A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint and biosphere integrity. The study, led by Prof. DUAN Weili from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides a comprehensive sustainability assessment and identifies Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as priority areas for environmental management.
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.
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