An international team led by Prof. CHEN Jitao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied ancient sedimentary rocks in Naqing, South China, to analyze their chemical compositions.
A global study led by Dr. SUN Tao from the Institute of Applied Ecology has provided new insights into how carbon moves and stabilizes in soils, revealing that mineral-associated organic matter serves as the most stable long-term reservoir of carbon across diverse ecosystems.
The global expansion of plantation forests is disrupting fundamental ecosystem functions by altering nutrient cycling in soils. As forests transition from diverse natural ecosystems to monocultures of planted trees, the balance of essential elements—carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus—is being systematically reconfigured.
A new study led by Dr. FANG Yunting from the Institute of Applied Ecology has found that temperate forest tree species, regardless of their root symbiosis with either ectomycorrhizal or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, consistently prefer absorbing nitrate over ammonium.
A team of scientists from the the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel method to more accurately quantify greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale greenhouse cultivation, addressing a longstanding challenge in monitoring the environmental cost of protected agriculture.
A research team analyzed 5,000 fossil pollen samples extracted from two long lake-sediment cores in the Zoige Basin, located at approximately 3,400 meters above sea level on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. By integrating biomization, numerical analysis, statistical modeling, and vegetation simulations, they constructed a detailed picture of vegetation dynamics over the past 3.5 million years.
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