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Strategic inter-cropping for saline agriculture: quantifying the impact of Medicago sativa–Festuca arundinacea ratios on soil properties and crop performance

Frontiers in Plant Science
Soil salinization is an abiotic stress that hinders crop growth, agricultural productivity, and environmental protection. In this study, alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) were sown in seven inter-cropping ratios, with ...
Yuchen Sun, Yuchen Sun, Jiayu Shi, Jiayu Shi, Xindi Liu, Xindi Liu, Xindi Liu, Li Zhao, Guofeng Yang, Guofeng Yang, Guofeng Yang, Qibo Tao, Qibo Tao, Qibo Tao, Shangzhi Zhong, Shangzhi Zhong, Shangzhi Zhong, Qingping Zhang, Fuhong Miao, Fuhong Miao, Fuhong Miao   +20 more
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Negative impacts of plant diversity loss on carbon sequestration exacerbate over time in grasslands

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Positive relationships between plant species diversity and carbon attributes have been observed in grasslands, but synthesis studies of how plant diversity affects the carbon balance of grasslands and how the response ratio changes over time both remain ...
Chao Wang, Yujia Tang, Xiaona Li, Weiwei Zhang, Chunqiao Zhao, Cui Li   +5 more
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Global Nitrogen Deposition Promotes Carbon Sink Formation in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Nitrogen deposition alleviates ecosystem N limitation and enhances carbon sinks. Using 829 observations, we show 36% of deposited N is retained globally (39.15 Tg N yr−1), with distinct NHx and NOy contributions. This retention drives a terrestrial C sink of 0.88 Pg C yr−1 (25.48%), highlighting the importance of pool‐specific C:N stoichiometry ...
Lei Li, Mingyu Xie, Nan Jia, Li‐Dong Mo, Qiang Yu, Fanjiang Zeng, Xiangyi Li   +6 more
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Variations in Seed and Fruit Traits of the Rare and Endangered Chinese Plant Lilium tsingtauense Along Environmental Gradients

Ecology and Evolution
Lilium tsingtauense Gilg is a rare and endangered wild plant, but there is insufficient research on the environmental drivers of intraspecific variation in its seed and fruit traits.
Wanpei Lu, Anning Ding, Xiao Guo, Pulin Sun, Xinqiang Jiang, Jinming Yang, Hai Wang, Xuebin Song, Qingchao Liu   +8 more
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Summer Annual Variety Trial [PDF]

, 2016
Warm season grasses, such as sorghum x sudangrass crosses, sudangrass, and millet are high-yielding annuals that can provide quality forage in the hot summer months, when the cool season grasses that make up most pastures and hay meadows in the Northeast
Brigham, Nate, Cubins, Julija, Darby, Heather, Ziegler, Sara   +3 more
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Seasonal priority effects: Implications for invasion and restoration in California coastal sage scrub [PDF]

, 2010
Competition from exotic annual grasses (EAGs) threatens native plant communities in California. Coastal sage scrub communities have substantially diminished in area over the last century, in some instances by greater than 90%, while EAGs continue to ...
Claire E. Wainwright, Elsa E. Cleland
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Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Across China, grazing exclusion reaches the national mean soil organic carbon recovery benchmark sooner in high‐MAP regions (> 500 mm), but recovery is much slower where MAP < 300 mm. Scaling this strategy to 70% of China's degraded grasslands would sequester about 1.52 Pg of soil carbon over 10 years—roughly 17% of annual global fossil‐fuel emissions.
Bin Zhang, Chongzhi Sun, Dongmei Xue, Paul Christiaan Struik, Tongrui Zhang, Jiayue Liu, Tingting Xing, Ziyang Liu, Shiming Tang, Ke Jin   +9 more
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Dynamics of Mulatto Grass Regrowth Depending on Rotational Cattle Grazing Management

Grasses
This study was carried out to characterize the dynamics of forage accumulation during the regrowth of Mulatto grass submitted to rotational grazing strategies.
Carlindo Santos Rodrigues, Márcia Cristina Teixeira da Silveira, Leandro Martins Barbero, Salim Jacaúna Sousa Júnior, Veridiana Aparecida Limão, Guilherme Pontes Silva, Sila Carneiro da Silva, Domicio do Nascimento Júnior   +7 more
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The Faraday Scalpel: Electrochemical Nerve Lesioning Mechanisms Studied in Invertebrate Models

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Direct‐current produces nerve lesioning through discrete electrochemical reactions. Using hypoxia‐sensitive locust nerves and hypoxia‐tolerant leech nerves, we map three injury pathways: cathodic oxygen reduction, cathodic alkalization, and anodic chloride oxidation. These findings establish electrochemical lesioning—the “Faraday Scalpel”—as a precise,
Petra Ondráčková, Jan Švec, Marie Jakešová, Jiří Ehlich, Imrich Gablech, Eric Daniel Głowacki   +5 more
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Water Conservation Practices and Nitrogen Fertility for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Creeping Bentgrass Putting Greens

Grasses
Irrigation practices that conserve water use have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but may adversely affect turfgrass appearance.
Kristina S. Walker, Katy E. Chapman
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