Studies on the impacts of fertilization plant production and species diversity are crucial for better maintaining stability grassland ecosystems restoring degraded grasslands. Using a controlled experimental platform in temperate Leymus chinensis meadow steppe ecosystem, effects different levels nitrogen (N) phosphorus (P) addition community structure, biomass allocation, diversity, correlation...

Oil production, as well the transportation of oil and gas through pipeline systems, cause destruction man-made transformation natural ecosystems Northern Eurasia, an increase in area disturbed lands, a reduction habitats specially protected plant species. In this regard, most significant measures for biological diversity are identification conditions growth populations rare plants biotopes deve...

Although vegetation community information such as grazing gradient, biomass, and density have been well characterized in typical grassland communities with Stipa grandis Leymus chinensis dominant species, their impact on the soil moisture (SM) inversion is still unclear. This study investigated characteristics of a at different gradients growing seasons its SM using remote sensing data. The wat...

Global warming and nitrogen (N) deposition have an important influence on terrestrial ecosystems; however, the influence of warming and N deposition on plant photosynthetic products and nutrient cycling in plants is not well understood. We examined the effects of 3 years of warming and N addition on the plant photosynthetic products, foliar chemistry and stoichiometric ratios of two dominant sp...

Alternative splicing (AS) is an important gene regulation mechanism in plants. Despite the widespread use of AS in plant gene expression regulation, the identification of the cis-elements involved in the AS mechanism is rarely reported in plants. To explore the regulation mechanism of the AS of LcDREB2, a DREB2 ortholog from Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis), the genomic sequences of LcDREB2 and it...

Studies on grasshopper diets have historically employed a range of methodologies, each with certain advantages and disadvantages. For example, some methodologies are qualitative instead of quantitative. Others require long experimental periods or examine population-level effects, only. In this study, we used real-time PCR to examine diets of individual grasshoppers. The method has the advantage...

The objective of this research was to develop an integrated process to produce biogas and high-quality particleboard using saline creeping wild ryegrass (CWR), Leymus triticoides through anaerobic digestion (AD). Besides producing biogas, AD also serves as a pretreatment method to remove the wax layer of CWR for improving binding capability and then the residue is used to produce high-quality p...