Article
Environmental Sciences
Ailin Zhang, Olusanya Abiodun Olatunji, Akash Tariq, Tianpeng Li, Ruzhen Wang, Yong Jiang
Summary: The study demonstrates that sulfur deposition can alter the composition of nematode community, impact the stability of nematode community structure, and increase disruption to the underground ecosystem.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Yuting Ji, Gerlinde B. De Eyn, Naili Zhang, Hongwei Xu, Minggang Wang, T. Martijn Bezemer
Summary: Nematodes play a significant role in plant growth and diversity in soil, and their community structure can be influenced by soil microbes and aboveground herbivory. The study found that foliar-feeding aphids reduced plant biomass and increased plant diversity, but had no impact on nematode communities. In contrast, soil microbial inoculations reduced nematode abundance and increased nematode diversity. There were no significant aboveground-belowground interactions observed in this study.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Lea-Rebekka Tonjer, Line Nybakken, Tone Birkemoe, Marek Renco, Zannatul Ferdous, Johan Asplund
Summary: Fertilization and combustion of fossil fuels have increased nitrogen deposition, which has had significant implications for boreal forest food web structure and functioning. Nematodes, being responsive to environmental changes, were used as indicators to study the linkages between N-induced changes in the soil food web and soil tannin concentration. The study found that increased N availability led to changes in soil community structure and reduced soil tannin concentrations, promoting the dominance of bacteria.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Lingzi Mo, Augusto Zanella, Xiaohua Chen, Bin Peng, Jiahui Lin, Jiaxuan Su, Xinghao Luo, Guoliang Xu, Andrea Squartini
Summary: The experiment demonstrated that nitrogen deposition has a significant impact on soil bacterial communities, leading to a decrease in bacterial diversity. The enrichment of ammonium nitrogen is identified as a key factor influencing the shift in taxa proportions within the urban green space soil bacterial community.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Silja Borring Lastad, Jan O. Haerter
Summary: Random matrix theory, which has been used in the study of food web stability for decades, may not be applicable to the analysis of food web steady states. By allowing feasible food webs to self-assemble in an evolutionary process, we found that the eigenvalue spectra of complex food webs become bimodal instead of elliptical. This raises questions about the applicability of random matrix theory to food web analysis.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shi-Qi Xu, Xue-Yan Liu, Zhong-Cong Sun, Chao-Chen Hu, Wolfgang Wanek, Keisuke Koba
Summary: The study investigated soil nitrogen transformations in 11 forests with different nitrogen deposition levels, finding that depolymerization, mineralization, and nitrification of soil nitrogen increased while losses decreased with increasing nitrogen deposition. The contribution of denitrification to total nitrate losses also increased with nitrogen deposition, providing new insights into soil nitrogen dynamics and forest nitrogen cycles under different deposition regimes.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Yi Zhu, Kailiang Yu, Qian Wu, Xu Cheng, Zhiguo Li, Zhongwu Wang, Mengli Zhao, Andreas Wilkes, Ton Bisselling, Guodong Han, Haiyan Ren
Summary: This study investigated the effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities and plant net photosynthetic rates during dry and wet months in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, based on a 13-year manipulative field experiment.
Article
Soil Science
Honglin Wang, Guancheng Liu, Binbin Huang, Xiaochun Wang, Yajuan Xing, Qinggui Wang
Summary: Global change factors like nitrogen deposition and precipitation reduction have significant impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, affecting both aboveground and underground processes. This study found that both nitrogen addition and precipitation reduction caused changes in the composition of soil nematode communities, with nitrogen addition having a more severe negative effect compared to precipitation reduction. Additionally, nitrogen addition and precipitation reduction had a synergistic effect on soil nematode communities.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Alexandros Dritsoulas, Sheng-Yen Wu, Homan Regmi, Larry W. Duncan
Summary: The study investigated changes in arthropod communities in a citrus orchard following soil inundation with entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) and found that certain arthropod taxa declined or increased in response to EPN augmentation, representing potential prey or predators of EPN. The study also revealed that regulation of EPN by various microarthropod species was a cumulative response rather than driven by a few key species.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anna Karpinska, Demi Ryan, Kieran Germaine, David Dowling, Patrick Forrestal, Thomais Kakouli-Duarte
Summary: Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, and with finite reserves and growing demand, alternative phosphorus resources need to be explored. Recycling-derived fertilisers recovered from waste streams have the potential to replace conventional phosphorus fertilisers, and healthy soil microbial and nematode communities are crucial for maintaining soil health and nutrient status.
Article
Ecology
Wenyuan He, Mengmeng Zhang, Guangze Jin, Xin Sui, Tong Zhang, Fuqiang Song
Summary: The study showed that nitrogen addition at different concentrations did not significantly affect soil pH, while high nitrogen addition significantly increased soil organic matter, ammonium nitrogen, and nitrate nitrogen content. Different nitrogen concentrations affected soil fungal community structure, with moderate nitrogen addition decreasing urease and protease activity. Nitrogen addition also resulted in changes in microbial community composition, with certain bacterial and fungal species changing significantly under different nitrogen treatments.
Article
Biology
Dan Zhao, Yao Wang, Ling Wen, Hongyun Qu, Zuobiao Zhang, Hui Zhang, Yunhe Jia, Juan Wang, Yixin Feng, Yan Li, Fan Yang, Fengjuan Pan
Summary: The monoculture of vegetables affects the soil nematode community structure and vegetable yields. Pumpkin and melon monoculture decrease the relative abundance of bacterivores but increase the relative abundance of plant parasites, leading to degraded soil food webs.
Article
Forestry
Tao Liu, Zixuan Wang, Huiling Guan, Buqing Zhong, Xinxing He, Yihan Wang, Yifei Qi, Wende Yan, Xiankai Lu
Summary: Soil macrofauna, such as earthworms and millipedes, have a significant impact on the diversity and structure of soil nematode communities. They act as hosts for soil nematodes and play a crucial role in dispersing and distributing these important microfauna throughout the soil landscape.
Article
Agronomy
Miguel Talavera, Tim C. Thoden, Maria D. Vela-Delgado, Soledad Verdejo-Lucas, Sara Sanchez-Moreno
Summary: The novel sulfonamide nematicide fluazaindolizine showed high selectivity towards root-knot nematodes, with minimal impact on other plant-parasitic nematodes. However, there were some slight adverse effects on soil functions as indicated by changes in certain soil food web indices.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daniel M. Perkins, Toby Hull, Niamh Bubb, Alex Cunningham, Rory Glackin, Thomas Glen, Stacey Smith, Bella Davies
Summary: The study monitored the aquatic invertebrate and fish communities before and up to five years after restoration of an urban river in London, UK. The results showed that restoration increased total invertebrate density and fish biomass significantly, indicating the effectiveness of common restoration methods in increasing standing stocks across trophic levels. However, there were limited developments of novel assemblages observed post-restoration, suggesting the importance of large-scale factors like water quality and source populations for understanding biodiversity changes following river restoration.
Article
Plant Sciences
Lan Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Xiaorong Wang, Huihan Fang, Peng Yan, Li-Ping Zhang, Shibei Ge, Jianyu Fu, Wen-Yan Han, Xin Li
Summary: 24-epibrassinolide (EBR) can improve tea resistance against the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum fructicola by inducing lignin synthesis in tea leaves.
JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lifang Peng, Jiawei Wang, Yinghua Huang, Xiaorong Wang
Summary: Drawing on moral disengagement theory and liquid consumption theory, this study investigated and tested a conceptual model of guests' unethical behavior in peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation. The study found that self-construal has both positive and negative effects on guests' unethical behavior, and this relationship is mediated by moral disengagement and moderated by perceived consumption liquidity.
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Weijia Zheng, YangQuan Chen, Xiaohong Wang, Meijin Lin, Jing Guo
Summary: Fractional order PID (FOPID) controller offers more flexibility in design options compared to integer order PID (IOPID) controller. However, in practical implementation, it is necessary to select achievable design specifications and controller parameters. This study collects and analyzes the complete achievable regions of design specifications and models the selectable integral and derivative orders of the FOPID controller. A synthesis method is proposed to achieve the desired flat-phase characteristic.
MEASUREMENT & CONTROL
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Xiaojing Wang, Guangqiang Shi, Meizhen Liu, Yarning Feng
Summary: A robust control strategy based on Adaboost prediction was proposed to improve the robustness and low-speed performance of an electro-hydraulic servo system. By using RBF neural network and H-infinity control theory, the system's feedback mechanism and robust controller were designed to effectively enhance the system's low-speed performance and anti-interference ability.
MEASUREMENT & CONTROL
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jiacheng Liu, Liying Yang, Yue Zheng, Chuanyi Kang, Xiaohong Wang, Jingjing Shi, Siyu Qiu, Ying Zhao, Jiahong Yu, Na Zhao
Summary: This study examined the differences in prevalence and associated factors of suicidal ideation (SI) among adolescents with depression between urban and rural areas. The results showed that urban patients had a higher prevalence of SI compared to rural patients, and there were also differences in parental rearing behavior. The study emphasizes the importance of focusing on parenting styles in adolescent patients for early identification and intervention of SI.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Christian Ristok, Alexander Weinhold, Marcel Ciobanu, Yvonne Poeschl, Christiane Roscher, Fredd Vergara, Nico Eisenhauer, Nicole M. van Dam
Summary: This study found a correlation between plant diversity and herbivory, with plant metabolomes playing a key role. The results suggest that soil community composition reduces herbivory rates by changing plant metabolomes in response to increasing plant diversity.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaoqiang Zhai, Fengyuan Zhang, Zhongbin Zhang, Kamel Hooman, Hai Zhang, Xiaolin Wang
Summary: This article proposes a novel carbon capture capsule inspired by red blood cells (RBC) to enhance CO2 hydrate formation kinetics. Compared to spherical capsules, the RBC-shaped capsule shows a 143% higher gas uptake efficiency. The study also investigates the effects of initial pressure and capsule size on CO2 hydrate formation kinetics.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuqin Wang, Wenfu Zhu, Guangyi Zhao, Guangzheng Ye, Yujun Jiao, Xiaohong Wang, Fan Yao, Weixiao Peng, Haomin Huang, Daiqi Ye
Summary: The influence of lignocellulose contents on the pore structure and distribution characteristics of porous carbon has been investigated. It was found that the microvolumes of ultra-micropores decreased with a decrease in cellulose contents, while mesopores followed the reverse trend. Carbon materials with abundant micropores and narrow mesopores exhibited better adsorption performance, while porous carbon with a hierarchical pore structure showed better regeneration abilities.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Lea Beaumelle, Lea Tison, Nico Eisenhauer, Jes Hines, Sandhya Malladi, Celine Pelosi, Lise Thouvenot, Helen R. P. Phillips
Summary: Soil invertebrate communities, which represent a significant fraction of global biodiversity, are being threatened by human activities, especially intensive agricultural practices involving pesticide use. This meta-analysis of 54 studies and 294 observations quantifies the negative effects of pesticides on the abundance, biomass, richness, and diversity of soil fauna communities. The study reveals that pesticides decrease the abundance and diversity of soil fauna communities, with the most detrimental effects caused by multiple substances, broad-spectrum substances, and insecticides.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Instruments & Instrumentation
Hao Chen, Chaoyang Zhao, Zhonghai Wang, Lingli Li, Yanhan Zhou, Jie Zhang, Hongbing Xu, Shikui Cheng, Yuxuan Zhu, Yipo Zhang
Summary: A new hard X-ray (HXR) camera is being designed for the HL-2M tokamak to measure the fast electrons in the energy range of 20-200 keV during RF drive or heating experiments. The camera integrates 63 channels of independent detectors and a composite collimator to reduce background rays. The optimal geometric parameters of the collimator were determined using Geant4 simulation.
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
(2023)
Article
Virology
Baiwei Liu, Yu Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Jia, Yi Tian, Hanqiu Yan, Weihong Li, Lingyu Shen, Quanyi Wang, Zhiyong Gao
Summary: Between September 2011 and August 2018, a total of 133,131 acute diarrhoea cases were studied in Beijing. Out of 13,139 specimens collected and tested, 16.84% were positive for NoV. Three different NoV strains, GII.4 Sydney, GII.17, and GII.2, were predominant during different time periods. Excess cases of NoV-associated acute diarrhoea were observed during the predominance periods, ranging from 114.7% to 180.5% increase compared to baseline levels. This study highlights the impact of new NoV variants on gastroenteritis outbreaks.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yaojun Fan, Quan Su, Xiaohong Wang, Min Fan
Summary: With the acceleration of digital technology construction process, digitization has driven the transformation and upgrading of China's economy and micro businesses. This study aims to investigate whether digitization affects corporate green innovation. The findings reveal that digitization genuinely drives green innovation by easing corporate financing constraints and enhancing corporate awareness of fulfilling social responsibility. The study enriches the related theories of digitization and sustainability and provides empirical evidence for the positive externalities of digitization.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sidi Chen, Min Fan, Xiaohong Wang, Yaojun Fan, Sze-Ting Chen, Shichi Ren
Summary: Enterprise managers play a decisive role in management decisions, and the influence of managerial ability on enterprise development has received wide attention. This paper uses Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2019 as samples to examine the impact of management abilities on corporate performance and studies the moderating effect of compensation incentives on this impact. The findings show a significant positive correlation between managerial ability and listed company performance, which is more pronounced when management has higher compensation incentives.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xiaolei Wang, Dunfeng Si, Yuliang Li, Ning Chen, Guodong Fang, Changyin Zhu, Dongmei Zhou
Summary: This study investigated the effects of alcohols on the degradation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) using persulfate (PS) based advanced oxidation processes. The results showed that ethanol significantly promoted PFOA degradation in a thermal/PS system. The reaction between ethanol and sulfate radicals (SO4 center dot-) generated from PS activation was found to efficiently degrade PFOA.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shan Luo, Richard P. P. Phillips, Insu Jo, Songlin Fei, Jingjing Liang, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer
Summary: Through analyzing 74,563 forest inventory plots across 35 ecoregions in the contiguous USA, it was found that mixed mycorrhizal plots were more productive than plots dominated by either arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungal-associated tree species in approximately 77% of the ecoregions. The positive effects of mixing mycorrhizal strategies on forest productivity were more pronounced at low tree species richness. These findings highlight the importance of mixed mycorrhizal strategies, as well as overall taxonomic diversity, for maintaining ecosystem functioning in forests.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
C. Beraud, F. Piola, J. Gervaix, G. Meiffren, C. Creuze des Chatelliers, A. Delort, C. Boisselet, S. Poussineau, E. Lacroix, A. A. M. Cantarel
Summary: This study investigated the soil factors influencing the development of biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) and found that initial soil moisture, ammonium concentration, and the initial abundance of certain microbial genes play significant roles in BDI development. Additionally, the research highlighted the relevance of biotic factors in explaining BDI and proposed the use of procyanidin concentration from plant belowground system as a new proxy for measuring BDI intensity.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Yizhu Qiao, Tingting Wang, Qiwei Huang, Hanyue Guo, He Zhang, Qicheng Xu, Qirong Shen, Ning Ling
Summary: Soil microbial community coalescence, the mixing and interaction of microbial communities, has been found to enhance the stability and complexity of rhizobacterial networks, leading to improved plant health and biomass. This study investigated the effects of different degrees of bacterial community coalescence on plant disease resistance by mixing soils from healthy and diseased habitats for watermelon planting. The results showed that mixing in more healthy soil reduced the plant disease index and increased biomass by improving the stability and complexity of the rhizobacterial network. Core taxa Nitrospirillum and Singulisphaera were enriched in the rhizosphere from healthy soils and played important roles in disease suppression and regulating the positive cohesion and modularity of the networks. Overall, these findings provide insights into the potential mechanism of microbial community coalescence for improving plant microbial community function and suggest new tools for enhancing plant fitness via soil microbiota mixing.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Mengqiu He, Shending Chen, Lei Meng, Xiaoqian Dan, Wenjie Wang, Qinying Zhu, Zucong Cai, Jinbo Zhang, Pierfrancesco Nardi, Christoph Mueller
Summary: Maize genotypes directly affect gene expression and nitrogen uptake capacity. The feedback between maize genotypes and soil nitrogen transformations, as well as their regulations on nitrogen uptake capacity, have been studied. The findings suggest that maize genotypes play a central role in regulating these feedbacks, which are important for maize breeding and enhancing maize production.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Ke Shi, Jiahui Liao, Xiaoming Zou, Han Y. H. Chen, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Zhengming Yan, Tingting Ren, Honghua Ruan
Summary: Through rewilding, microbial extracellular and cellular residues can continuously accumulate in soils and significantly contribute to soil organic carbon sequestration. Extracellular residues are mainly driven by fine root biomass, while cellular residues are mainly driven by soil nitrogen and organic carbon content.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Sensen Chen, Ying Teng, Yongming Luo, Eiko Kuramae, Wenjie Ren
Summary: This study comprehensively assesses the effects of NMs on the soil microbiome through a global meta-analysis. The results reveal significant negative impacts of NMs on soil microbial diversity, biomass, activity, and function. Metal NMs, especially Ag NMs, have the most pronounced negative effects on various soil microbial community metrics.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Shareen K. D. Sanders, Gerard Martinez-De Leon, Ludovico Formenti, Madhav P. Thakur
Summary: Collembolans, the diverse group of soil invertebrates, are affected by anthropogenic climate warming, which alters their diversity and density. In addition to abiotic stressors, changes in food availability, specifically the abundance of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi, influence Collembola responses to climate warming. Collembolans prefer saprotrophic fungi but rely on mycorrhizal fungi when food sources are scarce. Understanding the mechanisms behind these dietary shifts in warm-dry and warm-wet soil conditions is crucial for predicting the impact of climate change on Collembola-fungal interactions.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Wimonsiri Pingthaisong, Sergey Blagodatsky, Patma Vityakon, Georg Cadisch
Summary: A study found that mixing high-C/N ratio rice straw with low-C/N ratio groundnut stover can improve the chemical composition of the input, stimulate microbial growth, decrease the loss of residue-derived carbon in the soil, and reduce native soil carbon and nitrogen consumption.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Jiachen Wang, Jie Zhao, Rong Yang, Xin Liu, Xuyuan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyong Chen, Wende Yan, Kelin Wang
Summary: Nitrogen is vital for ecosystem productivity, restoration, and succession processes. This study found that legume intercropping was more effective than chemical nitrogen fertilizers in promoting the complexity and stability of the soil micro-food web, as it increased microbial and nematode communities and enhanced energy flow patterns.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)