supported by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan(NRRP);Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4-Call for tender No.3138 of December 16,2021;rectified by Decree n.3175 of December 18,2021 of the Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.
River levees are subject to bioturbation by various animals which can actively excavate into earthen structures producing an internal erosion that,during the passage of a flood,can grow in time making the levee unstab...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32192461).
Globally,grassland degradation is an acute ecological problem.In alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau,increased densities of various small mammals in degraded grassland are assumed to intensify the degradation proc...
Supported by the Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Talent Special Project (No.AD23026114)。
Substrate is an important abiotic factor for burrowing shellfish,as it not only provides them with shelter,but also impose significant effect on their physiological metabolism.However,the physiological responses of bu...
Major Science and Technology Program of Hainan Province(ZDKJ2021009);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171638);Yunan Science and Technology Talents and Platform Program(202205AF150004).
Biochar addition has been widely used in the field to mitigate soil nitrous oxide(N_(2)O)emissions,and can be considered as a potential method to reduce N_(2)O emissions during vermicomposting.However,excessive biocha...
This article is supported by Rare and endangered Species Investigation supervision and industry standard project of State Forestry and Grassland Administration(2020070215);This article is supported by Rare and endangered Species Investigation supervision and industry standard project of State Forestry and Grassland Administration(2020070215).
Ecosystem engineers are organisms that alter the distribution of resources in the environment by creating,modifying,maintaining and/or destroying the habitat.They can affect the structure and function of the whole eco...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971442 and 31530007).
Interspecific interactions between two spatiotemporally co-occurred species sharing a single resource are considered to be either competitive or facilitative.This study examined the possible interspecific interactions...
A joint research team led by Dr.MAO Fangyuan and Dr.ZHANG Chi from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof.MENG Jin from the American Museum of N...
This study was financed by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017Y FD 0501405);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41471203);the Natural Science Projects of Henan University of Technology,China(No.2019BS037);the Key Projects of Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Commission,China(No.20166-3-2).
Soil arsenic(As)pollution from mining and industrial sources is a serious issue in China.Earthworms are considered ecosystem engineers and contribute to soil fertility development and maintenance of soil physico-chemi...
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)Postgraduate Scholarship awarded to L.J.N.and a NSERC Discovery Grant(154271)awarded to J.F.H.
In grassland ecosystems,burrowing mammals create disturbances,providing habitat for animal species and increasing plant community diversity.We investigated whether seedling assemblages on Richardson's ground squirrel ...
The Weifang Sci-tech Development Project under contract No.2015ZJ1042;the Research on New Model of Marine Ecological Farming and Intelligent Monitoring System under contract No.H2016-02
Perinereis aibuhitensis(Grube, 1878) lives in marine sediments of estuary or shoal areas, where substrate has some crucial environmental factors affecting its burrowing and distribution. In order to provide basic data...