166 Results Found

This study aims to investigate the impact of diverse forest stand types and soil depths on soil ecological stoichiometry characteristics, shedding light on nutrient limitations and cycling patterns within the mid-subtropical forest ecosystem in south...

Soil microorganisms play an important role in regulating a variety of ecological functions. In recent years, the research on ecological restoration after mining has made people more aware of the importance of microbial diversity to ecosystem restorat...

Severe cadmium contamination poses a serious threat to food security and human health. Plant–microbial combined remediation represents a potential technique for reducing heavy metals in soil. The main objective of this study is to explore the r...

It is important to maintain soil ecosystem function and ecological balance stability. This study uses ecological stoichiometry to ascertain relational constraints of soil nutrient (i.e., carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), etc.) cycling mechani...

The present study aim is to elucidate the effect and influencing mechanism of land use change on soil C, N, and P stoichiometric characteristics, soil enzyme activity and the microbial community in the karst ecosystem of southwest China. The three ty...

The distribution characteristics of the microbial community in rhizosphere soils of different altitudinal gradients were explored to uncover ecological factors affecting microbial community composition. In this study, the community variations of bact...

The development of China’s manganese (Mn) industries has caused severe water and soil pollution, threatening ecological and human health. Microbes are usually regarded as an important indicator of environmental pollution assessment. However, th...

Micro-organisms play important roles in promoting soil ecosystem restoration, but much of the current research has been limited to changes in microbial community structure in general, and little is known regarding the more sensitive and indicative mi...

Techniques such as intercropping and minimum tillage improve soil quality, including soil microbial activity, which stimulates the efficient use of soil resources by plants. However, the effects of such practices in soil under citrus orchards have no...

Soil microorganisms play pivotal roles in terrestrial ecological processes. However, how soil microbial biomass and community characteristics respond to changes in land utilization in karst regions remains largely unknown. The present study investiga...

Soil microbial communities play an important role in driving diverse ecosystem functions and ecological processes and are the main driving force for maintaining biogeochemical cycles. To investigate the effects of nitrogen fertilizer addition on soil...

The cost effectiveness of using exogenous phosphorus to remediate heavy metals in soil, which would alter the structure of the soil microbial community, had been widely acknowledged. In the present study, phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) technology was...

Exploring the structural characteristics of arid soil microbial communities and their assembly mechanisms is important for understanding the ecological characteristics of arid zone soils and promoting ecological restoration. In this study, we used Il...

The soil microbial community influences and maintains soil quality and health. Leguminous plants are widely used in forestry due to their nitrogen-fixing ability, significantly improving soil quality. However, there are few studies on the effects of...

The ecological interface between grasslands and farmlands forms a critical landscape component, significantly contributing to the stability and functioning of ecosystems within the agro-pastoral transition zone of northern China. Nevertheless, the va...

The rhizosphere serves as a critical interface for plant–soil–microorganism interactions. Rhizosphere soil refers to the soil directly adhering to root surfaces, while non-rhizosphere soil denotes the surrounding soil not in direct contac...

Soil microbial communities are an important part of ecosystems that possess the capability to improve ecosystem services; however, several aspects of the ecology of forest soil bacterial communities are still unknown. Here, we investigated the impact...

The effect of afforestation in infertile mountainous areas is closely related to the soil ecological environment. Soil enzyme activities and the structure and functions of microbial communities are core indicators reflecting soil quality. Clarifying...

Due to the problems of relatively fragile stability, the quality of soil in the drip-irrigated agricultural ecosystem has high spatial heterogeneity and experiences significant degradation. We conducted a two-year field plot study (2021–2022) i...

Soil health is typically evaluated using physical, chemical, and biological parameters. However, identifying cost-effective and interpretable metrics remains a challenge. The effectiveness of ecological outcome verification (EOV) in predicting soil h...

Moso bamboo expansion is common across the world. The expansion of moso bamboo into adjacent forests altered plant and soil characteristics. While the community structure of soil fungi and bacteria plays an important role in maintaining the function...

Biochar, a late-model environmental functional material, has been widely applied in environmental remediation, agricultural production, and energy utilization due to its excellent characteristics such as porosity and high specific surface area. In re...

Anthropogenic overexploitation poses significant threats to the ecosystems that surround mining sites, which also have tremendous negative impacts on human health and society safety. The technological capacity of the ecological restoration of mine si...

In response to the significant ecological damage caused by unsustainable mining practices in the Qilian Mountains, ecological restoration projects have been undertaken in recent years. Analyzing the changes in soil microbial communities during the re...

Farmland land consolidation can effectively improve the quality of farmland soil and the agricultural production level, and can effectively guarantee farmland ecology and food security, which has been widely used in the world. A large number of studi...

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are ubiquitous in the environment, with previous studies mainly focusing on the terrestrial ecosystem, which is prone to higher antibiotic application. However, the characteristics, distribution pattern, and driving...

The “ecological ditch” (eco-ditch) is an effective measure used to alleviate agricultural non-point-source pollution. However, information is lacking about the continuous transport characteristics of internal and external nitrogen and pho...

To investigate the characteristics of rhizosphere soil microbial communities associated with Schisandra sphenanthera across different altitudinal gradients and to reveal the driving factors of microbial community dynamics, this study collected rhizos...

Plastic film mulching, widely used in agriculture, leads to microplastic (MP) pollution in soils. While biodegradable polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) films may offer a solution, their impacts on subsurface soils and microorganisms remain un...

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...

Soil microorganisms promote material transformation and energy flow in the entire ecological environment and play a key role in the stability and development of grassland ecosystems. Studies on the impacts of grazing on the soil microbial community a...

The Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains ecotone exhibits transitional characteristics between northern coniferous forests and cold-temperate mixed coniferous-broadleaf forests. However, it remains unknown how vegetation characteristics and soil prop...

Soil microbial taxa have different functional ecological characteristics that influence the direction and intensity of plant–soil feedback responses to changes in the soil environment. However, the responses of soil microbial survival strategie...

Soil viruses, ubiquitous and abundant biological entities that are integral to microbial communities, exert pivotal impacts on ecosystem functionality, particularly within carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles, through intricate interactions with bacter...

Soil erosion is prevalent in karst areas, but few studies have compared the differences in the drivers for soil microbial communities among karst ecosystems with different soil depths, and most studies have focused on the local scale. To fill this re...

Mofettes or natural CO2 springs release large amounts of geogenic CO2 at ambient temperature, leading to long-term soil hypoxia in these extreme ecosystems. Thus, they can serve as natural long-term experiments in ecology and evolution and other envi...

The structural characteristics of the rhizosphere soil’s microbial community is crucial to understanding the ecological function of mangroves. However, the mechanism influencing mangrove plants in soil microbial communities has yet to be determ...

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, which boasts unique hydrological conditions and rich biodiversity. In this study, metagenomics technology was used to sequence the microbial genome of soil samples S1 (sedimentary), S2 (semi-submer...

Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. is considered an important medicinal herb with extremely high economic value and medicinal value due to its various effects, including anti-oxidation, sedative action, hepatoprotection, and invigorating blood circulation....

Crop diversification is pivotal in sustainable agriculture, influencing soil microbial communities and soil nutrient cycling functions. Yet, the impacts of incorporating medicinal plants into crop diversification strategies on the functional characte...

The grazing activity of animals has a significant role on the environmental modification of land. In the coastal wetlands of eastern China, long-term David deer (Elaphurus davidianus) grazing has caused the degradation of various ecological elements...

The reclamation of mine dump is largely centered on the role played by microorganisms. However, the succession of microbial community structure and function in ecological restoration of the mine soils is still poorly understood. In this study, soil s...

Wetlands and meadows are two terrestrial ecosystems that are strikingly distinct in terms of hydrological conditions and biogeochemical characteristics. Wetlands generally feature saturated soils, high accumulation of organic matter, and hypoxic envi...

Extensive coal mining causes significant ecological and environmental impacts on the local ecosystem, especially on the terrestrial ecosystem. Mining activities induce the degradation of topsoil physico–chemical characteristics and the successi...

Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is unique acidic wastewater produced in the process of iron mining and utilization. The soil and wetland contaminated by AMD in a mining area in Ma’anshan were studied in this paper. The physical and chemical characteri...

Medicinal plant intercropping is a new intercropping method. However, as a new intercropping model, the influence of intercropping of alfalfa on microorganisms has not been clarified clearly. In this study, the composition and diversity of microbial...

Peat soil is a significant global carbon storage pool, accounting for one-third of the global soil carbon pool. Its greenhouse gas emissions have a significant impact on climate change. Seasonal freeze–thaw cycles are common natural phenomena i...

Intercropping systems can flexibly use resources such as sunlight, heat, water, and nutrients in time and space, improve crop yield and land utilization rates, effectively reduce continuous cropping obstacles and the occurrence of diseases and insect...

Physical and chemical alterations may affect the microbiota of soils as much as the specific presence of toxic pollutants. The relationship between the microbial diversity patterns and the soil quality in a Mediterranean context is studied here to te...

Soil microorganisms are a crucial component of forest ecosystems because of their involvement in the decomposition of organic matter and nutrient cycling and their influence on plant growth and development. Soil type is a fundamental characteristic o...