China possesses large areas of plantation forests which take up great quantities of carbon. However, studies on soil respiration in these plantation forests are rather scarce and their soil carbon flux remains an uncertainty. In this study, we used an automatic chamber system to measure soil surface flux of a 50-year-old mature plantation of Platycladus orientalis at Jiufeng Mountain, Beijing, ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has now emerged as a global public health crisis, requiring the discovery of new and novel antimicrobial compounds, that may be precursors future therapeutic antibiotics. Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) comes with rich pedigree holistic empirical usage in Asia for last 5000 years. Extracts Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge, Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels, Dianthus su...

Ancient trees are famous for their life spans of hundreds or even thousands years. These rare, a testament to history and important scientific research. Platycladus orientalis, with the longest span beautiful trunk, has become most widely planted tree species is believed be sacred in China. Extensive declines habitat area quality pose greatest threats loss genetic diversity ancient P. orientali...

Heritage trees are long-lived or notable with great historical significance, scientific value, commemorative importance. Many heritage have been preserved in Weifang City, Shandong Province, Northern China. In this paper, the origin, species diversity, age structure, health, surrounding habitats, distribution, genera floristic composition, and challenges of protecting were investigated using li...

In this study, soil obtained from a reclaimed coal gob pile was expected to be rapidly improved with the use of artificial vegetation restoration practices, such as forests, which increase taxonomic variety in microbial community and its functions. order successfully identify effect forest project on soil’s quality, field study conducted loess hilly area located Shanxi assess effects five commo...

In semi-arid and arid terrestrial ecosystems, terracing vegetation may improve soil conditions enhance habitats. Considerable recent works have focused on evaluating how affect individual ecosystem function, but none of these evaluations included multifunctionality (SEMF), which has a positive significance for optimizing management. Based the survey data six different combinations in Chinese Lo...

Abstract Temple trees, including the gymnosperm Platycladus orientalis and angiosperm Styphnolobium japonicum , have been planted in China for thousands of years. Tree age thus varies widely from young to ancient trees. Foliar endophytes P. S. were surveyed this exploratory study that was based on isolation into culture sequencing fungi trees varying 10 5000 years ( ) 1700 ). Sequenced belonged...