Niche theory predicts that closely related and ecologically similar species with overlapping distribution ranges can coexist through resource partitioning that limits interspecific competition.However,studies examinin...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.QNTD202304);National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(No.32171794).
Anoplophora glabripennis(Asian longhorn beetle,ALB)and Anoplophora chinensis(Citrus longhorn beetle,CLB)are native forest pests in China;they have become important international quarantine pests.They are found using t...
Although mechanical isolation mediated by shared pollinators has been considered as a classic model of pollinator-mediated floral isolation in Pedicularis,a superdiverse genus in Hengduan Mountains,southwest China,the...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830005 and 31971540),the National Key Research and Development Planof China(2017FY100705),the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2019A1515010752),the Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou(202102020483),and the Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhuhai)(311021006).
In the conventional view,species are separate gene pools delineated by reproductive isolation(RI).In an alternative view,species may also be delineated by a small set of’speciation genes’without full RI,a view that ...
Authors would like to thank the Thailand Research Fund entitled“Impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Sub region”(grant number RDG6130001).
This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity,which collates the data on defining species.Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue.Since Darwin’s proposed origin of sp...
The authors acknowledge to the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia(Mexico)for its support to Luis Fernando Cuellar-Garrido with the master's degree scholarship 615539。
Two varieties of Bouteloua aristidoides have been recognized,the widespread var.aristidoides and the more narrowly distributed var.arizonica.The two varieties differ in inflorescence form even more than that seen betw...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31770419 and 31470458 to H.W.,31772453 and 31970427 to W.L.);the Open Project Program of Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization(130028823);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2412018QD009);the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2018M631854).
Hole-nesting tits Parus spp.have been classified as"unsuitable"hosts for cuckoo parasitism because cuckoos cannot enter a cavity if the entrance is too small.However,Chinese tits could re-ject alien eggs and egg eject...
In the last 40 years, threats to the survival of wild primate population have greatly increased. Globally, primate population is severely threatened with extinction especially due to habitat loss from conversion of fo...
funded through an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant(DEB-1406989);funded through NIH award number P20GM103638
Background: The Great Plains of the United States includes a large number of hybrid and contact zones between bird species. The amount of gene flow between sister species in these zones ranges from very rare hybridiza...
financed by the Wildlife Conservation Program of the State Forestry Administration of China in 2009
Hume's Pheasant(Syrmaticus humiae) and the Silver Pheasant(Lophura nycthemera) are two sympatric bird species at Dazhong Mountain of Yunnan Province,southwestern China.We investigated characteristics of roosting habit...