The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition

S Jia, X Wang, Z Hao, R Bagchi - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is mounting evidence that top‐down control by natural enemies helps maintain plant
diversity in natural ecosystems. Previous work has concentrated on either forest trees or …

An efficient forest fire target detection model based on improved YOLOv5

L Zhang, J Li, F Zhang - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
To tackle the problem of missed detections in long-range detection scenarios caused by the
small size of forest fire targets, initiatives have been undertaken to enhance the feature …

Phenological mismatch between trees and wildflowers: Reconciling divergent findings in two recent analyses

BR Lee, EF Alecrim, TK Miller, JRK Forrest… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests that community science and herbarium datasets yield similar
estimates of species' phenological sensitivities to temperature. Despite this, two recent …

Soil properties constrain forest understory plant distributions along an elevation gradient

M Ni, M Vellend - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Projections of spatial biodiversity dynamics under climate warming are often based on
models including only climate variables, and when non-climatic factors (eg soil) are …

Species diversity pattern and its drivers of the understory herbaceous plants in a Chinese subtropical forest

K Tian, P Chai, Y Wang, L Chen, H Qian… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understory herbaceous plants are an important component of forest ecosystems, playing
important roles in species diversity and forest dynamics in forests. However, the current …

The herbaceous understory plant community in the context of the overstory: An overlooked component of tropical diversity

R Perea, JW Schroeder, R Dirzo - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lowland tropical rainforests harbor the most diverse plant communities in the world, but the
herbaceous plants of the understory are often overlooked. To address this knowledge gap …

Understory plant growth forms respond independently to combined natural and anthropogenic disturbances

ME Spicer, AA Royo, JW Wenzel, WP Carson - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural disturbances can maintain forest diversity by creating a heterogeneous resource
landscape, which can contribute to coexistence of early-and late-successional species …

北京东灵山暖温带落叶阔叶林地形和林分结构对林下草本植物物种多样性的影响

邓婷婷, 魏岩, 任思远, 祝燕 - 生物多样性, 2023 - biodiversity-science.net
森林群落林下草本植物物种多样性丰富, 然而大多数森林物种多样性研究集中在乔木层,
对林下草本植物物种多样性及其影响因子的研究较少. 本研究基于北京东灵山20 ha …

Extinction risk of Chinese angiosperms varies between woody and herbaceous species

Y Chen, Y Wu, Y Dong, Y Li, Z Ge… - Diversity and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding how species' traits and environmental contexts relate to extinction risk is
a critical priority for ecology and conservation biology. This study aims to identify and …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of forest understory herbaceous vegetation and its influencing factors in biodiversity hotspots in China

Q Geng, M Arif, F Yin, Y Chen, J Gao, J Liu, X Liu… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest ecosystems, especially within biodiversity hotspots, heavily rely on the often-
overlooked understory herbaceous communities (USHC) for their structural integrity and …