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    Screening Major Properties of Biochar Affecting Acid Soil Amelioration Based on Pot Experiments and Random Forest Model

    The properties of biochar determine its ability to alleviate soil acidity and improve plant growth; however, its key properties remain unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to screen the key charac...

    **anlin Ke, Yan Wang, Minglong Liu in Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2022)

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    Long-term elevated CO2 and warming enhance microbial necromass carbon accumulation in a paddy soil

    Soil microbial necromass plays a critical role in soil organic C (SOC) sequestration, while the long-term response of microbial necromass to climate change remains largely unclear. Here, we used amino sugars a...

    Zhiwei Liu, **uxia Liu, **ulan Wu, Rongjun Bian in Biology and Fertility of Soils (2021)

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    Compositional variations of active autotrophic bacteria in paddy soils with elevated CO2 and temperature

    Global warming is an increasingly serious ecological problem, we examined how the active autotrophic microbes in paddy soils respond to the elevated CO2 and temperature. Here we employed stable isotope probing (S...

    Chen Zhu, Ning Ling, Ling Li, **aoyu Liu, Michaela A. Dippold in Soil Ecology Letters (2020)

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    Experimental study on the adaptability of cutters with different blade widths under hard rock and extremely hard rock conditions

    To investigate the matching rules of cutters with different blade widths in hard rock and extremely hard rock environments, this study carries out a full-scale cutting test of 432-mm disc cutters with blade wi...

    Bo Ning, YiMin **a, Laikuang Lin, Xuhui Zhang, YuanFu He, Yifan Liu in Acta Geotechnica (2020)

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    Changes in soil nematode abundance and composition under elevated [CO2] and canopy warming in a rice paddy field

    Global climate change is characterized by enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) and temperature, with unknown consequences for soil nematode communities. Soil nematode in response to elevated ...

    Jianqing Wang, Mao Li, Xuhui Zhang, **aoyu Liu, Lianqing Li, **uzhen Shi in Plant and Soil (2019)

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    Biochar amendment changes temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and composition of microbial communities 3 years after incorporation in an organic carbon-poor dry cropland soil

    Topsoil samples were collected from plots in a dry cropland in the North China Plain 3 years after a single incorporation of biochar at 20 and 40 t ha−1 and analyzed for abundances and composition of microbial co...

    Junhui Chen, Xuan Sun, Jufeng Zheng, Xuhui Zhang in Biology and Fertility of Soils (2018)

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    Changes in micronutrient availability and plant uptake under simulated climate change in winter wheat field

    Although micronutrients are essential to higher plants, it remains unclear whether the projected future climate change would affect their availability to plants. The objective of this study was to investigate ...

    Jianqing Wang, Xuhui Zhang, Lianqing Li, Kun Cheng in Journal of Soils and Sediments (2016)

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    Molecular changes of ferric oxide bound soil humus during the decomposition of maize straw

    The mechanism of organic carbon sequestration in different genesis of paddy soils has not been well understood. A 6-month incubation experiment, adding maize straw, was performed in three different genesis of ...

    **angyun Song, Lianqing Li, Xuhui Zhang in Chemical and Biological Technologies in Ag… (2016)

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    Functional and structural responses of bacterial and fungal communities from paddy fields following long-term rice cultivation

    Rice paddy soils undergo pedogenesis driven by periodic flooding and drainage cycles that lead to accumulation of organic matter and the stratification of nutrients and oxygen in the soil profile. Here, we exa...

    Yalong Liu, ** Wang, Genxing Pan, David Crowley in Journal of Soils and Sediments (2016)

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    Effect of biochar amendment on maize yield and greenhouse gas emissions from a soil organic carbon poor calcareous loamy soil from Central China Plain

    A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of biochar on maize yield and greenhouse gases (GHGs) in a calcareous loamy soil poor in organic carbon from Henan, central great plain, China.

    Afeng Zhang, Yuming Liu, Genxing Pan, Qaiser Hussain, Lianqing Li in Plant and Soil (2012)