Natural plants from plateaus have been the richest source of secondary metabolites extensively used in traditional and modern health care systems. They were submitted to years of natural selection, co-evolved within that habitat, and show significant...
High-altitude plants face extreme environments such as low temperature, low oxygen, low nutrient levels, and strong ultraviolet radiation, causing them to adopt complex adaptation mechanisms. Phenotypic variation is the core manifestation of ecologic...
The bacterial communities of activated sludge are correlative with influent characteristics, geographical discrepancies, and environmental variables, which are essential for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, the comprehensive deciphering...
Oxidative stress, driven by reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulphur species (ROS, RNS, RSS), poses a significant threat to cellular integrity and human health. Generated during mitochondrial respiration, inflammation, UV exposure and pollution, these...
High-altitude regions offer outstanding opportunities for investigating the impacts of combined abiotic stresses on plant physiological processes given their significant differences in terms of the ecological environment in high-elevation areas, low...
The conservation of medicinal plants, particularly endangered or endemic species, is of the utmost importance, especially in light of inevitable climate change and its consequences. Species inhabiting high altitudes adopt exceptional defense mechanis...
Vegetation restoration on slopes is generally difficult, especially in high altitude areas since the environment has dramatically changing weather conditions that are not suitable for plant growth. In this study, the potential of film mulching for ve...
Ecological restoration of slopes in high-altitude areas is usually difficult. Gramineae species are widely used in slope vegetation restoration due to their strong adaptability and rapid growth. In the process of ecological slope protection, increasi...
Most endemic plant species have limited altitudinal ranges. At higher altitudes, they are subjected to various environmental stresses. However, these plants use unique defense mechanisms at high altitudes as a convenient survival strategy. The change...
By analyzing the growth and development of different types of strawberry plants, the researchers were able to evaluate the interference with the horticultural potential of the cultivar ‘Albion’. The five treatments that have been studied...
There are many high-altitude plants such as Skimmia anquetilia that are unexplored for their possible medicinal values. The present study was conducted to examine the antioxidant activities of Skimmia anquetilia (SA) using in vitro and in vivo models...
Despite ongoing vaccination programs against COVID-19 around the world, cases of infection are still rising with new variants. This infers that an effective antiviral drug against COVID-19 is crucial along with vaccinations to decrease cases. A poten...
Background: Plants of Nitraria, belonging to the Zygophyllaceae family, are not only widely distributed at an altitude of about 1000 m but also at an altitude of about 3000 m, which is a rare phenomenon. However, little is known about the effect of a...
Global warming has driven the expansion of cultivated land to high-altitude areas. Intensive vegetable production, which is generally considered to be a high economic value and high environmental risk system, has expanded greatly in high-altitude mou...
Environmental stress at high altitudes drives the development of distinct adaptive mechanisms in plants. However, studies exploring the genetic adaptive mechanisms of high-altitude plant species are scarce. In the present study, we explored the high-...
In mountain ecosystems, climate change can cause spatiotemporal shifts, impacting the composition of communities and altering fundamental biotic interactions, such as those involving flower-visiting arthropods. On of the main problems in assessing th...
Magnolia sieboldii K. Koch is a relict plant species that survived in the glacial period. The species possesses significant esthetic value and is predominantly found in vertically stratified high-altitude forests located in southern China. The primar...
A phytosociological analysis of the plant communities in high-altitude volcanic caves of Mount Etna (Sicily), based on literature data and unpublished relevés, is presented. A total of 147 phytosociological relevés were processed and an...
Kingdonia uniflora is an endangered alpine herb that is distributed along an altitudinal gradient. The unique traits and important phylogenetic position make K. uniflora an ideal model for exploring how endangered plants react to altitude variation....
The extreme conditions (e.g., cold, low oxygen, and strong ultraviolet radiation) of the high mountains provide an ideal natural laboratory for studies on speciation and the adaptive evolution of organisms. Up to now, few genome/transcriptome-based s...
High-altitude tree populations are exposed to severe natural environmental conditions. Among abiotic factors, variable temperatures, early frosts, and high radiation are the factors affecting tree growth at high altitudes. Fagus sylvatica L. exhibits...
Parnassius butterflies have significantly advanced our understanding of biogeography, insect–plant interactions, and other fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. However, to date, little is known about the gene expression patterns related...
Background/Objectives: Paeonia delavayi, a high-altitude-adapted medicinal and oil-producing plant, exhibits broad elevational distribution. Understanding how environmental factors regulate its growth across altitudes is critical for optimizing...
Highland urban wetlands are primarily located in high-altitude, low-temperature regions, possessing unique ecological and regulatory functions. Following ecological restoration and supplemented by artificial interventions, wetlands in Xining City pla...
The irrigation of crops represents 70% of the world’s water use. For crops grown in high-altitude tropical climates, due to the decrease in rainfall with increasing altitude, along with the effects of global warming, it is necessary to propose...
Understanding how species adapt to extreme environments is an extension of the main goals of evolutionary biology. While alpine plants are an ideal system for investigating the genetic basis of high-altitude adaptation, genomic resources in these spe...
Plants in high-altitude habitats are exposed to severe environmental stressors, including extreme temperatures and irradiation, which can have wide-ranging effects on changes of secondary-metabolite profiles in higher plants. Altitude-related variati...
Asarum (Asarum sieboldii Miq. f. seoulense (Nakai) C. Y. Cheng et C. S. Yang) is a medicinal plant that contains asarinin and sesamin, which possess extensive medicinal value. The adaptation and distribution of Asarum’s plant growth are signifi...
Alpine plants face intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation in high-altitude ecosystems, necessitating adaptive mechanisms like tyrosinase-mediated phenolic metabolism for UV protection. This study aimed to characterize the phenolic profile of Corallodiscu...
Exploring the changes in plant leaf functional traits in response to altitude across various altitudinal gradients of climax communities in karst regions can elucidate the characteristics of survival strategy adaptations among plant communities. This...
Large industrial plants, power plants, and combined heat and power plants are popularly believed to be the main sources of point emissions, affecting both local and global air quality. This is because these installations emit significant amounts of p...
High-altitude peatlands in the Andes, i.e., bofedales, play an essential role in alpine ecosystems, regulating the local water balance and supporting biodiversity. This is particularly true in semiarid Chile, where bofedales develop near the altitudi...
This study sought to investigate the vertical distribution pattern of the soil faunal community in a low-altitude mountain area. On 8 July 2022, a low hill was selected as the study area, and soil arthropods were collected through traps. The leaf lit...
The natural ventilation model plays a crucial role in greenhouse environmental control. It has been extensively studied by previous researchers, but it is limited to low-altitude areas. This study established a numerical model of single-span plastic...
Potentilla bifurca is widely distributed in Eurasia, including the Tibetan Plateau. It is a valuable medicinal plant in the Tibetan traditional medicine system, especially for the treatment of diabetes. This study investigated the functional gene pro...
Agricultural greenhouses (AGs) are an effective solution to address the growing demand for vegetables despite limited cropland, yet significant soil quality problems often accompany them, particularly in high-altitude regions. However, the effects of...
Saussurea involucrata, a rare and endangered medicinal plant of the Asteraceae family, is primarily distributed in high-altitude rocky slopes and meadows at elevations of 2400–4100 m. In nature, this herb endures various abiotic stresses, inclu...
Desert plants develop unique functional traits and resource utilization strategies under environmental stress, among which, water and nitrogen utilization strategies are the key resource utilization strategies for desert plants. Research on plant wat...
Enzymatic synthesis of specific active substances is an important foundation for biological adaptations to various stresses. In this study, we investigated the metabolic response of the medicinal herb Artemisia argyi to UV-B radiation through transcr...
This paper analyzes the results of the automatic (in situ) recording of the regional transport of pollutants from the large regional coal-fired thermal power plants in the atmospheric boundary layer above the southern basin of Lake Baikal. Due to hig...
Saussurea involucrata, an endangered medicinal plant, thrives in high mountain regions at altitudes ranging from 3500 to 5000 m. Being a plant that grows at high altitudes means it possesses unique physiological mechanisms and stress-responsive genes...
The quality of red lettuce is based on the content of anthocyanin pigments, and the content of these pigments increases when the plant receives ultraviolet radiation. Lettuce crops are increasingly being grown in greenhouses to provide better quality...
Ecological restoration has great significance on cut rock slopes, which are considered extremely degraded habitats. The development of moss–soil crusts on cut rock slopes as a critical pathway to ecological restoration in mountain areas has bee...
Soil microbial nutrient limitation is of great significance for the maintenance of soil fertility, the sustainability of plant growth, and the stability of the alpine meadow ecosystems, which are particularly sensitive to global climate change. This...
Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), a plant widely distributed in temperate and subtropical regions, is valued for its bioactive compounds and diverse health benefits. Known for its remarkable adaptability to various environmental conditions, hawthorn thrives...
Climate change significantly stresses cold-adapted and stenothermic plant species in high-altitude mountain ecosystems. The diverse plant species at elevations ranging from 1324 to 2527 m above mean sea level (AMSL) provide an ideal setting for inves...
Orchard grass intercropping offers a promising strategy to mitigate forage scarcity and boost fruit yield. However, its applicability in high-altitude regions such as the Xizang Plateau remains poorly understood. During the four-year experiment, the...
This study evaluated the pollutant removal efficiency of two decentralized wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) located in the high-altitude southern Andes of Ecuador, Acchayacu and Churuguzo, from 2015 to 2024. Acchayacu previously operated using an...
Background/Objectives: Soroseris hookeriana, a Tibetan medicinal plant endemic to the high-altitude Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, possesses significant pharmacological value but lacks fundamental genomic characterization. This study aims to generate a...
The water pump scheduling problem is an optimisation model that determines which water pumps will be turned on or off at each time period over a given time horizon for a given water supply system. This problem has received considerable attention in m...
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