An experiment was conducted to study the processes of water absorption and adsorption of mulberry (Morus rubra L.) leaves with different shapes under varied nitrogen (N) deposition by indoor simulation. Maximum water storage capacity of mulberry leaves ranged from 7.5 to 10.6 mg/cm², and the...

In The Red List Assessment of Macrofungi in China project, the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria were adjusted according to differences in biological characteristics among plants, animals, and macrofungi. The adjustments are as follows: (1) population fluctuation and mature population members...

Objective: Stand transpiration, a key process in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, is an important water output item in the forest ecosystem, accounting for more than 50% of the total forest evapotranspiration. Therefore, exploring the stand transpiration response to environmental factors can...

In dryland regions, soil moisture is an important limiting factor for canopy transpiration (T). Thus, clarifying the impact of soil moisture on T is critical for comprehensive forest-water management and sustainable development. In this study, T, meteorological factors (reference...

Accurately modelling and predicting forest transpiration under changing environment and canopy structure are essential for understanding the interactions among the atmosphere, soil, and vegetation and precisely integrating forest water management. To enhance water management in larch plantations,...

APG IV has a noticeable improvement from the morphological phylogeny which revealed Elaeocarpaceae belonging Oxalidales includes the COM clade with Celastrales and Malpighiales, while the status of COM clade is not well supported based on phylogenetic calculation results of multi-molecular...

Cycadales is an extant group of seed plants occurring in subtropical and tropical regions comprising putatively three families and 10 genera. At least one complete plastid genome sequence has been reported for all of the 10 genera except Microcycas, making it an ideal plant group to conduct...

Northwestern China has experienced dramatic climate change characterized by rapid warming since the 1980s with the warming trend substantially slowing after 2000. Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia Kom.), a key tree species in northwest China, has been predicted to be strongly coupled with climate...

Objective: This paper aims to examine the diurnal variations of stand transpiration and its response to environmental factors in a Larix principis-rupprechtii plantation, and to further explain the regulation mechanism of environmental conditions to the stand transpiration in short time scale....

Quantifying the variation of forest transpiration (T) is important not only for understanding the water and energy budget of forest ecosystems but also for the prediction, evaluation, and management of hydrological effects as well as many other ecosystem services of forests under the changes of...