Nearly 90% of the 390 million ha of grasslands in northern China are degraded.'Grazing
exclusion'has been implemented as a nature‐based solution to rejuvenate degraded …

Litter quality determines the decomposability of litter and the proportion of recalcitrant
residues, which in turn can affect the accumulation of soil organic carbon (SOC). However …

Background Soil aggregate-size classes and microbial communities within the aggregates
are important factors regulating the soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover. However, the …

A cadaver and dead plant organic matter, or litter, are rich energy sources that undergo a
complex decomposition process, which impact the surrounding environmental microbiota …

Biogeographic separation has been an important cause of faunal and floral distribution;
however, little is known about the differences in soil microbial communities across islands. In …

Thousand Island Lake (TIL) is a typical fragmented landscape and an ideal model to study
ecological effects of fragmentation. Partial fragments of the mitochondrial cytochrome …

Due to habitat fragmentation, the loss of species diversity has been extensively studied. On
the contrary, the effects of habitat fragmentation on functional diversity is still poorly …

Field experiments were conducted to study the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM
fungi, Glomus mosseae) and N rate (250, 260 and 270 kg/hm2) on rice-straw nitrogen (N) …