The soil seed bank is considered as an important mechanism for the natural regeneration, resilience and conservation of the forests after disturbances. This study evaluates the characteristics of the soil seed bank in...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no.31870189 and 32000168)。
Phyllosphere algae are common in tropical rainforests,forming visible biofilms or spots on plant leaf surfaces.However,knowledge of phyllosphere algal diversity and the environmental factors that drive that diversity ...
funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFC0500203);a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant.
Background:Atmospheric nitrogen(N)deposition is projected to increase in the next few decades,which may have a marked impact on soil-atmosphere CH_(4) fluxes.However,the impacts of increased atmospheric N depositions ...
This paper set out to chart a pathway for the restoration of rainforest ecosystems in Cross River State in line with the United Nations declaration of years 2021-2030 as the Decade on Ecosystems restoration. The paper...
This paper essayed to examine ecosystem functions with a case study of the tropical rainforest environment of the Cross River National Park, Nigeria. The paper highlighted the important functions of the ecosystems to ...
The Cross River Rainforest of South Eastern Nigeria is one of Africa’s last remaining areas of pristine tropical high forest, extremely rich in a wide variety of flora and fauna species, and is among the twenty five ...
The Department of Biotechnology,New Delhi provided principal funding through a grant to US(BT/PR7928/NDB/52/9/2006)
The lowland rainforests of Meghalaya, India represent the westernmost limit of the rainforests north of the Tropic of Cancer. These forests, on the Shillong plateau, are akin to Whitmore's ‘tropical lowland evergreen...
Soil cover disturbances have a direct effect on biogeochemistry, potentially enhancing nutrient loss, land degradation and associated changes in ecosystem services and livelihood support. The objective of this study w...
National Basic Research Program of China on Global Change(2010CB950600);National Natural Science Foundation of China(#31021001);Ministry of Science and Technology(2010DFA31290).
Aims Tropical forest plays a key role in global C cycle;however,there are few studies on the C budget in the tropical rainforests in Asia.This study aims to(i)reveal the seasonal patterns of total soil respiration(R_(...