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Ecology
Hong-** Liang
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Food web of macroinvertebrate community in a Yangtze shallow lake: trophic basis and pathways
No detailed food web research on macroinvertebrate community of lacustrine ecosystem was reported in China. The present study is the first attempt on the subject in Lake Biandantang, a macrophytic lake in Hube...
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Macrozoobenthic community of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake of China, in the Yangtze floodplain
Poyang Lake (Poyang Hu) is located at the junction of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze (Changjiang) River, covering an area of 3283 km2. As one of the few lakes that are still freely connected with the...
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Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
This paper reports the development of microsatellite primers for Nelumbo nucifera Gaerten. By screening genomic libraries enriched with 10 kinds of probes, Seventeen polymorphic loci were isolated and primers wer...
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Molecular Identification of cDNA, Immunolocalization, and Expression of a Putative Odorant-Binding Protein from an Asian Honey Bee, Apis cerana cerana
An odorant-binding protein cDNA (Acer-ASP2) was cloned and characterized from antennae of adult workers of an Asian honey bee, Apis cerana cerana F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). The full-length open reading frame of Ac...
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Eleven novel microsatellite markers for the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) is a critically endangered species endemic to China. In this study, we developed 11 novel microsatellite loci for this rare species and applied them to examine genetic varia...
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Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the yellow catfish, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco
The yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) is one of the important economic freshwater fish in China and widely distributed along Yangtze River. In this survey, we have developed eighteen polymorphic dinucleoti...
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Comparative performance of species-richness estimators using data from a subtropical forest tree community
We used survey data collected from a large plot (20 ha) of sub-tropical forest in the Dinghushan Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province, southern China, in 2005 to test the comparative performance of nine species-...
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Global biodiversity research during 1900–2009: a bibliometric analysis
We performed a bibliometric analysis of published biodiversity research for the period of 1900–2009, based on the Science Citation Index (SCI) database. Our analysis reveals the authorial, institutional, spati...
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Coupling ecosystem and landscape models to study the effects of plot number and location on prediction of forest landscape change
A fundamental but unsolved dilemma is that observation and prediction scales are often mismatched. Reconciling this mismatch largely depends on how to design samples on a heterogeneous landscape. In this study...
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Determinants of tree survival at local scale in a sub-tropical forest
Tree survival is a critical driver of stand dynamics, influencing forest structure and composition. Many local-scale drivers (tree size, abiotic and biotic factors) have been proposed as being important in exp...
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Viviparity in high-altitude Phrynocephalus lizards is adaptive because embryos cannot fully develop without maternal thermoregulation
Viviparous Phrynocephalus lizards (Agamidae) are mainly restricted to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. In this study, we used Phrynocephalus vlangalii females kept under seven thermal regimes for the whole ges...
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Dynamics of ruderal species diversity under the rapid urbanization over the past half century in Harbin, Northeast China
Urbanization has resulted in obvious changes in plant species diversity. We analyzed the dynamics of ruderal species diversity in Harbin over the past half century using historical data collected in 1955 and d...
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Open AccessVasorelaxing and antihypertensive activities of synthesized peptides derived from computer-aided simulation of pepsin hydrolysis of yam dioscorin
We reported that yam dioscorin and its peptic hydrolysates exhibited ACE inhibition and antihypertensive effects on SHRs, however, the active peptides are not really isolated until now. Using ACE inhibitory sc...
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Spatial simulation of the effect of fire and harvest on aboveground tree biomass in boreal forests of Northeast China
Fire and timber harvest are two major forest disturbances in boreal forests. Predicting the dynamics of boreal forest biomass requires accounting for both of those effects. Related stochasticity and other unce...
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Baseline sensitivity and control efficacy of DMI fungicide epoxiconazole against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a necrotrophic fungal pathogen capable of infecting more than 400 species of plants worldwide. The demethylation inhibitor (DMI) fungicide epoxiconazole has not been r...
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Polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Chinese skink, Plestiodon chinensis (squamata: scincidae)
Nine polymorphic microsatellite loci are described for the Chinese Skink, Plestiodon chinensis (Scincidae). Loci were screened in 32 unrelated individuals of P. chinensis collected from a population in Lishui (Zh...
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Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the northern grass lizard, Takydromus septentrionalis (Squamata: Lacertidae)
The northern grass lizard (Takydromus septentrionalis) is an oviparous lacertid lizard that is endemic to China and has a wide distributional range covering the central and south-eastern parts of the country. It ...
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Baseline sensitivity and control efficacy of fluazinam against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a filamentous fungal phytopathogen capable of infecting many economically important crops and vegetables. The dinitroaniline fungicide fluazinam had not been registere...
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Polycephalomyces agaricus, a new hyperparasite of Ophiocordyceps sp. infecting melolonthid larvae in southwestern China
A new species, Polycephalomyces agaricus, which is parasitic on Ophiocordyceps sp., a pathogen of melolonthid larvae in southwestern China, is described using morphological and phylogenetic evidence. This species...
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Experimental removal of Alexandrium tamarense cells using sulfobetaines and their modified clays
To find new chemical modifiers and new modified clays with excellent algae removal efficiency, the removal effects of betaine and five sulfobetaines including octyl sulfobetaine, caprylyl sulfobetaine, lauryl ...
