supported by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32371609,the Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan Province grant 212300410050,and HASTIT grant 22HASTIT033;M.Z.by the Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32201309;Y.Y.by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant U2004150;X.Y.by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32070447.
Reproduction by perennial plants varies from being relatively constant over years to the production of massive and synchronous seed crops at irregular intervals,a reproductive strategy called mast seeding.The sources ...
Support for this study was provided by grants from the Key Project of Basic Research of Yunnan Province,China(202101AS070035);the Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32071653)。
Biological invasion is considered one of the world’s most serious conservation biology issues.In a global review on invasive species,Richardson&Rejmanek(2011)indicated that over 40%of invasive trees and over 60%of in...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31870509,31670397).
Seed dispersal is essential for plant recruitment and the maintenance of biodiversity.Colobine monkeys are primarily folivorous,but they also consume fruits and are often assumed to be seed predators.Although they are...
National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFC0503802);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770565 and 31270470);the Shanshuilintianhu Ecological Restoration Pre-Project of Jiyuan City,Henan.
The plant-disperser-fruit pest triads involve 3 interacting animals or groups(plants,vertebrates and seed parasites),and the dispersal of both seeds and seed parasites,which can both benefit from endozoochory via defe...
The finding that some seed-inhabiting insects can survive passage through the entire digestive tract of seed-dispersing vertebrates is relatively recent,but evidence suggests that it does occur.Here,I document this ph...