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Zihan Gui, Heshuai Qi, Faliang Gui, Baoxian Zheng, Shiwu Wang and Hua Bai
Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is an important regional water resource and a landmark ecosystem. In recent years, it has experienced a period of prolonged drought. Using appropriate drought indices to describe the drought characterist...
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JoAnn M. Burkholder, Carol A. Kinder and Elle H. Allen
Reservoirs are increasingly valuable worldwide as potable source waters, yet in many geographic regions, their limnology and trophic status are poorly known. We characterized 14 drinking water reservoirs and their watersheds across the warming temperate/...
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Xiaoxia Zhang, Pengzhi Lin and Xinping Chen
Mangroves provide many ecosystem services, including coastal protection against storm surges and waves. As an adaptive method for coastal defense, mangroves were widely restored and planted in tropical and subtropical regions, such as the coastal regions...
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Tonantzin Tarin,Enrico A. Yepez,Jaime Garatuza-Payan,Julio C. Rodriguez,Luis A. Méndez-Barroso,Christopher J. Watts,Enrique R. Vivoni
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Evapotranspiration is the second largest component of the hydrological cycle after rainfall precipitation in semiarid regions such as northwestern Mexico. In this study, we partitioned the evapotranspiration (ET) flux using stable isotopes of water in th...
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Jingjing Wang,Jun Cui,Zhen Teng,Wei Fan,Mengran Guan,Xiaoya Zhao,Xiaoniu Xu
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Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a 5-year simulated nitrogen (N) deposition on soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC), nitrogen (MBN), microbial community activity and diversity in subtropical old-growth forest ecosystem...
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Ngakhainii Trune Pao,Krishna Upadhaya
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Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to assess the seasonal dynamics of microbial biomass and its contribution to soil system along a fragment size gradient in subtropical humid forest of Meghalaya. Area of study: The study was conducte...
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Ana Sofía Nanni and Héctor Ricardo Grau
Areas of land abandonment and agriculture expansion usually differ in location and associated environmental characteristics; thus, land-use redistribution affects the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. In a subtropical region ...
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Jian Gao, Ping Zhong, Jiajia Ning, Zhengwen Liu, Erik Jeppesen
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Studies suggest that, unlike the situation in temperate lakes, high biomasses of omnivorous fish are maintained in subtropical and tropical lakes when they shift from a turbid phytoplankton-dominated state to a clear water macrophyte-dominated state, and...
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Shaohui Fan, Fengying Guan, Xingliang Xu, David I. Forrester, Wu Ma and Xiaolu Tang
Converting secondary natural forests (SFs) to Chinese fir plantations (CFPs) represents one of the most important (8.9 million ha) land use changes in subtropical China. This study estimated both biomass and soil C stocks in a SF and a CFP that was conve...
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Chao Zhang, Beicheng Xia and Junyu Lin
Forest ecosystems make a greater contribution to carbon (C) stocks than any other terrestrial ecosystem. To understand the role of regional forest ecosystems in global climate change and carbon exchange, forest C stocks and their spatial distribution wit...
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