RESEARCH NEWS

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  IAE's International Postdoc Reveals Relationship between Genome Size and Climate Change

  Factors such as climate change, habitat destruction and species invasion increase risks of species extinction.

  Dec 25, 2019
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  Researchers of IAE Reveal Mechanism Controlling Distribution of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Along Environmental Gradients in Conifer-Broadleaved-Mixed Forest in Changbai Mountains

  Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi is closely related to vegetation composition, soil characteristics and particular habitat processes.

  Dec 16, 2019
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  Priming Effect Mediates Soil Carbon Storage under Nitrogen Deposition with Various Chemical Forms

  Input of organic substances into soil often accelerates the mineralization of soil organic C (SOC), a phenomenon termed the priming effect (PE), which could mediate the turnover rate of C and nitrogen (N) in soil, influencing the competition for nutrients between plants and soil microorganisms.

  Nov 18, 2019
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  Researchers develop new method to estimate tree biomass in planted forests

  BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have developed a new method to estimate tree biomass in subtropical planted forests, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  Nov 07, 2019
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  Researchers of IAE Make Progress in Sensitivity Analysis of Fuel-model Parameters in Boreal Forest Wildfire Modeling

  Forest fire is one of the most important disturbances in boreal forests in China, and it plays an important role in shaping forest species composition, age structure and ecosystem processes.

  Oct 31, 2019
• Scientists Reveal Toxicological Effects of Polystyrene Nanoplastics on Human Lung Epithelial Cells

  Nanoplastics, a new type of pollutant, exist mainly in the atmosphere in the form of suspended fine particles. They can enter human body through breathing, make contact with respiratory mucosa and lung cells, and affect their physiological functions. Due to their small size and high tissue affinity, nanoplastics can easily adhere to the cell surface, damage the membrane structure, and it is easily endocytosed and accumulated in cells, which can result in abnormality of cell gene expression and regulation, inflammatory reactions and even cancers.

  Oct 21, 2019
• Scientists Demonstrated the Plant Trait Responses of Extreme Drought

  Researchers from Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report the responses of community-level traits to long-term drought across three grasslands of northern China.

  Sep 23, 2019
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  Uptake Patterns of Glycine, Ammonium, and Nitrate Differ Among Four Common Tree Species of Northeast China

  Nitrogen (N) is a major plant nutrient that influences the productivity, composition and function of forests. Plants compete with soil microbes for soil N in the forms of inorganic and organic N. Relatively low soil nutrient concentrations, especially available nitrogen, in natural secondary forests and larch plantations in northeast China may constrain tree growth there.

  Sep 19, 2019
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  Divergent Growth Responses to Warming and Drying Climates between Native and Non Native Tree Species in Northeast China

  Climate change significantly affects forest ecosystems. However, little is known about whether non-native and native tree species show similar responses to global warming.

  Sep 06, 2019
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  Researchers Uncover Physiological Mechanisms Determining High Productivity Characteristics of Compound-Leaved Tree Species

  The vast variety of leaf morphology are important manifestation of plant functional diversity, and simple- and compound-leaf forms are prominent traits of leaf morphology of trees.

  Sep 04, 2019