supported by the NSFC China-US Dimensions of Biodiversity Grant (DEB: 32061123003);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870410, 32171507);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association (Y202080);the Distinguished Youth Scholar of Yunnan (202001AV070016);the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;the Ten Thousand Talent Plans for Young Top-notch Talents of Yunnan (YNWR-QNBJ-2018-309)
We used 11 years of census data from 450 seedling quadrats established in a 20-ha forest dynamics plot to study seedling dynamics in tree species of a tropical seasonal rainforest in Xishuangbanna,southwestern China.W...
supported by UCAR,Ministerio de Agricultura,Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación,Argentina(PIA 12010 and 14,031);ANPCyT-MINCyT,Argentina(PUE INFIVE:10520180101142CO).
Forest disturbances at gap levels are one of the most important events for the regeneration and establishment of intermediate tree species.Abrupt canopy openings expose plants to high light intensity and high evaporat...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB26000000);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y2021082)to Gong-Le Shi;the German Research Foundation (DFG,Grant No.423862824)to Eva-Maria Sadowski。
Parrotia C.A.Meyer(Hamamelidaceae)is a relictual genus with only two extant species disjunctly distributed in the subtropical forests of East China and temperate forests of North Iran.Fossil records suggest that Parro...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (project number 31861133008);financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG, project number 410768178)
Lipids may play an important role in preventing gas embolisms by coating nanobubbles in xylem sap.Few studies on xylem sap lipids have been reported for temperate plants,and it remain unclear whether sap lipids have a...
Specimens of the forest species such as Pentaclethra macrophylla, Petersianthus macrocarpus, Pycnanthus angolensis and Terminalia superba have been sampled from LUKI Biosphere reserve in the Democratic Republic of the...
Traditional Dai medicine is the wisdom of the ethnic group accrued over thousands of years,and one of the precious cultural heritages of the Chinese nation.XI SHUANGBANNA i n southwest China’s Yunnan Province has lon...
supported by funds from the Eberly College of Sciences and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University;the Forestry Peak Discipline Construction Project of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University(72202200205)。
Orchidaceae(with>28,000 orchid species)are one of the two largest plant families,with economically and ecologically important species,and occupy global and diverse niches with primary distribution in rainforests.Among...
supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council(DP120100916).
The Scaptodrosophila genus represents a large group of drosophilids with a worldwide distribution and a predominance of species in Australia,but there is little information on the presence and impacts of Wolbachia end...
The Southeast Asian rainforest region is extremely complex and biodiverse.Fossils have shown that paleo-Antarctic rainforest lineages(PARLs)now extant in Asia tracked the ever-wet conditions needed to survive and dive...
To enrich knowledge on the growth dynamics of commercial forest species in the Congo Basin, a study was conducted in Cameroon, within a community forest in savannah forest transition zone (Zone 1) and within FMU 10 05...