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 microorgani...

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.
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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 wid...

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 p...

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...