Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Hervé Jactel, John A. Parrotta, Christopher P. Quine et al.
Losses of natural and semi-natural forests, mostly to agriculture, are a significant concern for biodiversity. Against this trend, the area of intensively managed plantation forests increases, and there is much debate about the implications for biodiversity. We provide a comprehensive review of the ...
Axel Hochkirch, Michael J. Samways, Justin Gerlach, Monika Böhm et al.
Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species provides. However, data and capacity are lacking for most hyperdiverse groups...
Selina Akter, Md. Tanvir Islam, Mohd Zulkefeli, Sirajul Islam Khan
Agarwood or eaglewood (Aguru in Bengali) is the most expensive wood in the world, which is an occasional product of a few genera of Aquilaria and Gyrinops in the plant family Thymelaeaceae. Agar is a scented product, oleoresin, obtained from pathological conditions of the wood of live trees co...
M. Abdul Maleque, Hiroaki Ishii, Kaoru Maetô
Arthropods play vital roles in various ecosystem functions and respond acutely to habitat manipulation. Diversity and community dynamics of arthropods are strongly correlated with ecosystem functioning. Arthropod community structure reflects habitat heterogeneity, as well as development and recovery...
Ian J. Alexander
Ectomycorrhizas are the most frequent and widespread mycorrhizal type in the forests and woodlands of cool-temperate and boreal latitudes. Tree species from all the major plant families that provide the dominant trees of these regions (e.g. Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Betulaceae, Salicaceae) habitually form...
Shanaz Parvin, Maarten Van Geel, Tanzima Yeasmin, Bart Lievens et al.
Rice is an essential food crop that nourishes >50% of the world population. In many regions of Bangladesh rice production is constrained by high soil salinity and heavy metal contamination due to irrigation practices. Plants may naturally overcome such stress through mutualistic interactions with ar...
Animesh Sarkar, Takashi Asaeda, Qingyue Wang, Md Harun Rashid
Md. Abu Hanif, Zhiming Guo, M. Moniruzzaman, Dan He et al.
Plant attributes have direct and indirect effects on soil microbes via plant inputs and plant-mediated soil changes. However, whether plant taxonomic and functional diversities can explain the soil microbial diversity of restored forest ecosystems remains elusive. Here, we tested the linkage between...
Hiroaki Ishii, M. Abdul Maleque, Shingo Taniguchi
We studied the effects of line thinning on stand structure, microclimate and understory species diversity of two Cryptomeria japonica D. Don plantations in south-central Japan. In each of two study sites we compared stand structure between the thinned stand and an adjacent unthinned stand and found ...
Gretel Boswijk, Nicki J. Whitehouse
Tree-ring analysis of subfossil Pinus sylvestris L. and Quercus sp. and their associated subfossil insect assemblages from tree rot-holes have been used to study a prehistoric forest buried in the basal peats at Tyrham Hall Quarry, Hatfield Moors SSSI, in the Humberhead Levels, eastern England. The ...
P. P. Dhar, M. A. U. Mridha
Mohammad Zabed Hossain, Shuichi Sugiyama
Abstract Microbial decomposers absorb nitrogen (N) to sustain growth during litter decomposition releasing surplus N into the soil. The balance between N release (mineralization) and absorption (immobilization) can alter nutrient cycling based mostly on the functional diversity in microbial communit...
Md. Belal Hossain
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) improves the uptake of nutrients and water to the plants through mutual symbiosis. Only AMF produces glomalin related soil protein (GRSP). Acaulospora morroaiae, Glomus luteum, Glomus verruculosum, Glomus versiforme are the effective glomalin producing AMFs. Mixed ...
Arun K. Bose, Martín Alcalá-Pajares, Christel C. Kern, Miguel Montoro Girona et al.
Ecosystem-based forest management associated with partial harvesting (PH) is intended to balance ecological and economic values of sustainable forest management. The potential for delayed growth response and elevated mortality of advance regeneration following PH remains a critical concern, and may ...
Rui Xing, Qingbo Gao, Faqi Zhang, Peng‐Cheng Fu et al.
Floccularia luteovirens, as an ectomycorrhizal fungus, is widely distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As an edible fungus, it is famous for its unique flavor. Former studies mainly focus on the chemical composition and genetic structure of this species. However, the phylogenetic relationship be...