supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(no.2016YFC0501602);International Partnership Program(no.121311KYSB20170004)of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Aims Accurate prediction of spatiotemporal variations in carbon and water fluxes of heterogeneous landscape is critical to comprehensively address the effects of climate change and vegetation dynamics on landscape and...
supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-Brazil(CNPQ 4652712914-6;APQ 0083.2-05/15).
Aims In dry tropical forests,herbaceous species may have dormancy mechanisms and form persistent and transient seed banks in the soil.Evolutionarily acquired,these mechanisms are efficient for the establishment and su...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31670477,31800399);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2018M642738,2018M642739);Henan Province Foundation and Advanced Technology Project(192102110085).
Aims The response pattern of terrestrial soil respiration to warming during non-growing seasons is a poorly understood phenomenon,though many believe that these warming effects are potentially significant.This study w...
This research was supported by the Key Basic Research and Development Plan of P.R.China(2016YFC050080502);the National Natural Science Foundation of P.R.China(31370705,31570416).
Aims Seed dormancy and the soil seed bank are crucial to plant regeneration strategy,especially in semiarid ecosystems with unpredictable precipi-tation.the aim of this study was to investigate how seed dormancy is co...
This work was carried out within the FUNCITREE Project,an EU 7FP(contract KBBE-227265);It was also partly funded by the Spanish MICINN(grant CGL2014-59010-R);J.S.D.received a PhD fellowship from the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development(AECID).C.A.is grateful to the Spanish Government for her‘Ramón y Cajal’contract(RYC-2012-12277).
Aims Addressing plant responses to water stress is critical to understand the structure of plant communities in water-limited environments and to forecast their resilience to future changes in climate.In a semiarid ag...