Sand-fixing shrubs perform important roles in stabilizing mobile sand dunes. Different sand-fixing shrub species often separate along the temporal-spatial environmental water gradient during the sa...

Desertification is a significant ecological and environmental problem worldwide. China is one of the countries affected seriously by long-term and large-scale land desertification particularly in w...

Factors such as climate change, habitat destruction and species invasion increase risks of species extinction.

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi is closely related to vegetation composition, soil characteristics and particular habitat processes.

Input of organic substances into soil often accelerates the mineralization of soil organic C (SOC), a phenomenon termed the priming effect (PE), which could mediate the turnover rate of C and nitro...