supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42275177);the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(Grant No.2021B0301030007);the National Key Scientific and Technological Infrastructure project“Earth System Numerical Simulation Facility”(EarthLab).
Wood density(WD)is an important quality and functional trait of wood.However,despite the relationships between WD and abiotic factors being important to model or predict spatial distributions of functional traits,as w...
In recent decades,the rapid climate warming in polar and alpine regions has been accompanied by an expan-sion of shrub vegetation.However,little is known about how changes in shrub distribution will change as the dist...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42002283)
Characteristics of root pullout resistance determine the capacity to withstand uprooting and the slope protection ability of plants.However,mechanism underlying the uprooting of taproot-type shrub species in the loess...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC:41901054);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS-PIFI:2021VBB0004).
Biological invasions by alien and range-expanding native plant species can suppress native plants through allelopathy.However,the homeland security hypothesis suggests that some native plants can resist invasion by pr...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.32171876,42230720);the Gansu Province Science and Technology Program(23JRRA627)
Background Disturbance is a key driver of changes in terrestrial ecosystems,especially in water limited regions.In the desert ecosystem of Northwest China,shrubs are often foraged by camels and this causes the shrubs ...
provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 32071491, 31772465, 31672299, 31572271, and 32260128);the Natural Sciences Foundation of the Tibetan (XZ202101ZR0051G)。
Two questions in the research of animal personality—whether there is a correlation between a personality trait and individual reproductive success,and what is the genetic basis underlying a personality trait—remain ...
Of increasing importance while the climate is under the influence of chronic environmental change driven by rising levels of CO_(2),temperature and vapor pressure deficit(VPD),is understanding how vegetation will resp...
supported by the Applied Technology Research and Development program of Heilongjiang Province(GA19C006);the Innovation Foundation for Doctoral Program of Forestry Engineering of Northeast Forestry University(LYGC202112).
Thinning is a widely used forest management tool but systematic research has not been carried out to verify its eff ects on carbon storage and plant diversity at the ecosystem level.In this study,the eff ect of thinni...
Sponsored by Undergraduate Innovation Training Program Support Project of Anhui Province(S202112216146);Key Project of Scientific Research Project(Natural Science)of Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province(2022AH051861).
As one of the outstanding representatives of classical Chinese gardens,the Summer Palace has a variety of shrub plant species,and the configuration of shrub plants is also unique.The shrub landscape configuration of t...
The soil seed bank is an important source of restoration and resilience of disturbed ecosystems. This study evaluates the regeneration potential through the soil seed bank of the shrub savannas of Nguela and Mbe in or...