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Changes in soil phosphorus and its influencing factors following afforestation in northern China

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Fungal richness contributes to multifunctionality in boreal forest soil

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Disentangling the effects of driving forces on soil bacterial and fungal communities under shrub encroachment on the Guizhou Plateau of China

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Disentangling the Contributions of Plant Taxonomic and Functional Diversities in Shaping Aboveground Biomass of a Restored Forest Landscape in Southern China

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The influence of tree species on soil properties and microbial communities following afforestation of abandoned land in northeast China

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Changes of soil microbial and enzyme activities are linked to soil C, N and P stoichiometry in afforested ecosystems

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Effects of tree species and soil properties on the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community following afforestation

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Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long-term fertilization management

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Dynamics of soil nitrogen availability during post-agricultural succession in a karst region, southwest China

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Dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks after afforestation in arid and semi-arid regions: A meta-analysis

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Changes in soil microbial community structure and function after afforestation depend on species and age: Case study in a subtropical alluvial island

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(2018) Stilianos Louca et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

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Changes in soil fungal communities and vegetation following afforestation with Pinus tabulaeformis on the Loess Plateau

(2018) Peng Dang et al.   Ecosphere

Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems

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A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research

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Can enzymatic stoichiometry be used to determine growth-limiting nutrients for microorganisms? - A critical assessment in two subtropical soils

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Establishing causal links between aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Status and research needs

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Dynamics of storage and relative availability of soil inorganic nitrogen along revegetation chronosequence in the loess hilly region of China

(2018) Changzhen Li et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

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Temporal changes in soil C-N-P stoichiometry over the past 60 years across subtropical China

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(2017) Christian Alsterberg et al.   Science Advances

Consistent effects of biodiversity loss on multifunctionality across contrasting ecosystems

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Impacts of afforestation on plant diversity, soil properties, and soil organic carbon storage in a semi-arid grassland of northwestern China

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The importance of biodiversity and dominance for multiple ecosystem functions in a human-modified tropical landscape

(2016) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of multiple dimensions of bacterial diversity on functioning, stability and multifunctionality

(2016) Fabian Roger et al.   ECOLOGY

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

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Afforestation Drives Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Changes in China

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Multifunctionality at what scale? A landscape multifunctionality assessment for the European Union under conditions of land use change

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The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon availability in Mediterranean semi-arid soils

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A global meta-analysis of changes in soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, and stoichiometric shifts after forestation

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The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

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