National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:U20A2006;Youth Project of Qinghai Province,Grant/Award Number:2023-ZJ-967Q Abstract。
Background:Due to the effects of climate change and overgrazing in recent decades,alternative stable states in the alpine Kobresia meadow degradation process have coexisted in the same geographical and climatic enviro...
support was provided by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center,US Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Biological and Environmental Research(Award DE‐SC0018409);the National Science Foundation Long‐term Ecological Research Program(DEB 2224712)at the Kellogg Biological Station,the USDA Long‐term Agroecosystem Research Network program,and by Michigan State University AgBioResearch.
Our knowledge of microbial processes—who is responsible for what,the rates at which they occur,and the substrates consumed and products produced—is imperfect for many if not most taxa,but even less is known about ho...
supported by the National University of Río Negro(PI 40-C-654,PI 40-C-873)。
In semi-arid lands,vegetation is distributed in shrub patches immersed in a less vegetated interpatch matrix.Grazing affects perennial grass seed bank through a decrease in seed rain and an increase in seed predation ...
supported by KPWN-Faculty of Forestry IPB research collaboration。
Teak(Tectona grandis Linn. f.), one of the mostvalued tree species in the world, is slow-growing with a long period until it can be harvested;therefore, ensuring that only high-quality seedlings or clones are selected...
supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN170627-03, RGPIN170627-08 to M. D. Jones);the British Columbia Forest Innovation Investment—Forest Science Program (Y051064 to Suzanne Simard and M. D. Jones, Y081186 to M. D. Jones and S. J. Grayston)
To understand nutrient cycling in soils, soil processes and microorganisms need be better characterized. To determine whether specific trophic groups of fungi are associated with soil enzyme activity, we used soil imp...
First-year seedling survival impacts all subsequent management planning in plantation forestry. Descriptive statistics of first-year seedling survival data from the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LD...
The DFG Priority Program 1374“Infrastructure-Biodiversity-Exploratories”(FI 1246/6-1,FI 1246/9-1,HO 3830/2-1)of the German Research Foundation;the Potsdam Graduate School of University Potsdam.
Aims and Methods Disturbance is supposed to play an important role for biodiversity and ecosystem stability as described by the intermediate disturbance hypoth-esis(IDH),which predicts highest species richness at inte...
supported by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (PIP 112-200801-01046)
Biological soil crusts are widely distributed in arid and semiarid regions. They have an important eco- logical role, especially by modifying physical and chemical properties of soils. Biological crusts may also modif...
This study was supported by “the 100-Young-Research Project” of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China (30371149)
In order to understand the effects of thinning on microsite conditions and natural regeneration in the larch plantation, thinning experiment was conducted in a 40-year-old Larix olgensis plantation in Qingyuan County ...