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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
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2020-05-07Alternative pathway to trans-cinnamic acid from L-phenylalanine in plants was uncoveredAuthor: zenglanting@scbg.ac.cn E-mail: ZENG Lanting Paper link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b07467 Online time: 20 February 2020 A recent research paper published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry describes an alternative pathway to the formation of trans-cinnamic acid (CA) derived from L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) in tea (Camellia sinensis) plants and other plants.Read More
The researchers from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences found that CA i... -
2020-05-06Shifts in fungal biomass and activities of hydrolase and oxidative enzymes explain different responses of litter decomposition to nitrogen additionAuthor: TAN Xiangping E-mail: tanxp@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00374-020-01434-3 Online time: 25 January 2020 Exogenous nitrogen (N) input is a key factor affecting litter decomposition. Yet our mechanistic understanding of microbial community and EE response to N addition and their associated effect on litter decomposition is still limited.Read More
In a research article recently published in the journal Biology and Fertility of Soils, researchers from Sout... -
2020-04-30Autumn phenology controls the temporal change in growing season length of herbaceous plants on the Qinghai–Tibetan PlateauAuthor: SUN Qingling E-mail: sunqingling@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107896 Online time: 7 January 2020 Plant phenology is a sensitive bio-indicator of climate and natural environment change. Shift in plant phenology and its response to climate change on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) have been a hot research topic during the recent decade. On the QTP, previous phenological studies have shown an overall lengthening trend of the growing season ...Read More
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2020-04-28Forest canopy maintains the soil community composition under elevated nitrogen depositionAuthor: LIU Tao E-mail: liutao211@mails.ucas.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107733 Online time: 27 January 2020 Nitrogen deposition has a significant effect on the forest ecosystem community composition in the context of global change. However, traditional nitrogen deposition researches are generally based on understory nitrogen addition, ignoring the role of canopy process.Read More
Considering that the forest canopy can intercept and utilize a considerable p... -
2020-04-26N deposition increase soil carbon sequestration in subtropical forestDeveloping an understanding of the response of soil organic carbon (SOC) to N deposition is critical to quantify and predict the terrestrial carbon uptake under increasing N deposition in the future. However, results from field studies on the response of SOC content and composition to N deposition are highly variable across different ecosystems....Read More
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2020-04-26Native aquatic macrophytes have high removal potentiality of eutrophic wastewaterAuthor: WANG Faguo, XU Lei E-mail: wangfg@scbg.ac.cn, xulei@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/3/1103; https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/23/4663. Online time: 10 February 2020 Eutrophication caused by high concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in water has become a global environmental problem. At present, exotic and even invasive plants have been used extensively in phytoremediation water systems in China, such as Eichhornia crassipes, Pistia stratiotes and Myriophyllum aquaticum, which can easily be taken into th...Read More