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Open AccessPopulation structure and antibiotic resistance of swine extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli from China
Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) pose a significant threat to human and animal health. However, the diversity and antibiotic resistance of animal ExPEC, and their connection to human infections...
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Open AccessGlobal abundance patterns, diversity, and ecology of Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants
Microorganisms are responsible for nutrient removal and resource recovery in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and their diversity is often studied by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. However, this approa...
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Relationships Between Soil Microbial Diversities Across an Aridity Gradient in Temperate Grasslands
Soil microbes assemble in highly complex and diverse microbial communities, and microbial diversity patterns and their drivers have been studied extensively. However, diversity correlations and co-occurrence p...
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Yield and quality properties of silage maize and their influencing factors in China
Silage maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important forages in the world, and its yield and quality properties are critical parameters for livestock production and assessment of forage values. However, relati...
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Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality
Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and to achieve carbon...
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Changes of soil organic matter stability along altitudinal gradients in Tibetan alpine grassland
Changes of soil organic matter (SOM) stability in alpine ecosystems can alter carbon release from the soil and consequently feed back to climate change. We sought to explore the altitudinal patterns of SOM sta...
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Soil organic carbon components in inner Mongolian shrub-encroached grasslands
Shrub encroachment has profound influences on regional carbon cycling. However, few studies have examined the changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) components at the molecular level along a climate gradient. In...
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Family-level leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of global terrestrial plants
Leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations are critical for photosynthesis, growth, reproduction and other ecological processes of plants. Previous studies on large-scale biogeographic patterns of lea...
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Open AccessMetagenomic reconstructions of gut microbial metabolism in weanling pigs
The piglets’ transition from milk to solid feed induces a succession of bacterial communities, enhancing the hosts’ ability to harvest energy from dietary carbohydrates. To reconstruct microbial carbohydrate m...
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Ecological consequences of shrub encroachment in the grasslands of northern China
Shrub encroachment is a critical environmental issue in arid and semi-arid landscapes. However, due to the complicated effects of shrub characteristics and environmental variables, ecological consequences of s...
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Open AccessDivergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils
The means through which microbes and plants contribute to soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation remain elusive due to challenges in disentangling the complex components of SOC. Here we use amino sugars and li...
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Open AccessCarbon stocks and changes of dead organic matter in China's forests
Forests play an important role in global carbon cycles. However, the lack of available information on carbon stocks in dead organic matter, including woody debris and litter, reduces the reliability of assessi...
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Toward accurate accounting of ecosystem carbon stock in China’s forests
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Open AccessEffects of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon in global grasslands
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon (SOC) content at broad scales and its controls. We conducted a meta-analysis using paired control data of shrub-encroached g...
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Long-term vegetation changes in the four mega-sandy lands in Inner Mongolia, China
Desertification in China has become one of the most serious ecological and social problems. The four mega-sandy lands (Hulunbeir, Horqin, Otindag, and Mu Us) in Inner Mongolia are reported to be the most wides...
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Satellite-indicated long-term vegetation changes and their drivers on the Mongolian Plateau
The Mongolian Plateau, comprising the nation of Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, has been influenced by significant climatic changes and intensive human activities. Previous satellit...
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Climate and native grassland vegetation as drivers of the community structures of shrub-encroached grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China
Shrub encroachment in grasslands will lead to a mosaic landscape with shrub patches interspaced with grass patches and thus alters local and regional water and heat balance. Syntheses on effects of the climate...
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Open AccessThe stage-classified matrix models project a significant increase in biomass carbon stocks in China’s forests between 2005 and 2050
China’s forests are characterized by young age, low carbon (C) density and a large plantation area, implying a high potential for increasing C sinks in the future. Using data of provincial forest area and biom...
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Climate Change and Carbon Cycle
Climate change is often called changes caused by natural factors or human activities in terms of worldwide or regional, and it usually means a giant change or lasting a long time (≥10 years) on average and sta...
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Open AccessSpatio-temporal changes in biomass carbon sinks in China’s forests from 1977 to 2008
Forests play a leading role in regional and global carbon (C) cycles. Detailed assessment of the temporal and spatial changes in C sinks/sources of China’s forests is critical to the estimation of the national...
