The cliff environments are home to rare plant communities, as well as one of Virginia's most important peregrine falcon breeding grounds.

All the results showed that there were abundant plant species in the riparian plant communities on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain.

Water stress associated with drought-like conditions is a major factor limiting plant growth and impacts productivity of natural plant communities and agricultural crops.

Both native and range expanding plant communities produced most above-ground biomass in soils that were conditioned by plant communities distantly related to them.

Despite differences in bacterial, fungal and nematode communities between original and new range, soil origin did not influence the biomass production of plant communities.

Native bee species were only present at 0 and 50 m, pointing to the relevance of natural edge plant communities for their preservation.