Forests influence climate and mitigate global change through the storage of carbon in soils.
In turn, these complex ecosystems face important challenges, including increases in carbon …

Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Both nitrogen deposition (ND) and microplastics (MPs) pose global change challenges. The
effects of MPs co-existing with ND on ecosystem functions are still largely unknown. Herein …

Nanosized plastics (nanoplastics) releasing into the wastewater may pose a potential threat
to biological nitrogen removal. Constructed wetland (CW), a wastewater treatment or shore …

The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as
carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …

Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Quantification of functional genes involved in nitrogen (N) transformation improves our
understanding of N-cycling microbial population responses to environmental disturbance …

Complex interactions between plants and microorganisms form the basis of constructed
wetlands (CWs) for pollutant removal. In the rhizosphere, radial oxygen loss (ROL) plays a …

Biological nitrogen fixation contributes to the pool of plant-available N in both bulk soil and
the rhizosphere. Here we investigated the co-association and assemblage process of …

Maintaining stability of ecosystem functions in the face of global change calls for a better
understanding regulatory factors of functionally specialized microbial groups and their …