Soil contamination by potentially toxic metals (PTMs) has become a public concern in China. However, the distribution and controlling factors of soil PTM fractions remain largely unknown, limiting our ability to assess their health risks and thus to...
Water retention availability remains a primary constraint on both vegetation restoration and agricultural productivity across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Attapulgite (ATP) has considerable potential as a soil amendment for improving soil water retenti...
Cadmium (Cd) pollution has attracted global attention because it not only jeopardizes soil microbial ecology and crop production, but also threatens human health. As of now, microbe-assisted phytoremediation has proven to be a promising approach for...
Soil carbohydrates and glomalin-related soil proteins (GRSPs), as important components of soil organic matter, are the essential basis for maintaining soil aggregate stability. They interact with each other and influence each other. Exploring the rel...
The climate-induced changes in soil water patterns pose a serious threat to subtropical plantations. Mixed species stands have been advocated as an efficient way to enhance ecosystem stability. However, little is known about their possible impact on...
The cultivation of Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook. (Chinese fir) plays a crucial role in enhancing ecological security through water resource preservation and carbon sequestration in China. The biotic and abiotic environmental conditions vary a...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (N) fractions greatly affect soil health and quality. This study explored the effects of wheat straw incorporation on Chinese rice paddy fields with four treatments: (1) a control (CK), (2) a mineral NPK fertili...
Soil metal contamination poses potential risks to ecosystem health, yet its vertical distribution and impacts on microbial communities in protected wildlife habitats remain poorly understood. This study investigated the vertical variation (0–80...
While soil warming has been demonstrated to significantly alter the processes of the nitrogen cycle in forest ecosystems, how leaf-available nitrogen, representing the primary forms of nitrogen absorbed by plants, responds to such thermal alterations...
Chinese Cordyceps is a well-known medicinal larva-fungus symbiote distributed in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas. Previous studies have involved its artificial cultivation but commercial cultivation is difficult to perform because the...
With increasing nitrogen application in soil, the problem of nitrate accumulation in soil and vegetable bodies has become increasingly serious. In this study, Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) Strain11 was isolated and studied for its effects in combin...
With the continuous increase in plantation areas, the reduction of natural forest areas, and the unreasonable management of plantations by human beings, the service function of forest ecosystems has gradually reduced. Therefore, close-to-natural fore...
Soil quality evaluation provides necessary and fundamental data and information for understanding the current situation of the soils and for promoting the sustainable use of land resources. In this study, soil quality was assessed by developing a str...
Straw incorporation is known as an environmentally friendly agricultural practice that can effectively enhance soil nutrient contents and crop yields; its potential to suppress soil-borne disease has also been reported in recent years. Here, we perfo...
Forest management, especially understory vegetation conversion, significantly affects soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and soil C and N pools. However, it remains unclear what effect renovating understory vegetation has on GHG emissions and soil C...
Cadmium (Cd) pollution poses a growing threat to rice production in acidic paddies. In south China, a common agricultural practice involves the combined utilization of Chinese milk vetch (M) and rice straw (R). However, it is unclear how the addition...
Chrysanthemum morifolium, ‘Huangju’, is a golden chrysanthemum used for making tea. Limited by land resources, the continuous cropping of Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Huangju’ has led to serious soil issues, which affects its yie...
Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) is one of the most important fast-growing timber species in southern China and plays a critical role in regional carbon sequestration and timber production. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a key component of the ter...
The introduction of understory vegetation can increase species diversity and potential productivity in forest ecosystems, which is considered a viable solution to the global problem of declining soil quality caused by deteriorating climatic condition...
Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) is a fast-growing evergreen conifer with high-quality timber and is an important reforestation and commercial tree species in southern China. Planting density affects the productivity of Chinese fir...
Successive cropping frequently causes a decline in Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) biomass, a problem intricately tied to soil nutrient shifts and microbial processes. This research investigates the mechanisms governing biomass carbon partition...
Forests undergo a long-term development process from young to mature stages, yet the variations in soil nutrients, enzyme activities, microbial diversity, and community composition related to forest ages are still unclear. In this study, the characte...
Soil nutrients are of great significance for maintaining forest growth and ensuring land productivity. A comprehensive scientific evaluation of soil fertility is helpful for sustainable forest management. There are many uncertainties in traditional e...
Crop rotation can improve soil properties and is one of the important measures to prevent soil-borne diseases. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different preceding crops on clubroot disease in Chinese cabbage and soil microorganisms, to pr...
With the development of sustainable agriculture, trials on the benefits of the application of organic fertilizers around the world have been conducted. Herein, we investigated the impact of the pure chemical fertilizers (CFs) combined with organic fe...
Increasing nitrogen (N) deposition alters the availability of soil nutrients and is likely to intensify phosphorus (P) limitations, especially in P-limited tropical and subtropical forests. Soil microorganisms play vital roles in carbon (C) and nutri...
The damage caused by soil erosion to global ecosystems is undeniable. However, traditional research methods often do not consider the unique soil characteristics specific to China and rainfall intensity variability in different periods on vegetation,...
To investigate the effects of co-application of KMnO4-modified biochar and organic fertilizer on the physicochemical properties, carbon and nitrogen content, and growth of Chinese cabbage in acidic red soil. Using typical acidic red soil from Yunnan...
The growing demand for wood products and ecosystem services in Chinese fir plantations has led to longer rotation ages and density control practices, raising concerns about their impact on soil fertility. This study assessed soil fertility of Chinese...
Winter fallow fields are widely distributed in southern China, where legume–grass mixtures are considered a useful approach for improving land-use efficiency and forage productivity while maintaining agroecosystem functions. Previous studies on...
The application of green manure is considered a sustainable management approach to improve soil quality and crop yield in agricultural production. However, few studies have focused on the effects on soil properties and the microbial community when va...
Soil nutrient and fertility assessments provide a direct measure for evaluating forest management effects. In this study, we examined soil nutrient content in Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations under four reconstruction patterns:...
Soil enzyme activities regulate organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling and are widely used as indicators of microbial functioning and ecosystem processes. However, the mechanisms underlying their spatial heterogeneity, particularly the rol...
Soil moisture (SM) products derived from passive satellite missions are playing an increasingly important role in agricultural applications, especially crop monitoring and disaster warning. Evaluating the dependability of satellite-derived soil moist...
Enhanced nitrogen (N) deposition has shown significant impacts on forest greenhouse gas emissions. Previous studies have suggested that Chinese forests may exhibit stronger N2O sources and dampened CH4 sinks under aggravated N saturation. To gain a c...
This study aims to integrate multisource data to model the relative soil moisture (RSM) over the Chinese Loess Plateau in 2017 by stepwise multilinear regression (SMLR) in order to improve the spatial coverage of our previously published RSM. First,...
Biochar is a promising material for the improvement of soil quality. However, studies on biochar have mostly been carried out in laboratory conditions or have focused on agricultural aspects. The impacts of the application of biochar on soil characte...
Erosion-induced soil organic carbon (SOC) loss substantially affects the redistribution of global organic carbon. The Chinese Loess Plateau, the most severely eroded region on Earth, has experienced notable soil erosion mitigation over the last few d...
Soil multifunctionality is essential for the enhancement of soil carbon sequestration, but disturbances such as thinning practices can influence soil microbial activity and carbon cycling. Microbial residues, particularly microbial residue carbon (MR...
This study investigated the effects of planting density and site index on stand attributes and soil nutrients in mature Chinese fir [Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.] plantations across Fujian and Sichuan Provinces, elucidating the pathways thro...
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) nutrients have been regularly applied to improve productivity in intensively managed and short-rotation forest plantations in subtropical China. Under the constraint of the national policy of “carbon neutrality&r...
Knowing the effect of thinning on forest ecosystem services is an important aspect of sustainable forest management. This study analyzed the traditional thinning on tree growth and soil nutrients in the Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Ho...
Forest soils play a key role in the global carbon (C) pool and in mitigating climate change. The mechanisms by which understory and litter management affect soil organic C (SOC) concentrations are unclear in subtropical forests. We collected soils al...
Timely and effective estimation and monitoring of soil moisture (SM) provides not only an understanding of regional SM status for agricultural management or potential drought but also a basis for characterizing water and energy exchange. The apparent...
With the expansion of pure forest planting area and the increase in the number of rotations used, soil activity and plant productivity have significantly reduced. The functional diversity of soil microorganisms plays a vital role in forest health and...
The participation of a third party of the environmental service enterprise theoretically increases the level and efficiency of soil pollution control in China. However, Chinese-style fiscal decentralization may have a negative impact on the behaviors...
Cunninghamia lanceolata is an important species in plantations and is widely planted in sub-tropical regions of China because of its fast-growing and productive characteristics. However, the monoculture planting is carried out in the pursuit of econo...
The extent to which cricket frass placement and rate regulate fertility restoration and crop response in tropical acidic sandy soil remains insufficiently resolved. This greenhouse bioassay tested whether incorporated or surface-applied cricket frass...
Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient for plant function and growth and a key component of amino acids, which form the building blocks of plant proteins and enzymes. However, misuse and overuse of N can have many negative impacts on the ecosyste...
Fertilizer is extremely essential to increasing the yield of vegetables. However, excessively using fertilizers has had a negative impact on the yield and quality of vegetables as well as soil environment in recent years. Non-heading Chinese cabbage...
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