Towards Green Cities
Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in China and Germany
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Yak dung pat fragmentation decreases yield-scaled growing-season nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
A 120-day field experiment was conducted to investigate the responses of soil N2O emissions, plant biomass N content, and N cycling-related functional genes to yak (Bos grunniens) dung pat size, including full-si...
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Oxygen concentrations regulate NO, N2O, and N2 kinetics and nitrogen transformation in a fluvo-aquic soil using a robotized incubation system
The current study aimed to (1) investigate the responses of N gases (NO, N2O, and N2) and mineral N (NH4+, NO2−, and NO3−) to the different O2 availability; (2) better understand the importance of O2 availability...
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Effects of the nitrification inhibitor DMPP (3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate) on gross N transformation rates and N2O emissions
Many studies have shown the efficiency of the nitrification inhibitor 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) in suppressing nitrification and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. However, the effect of DMPP on soil gros...
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Ecosystem Service Flow Insights into Horizontal Ecological Compensation Standards for Water Resource: A Case Study in Dongjiang Lake Basin, China
Water supply services (WSSs) are critical for the regional water balance and water circulation, but relevant studies have not established the relationship between WSSs and human well-being. This research ident...
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Changes in foliar nitrogen resorption of Phyllostachys edulis with culm development
Leaf nitrogen resorption is very important to Phyllostachys edulis development because the withdrawn nitrogen can help newly emerging and growing culms. However, few studies have focused on the ontogenetic change...
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The Multiple Benefits of Urban Green—Ecosystem Services Assessment
The elements of the green infrastructure in the urban space represent habitats for numerous species and provide a high variety of ecosystem services. A clarification of the benefits urban residents gain from u...
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Introduction to an Urban Ecosystem Approach
In the context of ongoing urbanization processes and sustainable urban development, the aim is to capture, describe, and convey to various target groups the current significance, the values, and the potentials...
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Principles and Application of Sustainable Development
At present, sustainable development has become the consensus of governments and the people around the world, and has come from concept to practice. However, it involves the reform of population, resources, env...
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Industrial Ecology
After a long era of fishing-and-hunting civilization, human came into agricultural civilization era about ten thousand years ago, while Industrial Revolution makes industry replace agriculture as the center in...
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Ecosystem Service Evaluation
With the development of the ecology research, the in-depth understanding of the characteristics of different types of ecological systems, ecosystem observation techniques progress, all kinds of ecosystem obser...
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An Evaluation of China’s Water Footprint
The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater consumption that looks not only at direct water consumption of a consumer or producer, also at the indirect water consumption. The water footprint can be regar...
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Assessment of soil erosion under woodlands using USLE in China
Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), originally developed by the USDA for agricultural lands and then used throughout the world, was applied in mountainous forest terrain in China. The woodland area was divide...
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Carbon sequestration in forest vegetation of Bei**g at sublot level
Based on forest inventory data (FID) at sublot level, we estimated the carbon sequestration in forest vegetation of Bei**g, China in 2009. In this study, the carbon sequestration in forest vegetation at sublo...
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Variation in Vegetation Structure and Soil Properties, and the Relation Between Understory Plants and Environmental Variables Under Different Phyllostachys pubescens Forests in Southeastern China
Biodiversity maintenance and soil improvement are key sustainable forestry objectives. Research on the effects of bamboo forest management on plant diversity and soil properties are therefore necessary in bamb...
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Forest ecosystem services and their values in Bei**g
As the most important ecosystem in Bei**g, the forest supports a lot of ecosystem services to local and around communities, which plays a key role in the maintenance of urban ecological security. However, the...
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Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China
Dendroecological techniques were used to investigate the stand dynamics and the disturbance history of the subalpine fir forest in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province, China. The results indicated that 6...
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Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China
Dendroecological techniques were used to investigate the stand dynamics and the disturbance history of the subalpine fir forest in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province, China. The results indicated that 6...
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Long-term dynamics of cultivated land resources and their driving forces of Guyuan City in upper reaches of **ghe River
The land use patterns in Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, have changed greatly over the years, due to population growth and farming and stock raising development. This study, using 50-year ...
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Shrinking and drying up of Baiyangdian Lake wetland: A natural or human cause?
The shrinking and drying up of wetlands in arid and semiarid areas of China have been widely observed in the recent years, but there has been no consensus on whether the aggravation is caused by human activiti...
