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Local perspectives on social-ecological transformation: China’s Sanjiangyuan National Park
Change is an inevitable part of rural livelihoods. While natural disasters can trigger sudden challenges to resilience, long-term shifts in government-related socio-ecological transformation policies can pose ...
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Open AccessCo-management for sustainable development and conservation in Sanjiangyuan National Park and the surrounding Tibetan nomadic pastoralist areas
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau plays an essential role in national to regional ecological security, biodiversity conservation, and sustaining livelihood. An array of natural resource management, environmental conse...
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Response of pteridophyte richness to water-energy dynamic hypothesis under climate change in China
Typical water–energy dynamics hypothesis assumes that the effects of water and energy on species richness vary geographically, and there is a latitudinal shift from water dominated to energy dominated. However...
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Open AccessBuddhist monasteries facilitated landscape conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau—also known as the “Three Rivers’ Headwaters”—is the origin of the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong Rivers and therefore the key water source for hundreds of mi...
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Geographical divergence of species richness and local homogenization of plant assemblages due to climate change in grasslands
In arid and semi-arid regions worldwide, grassland plant species richness is highly sensitive to climate change. Studies assessing local grassland richness patterns have yielded inconsistent trends toward clim...
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Coarse woody debris features of a warm temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest, northern China
Stocking and structural composition of a deciduous broad-leaved forest were determined to predict coarse woody debris quantity by quantifying the empirical relationships between these two attributes. The most ...
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Open AccessArbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) associations are critical for host-tree performance. However, how mycorrhizal associations correlate with the latitudinal tree beta-diversity remains untes...
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Different radial growth responses to climate warming by two dominant tree species at their upper altitudinal limit on Changbai Mountain
We analyzed the influence of climate change over the past 50 years on the radial growth of two tree species: Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis), located on Changbai Mountain, Northea...
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Open AccessShift of fleshy fruited species along elevation: temperature, canopy coverage, phylogeny and origin
Plant communities differ in their fruit type spectra, especially in the proportions of fleshy and non-fleshy fruit types. However, which abiotic and biotic factors drive this variability along elevation gradie...
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Open AccessHigh phylogenetic diversity is preserved in species-poor high-elevation temperate moth assemblages
Understanding the diversity and composition of species assemblages and identifying underlying biotic and abiotic determinants represent great ecological challenges. Addressing some of these issues, we investig...
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Resilience of insect assemblages to climate change in mature temperate mountain forests of NE China
The turnover patterns in species assemblages along gradients of abiotic or biotic conditions are indicative of the assemblages’ sensitivity to changes in these conditions. Studies of such gradients allow an ev...
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Differential radial growth response of three coexisting dominant tree species to local and large-scale climate variability in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest of China
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests (EBF) face great pressure from global climate change. However, little consensus exists related to how coexisting trees in these forests will respond to climatic chang...
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Open AccessAssembly of forest communities across East Asia – insights from phylogenetic community structure and species pool scaling
Local communities are assembled from larger-scale species pools via dispersal, environmental filtering, biotic interactions and local stochastic demographic processes. The relative importance, scaling and inte...
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Open AccessAsymmetric warming significantly affects net primary production, but not ecosystem carbon balances of forest and grassland ecosystems in northern China
We combine the process-based ecosystem model (Biome-BGC) with climate change-scenarios based on both RegCM3 model outputs and historic observed trends to quantify differential effects of symmetric and asymmetr...
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Invasion pattern of Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng in southern China
This study provides a detailed analysis of the invasion by Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng (Crofton weed) from Burma and Vietnam into Southern China since the 1940s. Currently, E. adenophorum’s main colonisation ar...
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Interannual NPP variation and trend of Picea schrenkiana forests under changing climate conditions in the Tianshan Mountains, **njiang, China
The interannual net primary production variation and trends of a Picea schrenkiana forest were investigated in the context of historical changes in climate and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration at four site...
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Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China
The Changbaishan Nature Reserve (CNR) is the largest protected temperate forest in the world. It was established in 1960 to protect the virgin Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) mixed hardwood forest, a typical tempe...
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Plant diversity patterns and their relationships with soil and climatic factors along an altitudinal gradient in the middle Tianshan Mountain area, **njiang, China
Patterns of plant diversity along the altitudinal gradient of Tianshan in central **njiang, China were examined. Plant and environment characteristics were surveyed from higher, south of Bogeda peak, to lower,...
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Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China
The Changbaishan Nature Reserve (CNR) is the largest protected temperate forest in the world. It was established in 1960 to protect the virgin Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) mixed hardwood forest, a typical tempe...
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Dynamics of leaf area index and canopy openness of three forest types in a warm temperate zone
Deciduous broad-leaved forests (DBF), Larix principis-rupprechtii (LF) and Pinus tabulaeformis plantations (PF) are three typical forest communities in the warm temperate zone of the Dongling Mountains. In this s...
