Using natural succession to restore degraded grassland is mainly achieved by self-adjusting
the structure and relationship of the internal components of grassland ecosystems …

Silicon fertilisers are widely utilised to achieve higher productivity in global terrestrial
ecosystems, but their impact on the carbon cycle remains unclear. In this study, we used a …

Phytolith carbon (C) sequestration plays a key role in mitigating global climate change at a
centennial to millennial time scale. However, previous estimates of phytolith‐occluded …

Soil wind erosion is an important ecological environmental problem that is widespread in
arid and semi-arid regions. Currently, related studies are mainly focused on spatiotemporal …

Common grassland management practices affect plant and soil element stoichiometry, but
the primary environmental factors driving variation in plant C/N ratios for different species in …

Grassland ecosystems play an important role in the global terrestrial silicon (Si) cycle, and Si
is a beneficial element and structural constituent for the growth of grasses. In previous …

Background and aims An overlooked fraction of the terrestrial carbon (C) pool is that
associated with biogenic silica deposited in plants (phytoliths), so-called PhytOC. This …

The issue of climatic change and its strong influence on species distributions is currently of
great interest in the field of biogeography. In this study, three varieties of Stipa tianschanica …

Although grassland degradation simultaneously affects plant productivity and soil nutrient
concentrations, the relationship between plant productivity and soil nutrient concentrations …

Organic carbon occluded in phytoliths is extremely stable and plays important roles in long-
term preservation of soil and stable carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems. To clarify …