In species-rich ecosystems such as (sub)tropical forests, higher trophic level interactions often play key functional roles. Plant species loss may alter these interactions, but particularly among predators intraguild interactions might modify net...

Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem breakage caused by a rare and extreme ice storm in a Chinese sub...

Tree species identity and tree genotypes contribute to the shaping of soil microbial communities. However, knowledge about how these two factors influence soil ecosystem functions is still lacking. Furthermore, in forest ecosystems tree genotypes ...

The new species Tubakia chinensis, collected on living leaves of Castanea henryi (Fagaceae) in China, Jiangxi Province, is described, illustrated and compared with other species of the genus Tubakia. T. chinensis is morphologically comparable with...

[7] Lei, P. and Bauhus, J. (2010) Use of Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to predict species composition in tree fine-root mixtures. Plant and Soil 333(1-2): 93-103. (no prop) doi:10.1007/s11104-010-0325-2

Abstract. The fractionation of soil P into fractions of different plant availability is a common approach to characterize the P status of forest soils. However, quantification of organic and inorganic P fractions in different extracts is labour-in...