Functional relationship between woody plants and insect communities in response to Bursaphelenchus xylophilus infestation in the Three Gorges Reservoir region
Abstract:To study the effect of the invasion of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on the
functional relationship between woody plants and insect communities, the
populations of tree species and insect communities were investigative in
the Masson pine forests with different infestation durations of B.
xylophilus. In this study, the number of Pinus massoniana began to
decrease sharply, whereas the total number of other tree species in the
arboreal layer increased gradually with the infestation duration of B.
xylophilus. The pri… Show more
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