funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42161144008).
Warming and increased CO_(2)levels are generally believed to enhance photosynthetic rates(A)and tree growth,especially in alpine treelines.However,this positive effect may be limited by moisture availability.Here we c...
Herbivory is common in mammals,yet our understanding of detoxification processes used by mammals to biotrans-form plant secondary compounds(PSCs)is limited.Specialist herbivores are thought to have evolved detoxifica-...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470654);part of the financial support came from the program“Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for Monitoring,Early Warning and Prevention of Phloeosinus aubei in Taishan Nature Reserve.”。
Cuticular hydrocarbons of Cerambycidae species can function as signals for sex recognition.Little is known about the copulatory signals of the juniper bark borer Semanotus bifasciatus,a major economic threat to Platyc...
Scatter-hoarding rodents store seeds throughout their home ranges in superficially buried caches which,unlike seeds larder-hoarded in burrows,are difficult to defend.Cached seeds are often pilfered by other scatter-ho...
Supported by Higher Innovation&Entrepreneurship Talents Project at Qinghai Normal University.
[Objectives]To understand the function and ritual uses of juniper wood in Tibetan communities.[Methods]Detailed surveys were carried out amongst students of the School of Nationalities at Qinghai Normal University,in ...
Background:Syrian juniper is an economically important species and in danger of extinction.For these reasons,the best seedling production methods of the species should be determined and its plantations should be estab...
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0606401);NSFC (U1803341);the 2nd Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (No. 2019QZKK0102);the national youth talent support program
A 606 year runoff reconstruction of the Kara Darya River was developed, based on the tree-ring width chronology of Turkestan juniper(Juniperus turkestanica) from the Pamir-Alai Mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Preliminary com...
Juniperus excelsa subsp.polycarpos,(Persian juniper),is found in northeast Iran.In this study,the relationship between ground cover and vegetation indices have been investigated using remote sensing data for a Persian...