Soil organic matter is one of the important carbon pools in terrestrial ecosystem. Its tiny change may alter the variation in the concentration of greenhouse gases and then the temperature of earth...

As the main part of terrestrial biosphere, forest ecosystems play an important role for the global regulation of carbon, a substantialportion of which is maintained in above-ground biomass. Yet, it...

Understanding linkages between the diversity of organisms aboveground and that of organisms belowground constitutes an important challenge for our knowledge of the maintenance and stability of ecos...

Stoichiometric traits in plants are important drivers for several fundamental ecological processes , including primary productivity , herbivory , and nutrient cycling .While there is mounting evide...

Corrinoids , represented by vitamin B12 are the most complicated , nonpolymeric macromolecules produced in nature .Up to date , sixteen different lower bases have been discovered , but the correlat...