As cities expand globally, natural habitats are shrinking, leaving plant-animal interactions increasingly precarious. While green spaces are often scarce in highly urbanized areas, certain large, ancient trees, revered for cultural significance, persist. New research from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences now provides empirical evidence that these venerable trees serve as shelters and food sources for urban bird communities, even amid broader declines in bird diversity.
A research team led by Prof. QU Yanhua from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, focused on three closely related bird species in the Sino-Himalayan mountains: Alcippe hueti, A. davidi, and A. fratercula. By integrating population and ecological genomic approaches, the team found that interspecific introgression reduces climate change vulnerability in montane birds.
A collaborative research team from the Institute of Biophysics and Beijing Normal University has identified the molecular components and regulatory mechanisms that link the A- and B-tubules within doublet microtubules. They also revealed how axonemal doublet microtubules are stably connected in cilia and flagella.
A research team led by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany has revealed how grassland degradation alters the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality across the Tibetan alpine grasslands.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that co-invasion of alien plants has a synergistic effect on soils, which fundamentally alters assembly processes and interactions within soil fungal ecosystems.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators revealed that contemporary climate and environment, not deep biogeographic history, are the primary drivers of local-scale tree diversity in tropical forests, and their tree diversity responds to environmental factors in a highly consistent manner.
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