Research Progress

The Underlying Microbial Mechanisms Driving the Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Respiration Varie...

Prof. LI Hui and her colleagues from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently revealed latitudinal and seasonal variations in temperature sensitivity of soil res...

Scientists Develop a Microbial Consortium for Bio-degradation of Chlorimuron-ethyl

Prof. ZHANG Huiwen, Prof. XU Mingkai and doctoral student LI Xiang are researchers from the Microbial Resources and Ecology Group of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of...

Soil Temperature Drives the Nitric Oxide Emission from A Temperate Forest

To quantify the NO emission from forest soils and to find out its controlling factors, Prof. Fang Yunting’s team from the Institute of Applied Ecology has been conducting a long-term and automated...

Researchers Find New Geobacter sp. Strain That Dihaloeliminates Organochlorine Pollutants

Prof. Yang Yi, Prof. Yan Jun and doctoral student Jiang Lisi of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently finished a study exploring environment-friendly agents f...

Hydraulic Vulnerability Segmentation Mechanism Helps Compound-leaved Tree Species Withstand Droug...

Compound-leaved tree species usually have higher productivity compared with simple-leaved species. That is because trees with compound-leaves generally have higher water transfer efficiency, and th...