supported by a graduate fellowship from Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,as well as a Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award in Lepidoptera conservation from the Xerces Society(2017)for studying the spatial ecology of butterflies in Yanzigou valley;ZW and AJ were supported by a Rufford Small Grant(2016)to work on the conservation of B.thaidina;Aspects of the modeling approach used in this research were supported by a grant from the Harvard Global Institute(HG1)to YL,ZW and NEP.
Insect diversity and abundance are in drastic decline worldwide,but quantifying insect populations to better conserve them is a difficult task.Mark-release-recapture(MRR)is widely used as an ecological indicator for i...
Support for this study was provided by grants from the NSFC(National Natural Science Foundation of China)-Yunnan Joint fund to support key projects(No.U1602264);Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talent Project to G.Chen(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);NSFC(National Natural Science Foundation of China)(No.31660057);Y.P.Geng;Science&Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China for Survey and Germplasm Conservation of PSESP in Southwest China(2017FY100100)to W.B.Sun.
The traditional medicinal plant,and endangered species Aristolochia delavayi(Aristolochiaceae)is an endemic species in China and occurs in the warm and dry areas along the Jinsha river.It is also a specific host of th...
Plants possess many structural and functional properties that have a high potential to serve as concept generators for the production of biomimetic technical materials and structures. We present data on two features...