Yanhong Wang

• PhD
• Zhejiang A & F University

Cadmium (Cd) toxicity is a universal environmental threat to plant growth. Either arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) or biochar have been shown to effectively mitigate Cd toxicity in plants. Additionally, the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) has been used for phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soils. However, the potential interacting effects of...

Plant-soil feedback (PSF) is an important driver of plant species coexistence and diversity maintenance. However , it remains unclear how changes in PSF due to decline in tree species richness influence the performance of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) tree species. A PSF experiment was established with eight target tree spec...

Cadmium (Cd) contamination is a widespread environmental issue. There is a lack of knowledge about the impacts of applying arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and biochar, either alone or in their combination, on alleviating Cd phytotoxicity in Ligustrum lucidum. Therefore, a pot experiment was conducted in a greenhouse, where L. lucidum seedlings w...

Background and aims Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) promote uptake of nutrients by plants; inversely, soil abiotic properties determine relationships between AMF and hosts. Although multiple hypotheses have suggested the importance of AMF or soil nutrients alone for plant invasion success, few studies have examined the relative importance and sy...

Salt spray is a natural disturbance in coastal area of Southern China. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can mediate the detrimental effects of salt spray. Leaf thickness and photosynthetic ability are key parameters. Combined fungi may be beneficial for trees grown in coastal areas. Salt spray is a natural disturbance in coastal region. Arbuscular myco...

Salt spray is a major environmental issue in coastal areas. Cinnamomum camphora is an economically important tree species that grows in the coastal areas of southern China. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can alleviate the detrimental effects of abiotic stress on host plants. However, the mechanism by which AMF mitigates the adverse effects of s...

Few studies tried to explore the mitigation effect and underlying mechanisms of biochar and their complex for negative allelopathy from invasive plants, which may provide a new way in the invasive plant management. Herein, an invasive plant (Solidago canadensis)‐derived biochar (IBC) and its composite with hydroxyapatite (HAP/IBC) were synthesized...

Water level rise is considered an environmental filter for the growth and reproduction of aquatic plants in lakes. Some emergent macrophytes can form floating mats, enabling them to escape from the negative effects of deep water. However, an understanding of which species can be uprooted and form floating mats easily and what factors affect these t...

Allelopathy has been considered a good explanation for the successful invasion of some invasive plants. However, the real latitudinal and longitudinal allelopathic effects on native species have rarely been documented since many exotics have spread widely. We conducted a Petri dish experiment to determine the latitudinal and longitudinal allelopath...

Plant invasive success is attributed to invaders’ ecological advantages over their native neighbors. However, increasing evidence suggests that these advantages are expected to attenuate over time because of natural enemy accumulation, ecological evolution of native species and autotoxicity. We determined how an invasive Ageratina adenophora could...

Context Coastal wetlands are ecotones interspaced by land and ocean and are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems worldwide. They are unique in hydrological, edaphic, atmospheric, and biological characteristics, and play important roles in maintaining the ecological security and ecosystem services of coastal zones. Arbuscular mycorrhiz...

Mulberry is an economically important crop for sericulture in China. Mulberry plantations are shifting inland, where they face high salinity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) reportedly enhance mulberry's tolerance to salinity. Here, we assessed if additional adaptive advantages against salinity are provided by sex differences beyond those provid...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are taken as bioameliorators to alleviate the detrimental effects of salt stress. However, how AMF affect the performance of Cinnamomum camphora, an economically important species, remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated the interactive effects of AMF and salinity on the growth, nutrient acquisition, and ion...

Lespedeza formosa is an economically important shrub in the agroecosystems of southern China, where acid rain (AR) is an increasingly serious environmental issue. However, the roles of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in adapting the plants to AR stress are poorly understood. In this study, L. formosa seedlings were cultivated in a greenhouse, wh...

Aims acid rain (AR), which occurs frequently in southern China, negatively affects the growth of subtropical tree species. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) mitigate the detrimental effects induced by AR. However, the mechanism by which AMF protects Zelkova serrata, an economically important tree species in southern China, from AR stress remains u...

The negative effects, caused by high light, on algae, terrestrial and marine aquatic plants are well documented, those negative effects on freshwater submerged plants are, however, not well known. We determined the negative effects of two common submerged species, Myriophyllum spicatum and Vallisneria natans, on their growth and reproduction in a s...

Background The effects of biodiversity on community function and services are frequently studied in the history of ecology, while the response of individual species to biodiversity remains great elusive. In this study, we determined the biodiversity effects on community productivity as well as species level plant mass and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N...

Acid rain (AR) is a frequent environmental issue in southern China that causes damage to the growth and photosystems of subtropical tree species. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can improve plant tolerance to acidic conditions; however, how AMF mediate the detrimental effects of AR on the growth and photosynthetic parameters of tree species is y...

Acid rain (AR) is an increasingly serious environmental problem that frequently occurs in Southern China with sulfuric acid rain (SAR) as the main type. SAR can negatively affect the growth and physiological properties of trees, but mycorrhizal associations may mitigate such detrimental effects. However, the mechanisms by which arbuscular mycorrhiz...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are often considered bioameliorators. AMF can promote plant growth under various stressful conditions; however, differences between male and female clones in mycorrhizal strategies that protect plants from the detrimental effects of salinity are not well studied. In this study, we aimed to examine the interactive...

The relationship between diversity and productivity (DPR) is a hot topic in ecology, whereas most evidence comes from studies of manipulated terrestrial ecosystems or from two-dimensional space views. In this study, we determined DPR of submerged plants in a natural mesotrophic lake, Lake Erhai, along its water depth in 2013 and 2019. Our results d...

Salt stress has become a major threat to plant growth. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered as bioameliorators and can modulate plant growth in various ways. However, few studies have addressed whether AMF could mediate the detrimental effects of salinity on Ligustrum vicaryi plants. In this study, inoculated (colonization with two AMF...

Electric fields (EFs) are widely used in human activities, and all organisms are potentially affected by EFs. The effects of an EF on terrestrial plants, seeds and water animals are well documented, whereas the effects of an EF on aquatic macrophytes remain unknown. We wanted to determine the effects of an EF, generated by backpack electrofishing e...

Exotic plants can compete well with native species because many invasive species are considered better nutrient users in both low‐ and high‐resource environments. However, whether invasive plants can outperform native plants at all stages of invasion is not very clear. We investigated the nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and N:P homeostasis of an invas...

In weed management, using native parasites to control exotic weeds is considered a better alternative than classical biological control. But the risk must be assessed because of the potential damage caused by these agents. We conducted this project to investigate the mechanism driving the choice of a native obligate parasite, Cuscuta australis, bet...

Soil salinity is a common and serious environmental problem worldwide. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered as bio-ameliorators of soil salinity tolerance in plants. However, few studies have addressed the possible benefits of AMF inoculation for medicinal plants under saline conditions. In this study, we examined the effects of coloni...

The relationship between diversity and productivity of plant community under plant invasion has been not well known up to now. Here, we investigated the relationship between diversity and productivity under plant invasion and studied the response of species level plant mass to species richness in native and invaded communities. A field experiment f...

The study aimed to investigate the effects of colonization with two arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, Funneliformis mosseae , Diversispora versiformis , alone and in combination on the growth and nutrient acquisition of NaCl-stressed Chrysanthemum morifolium (Hangbaiju) plants in the greenhouse experiment. Mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal Hangbaiju...

To screen allelochemical-resistant species of the alien invasive weed Mikania micrantha, we studied the allelopathic inhibition effects of the leaf aqueous extract (LAE) of Mikania on seed germination and seedling growth of the 26 species native or naturalized in the invaded region in South China. Seed germination was more strongly negatively affec...

He, W. M. 2010: Growth and biomass allocation of Lolium perenne seedlings in response to mechanical stimulation and water availability.-Ann. Bot. Fennici 47: 367-372. Wind-induced mechanical stimulation and water shortage are important stresses in arid/ semiarid regions. However, little is known about the combined effects of mechanical stimulation...

Wind-induced mechanical stimulation and water shortage are important stresses in arid/ semiarid regions. However, little is known about the combined effects of mechani-cal stimulation and water availability. Since the effects of high water availability on biomass and allocation are opposite to those from mechanical stimulation, it is hypoth-esized...

High water availability and mechanical stress can induce opposite responses in plants. In arid areas of Northern China the occurrence of high wind and high water availability tend to be negatively correlated. Since turgor pressure is a determinant of the mechanical stability of annuals, it is hypothesised that the effects of mechanical perturbation...

Little is known about how the effects of mechanical perturbation (MP) on clonal semishrubs vary with soil water in inland dune ecosystems. To investigate this, a greenhouse experiment was conducted in which the seedlings of the clonal semishrub Hedysarum laeve were subjected to two levels of MP (non-MP vs. MP 60 s d-1) and two levels of water suppl...