supported financially by the Dartmouth College Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Forests undergoing ecological succession following abandonment from agricultural use(i.e.,old fields)are ubiquitous in temperate regions of the U.S.and Europe.Ecological succession in old fields involves changes in ve...
part of the Research Training Group 2300,funded by the German research funding organization (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG) Grand id:316045089
Site conditions and species identity have a combined effect on fine root growth of trees in pure and mixed stands.However,mechanisms that may contribute to this effect are rarely studied,even though they are essential...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2022YFF0801904)。
Wildfires are major disturbances in permafrost ecosystems, with increasing frequency and intensity in recent years. In permafrost regions, wildfires not only burn surface and subsurface organic matter but also acceler...
support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41877542).
Human activities and industrialization have significantly increased soil nutrients,such as nitrogen(N)and phos-phorus(P),profoundly impacting the composition and structure of plant community,as well as the ecosystem fu...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFF0806900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31930072,32241032,42203076);the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China(ZD2021C002).
It is well known that aboveground productivity usually increases with precipitation.However,how belowground carbon(C)processes respond to changes in precipitation remains elusive,although belowground net primary produ...
Funding was received from the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada to JK and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(Projects 1153,1398 and 1423 to JAL)which has designated this as Journal Paper 9626.
Background: Large-diameter trees have an outsized influence on aboveground forest dynamics, composition, and structure. Although their influence on aboveground processes is well studied, their role in shaping belowgro...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42230703,41773075,41575137).
Background Given the ubiquitous nature of mycorrhizal symbioses,different symbiotic fungi have obvious differences in structure and function,which may affect associated tree aboveground and belowground C allocation dy...
sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant No. 2022D01A213);a Scientific Research Business Fee of Universities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Grant No. XJEDU2023P071);the Xinjiang Graduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (Grant No. XJ2023G233);the Tianchi Talent Program in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region。
Biomass in forests sequesters substantial amounts of carbon;although the contribution of aboveground biomass has been extensively studied, the contribution of belowground biomass remains understudied. Investigating th...
supported by the NSFC-NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program(31461123001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41907039,42277308);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA28020202);the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1500202);the US National Science Foundation(DEB-1442280)to PSS and DES;the China Biodiversity Observation Network(Sino BON)。
Plant and fungal species interactions drive many essential ecosystem properties and processes;however,how these interactions differ between aboveground and belowground habitats remains unclear at large spatial scales....
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41877542,41907411).
In arid and semi-arid sand dune ecosystems,belowground bud bank plays an important role in population regeneration and vegetation restoration.However,the responses of belowground bud bank size and composition to sand ...