Casuarina equisetifolia plantations have been widely established along tropical and subtropical coasts, where they act as a windbreak to shelter coastal areas. C. equisetifolia shelter plantations also fulfill another critical ecosystem service by sequestering large amounts of carbon (C), co...

　　Although only needed in small quantities, mineral nutrients like calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, iron and manganese are important for plants. However, plants absorb these nutrients only from soils, and their availability may be greatly affected by soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) avail...

　　Mapping spatial variation of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) at national or regional scale is important for estimating carbon emissions and removals and contributing to global stocktake and balancing the carbon budget. With the implementation of national ecological restoration projects, the...

　　Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has published a landmark State of the World’s Trees report on 1st September 2021. The report, compiling work led by the Global Tree Assessment (GTA), is the culmination of five years of research to identify major gaps in tree conservation ef...

　　Under the guidance of Ren Hai, a researcher at the Ecological and Environmental Science Research Center of the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in cooperation with Wei Xiao, a researcher at the the Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Province and the Chinese Ac...