Human activities have significantly changed the environment and climate in the world since the industrial revolution. Nitrogen fixation induced by human activities has considerably altered the nitr...

Recently, researchers at the Institute of Applied Ecology Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators investigated the patterns of growth decline and the underlying physiology of Pinu...

Why do diverse species live together and what's the mystery behind it? This is the core question of community ecology.

The sky view factor (SVF) is a geometric concept that refers to the ratio of the radiation received by a planar surface to the radiation emitted by the entire hemispheric environment.

Atmospheric nitrate (NO3-), a sink of nitric oxides (NOx), is an important nitrogen supply to terrestrial and marine ecosystems through wet and dry deposition. Excess deposited nitrogen can cause s...