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Holistic food system innovation strategies can close up to 80% of China’s domestic protein gaps while reducing global environmental impacts
China’s imports of livestock feed, particularly protein-rich feeds, pose challenges to global environmental sustainability. Achieving protein self-sufficiency for food and feed in China without exceeding envir...
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Effects of straw return on soil carbon sequestration, soil nutrients and rice yield of in acidic farmland soil of Southern China
Straw return was extensively applied owing to its multiple positive impacts on improving soil fertility, impeding soil degradation, enhancing soil carbon sequestration and increasing crop yield. Yet, the under...
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Open AccessVelocities of transmission eigenchannels and diffusion
The diffusion model is used to calculate both the time-averaged flow of particles in stochastic media and the propagation of waves averaged over ensembles of disordered static configurations. For classical wav...
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Advanced Electric Machines for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
In this chapter, more advanced electric machines for electric and hybrid vehicles are introduced. Even though not all the performance metrics of these advanced electric machines are as good as conventional ele...
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Open AccessSoil bacterial community composition and function play roles in soil carbon balance in alpine timberline ecosystems
Soil microbial communities and related key ecological processes play critical roles in timberline delineation and soil carbon balance in alpine ecosystems, which are highly vulnerable to climate change. Accord...
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Spatiotemporal co-optimization of agricultural management practices towards climate-smart crop production
Co-optimization of multiple management practices may facilitate climate-smart agriculture, but is challenged by complex climate–crop–soil management interconnections across space and over time. Here we develop...
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Research on the Mechanical Characteristics and Failure Mechanism of Prestressed Multilayer Stagger-Split Die
In this paper, the prestressed multilayer stagger-split die (PMSSD), which is a kind of high-pressure device, is studied by numerical simulation, theoretical analysis, and experiments. The force characteristic...
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Machine learning combined with Geodetector quantifies the synergistic effect of environmental factors on soil heavy metal pollution
The critical prerequisite for the prevention and control of soil heavy metal (HM) pollution is the identification of factors that influence soil HM accumulation. The dominant factors have been individually ide...
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Identifying conservation priority zones and their driving factors regarding regional ecosystem services
Conservation priority zones (CPZs) are the most valuable critical areas for maintaining functions of ecosystem. Identifying CPZs and their driving factors of ecosystem services (ESs) is an essential foundation...
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Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon Contents in Tibet Using a Visible Near-Infrared Spectral Library
Accurate soil organic carbon (SOC) data are very important for management of agricultural production and climate change mitigation. Visible near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is an inexpensive, non...
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Climate and soil management factors control spatio-temporal variation of soil nutrients and soil organic matter in the farmland of Jiangxi Province in South China
This study aims to explore the spatio-temporal variation of soil nutrients as well as soil organic matter (SOM), and clarify the role of environmental and soil management factors in determining soil nutrients ...
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Most root-derived carbon inputs do not contribute to long-term global soil carbon storage
Plant root-derived carbon (C) inputs (Iroot) are the primary source of C in mineral bulk soil. However, a fraction of Iroot may lose quickly (Iloss, e.g., via rhizosphere microbial respiration, leaching and fauna...
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Experimental and Numerical Parametric Study of the Mechanical Properties in a Steel–Concrete Joint Section
This paper focuses on the first railway hybrid cable-stayed bridge in the world. The force-transfer performance of the steel–concrete joint section is studied through model experiments, and the influence of va...
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Open AccessGlobal soil profiles indicate depth-dependent soil carbon losses under a warmer climate
Soil organic carbon (SOC) changes under future climate warming are difficult to quantify in situ. Here we apply an innovative approach combining space-for-time substitution with meta-analysis to SOC measuremen...
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Open AccessCorrection: Long-term nitrogen deposition enhances microbial capacities in soil carbon stabilization but reduces network complexity
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Open AccessLong-term nitrogen deposition enhances microbial capacities in soil carbon stabilization but reduces network complexity
Anthropogenic activities have increased the inputs of atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) into terrestrial ecosystems, affecting soil carbon stability and microbial communities. Previous studies have primarily e...
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Facile synthesis of CoOOH@MXene to activate peroxymonosulfate for efficient degradation of sulfamethoxazole: performance and mechanism investigation
Using MXene as substrate, CoOOH@MXene with different mass content of CoOOH were prepared and used to active peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the sulfamethoxazole (SMX) degradation. The sample characterizations demo...
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Comprehensive source identification and apportionment analysis of five heavy metals in soils in Wenzhou City, China
The source identification and apportionment of heavy metals (HMs) is a vital issue for restoring contaminated soil. In this study, qualitative approaches [a finite mixture distribution model (FMDM) and raster-...
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Back-Calculation Method of Rock Mass Pressure in a Shallow-Buried Super Large-Span Tunnel Using Upper-Bench CD Method
Rock mass pressure has always been a research hotspot in the field of tunnel engineering, especially in the super large-span tunnel, which is characterized by flat section, large excavation span, and complex s...
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Deformation Behaviors and Mechanical Mechanisms of Double Primary Linings for Large-Span Tunnels in Squeezing Rock: A Case Study
Large deformation has always been a focus and difficult issue in the construction of deep-buried tunnels in squeezing rock. Previous studies mainly focused on the large deformation of medium and small span rai...
