Aims: As primary consumers in forest ecosystems, spiders play an important role in maintaining forest biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Poplar is the main afforestation tree species in arid and semi-arid areas, and the diversity of spider community structures in the forest is closely related to ...

Biochar and manure can be used for sustainable land management. However, little is known about how soil amendments might affect surface and belowground microbial processes and subsequent wood decomposition. In a split-split-split plot design, we amended soil with two rates of manure (whole plot; 0...

Poplar is widely planted as an economic and ecological tree species. However, accumulation of the phenolic acid allelochemical para-hydroxybenzoic acid (pHBA) in soil is a severe threat to the growth and productivity of poplar. pHBA stress leads to excessive production of reactive oxygen species...

The Botryosphaeriales represents an ecologically diverse group of fungi, comprising endophytes, saprobes, and plant pathogens. In this study, taxonomic analyses were conducted based on morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of multi-gene sequence data from four loci (ITS, LSU, ...

Poplar anthracnose, caused mainly by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is one of the most important diseases occurring in poplar plantations in China, and it causes serious economic and ecological losses every year. Different poplar crosses and species have different degrees of resistance to poplar...

Poplar is widely cultivated in China because of its strong ecological adaptability, fast growth, easy reproduction, and short rotation period. However, it suffers from severe threat from canker disease caused by Cytospora species. The present study revealed the presence of Cytospora species from ...

The allelochemical para-hydroxybenzoic acid (pHBA) is a serious threat to poplars subjected to continuous cropping. In order to elucidate the responsive mechanisms of plants to pHBA stress, we here performed tandem mass tag-based quantitative proteomic analysis combined with physiological,...

The nearest neighbor trees (NNTs) are essential for reflecting forest structure and spatial heterogeneity in a forest stand. It is not clear whether different tree species have varied patterns of NNTs in a small area due to biological interactions, whether big trees affect the nearest neighbors for ...

Wood-inorganic composite building materials are an excellent choice for humidity control. This paper uses poplar fiber and calcium hydroxide to hot-press wood inorganic humidity control bricks. A three-dimensional thermal moisture coupling model of biomass bricks is established to predict the...

The cultivation of hybrid poplar clones is increasing worldwide. Hundreds of hectares of plantations now occur across Europe and other continents such as North America, using tested clones and novel genotypes. Research effort aims are to develop fast growing disease- and pest-resistant clones to...