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...

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 ...