Coastal wetlands offer large carbon sequestration benefits but their conversion to aquaculture systems could result in substantial carbon losses. Here Prof. DING Weixin and his team show that the conversion of Spartina alterniflora salt marsh to mariculture ponds in China generated a greenhou...
Decades of Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments show that projected atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) increases significantly influence crop systems, impacting food security. Firstly, elevated CO2 (eCO2) benefits global C3 crop yields, despite substantial genetic variation. Lower-than-ex...
Microbial adaptations to resource availability are crucial to predict the responses of ecosystems to carbon (C) changes, yet viral roles in C cycling under varying levels of C remain elusive. Through metagenomic analysis of soils with contrasting C availability, a total of 24,789 viral contig...
BackgroundRising global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and surface temperatures could negatively affect rice yields and nutritional quality; however, their effects on arsenic accumulation in paddy rice have not been assessed concurrently. Prof. ZHU Chunwu and his research tea...
Soil flooding decreases the solubility of cadmium (Cd) by forming Cd-sulfides. However, hydroxyl radicals (•OH) can induce the oxidative dissolution of Cd-sulfides, increasing Cd solubility. The mechanisms underlying •OH generation and its subsequent effects on Cd solubility during soil red...
A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. ZHONG Huan from Nanjing University, has uncovered a significant yet often overlooked consequence of microplastic pollution: its detrimental impact on photo...
