Guizhou Province of China is a key karst area and is facing serious rocky desertification. Controlling the rocky desertification in karst areas in Guizhou has been formally established as a national goal. After decades of experience, some control modes are now recognized for their ability to...

Tropical forest soils worldwide contain more carbon than the atmosphere but unfortunately, these soil carbon stocks are often reduced or depleted during deforestation and land-use change. Rapid tree growth in plantations or young secondary tropical forests can sequester large amounts of carbon bu...

Plants sense and integrate a variety of signals from the environment through different interacting signal transduction pathwaysthat involve hormones and signaling molecules. Using ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE1a (AOX1a) gene expression as a model system of retrograde or stress signaling between mitochondri...

Adequate and advanced knowledge of the response of forest ecosystem to temperature-induced drought is critical for a comprehensive understanding of the impact of global climate change on forest ecosystem structure and function. Recent massive decline in aspen-dominated forests and an increased as...

Many studies have already addressed the existence of unstable and nonlinear relationships between radial growth of white spruce (Picea glauca) and climate variables in boreal forests along the high latitudes (>60° N). However, along the mid-latitudes, the climate-growth relationship is still po...