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Canopy temperature variability in a tropical rainforest, subtropical evergreen forest, and savanna forest in Southwest China

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2017
Canopy temperature (Tc) measurements with infrared thermometry have been widely used to assess plant water status. Here, we evaluated Tc and its controlling factors in a primary tropical rainforest (TRF), subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest (STF ...
Song Q-H, Zhang Y-P, Sha L-Q, Deng X-B, Deng Y, Wu C-S, Lu Z-Y, Chen A-G, Zhang S-B, Li P-G, Zhou W-J, Liu Y-T   +11 more
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Genomic basis of homoploid hybrid speciation within chestnut trees

Nature Communications, 2020
Chinese chestnut is widely cultivated for nut production and harbors value as a genetic resource for restoration of American and European chestnut trees destroyed by chestnut blight.
Yongshuai Sun, Zhiqiang Lu, Xingfu Zhu, Hui Ma   +3 more
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Impacts of monoculture cropland to alley cropping agroforestry conversion on soil N2O emissions

GCB Bioenergy, 2023
Monoculture croplands are a major source of global anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to ozone depletion. Agroforestry has the potential to reduce N2O emissions.
Guodong Shao, Guntars O. Martinson, Marife D. Corre, Jie Luo, Dan Niu, Xenia Bischel, Edzo Veldkamp   +6 more
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Environmental filtering structures tree functional traits combination and lineages across space in tropical tree assemblages

Scientific Reports, 2017
Environmental filtering consistently shapes the functional and phylogenetic structure of species across space within diverse forests. However, poor descriptions of community functional and lineage distributions across space hamper the accurate ...
Mengesha Asefa, Min Cao, Guocheng Zhang, Xiuqin Ci, Jie Li, Jie Yang   +5 more
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Effect of seed treatments and potting medium on seed germination parameters in threatened Stereospermum suaveolens (Roxb.) DC. – A dashmool species

Environment Conservation Journal, 2020
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of different seed treatment and potting media on germination percentage and associate parameters in Stereospermum suaveolens, a threatened dashmool species during May, 2019 at Silviculture Nursery of ...
Hariom Saxena, Naseer Mohammad, Samiksha Parihar, Sant Kumar   +3 more
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Global tropical dry forest extent and cover: A comparative study of bioclimatic definitions using two climatic data sets.

PLoS ONE, 2021
There is a debate concerning the definition and extent of tropical dry forest biome and vegetation type at a global spatial scale. We identify the potential extent of the tropical dry forest biome based on bioclimatic definitions and climatic data sets ...
Jonathan Pando Ocón, Thomas Ibanez, Janet Franklin, Stephanie Pau, Gunnar Keppel, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Michael Edward Shin, Thomas Welch Gillespie   +7 more
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Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes

Ecology Letters, 2018
Topography is a key driver of tropical forest structure and composition, as it constrains local nutrient and hydraulic conditions within which trees grow. Yet, we do not fully understand how changes in forest physiognomy driven by topography impact other
T. Jucker, Boris Bongalov, D. Burslem, R. Nilus, M. Dalponte, S. Lewis, O. Phillips, L. Qie, D. Coomes   +8 more
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Diversity and metabolic potentials of microbial communities associated with pollinator and cheater fig wasps in fig-fig wasp mutualism system

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Microbial symbionts can influence a myriad of insect behavioral and physiological traits. However, how microbial communities may shape or be shaped by insect interactions with plants and neighboring species remains underexplored.
Yiyi Dong, Yiyi Dong, Zheng-Ren Zhang, Zheng-Ren Zhang, Sandhya Mishra, Adam Chun-Nin Wong, Jian-Feng Huang, Bo Wang, Yan-Qiong Peng, Jie Gao   +9 more
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Long‐term nitrogen addition modifies microbial composition and functions for slow carbon cycling and increased sequestration in tropical forest soil

Global Change Biology, 2019
Nitrogen (N) deposition is a component of global change that has considerable impact on belowground carbon (C) dynamics. Plant growth stimulation and alterations of fungal community composition and functions are the main mechanisms driving soil C gains ...
Jing Tian, J. Dungait, Xiankai Lu, Yunfeng Yang, I. Hartley, Wei Zhang, J. Mo, Guirui Yu, Jizhong Zhou, Y. Kuzyakov   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nest predation in Afrotropical forest fragments shaped by inverse edge effects, timing of nest initiation and vegetation structure [PDF]

, 2014
High levels of nest predation influence the population dynamics of many tropical birds, especially when deforestation alters nest predator communities. The consequences of tropical forest fragmentation on nest predation, however, remain poorly understood,
Callens, Tom, Hallmann, Caspar A, Lens, Luc, Pellikka, Petri, Spanhove, Toon   +4 more
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