This work was supported by grants from the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(Nos.2006BAD26B0201-1 and 2006BAC01A12);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant No.30872011);the National Key Basic Research Program of China(No.2007CB106803);D.Pepper acknowledges grant support from the Australia-China Special Fund for Scientific&Technological Cooperation(CH060165).
The objective of this paper was to assess the congruency of leaf traits and soil characteristics and to analyze the survival strategies of different plant functional types in response to drought and nutrient-poor envi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30430570);by the University President Fund of South China Agricultural University (No.4400-K05024).
The approaches to enlarge the protected areas are deeply embedded in the conservation planning.In practice,however,even in some sites of top conservation priority,there exist problems of inefficient conservation for l...
This work was supported by grants from the National Science&Technology Supporting Program of China(No.2006BAD26B0201-1,No.2006BAC01A12);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30471377);Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.We acknowledge Zhanyuan Yu,Bin Deng,Dongzhou Deng for their helps in sampling,and Heming Lin,Guiyan Ai for chemical analysis of samples。
Six leaf traits,i.e.,fresh mass(FM),dry mass(DM),leaf dry matter content(DMC),area(AR),specific leaf area(SLA)and thickness(TH)from 23 plant species in the southeastern Keerqin Sandy Lands,China were measured.The resu...