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N and P fertilization enhanced carbon decomposition function by shifting microbes towards an r-selected community in meadow grassland soils

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Applications of mineral nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizer to grasslands become more frequently in recent decade, aiming to improve the grass production.
Zhihui Wang, Zhirui Wang, Tianpeng Li, Cong Wang, Ning Dang, Ruzhen Wang, Yong Jiang, Hongyi Wang, Hui Li   +8 more
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Assessing Land Cover and Ecological Quality Changes in the Forest-Steppe Ecotone of the Greater Khingan Mountains, Northeast China, from Landsat and MODIS Observations from 2000 to 2018

Remote Sensing, 2022
Land cover changes are the main factors driving the evolution of regional ecological quality. These changes must be considered in the strategic formulation of regional or national ecological policies.
Fangxin Shi, Mingxing Liu, J. Qiu, Yali Zhang, H. Su, Xupeng Mao, Xin Li, Jiahui Fan, Junsong Chen, Yingying Lv, Wanggu Xu, Zhi Wang, Mingshi Li   +12 more
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Enhanced carbon acquisition and use efficiency alleviate microbial carbon relative to nitrogen limitation under soil acidification

Ecological Processes, 2021
Background Soil microbial communities cope with an imbalanced supply of resources by adjusting their element acquisition and utilization strategies.
Tianpeng Li, Ruzhen Wang, Jiangping Cai, Yani Meng, Zhirui Wang, Xue Feng, Heyong Liu, Ronald F. Turco, Yong Jiang   +8 more
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Soil inoculum identity and rate jointly steer microbiomes and plant communities in the field

ISME Communications, 2022
Inoculation with soil from different ecosystems can induce changes in plant and soil communities and promote the restoration of degraded ecosystems. However, it is unknown how such inoculations influence the plant and soil communities, how much inoculum ...
Xu Han, Yingbin Li, Yuhui Li, Xiaofang Du, Bing Li, Qi Li, T. Martijn Bezemer   +6 more
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Linking changes of forage production and digestibility with grassland community assembly under nitrogen enrichment

Ecological Processes, 2021
Background Forage production is the fundamental ecosystem service of grasslands. Although forage consumption occurs at community level, most studies focused on species-level changes of forage quality.
Xiao-Tao Lü, Zhuo-Yi Liu, Seeta Sistla, Guo-Jiao Yang, Yan-Yu Hu, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Shuang-Li Hou, Cong Ding   +7 more
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A floristic study of Garasmasar Mountains: Mazandaran Province, Iran [PDF]

Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023
Garasmasar mountainous area is located at 40 km southwest of Ramsar, west of Mazandaran Province, Iran with an altitude ranging from 1580 to 2850 m. The complicated topography and habitat heterogeneity led to the formation of diverse vegetation types in ...
Mohammad Saleh Aghajani, Roghayeh Oskoueiyan, Alireza Naqinezhad, Mahmoud Asadi, Fariba Serpooshan   +4 more
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Aridity thresholds of soil microbial metabolic indices along a 3,200 km transect across arid and semi-arid regions in Northern China [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Soil microbial processes are crucial for understanding the ecological functions of arid and semi-arid lands which occupy approximately 40% of the global terrestrial ecosystems.
Jianfeng Hou, Feike A. Dijkstra, Xiuwei Zhang, Chao Wang, Xiaotao Lü, Peng Wang, Xingguo Han, Weixin Cheng   +7 more
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Soil community richness and composition jointly influence the multifunctionality of soil along the forest-steppe ecotone

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Soils harbor an enormous organism which provide multiple ecosystem functions in the terrestrial ecosystem. However, the potential effects of soil biodiversity on soil multifunctionality (multiple ecosystem functions simultaneously provided by soil) have ...
Xiao-Fang Du, Han-Wen Liu, Ying-Bin Li, Bing Li, Xu Han, Yu-Hui Li, Mohammad Mahamood, Qi Li   +7 more
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Effect of grassland degradation on soil quality and soil biotic community in a semi-arid temperate steppe

Ecological Processes, 2020
Grasslands provide a number of ecosystem services for human society. Degradation of grasslands results in the loss of biodiversity and leads to the deterioration of ecosystem functions. In order to accurately assess the influence of grassland degradation
Xu Han, Yuhui Li, Xiaofang Du, Yingbin Li, Zhengwen Wang, Siwei Jiang, Qi Li   +6 more
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Spatiotemporal Changes and Driving Factors of Cultivated Soil Organic Carbon in Northern China's Typical Agro-Pastoral Ecotone in the Last 30 Years

Remote Sensing, 2021
In order to explore the spatiotemporal changes and driving factors of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China, we took Aohan banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as the study area, used the random forest
Liping Wang, Xiang Wang, Dian-ao Wang, Beisong Qi, Shufeng Zheng, Huanjun Liu, Chong Luo, Houxuan Li, Linghua Meng, Xiangtian Meng, Yihao Wang   +10 more
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