Phytoremediation is acknowledged as a sustainable solution for mitigating heavy metals
contamination in soils yet faces challenges in transitioning from laboratory experiments to …

Much effort has been made to remediate the degraded mine lands that bring severe impacts
to the natural environments. However, it remains unclear what drives the recovery of …

Primary succession in mine tailings is a prerequisite for tailing vegetation. Microorganisms,
including bacteria, fungi, and protists, play an important role in this process in the driving …

Aims Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), a function performed by diazotrophic microbes,
plays an essential role in nitrogen (N) bioavailability in terrestrial ecosystems. However, little …

This study aimed to evaluate whether the improvement in soil conditions induced by the
vegetation spontaneously colonizing abandoned metal (loid) mine tailings from semiarid …

Competition can lead to the exclusion of bacterial taxa when there is a transitive relationship
among competitors with a hierarchy of competitive success. However, competition may not …

Direct revegetation is an important measure to immobilize heavy metals and improve the
microecological properties of metal smelting slag sites. However, the vertical distribution of …

Asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in the subsurface of mine soils is often neglected despite it
playing an important role in the ecological restoration of mine soils. Here, we examined the …

Background How to quickly predict and evaluate urban dust deposition is the key to the
control of urban atmospheric environment. Here, we focus on changes of plant reflectance …

While biodiversity is expected to enhance multiple ecosystem functions (EFs), the different
roles of multiple biodiversity dimensions remain difficult to disentangle without carefully …