Ontogenetic growth reflects the changes of biomass, height (or body length) of a biological organism as a function of time. Many growth equations have been built but few can accurately predict the ending time of growth.
　　Professor Huang Jianguo (correspondence, Forest Ecology and Simulation Re...

Assessing nutrient availability for ecosystem gross primary productivity of global forests especially complex diversified tropical and subtropical forests is a fundamental and crucial work. Analyses from forest succession showed that soil microorganisms and specific chemical processes may coordin...

　　In a study appearing in The American Naturalist, scientists in China and the United States report the discovery of a symbiotic relationship between a tropical tree and a tiny moth which is one of the most intricately interconnected relationships between a plant and its pollinator ever descri...

　　Flowering plants exhibit spectacular sexual diversity. The formation of unisexual flowers is thought to promote outcrossing, prevent inbreeding depression, and enhance genetic variability. The Annonaceae are one of the largest families of Magnoliales. The family comprises diverse unisexualit...

　　Myristicaceae is classified in the Magnoliales, an order of basal angiosperms. The plants of this family are dioecious and the flowers are described as unisexual with a single perianth. The male flowers are characterized by the presence of a distinctive androecium composed of a sterile colum...