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Open AccessSequestration of P fractions in the soils of an incipient ferralisation chronosequence on a humid tropical volcanic island
Phosphorus (P) is the limiting nutrient in many mature tropical forests. The ecological significance of declining P stocks as soils age is exacerbated by much of the remaining P being progressively sequestered...
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Open AccessStructure and Diversity of Soil Bacterial Communities in Offshore Islands
The effects of biogeographical separation and parent material differences in soil bacterial structure and diversity in offshore islands remain poorly understood. In the current study, we used next-generation s...
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Investigating suspended-sediment transport in a shallow lake using a three-dimensional hydrodynamic and sediment model
A three-dimensional, unstructured-grid hydrodynamic and suspended-sediment transport model was developed to simulate the temporal and spatial variations of suspended sediment and was applied to the subtropical...
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Community Structure of Active Aerobic Methanotrophs in Red Mangrove (Kandelia obovata) Soils Under Different Frequency of Tides
Methanotrophs are important microbial communities in coastal ecosystems. They reduce CH4 emission in situ, which is influenced by soil conditions. This study aimed to understand the differences in active aerobic ...
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Open Access13C NMR spectroscopy characterization of particle-size fractionated soil organic carbon in subalpine forest and grassland ecosystems
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and carbon (C) functional groups in different particle-size fractions are important indicators of microbial activity and soil decomposition stages under wildfire disturbances. This re...
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Open AccessImprovement in the biochemical and chemical properties of badland soils by thorny bamboo
Badland soils—which have high silt and clay contents, bulk density, and soil electric conductivity— cover a large area of Southern Taiwan. This study evaluated the amelioration of these poor soils by thorny ba...
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Open AccessInvasion of moso bamboo into a Japanese cedar plantation affects the chemical composition and humification of soil organic matter
Bamboo, which has dense culms and root rhizome systems, can alter soil properties when it invades adjacent forests. Therefore, this study investigated whether bamboo invasions can cause changes in soil organic...
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Factors Influencing Removal of Sewage Nitrogen Through Denitrification in Mangrove Soils
Mangrove forests as a coastal ecosystem can remove N in sewage effluent through the denitrification in mangrove soils. This research was designed to evaluate effects of temperature, salinity, nitrate, and orga...
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Open AccessElevation gradient of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations
Elevation trends of macro organisms have long been well studied. However, whether microbes also exhibit such patterns of elevation change is unknown. Here, we investigated the changes in bamboo forest soil bac...
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Erratum to: Soluble organic C and N and their relationships with soil organic C and N and microbial characteristics in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) plantations along an elevation gradient in Central Taiwan
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Open AccessGreat fraction of dissolved organic C and N in the primary per-humid Chamaecyparis forest soil
Labile organic matter plays a crucial role in a variety of forest functions, however, our understanding to its quality and quantity across various forests is limited, particularly primary forests. We investiga...
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Composition of bacterial communities in sand dunes of subtropical coastal forests
Coastal sand dunes are a hostile environment for forests. Little is known about the composition and diversity of the bacterial community in forest soils established on sand dunes. This study examines the soil ...
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Open AccessComparison of soil bacterial communities in a natural hardwood forest and coniferous plantations in perhumid subtropical low mountains
The bacterial community of forest soils is influenced by environmental disturbance and/or meteorological temperature and precipitation. In this study, we investigated three bacterial communities in soils of a ...
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Soluble organic C and N and their relationships with soil organic C and N and microbial characteristics in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) plantations along an elevation gradient in Central Taiwan
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), an important economic crop, is distributed from low- to medium-elevation mountains in Taiwan. Bamboo is a fast-growing herbaceous species with an extensive rhizome structure. W...
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Assessing the effects of severe rainstorm-induced mixing on a subtropical, subalpine lake
Severe rainstorms cause vertical mixing that modifies the internal dynamics (e.g., internal seiche, thermal structure, and velocity filed) in warm polymictic lakes. Yuan Yang Lake (YYL), a subtropical, subalpi...
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Changes in the Soil Bacterial Communities in a Cedar Plantation Invaded by Moso Bamboo
Moso bamboo is fast-growing and negatively allelopathic to neighboring plants. However, there is little information on the effects of its establishment and expansion to adjacent forest soil communities. To bet...
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Open AccessCharacterization of soil organic matter in perhumid natural cypress forest: comparison of humification in different particle-size fractions
The Chamaecyparis forest is a valuable natural resource in eastern Asia. The characteristics of soil humic substances and the influence of environmental factors in natural Chamaecyparis forests in subtropical mou...
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13C-NMR spectroscopy studies of humic substances in subtropical perhumid montane forest soil
We investigated soil organic matter in a forest of natural Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) under perhumid weather conditions in north central Taiwan. Humic substances along the transect from the summit and ...
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Real-time observation and prediction of physical processes in a typhoon-affected lake
A nowcasting system integrating observations and a numerical model was developed to better understand the spatial distributions and temporal variations in the dynamics of a small, subtropical lake occasionally...
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Effects of afforestation on soil organic matter characteristics under subtropical forests with low elevation
We selected sites of natural broad-leaved forests and adjacent coniferous plantations (Cunninghamia konishii and Calocedrus formosana of 30 and 80 years old, respectively) in central Taiwan to evaluate the effect...
