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A global synthesis of the rate and temperature sensitivity of soil nitrogen mineralization: latitudinal patterns and mechanisms.

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

A global synthesis reveals increases in soil greenhouse gas emissions under forest thinning

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

A globally robust relationship between water table decline, subsidence rate, and carbon release from peatlands

scholarly article

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

A sand-fixing pioneer C3 species in sandland displays characteristics of C4 metabolism

A synthesis of the effect of grazing exclusion on carbon dynamics in grasslands in China.

scientific article

Advanced precipitation peak offsets middle growing‐season drought in impacting grassland C sink

scientific article published in 2024

Aggravated phosphorus limitation on biomass production under increasing nitrogen loading: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Alleviation of light limitation increases plant diversity and ecosystem carbon sequestration under nitrogen enrichment in an alpine meadow

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 02 October 2021

Biotic and climatic controls on interannual variability in carbon fluxes across terrestrial ecosystems

Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 27 September 2022

Carbon storage in China's terrestrial ecosystems: A synthesis

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Changing plant species composition and richness benefit soil carbon sequestration under climate warming

scientific article published in 2022

Chronic nitrogen enrichment decreases soil gross nitrogen mineralization by acidification in topsoil but by carbon limitation in subsoil

scientific article published in 2022

Climate controls over the net carbon uptake period and amplitude of net ecosystem production in temperate and boreal ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Climatic role of terrestrial ecosystem under elevated CO : a bottom-up greenhouse gases budget

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Common Species Stability and Species Asynchrony Rather than Richness Determine Ecosystem Stability Under Nitrogen Enrichment

scientific article published in 2020

Contrasting responses of phosphatase kinetic parameters to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in forest soils

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Controlling Factors for Soil Bacterial and Fungal Diversity and Composition Vary with Vegetation Type in Alpine Grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Costimulation of soil glycosidase activity and soil respiration by nitrogen addition

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Covariation between gross primary production and ecosystem respiration across space and the underlying mechanisms: A global synthesis

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Diel and Seasonal Dynamics of Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Flux and Their Determinants in an Alpine Meadow

scientific article published in 2019

Different Responses and Links of N:P Ratio Among Ecosystem Components Under Nutrient Addition in a Temperate Forest

scientific article published in 2019

Different growth responses of C3 and C4 grasses to seasonal water and nitrogen regimes and competition in a pot experiment

scientific article published on 19 March 2008

Differential mechanisms underlying responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Differential responses of carbon-degrading enzyme activities to warming: Implications for soil respiration

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Differential responses of ecosystem respiration components to experimental warming in a meadow grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

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Direct and indirect effects of climatic variations on the interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange across terrestrial ecosystems

Divergent apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem respiration

scientific article published in 2014

Divergent biomass partitioning to aboveground and belowground across forests in China

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Diversity of plant and soil microbes mediates the response of ecosystem multifunctionality to grazing disturbance

scientific article published on 09 February 2021

Diversity-decomposition relationships in forests worldwide

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Drought shrinks terrestrial upland resilience to climate change

scientific article published in 2020

Ecosystem Carbon Use Efficiency Is Insensitive to Nitrogen Addition in an Alpine Meadow

scientific article published in 2018

Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Ecosystem restoration and belowground multifunctionality: A network view

scientific article published on 19 May 2022

Effects of grazing regimes on plant traits and soil nutrients in an alpine steppe, Northern Tibetan Plateau

scientific article

Effects of mowing on methane uptake in a semiarid grassland in northern China

scientific article

Effects of warming and increased precipitation on net ecosystem productivity: A long-term manipulative experiment in a semiarid grassland

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Enhanced <scp>CO<sub>2</sub></scp> uptake is marginally offset by altered fluxes of non‐<scp>CO<sub>2</sub></scp> greenhouse gases in global forests and grasslands under N deposition

scientific article published in 2023

Environmental factors, bacterial interactions and plant traits jointly regulate epiphytic bacterial community composition of two alpine grassland species

scientific article published on 03 May 2022

Environmental variables better explain changes in potential nitrification and denitrification activities than microbial properties in fertilized forest soils

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Evaluating alternative ebullition models for predicting peatland methane emission and its pathways via data–model fusion

scientific article published in 2022

FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

scientific article

Fine‐root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta‐analysis

scientific article published in 2021

Forest soil acidification consistently reduces litter decomposition irrespective of nutrient availability and litter type

scientific article published in 2021

Functional traits along a transect

scientific article published in 2018

Gene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Global Soil Gross Nitrogen Transformation Under Increasing Nitrogen Deposition

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Global changes alter plant multi-element stoichiometric coupling

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Global evidence on the asymmetric response of gross primary productivity to interannual precipitation changes

scientific article published on 04 January 2022

Global meta-analysis on the responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities to warming

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Global patterns and controlling factors of soil nitrification rate

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Global patterns of the dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following afforestation: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Global soil-derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: a refinement based on regional and crop-specific emission factors

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Global variations and controlling factors of soil nitrogen turnover rate

Heavy grazing reduces grassland soil greenhouse gas fluxes: A global meta-analysis

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Initial shifts in nitrogen impact on ecosystem carbon fluxes in an alpine meadow: patterns and causes

scientific article published in 2017

Integrative ecology in the era of big data—From observation to prediction

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Interannual variability of ecosystem carbon exchange: From observation to prediction

scientific article published in 2017

Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

scientific article

Light Competition and Biodiversity Loss Cause Saturation Response of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity to Nitrogen Enrichment

scientific article published in 2020

Light and heavy fractions of soil organic matter in response to climate warming and increased precipitation in a temperate steppe

scientific article

Light-intensity grazing improves alpine meadow productivity and adaption to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article

Limits to growth of forest biomass carbon sink under climate change.

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Long-term effects of forest thinning on soil respiration and its components in a pine plantation

scientific article published in 2022

Mature forest shows little increase in carbon uptake in a CO2-enriched atmosphere

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Meta-analysis of the impacts of phosphorus addition on soil microbes

scientific article published in 2022

Microaggregates regulated by edaphic properties determine the soil carbon stock in Tibetan alpine grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Microbes drive global soil nitrogen mineralization and availability

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Net primary productivity and its partitioning in response to precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow

scientific article

Net primary productivity and rain-use efficiency as affected by warming, altered precipitation, and clipping in a mixed-grass prairie

scientific article

Nitrogen enrichment alters climate sensitivity of biodiversity and productivity differentially and reverses the relationship between them in an alpine meadow

scientific article published on 25 April 2022

Nitrogen regulation of the climate-carbon feedback: evidence from a long-term global change experiment

scientific article

Nitrogen use efficiency of terrestrial plants in China: geographic patterns, evolution, and determinants

scientific article published on 06 November 2021

Nonlinear responses of land ecosystems to variation in precipitation

scientific article published in April 2017

Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration

scientific article published in 2021

Photosynthetic overcompensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration

scientific article

Photosynthetic responses of C3 and C4 species to seasonal water variability and competition

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Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Plant functional groups regulate soil respiration responses to nitrogen addition and mowing over a decade

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Plant nitrogen dynamics and nitrogen-use strategies under altered nitrogen seasonality and competition

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Plants with lengthened phenophases increase their dominance under warming in an alpine plant community

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Potentials for combating desertification in Hunshandak Sandland through nature reserve

scientific article published in April 2005

Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate

scientific article published in 2021

Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits

scientific article published in 2022

Recovery time and state change of terrestrial carbon cycle after disturbance

Regional emissions of soil greenhouse gases across Tibetan alpine grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

Regional variation in the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in China's forests and grasslands

scientific article

Relationships Between Leaf Carbon and Macronutrients Across Woody Species and Forest Ecosystems Highlight How Carbon Is Allocated to Leaf Structural Function

scientific article published on 11 June 2021

Research challenges and opportunities for using big data in global change biology

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Response of Water Use Efficiency to Global Environmental Change Based on Output From Terrestrial Biosphere Models

scholarly article by Sha Zhou et al published November 2017 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Responses of soil enzymatic activities to transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops - A global meta-analysis

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Shifting biomass allocation determines community water use efficiency under climate warming

scientific article published in 2020

Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

Size‐dependent nutrient limitation of tree growth from subtropical to cold temperate forests

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Soil acid cations induced reduction in soil respiration under nitrogen enrichment and soil acidification.

scientific article

Soil and climate determine differential responses of soil respiration to nitrogen and acid deposition along a forest transect

scientific article published in 2019

Soil and vegetation carbon turnover times from tropical to boreal forests

scientific article published on 05 June 2017

Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks

scientific article published in 2022

Soil microbial gene abundance rather than diversity and network complexity predominantly determines soil multifunctionality in Tibetan alpine grasslands along a precipitation gradient

scientific article published in 2024

Soil organic matter availability and climate drive latitudinal patterns in bacterial diversity from tropical to cold temperate forests

scientific article published in 2017

Spatial variations in terrestrial net ecosystem productivity and its local indicators

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Species-specific response of photosynthesis to burning and nitrogen fertilization.

scientific article published in May 2008

Sustained increases in soil respiration accompany increased carbon input under long-term warming across global grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Temperature Sensitivity of Canopy Photosynthesis Phenology in Northern Ecosystems

scholarly article published 2013

The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partitioning using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques

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The role of data assimilation in predictive ecology

article by Shuli Niu et al published May 2014 in Ecosphere

Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

scientific article

Toward a sustainable grazing management based on biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Tracking Global Patterns of Drought‐Induced Productivity Loss Along Severity Gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Transient Dynamics of Terrestrial Carbon Storage: Mathematical foundation and Numeric Examples

Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage: mathematical foundation and its applications

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Transpiration Dominates Ecosystem Water-Use Efficiency in Response to Warming in an Alpine Meadow

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Unchanged carbon balance driven by equivalent responses of production and respiration to climate change in a mixed-grass prairie

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Vegetation Functional Properties Determine Uncertainty of Simulated Ecosystem Productivity: A Traceability Analysis in the East Asian Monsoon Region

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Warming Effects on Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Are Modulated by Plant Functional Types

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Water scaling of ecosystem carbon cycle feedback to climate warming

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe.

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

What have we learned from global change manipulative experiments in China? A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

When does extreme drought elicit extreme ecological responses?

scholarly article

Widespread asymmetric response of soil heterotrophic respiration to warming and cooling

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[Function of artificial grassland in restoration of degraded natural grassland and its research advance]

scientific article published on 01 September 2004