In order to fabricate high-performance inverted perovskite solar cells(Pe SCs), an appropriate hole transport layer(HTL) is essential since it will affect the hole extraction at perovskite/HTL interface and determine ...In order to fabricate high-performance inverted perovskite solar cells(Pe SCs), an appropriate hole transport layer(HTL) is essential since it will affect the hole extraction at perovskite/HTL interface and determine the crystallization quality of the subsequent perovskite films. Herein, a facile and simple method is developed by adding ethanolamine(ETA)into poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS) as HTL. The doping of a low-concentration ETA can efficiently modify the electrical properties of the PEDOT:PSS film and lower the highest occupied molecular orbital(HOMO) level, which is more suitable for the hole extraction from the perovskite to HTL. Besides, ETA-doped PEDOT:PSS will create a perovskite film with larger grain size and higher crystallinity. Hence, the results show that the open-circuit voltage of the device increases from 0.99 V to 1.06 V, and the corresponding power conversion efficiency(PCE)increases from 14.68% to 19.16%. The alkaline nature of ethanolamine greatly neutralizes the acidity of PEDOT:PSS, and plays a role in protecting the anode, leading the stability of the devices to be improved significantly. After being stored for2000 h, the PCE of ETA-doped PEDOT:PSS devices can maintain 84.2% of the initial value, which is much higher than67.1% of undoped devices.展开更多
Objective To study the feasibility of enforcing immunization certificate check before children enroll in primary schools or kindergartens in Guizhou Province. Methods Quantitative and qualitative studies were conducte...Objective To study the feasibility of enforcing immunization certificate check before children enroll in primary schools or kindergartens in Guizhou Province. Methods Quantitative and qualitative studies were conducted. The multi-stage and cluster sampling approach was adopted for the quantitative part of the study. A questionnaire was designed and 996 children and their keepers were interviewed. Principals, doctors or teachers of the primary schools, directors and child care nurses of kindergarten, and staff of immunization agencies were invited to take part in 12 focus group discussions; meanwhile, face-to-face individual in-depth interviews with 16 officials of the Health, Education and Governmental Departments at various levels were conducted. Results The total number of subjects was 996. 16.7% of the children in the study completed all the procedures of the National Immunization Programme. 34.3% of them had immunization certificates while the remainder 44.7% registered in immunization agencies. Factors, including the migrant children, doubt about vaccine efficiency, mother’s occupation and educational background, knowledge of the National Immunization Programme on targeted vaccines, played an important role in obtaining or not immunization certificates. 95% of the keepers interviewed thought the immunization certificates were useful; 94.8% of them considered the check was critical while only 3.6% of them thought it unnecessary. The first reason from those who found it unnecessary was that they feared that repeated immunization might affect their children’s health. The second reason was the cost of immunization, which some of them could not afford to pay. However, the Health Department expressed a favorable attitude to the checking scheme. Though the Education Department agreed that the scheme was essential, they worried that it would affect the enrollment rate. Conclusion In spite of the difficulty in展开更多
In hermaphroditic plants,female reproductive success often varies among different positions within an inflorescence. However,few studies have evaluated the relative importance of underlying causes such as pollen limit...In hermaphroditic plants,female reproductive success often varies among different positions within an inflorescence. However,few studies have evaluated the relative importance of underlying causes such as pollen limitation,resource limitation or architectural effect,and few have compared male allocation. During a 2-year investigation,we found that female reproductive success of an acropetally flowering species,Corydalis remota Fisch. ex Maxim. var. lineariloba Maxim. was significantly lower in the upper late developing flowers when compared with the lower early flowers. Supplementation with outcross pollen did not improve female reproductive success of the upper flowers,while removal of the lower developing fruits significantly increased female reproductive success of the upper flowers in both years,evidencing resource limitation of the upper flowers. Female production in upper flowers was greatly improved by simultaneous pollen supplementation of the upper flowers and removal of the lower fruits,suggesting that,when resources are abundant,pollen may limit the female reproductive success of the upper flowers. The less seed mass in the upper flowers didn't increase in all treatments due to architecture. In the upper flowers,ovule production was significantly lower and the pollen :ovule ratio was significantly higher. These results suggest that male-biased sex allocation in the upper flowers may lead to increased male reproductive success,whereas the lower flowers have higher female reproductive success.展开更多
Aims Flowering time has been suggested to be an important adaptive trait during the dispersal of invasive species,and identifying the molecu-lar mechanisms underlying flowering time may provide insight into the local ...Aims Flowering time has been suggested to be an important adaptive trait during the dispersal of invasive species,and identifying the molecu-lar mechanisms underlying flowering time may provide insight into the local adaptation during the process of invasion.Here,we con-ducted a preliminary exploration on the genetic basis of the differ-entiation of flowering time in Ambrosia artemisiifolia.Methods using relative real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction,we investigated the expression levels of eight flowering-related genes,including AP1,FT,SOC1,CRY2,FKF1,GI,CO2 and SPY,in leaves and flowers at different time points in individuals from northern beijing and southern Wuhan populations that exhibit significant differences in flowering times to identify any rhythmic changes in gene expression and their association with differential flowering times.Important Findings The differentiation of flowering time in the A.artemisiifolia popula-tions was closely associated with five genes involved in flowering pathways.The floral pathway integrators FT and SOC1 and floral meristem identity gene AP1 exhibited increased expression during flowering.The photoreceptor CRY2 in the light-dependent path-way and the SPY gene in the gibberellin pathway displayed specific expression patterns over time.in earlier-flowering beijing plants,CRY2 expression was lower and SPY expression was higher than in Wuhan plants.The expression patterns of these five genes sug-gest a molecular basis for the differentiation of flowering time in A.artemisiifolia.展开更多
Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity provides a powerful framework for modeling macroecological patterns and interpreting species assemblages.However,there remain several unsolved problems,including the effect of r...Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity provides a powerful framework for modeling macroecological patterns and interpreting species assemblages.However,there remain several unsolved problems,including the effect of relaxing the assumption of strict neutrality to allow for empirically observed variation in vital rates and the‘problem of time’—empirically measured coexistence times are much shorter than the prediction of the strictly neutral drift model.Here,we develop a nearly neutral model that allows for differential birth and death rates of species.This model provides an approach to study species coexistence away from strict neutrality.Methods Based on Moran’s neutral model,which assumes all species in a community have the same competitive ability and have identical birth and death rates,we developed a model that includes birth–death trade-off but excludes speciation.This model describes a wide range of asymmetry from strictly neutral to nearly neutral to far from neutral and is useful for analyzing the effect of drift on species coexistence.Specifically,we analyzed the effects of the birth–death trade-off on the time and probability of species coexistence and quantified the loss of biodiversity(as measured by Simpson’s diversity)due to drift by varying species birth and death rates.Important Findings We found(i)a birth–death trade-off operating as an equalizing force driven by demographic stochasticity promotes the coexistence of nearly neutral species.Species near demographic trade-offs(i.e.fitness equivalence)can coexist even longer than that predicted by the strictly neutral model;(ii)the effect of birth rates on species coexistence is very similar to that of death rates,but their compensatory effects are not completely symmetric;(iii)ecological drift over time produces a march to fixation.Trade-off-based neutral communities lose diversity more slowly than the strictly neutral community,while non-neutral communities lose diversity much more rapidly;and(iv)nearly neutral systems have substantially shorter time of coexistence than that of neutral systems.This reduced time provides a promising solution to the problem of time.展开更多
Aims Much recent theory has focused on the role of neutral processes in assembling communities,but the basic assumption that all species are demographically identical has found little empirical support.Here,we show th...Aims Much recent theory has focused on the role of neutral processes in assembling communities,but the basic assumption that all species are demographically identical has found little empirical support.Here,we show that the framework of the current neutral theory can easily be generalized to incorporate species differences so long as fitness equivalence among individuals is maintained through trade-offs between birth and death.Methods Our theory development is based on a careful reformulation of the Moran model of metacommunity dynamics in terms of a non-linear one-step stochastic process,which is described by a master equation.Important Findings We demonstrate how fitness equalization through demographic trade-offs can generate significant macroecological diversity patterns,leading to a very different interpretation of the relation between Fisher’s a and Hubbell’s fundamental biodiversity number.Our model shows that equal fitness(not equal demographics)significantly promotes species diversity through strong selective sieving of community membership against high-mortality species,resulting in a positive association between species abundance and per capita death rate.An important implication of demographic trade-off is that it can partly explain the excessively high speciation rates predicted by the neutral theory of the stronger symmetry.Fitness equalization through demographic trade-offs generalizes neutral theory by considering heterospecific demographic difference,thus representing a significant step toward integrating the neutral and niche paradigms of biodiversity.展开更多
Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity has been criticized for being fragile with even slight deviations from its basic assumption of equal fitness among species.In response to this criticism,Hubbell((2001)The Unifie...Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity has been criticized for being fragile with even slight deviations from its basic assumption of equal fitness among species.In response to this criticism,Hubbell((2001)The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography.Princeton,NJ:Princeton University Press)proposed that competitive exclusion can be infinitely delayed by dispersal and recruitment limitation,thus making species effectively neutral.But the theoretical foundation for this claim still remains unclear and controversial,and the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation are often confounded,especially in field studies.This study aims to provide an affirmative theoretical answer to the question of whether dispersal limitation and recruitment limitation can separately or jointly overwhelm the effects of fitness differences among species and lead to neutral community dynamics.Methods Computer simulations were used to investigate the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation on delaying competitive exclusion in a homogeneous habitat in a spatially explicit context.Important Findings We found that even a slight competitive asymmetry would require extremely strong dispersal and recruitment limitation for neutrality to emerge.Most importantly,when the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation were set apart,it is found that recruitment limitation is more effective in delaying competitive exclusion,whereas dispersal limitation tends to have a stronger impact on the general shape of both species abundance distributions and species–area relationships.展开更多
Aims Exploring the characteristics and function of a flower color poly-morphism contributes to our understanding of floral evolution in angiosperms.However,little information is available on stigma color polymorphisms...Aims Exploring the characteristics and function of a flower color poly-morphism contributes to our understanding of floral evolution in angiosperms.However,little information is available on stigma color polymorphisms in flowering plants despite their important functional role in plant reproduction.Methods We studied a stigma color polymorphism at the individual level in Acer pictum subsp.mono(aka A.mono)by investigating stigma-color morph proportion and comparing stigma performance and compo-nents of female fitness(pollen adhesion,pollen germination,fruit set,seed set and fruit weight)between the two morphs(red and greenish-yellow stigma)within natural populations at Dongling mountain in the north of China.in the flowering period,we conducted hand pol-lination in natural populations and then made microscopic observa-tions using the aniline blue fluorescence method.Important Findingsindividuals in the studied populations did not change their stigma color between years,and flowers produced by a single tree were uniform in their stigma color.This strongly suggests that stigma color variation is genetically controlled.The percentage of the red stigma flowers with germinated pollen grains was significantly higher than that of the greenish-yellow stigma flowers when hand pollination was conducted in the early flowering period,but not so in the late flowering period.There was no significant difference in the percentage of flowers with pollen adhesion to the stigma between the two morphs.Fruit set of the red morph was signifi-cantly higher than that of the greenish-yellow morph.our findings suggest that the red morph may be more advantageous for pollen germination and fruit set than the greenish-yellow morph,which may provide a functional explanation for the high incidence of the red stigma morph in the studied populations.alternative explana-tions for the stigma color polymorphism are discussed to stimulate further work.展开更多
Arguably,no subject in ecology is as broad and inclusive,yet fundamental,as biodiversity.The diverse facets of biodiversity are reflected by the plethora of its definitions,measurements,maintenance theories and manage...Arguably,no subject in ecology is as broad and inclusive,yet fundamental,as biodiversity.The diverse facets of biodiversity are reflected by the plethora of its definitions,measurements,maintenance theories and management practices across spatial and temporal scales.In May 2011,we held a symposium for Theoretical Ecology and Biodiversity in Guangzhou,China,to showcase just that multitude of biodiversity.The symposium was sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol,Sun Yat-sen University and University of Alberta.We sought to achieve three goals.The first was to provide a venue to present and exchange the state of the art of biodiversity science.The second was to establish mentoring relationships by connecting a group of young ecologists to the internationally renowned scientists who were invited to attend the symposium.This special issue is the third goal we have accomplished.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Regional Joint Fund of the Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U21A20492)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61421002,61675041,and 51703019)+1 种基金the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Program,China(Grant Nos.2021107,2019YFG0121,2019YJ0178,2020YFG0279,2020YFG0281,and 2021107)the Fund from the Sichuan Province Key Laboratory of Display Science and Technology,China。
文摘In order to fabricate high-performance inverted perovskite solar cells(Pe SCs), an appropriate hole transport layer(HTL) is essential since it will affect the hole extraction at perovskite/HTL interface and determine the crystallization quality of the subsequent perovskite films. Herein, a facile and simple method is developed by adding ethanolamine(ETA)into poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS) as HTL. The doping of a low-concentration ETA can efficiently modify the electrical properties of the PEDOT:PSS film and lower the highest occupied molecular orbital(HOMO) level, which is more suitable for the hole extraction from the perovskite to HTL. Besides, ETA-doped PEDOT:PSS will create a perovskite film with larger grain size and higher crystallinity. Hence, the results show that the open-circuit voltage of the device increases from 0.99 V to 1.06 V, and the corresponding power conversion efficiency(PCE)increases from 14.68% to 19.16%. The alkaline nature of ethanolamine greatly neutralizes the acidity of PEDOT:PSS, and plays a role in protecting the anode, leading the stability of the devices to be improved significantly. After being stored for2000 h, the PCE of ETA-doped PEDOT:PSS devices can maintain 84.2% of the initial value, which is much higher than67.1% of undoped devices.
文摘Objective To study the feasibility of enforcing immunization certificate check before children enroll in primary schools or kindergartens in Guizhou Province. Methods Quantitative and qualitative studies were conducted. The multi-stage and cluster sampling approach was adopted for the quantitative part of the study. A questionnaire was designed and 996 children and their keepers were interviewed. Principals, doctors or teachers of the primary schools, directors and child care nurses of kindergarten, and staff of immunization agencies were invited to take part in 12 focus group discussions; meanwhile, face-to-face individual in-depth interviews with 16 officials of the Health, Education and Governmental Departments at various levels were conducted. Results The total number of subjects was 996. 16.7% of the children in the study completed all the procedures of the National Immunization Programme. 34.3% of them had immunization certificates while the remainder 44.7% registered in immunization agencies. Factors, including the migrant children, doubt about vaccine efficiency, mother’s occupation and educational background, knowledge of the National Immunization Programme on targeted vaccines, played an important role in obtaining or not immunization certificates. 95% of the keepers interviewed thought the immunization certificates were useful; 94.8% of them considered the check was critical while only 3.6% of them thought it unnecessary. The first reason from those who found it unnecessary was that they feared that repeated immunization might affect their children’s health. The second reason was the cost of immunization, which some of them could not afford to pay. However, the Health Department expressed a favorable attitude to the checking scheme. Though the Education Department agreed that the scheme was essential, they worried that it would affect the enrollment rate. Conclusion In spite of the difficulty in
基金This research was supported by the Youth Talent Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education(Q20162904)the Open Fund of Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization(202141704)the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering,Ministry of Education(K201802).
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30430160).
文摘In hermaphroditic plants,female reproductive success often varies among different positions within an inflorescence. However,few studies have evaluated the relative importance of underlying causes such as pollen limitation,resource limitation or architectural effect,and few have compared male allocation. During a 2-year investigation,we found that female reproductive success of an acropetally flowering species,Corydalis remota Fisch. ex Maxim. var. lineariloba Maxim. was significantly lower in the upper late developing flowers when compared with the lower early flowers. Supplementation with outcross pollen did not improve female reproductive success of the upper flowers,while removal of the lower developing fruits significantly increased female reproductive success of the upper flowers in both years,evidencing resource limitation of the upper flowers. Female production in upper flowers was greatly improved by simultaneous pollen supplementation of the upper flowers and removal of the lower fruits,suggesting that,when resources are abundant,pollen may limit the female reproductive success of the upper flowers. The less seed mass in the upper flowers didn't increase in all treatments due to architecture. In the upper flowers,ovule production was significantly lower and the pollen :ovule ratio was significantly higher. These results suggest that male-biased sex allocation in the upper flowers may lead to increased male reproductive success,whereas the lower flowers have higher female reproductive success.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(31421063)State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology(2012-ZY-03)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Aims Flowering time has been suggested to be an important adaptive trait during the dispersal of invasive species,and identifying the molecu-lar mechanisms underlying flowering time may provide insight into the local adaptation during the process of invasion.Here,we con-ducted a preliminary exploration on the genetic basis of the differ-entiation of flowering time in Ambrosia artemisiifolia.Methods using relative real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction,we investigated the expression levels of eight flowering-related genes,including AP1,FT,SOC1,CRY2,FKF1,GI,CO2 and SPY,in leaves and flowers at different time points in individuals from northern beijing and southern Wuhan populations that exhibit significant differences in flowering times to identify any rhythmic changes in gene expression and their association with differential flowering times.Important Findings The differentiation of flowering time in the A.artemisiifolia popula-tions was closely associated with five genes involved in flowering pathways.The floral pathway integrators FT and SOC1 and floral meristem identity gene AP1 exhibited increased expression during flowering.The photoreceptor CRY2 in the light-dependent path-way and the SPY gene in the gibberellin pathway displayed specific expression patterns over time.in earlier-flowering beijing plants,CRY2 expression was lower and SPY expression was higher than in Wuhan plants.The expression patterns of these five genes sug-gest a molecular basis for the differentiation of flowering time in A.artemisiifolia.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(D.Y.Z.and K.L.)Ministry of Science and Technology of China(D.Y.Z.and K.L.)+2 种基金Geomatics for Informed Decisions Network of Canada(F.H.)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(F.L.)University of Alberta International(the China-UofA Joint Research Lab program).
文摘Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity provides a powerful framework for modeling macroecological patterns and interpreting species assemblages.However,there remain several unsolved problems,including the effect of relaxing the assumption of strict neutrality to allow for empirically observed variation in vital rates and the‘problem of time’—empirically measured coexistence times are much shorter than the prediction of the strictly neutral drift model.Here,we develop a nearly neutral model that allows for differential birth and death rates of species.This model provides an approach to study species coexistence away from strict neutrality.Methods Based on Moran’s neutral model,which assumes all species in a community have the same competitive ability and have identical birth and death rates,we developed a model that includes birth–death trade-off but excludes speciation.This model describes a wide range of asymmetry from strictly neutral to nearly neutral to far from neutral and is useful for analyzing the effect of drift on species coexistence.Specifically,we analyzed the effects of the birth–death trade-off on the time and probability of species coexistence and quantified the loss of biodiversity(as measured by Simpson’s diversity)due to drift by varying species birth and death rates.Important Findings We found(i)a birth–death trade-off operating as an equalizing force driven by demographic stochasticity promotes the coexistence of nearly neutral species.Species near demographic trade-offs(i.e.fitness equivalence)can coexist even longer than that predicted by the strictly neutral model;(ii)the effect of birth rates on species coexistence is very similar to that of death rates,but their compensatory effects are not completely symmetric;(iii)ecological drift over time produces a march to fixation.Trade-off-based neutral communities lose diversity more slowly than the strictly neutral community,while non-neutral communities lose diversity much more rapidly;and(iv)nearly neutral systems have substantially shorter time of coexistence than that of neutral systems.This reduced time provides a promising solution to the problem of time.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(31030014,31121003)State Key Basic Research and Development Plan(2007CB106800 and 2010CB434800)+1 种基金Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(Canada)University of Alberta International(the China-UofA Joint Research Lab program).
文摘Aims Much recent theory has focused on the role of neutral processes in assembling communities,but the basic assumption that all species are demographically identical has found little empirical support.Here,we show that the framework of the current neutral theory can easily be generalized to incorporate species differences so long as fitness equivalence among individuals is maintained through trade-offs between birth and death.Methods Our theory development is based on a careful reformulation of the Moran model of metacommunity dynamics in terms of a non-linear one-step stochastic process,which is described by a master equation.Important Findings We demonstrate how fitness equalization through demographic trade-offs can generate significant macroecological diversity patterns,leading to a very different interpretation of the relation between Fisher’s a and Hubbell’s fundamental biodiversity number.Our model shows that equal fitness(not equal demographics)significantly promotes species diversity through strong selective sieving of community membership against high-mortality species,resulting in a positive association between species abundance and per capita death rate.An important implication of demographic trade-off is that it can partly explain the excessively high speciation rates predicted by the neutral theory of the stronger symmetry.Fitness equalization through demographic trade-offs generalizes neutral theory by considering heterospecific demographic difference,thus representing a significant step toward integrating the neutral and niche paradigms of biodiversity.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(30970543,31030014)Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(2006-0907)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Aims The neutral theory of biodiversity has been criticized for being fragile with even slight deviations from its basic assumption of equal fitness among species.In response to this criticism,Hubbell((2001)The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography.Princeton,NJ:Princeton University Press)proposed that competitive exclusion can be infinitely delayed by dispersal and recruitment limitation,thus making species effectively neutral.But the theoretical foundation for this claim still remains unclear and controversial,and the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation are often confounded,especially in field studies.This study aims to provide an affirmative theoretical answer to the question of whether dispersal limitation and recruitment limitation can separately or jointly overwhelm the effects of fitness differences among species and lead to neutral community dynamics.Methods Computer simulations were used to investigate the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation on delaying competitive exclusion in a homogeneous habitat in a spatially explicit context.Important Findings We found that even a slight competitive asymmetry would require extremely strong dispersal and recruitment limitation for neutrality to emerge.Most importantly,when the effects of dispersal and recruitment limitation were set apart,it is found that recruitment limitation is more effective in delaying competitive exclusion,whereas dispersal limitation tends to have a stronger impact on the general shape of both species abundance distributions and species–area relationships.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(41371073 and 31421063).
文摘Aims Exploring the characteristics and function of a flower color poly-morphism contributes to our understanding of floral evolution in angiosperms.However,little information is available on stigma color polymorphisms in flowering plants despite their important functional role in plant reproduction.Methods We studied a stigma color polymorphism at the individual level in Acer pictum subsp.mono(aka A.mono)by investigating stigma-color morph proportion and comparing stigma performance and compo-nents of female fitness(pollen adhesion,pollen germination,fruit set,seed set and fruit weight)between the two morphs(red and greenish-yellow stigma)within natural populations at Dongling mountain in the north of China.in the flowering period,we conducted hand pol-lination in natural populations and then made microscopic observa-tions using the aniline blue fluorescence method.Important Findingsindividuals in the studied populations did not change their stigma color between years,and flowers produced by a single tree were uniform in their stigma color.This strongly suggests that stigma color variation is genetically controlled.The percentage of the red stigma flowers with germinated pollen grains was significantly higher than that of the greenish-yellow stigma flowers when hand pollination was conducted in the early flowering period,but not so in the late flowering period.There was no significant difference in the percentage of flowers with pollen adhesion to the stigma between the two morphs.Fruit set of the red morph was signifi-cantly higher than that of the greenish-yellow morph.our findings suggest that the red morph may be more advantageous for pollen germination and fruit set than the greenish-yellow morph,which may provide a functional explanation for the high incidence of the red stigma morph in the studied populations.alternative explana-tions for the stigma color polymorphism are discussed to stimulate further work.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30670359 and 31700326)the 111 project(B13008)Beijing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science and the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology.
文摘Arguably,no subject in ecology is as broad and inclusive,yet fundamental,as biodiversity.The diverse facets of biodiversity are reflected by the plethora of its definitions,measurements,maintenance theories and management practices across spatial and temporal scales.In May 2011,we held a symposium for Theoretical Ecology and Biodiversity in Guangzhou,China,to showcase just that multitude of biodiversity.The symposium was sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol,Sun Yat-sen University and University of Alberta.We sought to achieve three goals.The first was to provide a venue to present and exchange the state of the art of biodiversity science.The second was to establish mentoring relationships by connecting a group of young ecologists to the internationally renowned scientists who were invited to attend the symposium.This special issue is the third goal we have accomplished.
