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2020-10-10Significant research progress has been made in the long-term field warming experiment of Dinghushan StationAuthor: WU Ting E-mail: wuting@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15355 Online time: 16 September 2020 Rising temperature associated with climate change may have substantial impacts on forest tree functions. Researchers from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a 7-year warming experiment in sub-tropical China by translocating important native forest tree species (Machilas breviflora, Syzygium rehderianum, Schima ...Read More
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2020-10-09Soil organic carbon accumulation modes between pioneer and old‐growth forest ecosystemsAuthor: XIONG Xin E-mail: xiongx@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13747 Online time: 2020-8-19 Increasing evidence suggests that high biomass and litterfall do not necessarily bring about soil organic carbon (SOC) sinks, contrary to the assumption that higher litterfall implies higher SOC when designing carbon models. Previous studies on carbon input might miss some key processes which constrain SOC accumulation.Read More
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2020-09-30Bryophyte diversity is related to vascular plant diversity and microhabitat under disturbance in karst cavesAuthor: ZHANG Qianmei E-mail: zqm@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106947 Online time: 16 September 2020 Karst landscapes are widely distributed and account for nearly 15% of the world’s land surface. The karst regions of China cover 1.9 million km2 and are among the largest karst regions in the world. The average density of karst caves is 6.4/km2 in China. Plant diversity, habitat properties, and their relationships in karst caves remain poorly u...Read More
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2020-09-29Canopy, understorey nitrogen addition exert different effects on leaf traits of understorey plantsAuthor: ZHANG Lingling E-mail: zhanglingling@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13496. Online time: 16 August 2020 Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition continuously increases in decades under human activities, which exerts huge impacts on terrestrial forest ecosystems.Read More
Researchers led by Dr. KUANG Yuanwen from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that nitrogen addition to canopy and understorey exerted different effect... -
2020-09-10Human disturbance and environmental change factors affect biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystemsAuthor: ZHENG Mianhai E-mail: zhengmianhai@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15328. Online time: 31 August 2020 Biological nitrogen (N) fixation, a key process of N conversion performed by symbiotic or free-living N-fixing organisms, plays an important role in terrestrial N cycling and represents a key driver of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP). Despite the importance of N fixation in terrestrial ecosystems, our knowledge regarding the controls ...Read More
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2020-09-04Conservation and Reintroduction of Rare and Endangered Plants in China was publishedAuthor: REN Hai Email:renhai@scbg.ac.cn Recently, the book Conservation and Reintroduction of Rare and Endangered Plants in China, edited by Prof. REN Hai from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published by Springer, an international renowned academic publishing organization.Read More
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2020-08-06Photoperiod and temperature are major environmental drivers for secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifersAuthor: HUANG Jianguo E-mail: huangjg@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/04/2007058117 Online time: August 5, 2020 Forest trees play a critical role in regulating global carbon, water and energy cycles and mitigating global warming. The phenology of trees is a key to understanding the feedbacks between terrestrial vegetation and Earth’s climate. Recent climate warming has changed the seasonal timing of the primary (e.g., budburst, leaf unfolding and floweri...Read More -
2020-08-05The response of soil respiration to precipitation change is asymmetric and differs between grasslands and forestsAuthor: DU Yue E-mail: duyue@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15270 Online time: 29 July 2020 Intensification of the Earth’s hydrological cycle amplifies the interannual variability of precipitation, which will significantly impact on terrestrial carbon cycle. However, it is still unknown whether previously observed relationship between soil respiration and precipitation remains applicable under extreme precipitation change.Read More
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