supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(the Yellow River Water Science Research Joint Fund)(U2243234);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51939006);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52109022,52169002);the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Leading Talent Team(2022LJRC0007);the Ministry of Education of China Innovative Research Team(Grant IRT_17R60);the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Priority Areas(Grant 2015RA4013);the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University Basic Research Project(BR22-12-04,BR221012);the Inner Mongolia Industrial Innovative Research Team(Grant 2012);frst-class Academic Subjects Special Research Project of the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(No.YLXKZX-NND-010).
Arid and semi-arid regions,which account for more than 30%of the Earth’s land area,increasingly dominate the spatiotemporal trends in global carbon fuxes.The Horqin Sandy Land is a typical semi-arid fragile ecosystem...
funded by the High-End Foreign Expert Introduction Program of the Natural Science Foundation of the Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region.
Nitrogen(N)addition can significantly affect the amount of soil carbon(C)pools through biological routes,and microbial residues are important components of soil carbon pools.However,it remains unclear how N addition a...
support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41877542).
Human activities and industrialization have significantly increased soil nutrients,such as nitrogen(N)and phos-phorus(P),profoundly impacting the composition and structure of plant community,as well as the ecosystem fu...
funded by the National Science Founda-tion Biocomplexity,GRFP,and LTREB programs(grants 0420575,1654845,2018241438,and 2311106);the Woods Hole SeaGrant program.R.W.H.’s position at Cornell is supported through an endowment provided by David R.Atkinson.
Oxidized iron(Fe)can reduce seagrass dieback when present in sufficient quantities in the sediment to fix sulfide as pyrite(FeS_(2))or iron monosulfide(FeS).However,the oxidized Fe pool may become depleted over time a...
The National Key Research and Development Program under contract No.2020YFD0901003;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 92051119,42077305 and 32070112;the Special National Project on Investigation of Basic Resources of China under contract No.2019FY100700;the Key Research Project of Frontier Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No.QYZDB-SSW-DQC041;the Taishan Scholar Project Special Funding under contract No.Tspd20210317。
The productivity and health of seagrass depend on the combined inputs of nutrients from the water and sediments in which they grow and the microbiota with which they live intimately.However,little is known about the c...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31670216,31700184,31900194,and 41972023);the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31590820 and 31590823);the State Key Laboratory,of Palaeobiology and,Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology(CAs)(Grant Nos.163108 and 183132)。
The Hengduan Mountains region(HMR)on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau,supports a high diversity of herbs,particularly in its subalpine to alpine ecosystems,due to high altitude and cool temperate climate.Current under...
We are grateful to Wolfgang Krauss of the Sachgebict Naturschutz of the federal state authority of Garmisch-Partenkirchen for helpful information on land-use history in the study area.We would also like to thank all the land owners that allowed access to their property.This study was funded by a PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
The Marsh Fritillary(Euphydryas aurinia)was once widespread in large parts of Central Europe.However,in the course of the last century,populations of the butterfly largely collapsed.Here,we surveyed patch and microhab...
As August is on the horizon,the grasslands are showing their best looks.The Huitengxile Grassland in Ulanqab,north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,is no exception.Beautiful yellow flowers dance gracefully in...
We tested small mammal(SM)community response to the influence of seasonal floods and habitat transformation in a temporal zone meadow(west Lithuania).The habitat transitioned from a natural flooded meadow in 2008–201...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42076156,41676139).
Based on macrobenthos collected from intertidal seagrass bed in Guangrao,Shandong Province in May 2013,the macrobenthic structure and diversity were analyzed.A total of 41 macrobenthic species were identified,among wh...