Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this ...

A new study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this ...

If there are many trees of a given species in a tract of forest, a new tree of that same species has a harder time thriving in the same area. This “rare-species advantage” produces diversity in ...

Decades of progress in protecting the planet’s carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to ...

1. Differences in seedling survival in trees have a lasting imprint on seedling, juvenile and adult community structure. Identifying the drivers of these differences, therefore, is a critical research ...

Question: Revealing how plant traits vary over disparate spatial scales and how ecological processes mediate such variation is important for understanding plant community assembly. However, to what ...

This study is led by Dr. Keping Ma and Dr. Yu Liang (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences). An important mechanism promoting species coexistence is conspecific negative density dependence ...

Unchecked tree cutting and urban expansion are endangering Pakistan’s climate resilience, causing a ripple effect on health ...