A5101672301- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Graphene research and applications
- Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
- Plant responses to water stress
- Forest ecology and management
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Institute of Applied Ecology
2016-2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016-2025
Hangzhou Normal University
2025
Gansu Agricultural University
2022-2023
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022-2023
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2021
Zhejiang University
2019-2020
China University of Petroleum, Beijing
2017
Jining Medical University
2017
Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University
2011
Knowledge of therapeutic targets and early drug candidates is useful for improved discovery. In particular, information about target regulators the patented agents facilitates research regarding druggability, systems pharmacology, new trends, molecular landscapes, development discovery tools. To complement other databases, we constructed Therapeutic Target Database (TTD) with expanded (i) target-regulating microRNAs transcription factors, (ii) target-interacting proteins, (iii) their...
Tree diversity improves forest productivity Experimental studies in grasslands have shown that the loss of species has negative consequences for ecosystem functioning. Is same true forests? Huang et al. report first results from a large biodiversity experiment subtropical China. The study combines many replicates, realistic tree densities, and plot sizes with wide range richness levels. After 8 years experiment, findings suggest strong positive effects on carbon accumulation. Thus, changing...
Soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stoichiometry is a main driver of ecosystem functioning. Global N enrichment has greatly changed soil C : ratios, but how altered resource influences the complexity direct indirect interactions among plants, soils, microbial communities rarely been explored. Here, we investigated responses plant-soil-microbe system to multi-level additions role dissolved organic (DOC) inorganic in regulating biomass semiarid grassland northern China. We documented significant...
Abstract Loss of plant diversity with increased anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition in grasslands has occurred globally. In most cases, competitive exclusion driven by preemption light or space is invoked as a key mechanism. Here, we provide evidence from 9‐yr N‐addition experiment for an alternative mechanism: differential sensitivity forbs and grasses to soil manganese (Mn) levels. Inner Mongolia steppes, increasing the N supply shifted community composition grass–forb codominance...
Human activities have significantly altered nitrogen (N) availability in most terrestrial ecosystems, with consequences for community composition and ecosystem functioning. Although studies of how changes N affect biodiversity are relatively common, much less remains known about the effects inputs on coupled biogeochemical cycling phosphorus (P), still fewer data exist regarding increased internal these two elements plants. Nutrient resorption is an important driver plant nutrient economies...
Specific leaf area (SLA) is a key trait with great ecological importance as it correlates whole plant growth. We aimed to investigate how SLA varies environmental factors at geographical scale in temperate grasslands. measured and mass-based nitrogen content (N mass) of four dominant genera along 2500 km climatic gradient northern China grassland, correlated mean annual precipitation (MAP), temperature (MAT), soil concentration (soil N), C:N N mass. Climate accounts much more for variation...
Abstract The allocation and stoichiometry of plant nutrients in leaves reflect fundamental ecosystem processes, biotic interactions, environmental drivers such as water availability. Climate change will lead to increases drought severity frequency, but how canopy respond drought, these responses may vary with community composition along aridity gradients is poorly understood. We experimentally addressed this issue by reducing precipitation amounts 66% during two consecutive growing seasons...
Extreme drought decreases aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in most grasslands, but the magnitude of ANPP reductions varies especially C3 -dominated grasslands. Because mechanisms underlying such differential ecosystem responses to are not well resolved, we experimentally imposed an extreme 4-yr (2015-2018) two grasslands that differed aridity. These sites had similar annual precipitation and dominant grass species (Leymus chinensis) different temperatures thus water availability....
Abstract Recurrent droughts are an inevitable consequence of climate change, yet how grasslands respond to such events is unclear. We conducted a 6‐year rainfall manipulation experiment in semiarid grassland that consisted initial 2‐year drought (2015–2016), followed by recovery period (2017–2018) and, finally, second (2019–2020). In each year, we estimated aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP), species richness, community‐weighted mean (CWM) plant traits, and several indices...
Flat bands in Van der Waals heterostructure provide an ideal platform for unveiling emergent quantum electronic phases. One celebrated example is twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene, which the effects of correlation have been observed. Here, we report observation via scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy correlated insulating states leading to formation electron crystal phase. At integer fillings, strong Coulomb interaction redistributes flat-band electrons within one moiré unit...
Abstract Grasslands are expected to experience droughts of unprecedented frequency and magnitude in the future. Characterizing grassland responses recovery from drought is therefore critical predict vulnerability ecosystems climate change. Most previous studies have focused on ecosystem during while investigations post‐drought rare. Few used functional traits, particular bud or clonal explore mechanisms underlying drought. To address this issue, we experimentally imposed a four‐year C 3...
Plant carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stoichiometry play an important role in the maintenance of ecosystem structure function. To decipher influence changing environment on plant C N at subcontinental scale, we studied shoot root two widely distributed dominant genera along a 2,200-km climatic gradient China's grasslands. Relationships between concentrations soil variables factors were studied. In contrast to previous theory, concentration C:N ratios both shoots roots increased with increasing...
Forest–grassland ecotone (FGE) has essential ecological and economic value. Unfortunately, it is impacted greatly by environmental changes anthropogenic disturbance, considered one of the most severely threatened biomes in China. To protect Chinese FGE, identifying its exact boundary exploring landscape structure dynamic are badly needed, especially on nationwide scale at one‐year temporal resolution. Here, we mapped annual FGE distribution China from 1990 to 2020, investigated changing...
Background When growing in reciprocal patches terms of availability different resources, connected ramets clonal plants will specialize to acquire and exchange locally abundant resources more efficiently. This has been termed division labour. We asked whether labour can occur physiologically as well morphologically increase with patch contrasts. Methodology/Principal Findings subjected disconnected ramet pairs Potentilla anserina Control, Low, Medium High contrast by manipulating light...
Abstract Grasslands are subject to climate change, such as severe drought, and an important aspect of their functioning is temporal stability in response extreme events. Previous research has explored the impacts drought post‐drought periods on grassland stability, yet mechanistic pathways behind these changes have rarely been studied. Here, we implemented experiment with 4 years 3 recovery assess effects above‐ground net primary productivity (ANPP) its underlying mechanisms. To do so,...