financially supported by Institut Teknologi Bandung through Competitive Annual Research Funding Program year 2009。
Understanding the mechanisms and barriers to the restoration of degraded land,especially post agriculture,will help provide protocols on effective ways of restoration into functional ecosystems.One of the barriers in ...
Field studies were carried out within the project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research(01DL12041);in cooperation with the Southwest Anatolian Forest Research Institute(SAFRI)in Antalya and the Ecological Botanical Gardens(EBG)in Bayreuth.
Growth response of conifers is species-specific and depends on site and climate conditions.Studies on daily radial stem growth use different analytical approaches to determine species reactions to environmental condit...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31670526,31622018,31570445 and 31500509);the Doctoral Scientific Fund Project of the Ministry of Education of China(20135103110002)
The dynamics of litter nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) release could be affected by soil fauna and environmental conditions. The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of soil fauna on the dynam...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)through Young Scientist Grant No.31200173,P.R.China;Center for Tropical Forest Science,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,Panama
We examined the effects of forest patch size on woody tree species richness and abundance in tropical montane evergreen forest patches of the Nilgiri region,south India. We sampled woody trees(>1 cm dbh) from 21 fores...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0500302);the National Nature Scientific Foundation Project of China(31200432)
Snow/wind damage is one of the important natural disturbances in forest ecosystems,especially in a montane secondary forest.However,the effects of snow/wind damage remain unclear which affects the management of these ...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology(2012BAD22B01 and 2006BAD03A04);special funds of Research Institute of Tropical Forestry,Chinese Academy of Forestry(RITFYWZX2012-02;CAFYBB2014QA010)
Disturbances that create gaps can shape the structure and function of forests. However, such disturbance regimes in Asian tropical montane rainforests remain largely unquantified. Least studied are typhoon disturbance...
Thamnocalamus falconeri, Hook.f. ex Munro.,an important bamboo species belonging to the family Poaceae, locally known as Ringal, occurs in the hills of Uttarakhand, India. This species has been traditionally exploited...
supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
A study was conducted to evaluate the status of soil nutrients under E. grandis plantation in comparison with that in its adjacent submontane rain forest. Twenty sequare plots, with an area of 20 m×20 m for each, wer...
This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30671669) and "the 100-Young-Researcher Project" of Chinese,Academy of Sciences.
In order to improve the understanding of the role of a canopy opening/gap on the physical environments in a secondary forest in Northeastern China, a case study was conducted in and around a small irregular gap in a m...