supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant nos.32171528 and 31700468];the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Province[grant nos.BK2017636 and BK20221180];the Key Subject of Ecology of the Jiangsu Province[SUJIAOYANHAN,2022,No.2].
Species functional traits can influence seed dispersal processes and consequently affect species’role in the mutualistic network.Although the effect of animal traits on the structure of the seed dispersal network is ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31872361);“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”,Southwest Minzu University(2018NQN02);Sichuan provincial central government guiding local science and technology development in 2020(20ZYZYTS0020).
The adaptation and diversity of animals to the extreme environments of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau(QTP)are typical materials to study adaptive evolution.The recently discovered Jinchuan yak population has many individu...
the following sources over the years:National Science Foundation(INT-8920440,INT-9016551,INT-9249613,Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Pro-gram-0815441;Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program);National Geographic Society;National Academy of Sci-ences(Henry Fund);Earthwatch-the Center for Field Studies;Kadoorie Charitable Foundation(Hong Kong);Biodiversity Working Group-China Council for Interna-tional Cooperation in Environment and Development;United Board for Christian Higher Education;Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund,Japan;Phoenix Zoo Conservation and Science Grants Program;Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Asia Seed Fund;Project 111-PRC Min-istry of Education;National Security Education Program-David L.Boren Fellowship;Arizona State University(School of Life Sciences,Center for Asian Studies,College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,Graduate Col-lege).Sharon Hall kindly supplied information on the unique soil properties found on the QTP.We are grate-ful to Aryn Musgrave for drafting the range map of the plateau pika.We thank Harriet Smith for her insightful comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
Understanding a species’functional traits allows for a directed and productive perspective on the role a species plays in nature,and thus its relative importance to conservation planning.The functionaltrait ecology o...
The Fred M.Van Eck Forest Foundation for Purdue University and the McIntire-Stennis program provided funding.
Seeds of many hardwood trees are dispersed by scatter-hoarding rodents,and this process is often mediated by the traits of seeds.Although numerous studies have linked seed traits to seed preference by rodents,little i...
Conceptualizing species interactions as networks has broadened our understanding of ecological communities.However,the factors shaping interaction patterns among species and,therefore,network structure remain unclear....
Whether or not sexually selected traits consistently exhibit positive allometry(i.e.are disproportionately large in larger individuals)is an ongoing debate.Multiple models and exceptions to this rule suggest that the ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31372212,31330013).
Little is known about seeding regeneration of cultivated trees compared to wild relatives in areas where seed dispersers are shared.Here,we investigated the differences in seed fates of cultivated walnut(Juglans regia...
We would like to thank the Forestry Department of Guizhou Province and the Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve for support and permission to carry out this study,and Y.Cai for assistance with fieldwork.This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.31272328 and 31472013 to WL,31260514 to CY and 31301875 to YL);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET13-0761);the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(No.212136);the Program of International S&T Cooperation(KJHZ2013-12)to CY.We declare that all authors have no conflict of interest.
Mutual interaction between brood parasites and their hosts is a well-known model system for studying host-parasite coevolution.Both parties have acted reciprocally,resembling an evolutionary arms race,in which adaptat...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31071929,30930016);the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KSCX2-EW-N-05).
Although many studies have been carried out on plant-animal mutualistic assemblages,the roles of functional traits and taxonomy in determining both whether interactions involve mutualisms or predation and the struct...