Rising temperature associated with climate change may have substantial impacts on forest tree functions. Researchers from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a 7-year warming experiment in sub-tropical China by translocating important native forest tree species (...

Increasing evidence suggests that high biomass and litterfall do not necessarily bring about soil organic carbon (SOC) sinks, contrary to the assumption that higher litterfall implies higher SOC when designing carbon models. Previous studies on carbon input might miss some key processes which con...

Karst landscapes are widely distributed and account for nearly 15% of the world’s land surface. The karst regions of China cover 1.9 million km2 and are among the largest karst regions in the world. The average density of karst caves is 6.4/km2 in China. Plant diversity, habitat properties, and ...

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition continuously increases in decades under human activities, which exerts huge impacts on terrestrial forest ecosystems.
　　Researchers led by Dr. KUANG Yuanwen from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that nitrogen addition ...

Biological nitrogen (N) fixation, a key process of N conversion performed by symbiotic or free-living N-fixing organisms, plays an important role in terrestrial N cycling and represents a key driver of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP). Despite the importance of N fixation in terrestrial...