supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41971239);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(Grant No.2019QZKK0402);Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Project on China-Laos Cross-border Asian Elephant Habitat Quality Assessment(Grant No.102169221100000009022);the Graduate Research Innovation Project of Yunnan University(Grant No.2021Y368).
Human-wildlife conflict(HWC)and its socioeconomic impacts are a pressing global issue.Accurately quantifying HWCs and their interaction with residential development is crucial for rural revitalization and biodiversity...
fnancially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32070446).
Infant-care behavior,a range of caring behaviors by parental or alloparental individuals towards infants unable to live independently,plays asignifcant role in the survival of infants and the continuation of the speci...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.32270238 and 31870311).
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved trees are usually vulnerable to freezing stress,while hexaploid wild Camellia oleifera shows strong freezing tolerance.As a valuable genetic resource of woody oil crop C.oleifera,wil...
In March,the Qilihai National Wetland Park in Tianjin Municipality introduced 58 healthy young milu deer from Dafeng District,Yancheng in Jiangsu Province.This addition to the existing herd of 34 deer has established ...
approved by the Animal Ethics Committee ofthe Institute of Microbiology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Approval Number:APIMCAS2018034 and APIMCAS2021112).
Impact statementThis study identifies avian tuberculosis as a potential cause of mass mortality in wild migratory birds in Inner Mongolia,China.Combining meta-transcriptomic sequencing and histopathological analysis,it...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFC1511603);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2572021BA04).
The rate of fire spread is a key indicator for assessing forest fire risk and developing fire management plans.The Rothermel model is the most widely used fire spread model,established through laboratory experiments o...
supported by the Science and Technology Development Program of Hebei Agricultural University,the Research on Molecular Mechanisms of Population Differentiation and Adaptation of Forest Pests and Insects under Environmental Stress(grant No.:30771739);Forest Pests and Diseases(grant No.:1528003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the study of community regulatory mechanisms of insect pest pandemics in larch plantation forests(Grant No.:32371882).
The defense mechanisms induced in wild Chinese pine(Pinus tabuliformis)in response to herbivores are not well characterized,especially in the field.To address this knowledge gap,we established a biological model syste...
funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)by the fellowship of A.Alves da Silva(SFRH/BD/75018/2010)and F.Garcia(SFRH/BD/131627/2017);supported by the strategic plan of the Centre for Functional Ecology—Science for People and the Planet(CFE)(UIDP/04004/2020,DOI:10.54499/UIDP/04004/2020)financed by FCT/MCTES through national funds(PIDDAC),and by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,I.P. under Scientific Employment Stimulus—Individual support—2022.05848.CEEIND(DOI:10.54499/2022.05848.CEECIND/CP1714/CT0008);The study was carried out under the project“F4F—Forest for Future—Pilot project for the constitution of a regional network for the valorization of the forest sector in the Central Region.PP6—MyFORESt(CENTRO-08-5864-FSE-000031),”co-financed by the Regional Operational Program Centro 2020,Portugal 2020,and the European Union,through the European Social Fund(ESF);funded by the Instituto do Ambiente,Tecnologia e Vida from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra(IATV-UC),the strategic plan of the Centre for Functional Ecology—Science for People and the Planet(CFE)(UIDB/04004/2020,DOI:10.54499/UIDB/04004/2020);Associate Laboratory TERRA(LA/P/0092/2020;DOI:10.54499/LA/P/0092/2020).
In this study we aimed to assess the role of wild red deer,along with other ungulates such as roe deer and wild boar,in the soil’s physical properties,namely soil penetration resistance and depth(used as a proxy for ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.31800320 and no.32360250 to XR);Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(no.320RC506 to XR);funded by the project supported by the Scientific Research start-up Fund of Hainan University[no.KYQD(ZR)20057];the Teaching Research of Hainan University(no.Hdsz20-9);supported by Hainan Tropical Rainforest Conservation Research Project,ZDYF2023RDYL01(supported by the Hainan Institute of National Park,HINP,KY-24ZK02);supported by the specific research fund of The Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province.
Bite force is an important performance indicator of individual fitness that is closely related to food acquisition,male competition,and mating selection.It is also affected by a variety of factors and different mechan...