics of the same conifer speci...
supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency(grant numbers ARIS P1-0236,ARIS P6-0101,ARIS J6-2592).
The article deals with forest communities that develop on small surfaces on steep gradients of the geomorphologically diverse landscape of the Kras plateau.They appear in small depressions called dolines,where a steep...
Wyoming NASA EPSCoR Faculty Research Grant(Grant#80NSSC19M0061);Yellowstone National Park Services for their generous support and funding that made this research possible.
In the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States,forests include extensive portions of standing dead trees.These regions showcase an intriguing phenomenon where the combined biomass of standing...