Introduction Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) serves as a key indicator for assessing the green development performance of an industry. This study investigates the GTFP of China's aquaculture industry and its determinants, using panel data from 29 freshwater provinces and 9 coastal provinces over the period 2009–2023. Methods The global Super‑SBM model and the GML index are employed to measure GTFP and analyze its influe...

Introduction Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) serves as a key indicator for assessing an industry's green development performance. Methods Based on panel data from nine coastal provinces in China from 2013 to 2023, this study constructs an evaluation indicator system for the Green Total Factor Productivity of China’s mariculture industry, conducts measurements, analyzes its temporal evolution characteristics, reveals its...

Speciation is a continuous process driven by barriers to gene flow. Based on genome‐wide SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) of 190 toads from 31 sampling sites of Scutiger boulengeri complex, we found evidence for monophyly which represented a continuous speciation process of at least six lineages in S. boulengeri , which radiated and exhibited varying degrees of divergence and gene flow. The SNP‐based phylogenetic tree wa...

Aims Plant pH is a functional trait deserving more attention than the current few studies at local scales, given its roles in nutrient cycling and physiological processes. How plant pH varies and is regulated at large scales remain unclear. Here we explore the biogeography of foliar pH and the potential drivers. Location East–west transect of northern China with increasing aridity westward. Time period 2016–2017. Major taxa Sp...