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Inundation depth controls leaf photosynthetic capacity by regulating leaf area and N content in an estuarine wetland
Estuarine wetlands are important carbon sinks, with plant photosynthesis being a vital component of this process. Changes in the inundation depth of wetlands could alter leaf photosynthesis and thus ecosystem ...
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Seven-year experimental warming decreases labile but not recalcitrant soil organic carbon fractions in a coastal wetland
The response of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions to climate warming plays an important role in influencing the fate of soil C stocks. Coastal wetlands have high C sequestration; however, complex water and s...
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Reclamation-oriented spatiotemporal evolution of coastal wetland along Bohai Rim, China
Coastal wetlands are located in the ecotone of interaction between the land surface and sea, and anthropogenic activities extensively interfere with these wetlands through the reclamation of large tidal wetlan...
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Pollution levels and toxicity risks of heavy metals in different reed wetland soils following channel diversion in the Yellow River Delta
The spatial distribution characteristics of soil elements in estuarine wetlands, which are important indicators for the health of estuaries, are affected by the dynamic changes of river flow paths. To reveal t...
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Short-term effects of soil moisture on soil organic carbon decomposition in a coastal wetland of the Yellow River Delta
Soil moisture remarkably influences soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition and is one of the key variables in ecological models influencing changes in soil carbon (C) storage. However, the mechanisms determin...
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Seedling adaptive characteristics of Phragmites australis to nutrient heterogeneity under salt stress using a split-root approach
Coastal wetlands are highly heterogeneous due to their location between land and ocean. Clonal plants living in coastal wetlands can adapt to nutrient and salinity heterogeneity through clonal integration. How...
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The effect of seed addition and litter removal on plant composition in a coastal marsh of the Yellow River Delta
A obvious feature of many coastal wetlands is the relatively low plant species richness across different plant zones. The mechanisms of low plant species richness in the coastal wetland still need to be invest...
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Ecological Restoration of Degraded Supratidal Wetland Based on Microtopography Modification: a Case Study in the Yellow River Delta
In the past two decades, the supratidal wetland in the Yellow River Delta experienced severe saline-alkalization and vegetation degradation. Restoration with enclosure-freshwater release mode has prevailed sin...
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Effects of Hydrological Connectivity on Snail Assemblages in the Intertidal Zone of Coastal Wetlands
Hydrological connectivity controls the patterns of invertebrate assemblages in wetland ecosystems. With degradation of intertidal wetlands, artificial freshwater release has become an important restoration tec...
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Effects of Drying-Rewetting Frequency on Vertical and Lateral Loss of Soil Organic Carbon in a Tidal Salt Marsh
Tidal salt marshes, as “blue carbon” ecosystems, play a critical role in mitigation of global climate change since their large soil organic carbon (SOC) pool. Drying-rewetting cycles induced by periodic tides ...
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Inundation depth affects ecosystem CO2 and CH4 exchange by changing plant productivity in a freshwater wetland in the Yellow River Estuary
Climate change (extreme rainfall) and water management activities have led to variation in hydrological regimes, especially inundation, which may alter the function and structure of wetlands as well as wetland...
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Open AccessSalt adaptability in a halophytic soybean (Glycine soja) involves photosystems coordination
Glycine soja is a halophytic soybean native to saline soil in Yellow River Delta, China. Photosystem I (PSI) performance and the interaction between photosystem II (PSII) and PSI remain unclear in Glycine soja un...
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Biochar promotes methane production at high acetate concentrations in anaerobic soils
Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas emitted by the industry, agriculture and natural processes such as degradation of organic matter in anaerobic waters and soils. Addition of biochars to soils has been inves...
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Effect of salinity on the decomposition of soil organic carbon in a tidal wetland
Climate warming and sea level rise have the potential to change the salt level of soil in tidal wetlands. And it is important to clarify the process and the mechanism of decomposition of soil organic carbon in...
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The relationship between leaf and ecosystem CO2 exchanges in a maize field
The relationship between leaf photosynthetic rate (A) in a vegetation canopy and the net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) over an entire ecosystem is not well understood. The aim of the present study is to assess the...
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Open AccessOrganic and inorganic carbon and their stable isotopes in surface sediments of the Yellow River Estuary
Studying the carbon dynamics of estuarine sediment is crucial to understanding of carbon cycle in the coastal ocean. This study is to evaluate the mechanisms regulating the dynamics of organic (TOC) and inorga...
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The ecological adaptability of Phragmites australis to interactive effects of water level and salt stress in the Yellow River Delta
Soil salinity and waterlogging are two major environmental problems in estuarine wetlands. To prevent the typical wetland plants from degradation by soil salinization and salt waterlogging and more effectively...
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Open AccessDistribution of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in coastal wetland soil related land use in the Modern Yellow River Delta
The delivery and distribution of nutrients in coastal wetland ecosystems is much related to the land use. The spatial variations of TOC, TN, NH4+-N, NO3−-N and TP and associated soil salinity with depth in 9 kind...
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Open AccessBacterial community structure and function shift along a successional series of tidal flats in the Yellow River Delta
Coastal ecosystems play significant ecological and economic roles but are threatened and facing decline. Microbes drive various biogeochemical processes in coastal ecosystems. Tidal flats are critical componen...
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Open AccessFractal features of soil particle size distribution in newly formed wetlands in the Yellow River Delta
The characteristic of particle size distribution (PSD) in the newly formed wetlands in coast has seldom been studied. We applied fractal-scaling theory in assessing soil particle size distribution (PSD) featur...
