Along forest succession stages, soil nutrient status always presents vertical stratification along soil horizons. However, the mechanism underlying such soil depth-dependence is still a universally...

Plant functional traits generally reflect the trade-off strategy between plant resource acquisition and investment under environmental changes. Plant leaves, as the main organ that converts inorgan...

Despite the fact that plant litter contributes more to soil organic carbon storage, plant litter can influence soil organic crbon decomposition via the priming effect. While our current understandi...

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...