Biological invasions, the establishment and spread of non‐native species in new regions,
can have extensive economic and environmental consequences. Increased global …

Arctic hotspots, local areas of high biodiversity, are potential key sites for conservation of
Arctic biodiversity. However, there is a need for improved understanding of their long-term …

Soil heavy metal (HM) pollution is an increasing threat to ecosystem integrity and human
health with rapid urbanization. Nevertheless, how soil HMs vary with the process of …

Lotus japonicus has been used for decades as a model legume to study the establishment
of binary symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia that trigger root nodule …

To study how microbes establish themselves in a mammalian gut environment, we
colonized germ-free mice with microbial communities from human, zebrafish, and termite …

Phosphorus (P) for carbon (C) exchange is the pivotal function of arbuscular mycorrhiza
(AM), but how this exchange varies with soil P availability and among co‐occurring plants in …

Semi-natural habitats (SNH) are vital to sustain pollinators and natural enemies, and the
ecosystem services they provide in agroecosystems. However, little is known about the …

Plastics in aquatic ecosystems rapidly undergo biofouling, giving rise to a new ecosystem on
their surface, the'plastisphere.'Few studies quantify the impact of plastics and their …

South China has been experiencing very high rate of acid deposition and severe soil
acidification in recent decades, which has been proposed to exacerbate the regional …

Soil bacterial community structure has traditionally been measured using phospholipid fatty
acid (PLFA) profiling. However, with the development of high-throughput sequencing …