Responses of soil total microbial biomass and community compositions to rainfall reductions

C Ren, J Chen, X Lu, R Doughty, F Zhao… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rainfall reductions influence ecosystem processes through impacts on the microbial
community. However, the response of soil microbial community and their interactions with …

Impact of landscape patterns on ecological vulnerability and ecosystem service values: An empirical analysis of Yancheng Nature Reserve in China

Z Zang, X Zou, P Zuo, Q Song, C Wang, J Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, an ecological vulnerability assessment indicator system was constructed using
the “exposure–climate sensitivity–adaptive capacity” framework according to the theory of …

Identification of the impact of climate change and human activities on rainfall-runoff relationship variation in the Three-River Headwaters region

H Chu, J Wei, J Qiu, Q Li, G Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Identifying the impact of climate change and human activities on rainfall-runoff relationship
in the Three-River Headwaters (TRH) region is essential for water source conservation …

Resilience of revegetated grassland for restoring severely degraded alpine meadows is driven by plant and soil quality along recovery time: A case study from the …

X Gao, S Dong, Y Xu, S Wu, X Wu, X Zhang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Resilience is crucial to promote the ecosystem sustainability and maintain ecosystem
functions and services. Clarifying the variation regularity of the resilience can provide a …

Environmental factors regulate soil microbial attributes and their response to drought in rangeland ecosystems

S Toledo, VF Bondaruk, L Yahdjian, GR Oñatibia… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In ecosystems, soil microbial variables characterization are used to determine soil biological
health and the response of soils to environmental stress. Although there are strong …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial grassland mapping using artificial grassland detection index of vegetation growth in the Three-River Headwaters region

W Liu, B Li, Y Yuan, Y Li, Y Jiang, R Li, D Zhai, J Xu - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Mapping the spatial distribution of artificial grassland for ecological restoration is of great
significance for evaluating its secondary degradation and negative consequences, such as …

Comparisons of spatial and non-spatial models for predicting soil carbon content based on visible and near-infrared spectral technology

L Guo, C Zhao, H Zhang, Y Chen, M Linderman… - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
Visible and near-infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectroscopy is a rapid, non-destructive, and
cost-effective method for predicting soil properties. Partial least squares regression (PLSR) …

More management is needed to improve the effectiveness of artificial grassland in vegetation and soil restoration on the three-river headwaters region of China

N Wang, J Wan, M Ding, H Zhang, S Li, L Liu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Establishing an artificial grassland is a common measure employed to restore heavily
degraded alpine grasslands for regional sustainability. The Three-River Headwaters Region …

Abiotic and biotic factors modulate plant biomass and root/shoot (R/S) ratios in grassland on the Loess Plateau, China

Y Yang, Y Dou, S An, Z Zhu - Science of The Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Plant biomass and the root/shoot ratio (R/S) are key parameters for estimating terrestrial
ecosystem carbon (C) stocks. However, how environmental driving factors (abiotic and biotic …

Seasonal flooding wetland expansion would strongly affect soil and sediment organic carbon storage and carbon-nutrient stoichiometry

R Shen, H Yang, J Rinklebe, N Bolan, Q Hu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, many non-flooding uplands (NF) and permanent flooding waters
(PF) have been turned into seasonal flooding wetlands (SF) at the global scale. This trend …