Quantitative analysis of regional-scale soil heavy metal (HM) sources presents significant challenges. The reliability of the widely used source apportionment model (positive matrix factorization, PMF) remains to be validated. Moreover, PMF are limited in their ability to dynamically assess s...
Extensive herbicide residues in the black soil of northeastern China are considered a significant agricultural pollution threat, yet effective bioremediation of this complex and persistent mixture remains a challenge. Prof. CHU Haiyan and his team identified 16 bacterial species that associat...
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...
