supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32101351);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2022JJ40867);the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province(21B0265)to Li Xiao.
Plants produce secondary chemicals that may vary along with latitude due to changing abiotic and biotic stress gradients and local environmental conditions.Teasing apart the individual and combined effects of these di...
National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:32171580,42101057,32161123002;Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China,Grant/Award Number:lzujbky-2021-ey03。
Background:Gut microbiota is pivotal in regulating hosts'biological processes and maintaining homeostasis,but knowledge about its role in wild herbivores in extreme environments remains limited.Methods:Gut bacteria an...
In the decades since the first cannabinoids were identified by scientists,research has focused almost exclusively on the function and capacity of cannabinoids asmedicines and intoxicants for humans and other vertebrat...
Rangelands worldwide have been subject to broadscale modification,such as widespread predator control,intro-duction of permanent livestock water and altered vegetation to improve grazing.In Australia,these landscape ch...
The Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, China (2018-87)。
Food processing and consumption by herbivores are affected differently by the availability of forage quality and quantity per unit of time. This demonstrates the “Allometric response concept”, and it is considered a...
Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(Grant No.2019QZKK0302);CAS-Qinghai Province Joint program on Three-River Headwaters National Park(Grant No.LHZX-2020-07);Qinghai Natural Science Fund Innovation Team Project(Grant No.2021-ZJ-902).
Background:An accurate assessment of the carbon budget is a crucial part of projecting future climate change and its impact on ecosystems.Grasslands foster multiple ecological functions including support for wild anim...
supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research to I.G.(21H02196);supported by JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan(P20103);Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows(20F20103)。
Success of plants largely depends on their ability to defend against herbivores.Since emergence of the first voracious consumers,plants maintained adapting their structures and chemistry to escape from extinction.The ...
This study was sponsored by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0604802,2019YFE0117000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41320104002).
Aims Both extreme drought and insect herbivores can suppress plant growth in grassland communities.However,most studies have examined extreme drought and insects in isolation,and there is reason to believe that insect...
The cell walls of plants are mainly made of cellulose and contain a large number of calories.However,the main component,cellulose,is an indigestible plant fiber that is thought to be difficult for humans to use as ene...