Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

Deciphering microbiota functions is crucial to predict ecosystem sustainability in response to
global change. High-throughput sequencing at the individual or community level has …

Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of
global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme …

Mycorrhizal symbioses between plants and fungi are vital for the soil structure, nutrient
cycling, plant diversity, and ecosystem sustainability. More than 250 000 plant species are …

Microbes are key biodiversity components of all ecosystems and control vital ecosystem
functions. Although we have just begun to unravel the scales and factors that regulate …

Orchid distribution and population dynamics are influenced by a variety of ecological factors
and the formation of holobionts, which play key roles in colonization and ecological …

Ecosystem functions are threatened by both recurrent droughts and declines in biodiversity
at a global scale, but the drought dependency of diversity-productivity relationships remains …

The stability of plant biomass production in the face of environmental change is fundamental
for maintaining terrestrial ecosystem functioning, as plant biomass is the ultimate source of …

Compared to planted forest ecosystems (PFE), natural forest ecosystems (NFE) generally
have a longer history and theoretically have stronger environmental adaptability. Changes …

Global change (eg, woodland use change) affects ecosystem functioning directly by
modifying various physicochemical processes and indirectly by altering biological …