Research Progress

Bud Banks Confer the Rapid Grassland Recover Following Extreme Drought

To address this knowledge gap, a research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a four years extreme drought followed by three years recovery and e...

Changes in Dominance of Plant Species with High Stoichiometric Plasticity Exacerbate Community Ni...

The researchers found that nitrogen addition led to a significant increase in N:P ratio of the plant community as a whole, and the community nitrogen and phosphorus imbalance could be attributed to...

Scientists Reveal Importance of Acetobacterium in Anaerobic Biohydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene to ...

Research Scientists YANG Yi and YAN Jun of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently established a BD anaerobic biotransformation microcosm using river sediment as the ...

Researchers Isolate Two New Organohalide-respiring Sulfurospirillum StrainsResearchers Isolate Tw...

Sulfurospirillum, widely distributed in natural environments, is a class of anaerobic microbes with the ability to reduce sulfur and sulfur oxides. Some species of the genus can make use of tetrach...

New mycorrhizal dominance mechanism drives the scale-dependent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning...

In a recent study published in Ecological Monographs, researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators propose a mycorrhizal dominance mechanism...