The red panda is a lesser carnivore that has adapted to the herbivore diet and distributed in Himalayan Hengduan mountain ranges. study conducted on Singalila National Park recorded highest encounter of species within altitude 2800 3200 meters broad leaf deciduous coniferous forest. 22.22% direct sightings pandas occurred plant belonging family Fagaceae were followed by Ericaceae (18.52%). most...

In this study, the potential of use in landscape area some woody plants that naturally spread flora Elazig was investigated. As a result researches, it determined 29 genera and 54 natural plant taxa belonging to 18 families region have characteristics. Families with most taxa; Rosaceae (19 taxa), Salicaceae (4 Fagaceae taxa). The are; Crataegus, Rosa Quercus 4 each, followed by Acer, Tamarix So...

In the course of a phytochemical and chemotaxonomical investigation of Castanopsis species (Fagaceae), three new phenolic compounds, (3R,1'S)-[1'-(6″-O-galloyl-β-d-gluco-pyranosyl)oxyethyl]-3-hydroxy-dihydrofuran-2(3H)-one (1), (2R,3S)-2-[2'-(galloyl)oxyethyl]-dihydroxybutanoic acid (2), and (3S,4S)-3-hydroxymethyl-3,4-dihydro-5,6,7-trihydroxy-4-(4'-hydroxy-3'-methoxyphenyl)-1H-[2]-benzopyran-1...

Castanopsis sclerophylla (Lindl.) Schott. is a canopy tree species of evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical China. In this study, the genetic diversity and population structure C. were investigated by using chloroplast DNA sequences nuclear microsatellite markers. Permutation tests with indicated presence phylogeographic sclerophylla. Based on markers, Bayesian clustering analysis revea...

Natural introgression can cause negative effects where rare species experience genetic assimilation and invade by their abundant congeners. Quercus austrocochinchinensis and Q. kerrii (subgenus Cyclobalanopsis) are a pair of closely related species in the Indo-China area. Morphological intermediates of the two species have been reported in this region. In this study, we used AFLP, SSR and two k...

Oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) are characterized by possession of complex cyclically parthenogenetic life cycles and the ability to induce a wide diversity of highly complex species- and generation-specific galls on oaks and other Fagaceae. The galls support species-rich, closed communities of inquilines and parasitoids that have become a model system in community ecology. We...

Castanopsis hystrix is one of the most important and dominant species in evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical China. However, the population of this species undergone severe decline because of deforestation over the past 2 decades. For both conservation and forestry management, it is essential to develop molecular markers for C. hystrix. We identified 11 microsatellite loci in 2 wild p...