Conventional tillage has been the common agricultural practices in the agroecosystem of northeastern China for a long period, with crop residues removed or burnt, which has caused serious soil degr...

The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer in farmland can significantly increase crop yields. But excessive application of N may decrease N utilization efficiency, increase N losses and cause envi...

Nitrogen (N) is often the limiting nutrient for plant photosynthesis and productivity in temperate forests. Variation in N uptake among different plant species is important to reduce competition an...

The climate change effects on boreal forests are more obvious than on other terrestrial ecosystems, and it is estimated that the temperature in boreal forests might rise at twice the rate of other ...

In view of this problem, assistant Prof. Ma Tianxiao, Prof. Liang Yu and their colleagues from the Landscape Process Group of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used the...