The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world

D Landuyt, E De Lombaerde, MP Perring… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Temperate forests cover 16% of the global forest area. Within these forests, the understorey
is an important biodiversity reservoir that can influence ecosystem processes and functions …

Inorganic carbon losses by soil acidification jeopardize global efforts on carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation

S Raza, K Zamanian, S Ullah, Y Kuzyakov… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil plays a significant role in controlling the global carbon (C) cycle. Studies on climate
change mitigation have focused entirely on soil organic carbon (SOC) to increase C …

Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness

X Wang, J Feng, G Ao, W Qin, M Han, Y Shen… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally increasing nitrogen (N) deposition is recognized as an important regulator of soil
microbial communities. However, how N enrichment affects soil microbial diversity, richness …

A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition

D Tian, S Niu - Environmental Research Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Nitrogen (N) deposition-induced soil acidification has become a global problem. However,
the response patterns of soil acidification to N addition and the underlying mechanisms …

Nitrogen fertilization directly affects soil bacterial diversity and indirectly affects bacterial community composition

J Zeng, X Liu, L Song, X Lin, H Zhang, C Shen… - Soil Biology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) deposition influences both above-and below-ground communities and
influences ecosystem functioning. However it is not clear about direct or indirect interactions …

Dramatic loss of inorganic carbon by nitrogen‐induced soil acidification in Chinese croplands

S Raza, N Miao, P Wang, X Ju, Z Chen… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Intensive crop production systems worldwide, particularly in China, rely heavily on nitrogen
(N) fertilization, but left more than 50% of fertilizer N in the environment. Nitrogen (over) …

Nitrogen deposition contributes to soil acidification in tropical ecosystems

X Lu, Q Mao, FS Gilliam, Y Luo, J Mo - Global change biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Elevated anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition has greatly altered terrestrial ecosystem
functioning, threatening ecosystem health via acidification and eutrophication in temperate …

Global response patterns of plant photosynthesis to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis

X Liang, T Zhang, X Lu, DS Ellsworth… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A mechanistic understanding of plant photosynthetic response is needed to reliably predict
changes in terrestrial carbon (C) gain under conditions of chronically elevated atmospheric …

Biochar influences the succession of microbial communities and the metabolic functions during rice straw composting with pig manure

G Zhou, X Xu, X Qiu, J Zhang - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study determined the dynamic changes of bacterial community structures and
its metabolism functions in rice straw composting process with different types of biochar …

Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland

Q Ning, S Hättenschwiler, X Lü, P Kardol… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Higher ecosystem nitrogen (N) inputs resulting from human activities often suppress soil
microbial biomass and respiration, thereby altering biogeochemical cycling. Soil …