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2020-07-23Nitrogen deposition differentially changes the carbon metabolisms of dominant woody species in an evergreen broad-leaved forestAuthor: LIU Nan E-mail: liunan@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138738 Online time: 17 April 2020 Human activities have significantly increased atmospheric nitrogen emissions and nitrogen deposition, such that atmospheric nitrogen deposition has become a major focus of environmental science and policy. Because nitrogen deposition is a global problem, the effects of nitrogen deposition on forest plants have been widely studied. The effects of...Read More
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2020-07-22Vegetation has different sustainable potential regeneration in different areas on tropical coral islandAuthor: HUANG Yao E-mail: huangyao.ok@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106689 Online time: 9 July 2020 Vegetation is integral to coral reef as it facilitates accretion and stabilization, previous research proposed that vegetation was affected by habitat heterogeneity across a narrow, but clear environmental gradient. However, the restoration potential of vegetation and relationship to habitat is unclear.Read More
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2020-07-22Nitrogen deposition differentially affect the metabolism of Psychotria rubra, a dominant shrub species in an evergreen broad-leaved forestAuthor: LIU Nan E-mail: liunan@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138183 Online time: 25 March 2020 Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have significantly increased atmospheric nitrogen emissions and nitrogen deposition back to the earth surface. With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, South China has experienced one of the highest rates of global nitrogen deposition. In addition to experiencing a very h...Read More
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2020-07-14Plant residue amendment enhances nitrate immobilization by fungi and bacteria in soilAuthor: LI Xiaobo E-mail: lixiaobo@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114450 Online time: 21 May 2020 Plant residue incorporation improves soil microbial nitrate immobilization, which in turn alleviates nitrate accumulation, thereby improving N retention capacity and reducing N losses. However, how and why the respective nitrate immobilization by fungi and bacteria, which are dominant microorganisms in soil, responds to residue addition remains ...Read More
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2020-07-07SCBG researchers revealed the responses of soil communities to the interaction between N deposition and increased precipitationAuthor: LIU Tao E-mail: liutao211@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107869 Online time: 28 May 2020 Chinese researchers have revealed that the positive effects of nitrogen (N) deposition on nematode communities may be cancelled out by increased precipitation in temperate forest ecosystems, when elevated N deposition and increased precipitation occur simultaneously.Read More
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2020-06-01Responses of the structure and health of plant and soil organism communities to canopy and understory nitrogen additions under a mature subtropical forestAuthor: TIAN Yang E-mail: tianyang16@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137438 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105459 Online time: 20 February 2020 The increase in human activity has caused a severe increase in the emission of N to the atmosphere and the effects of N deposition have been especially severe in tropical and subtropical areas. Forest was served as the main acceptor of atmospheric N deposition, and its responses have received wide interest. The majority of experiments now add N ...Read More
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2020-06-01Variations of leaf eco-physiological traits in relation to environmental factors during forest successionAuthor: HAN Taotao E-mail: hantt@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106511 Online time: 27 May 2020 Changes in leaf physiological traits and shifts in their relationships are expected to reveal plant ecological strategies during succession, and how they interact with the changing environment are thought to be useful in forest restoration and management. Although the relationships between leaf physiological traits and other structural and chemi...Read More
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2020-05-22Soil organic carbon turnover following forest restoration in south China: Evidence from stable carbon isotopesAuthor: XIONG Xin E-mail: xiongx@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117988 Online time: 21 February 2020 As over half of the world’s tropical forests are reforested or afforested, understanding the resilience of carbon (C) pool in these forests is critical for global C balance. Studies regarding the influence of afforestation on soil C stocks have been conducted extensively in recent years. However, how forest restoration affects soil C turnover i...Read More