The karst area in southwestern China is one of the largest and continuous karst landforms in
the world, and its ecosystem is highly sensitive and fragile. Appropriate vegetation …

The mechanism of vegetation restoration on degraded karst regions has been a research
focus of soil science and ecology for the last decade. In an attempt to preferably interpret the …

Natural regeneration and reforestation have been widely adopted to improve the degraded
soil and promote ecological services in the karst regions of southwestern China. A better …

The impacts of natural restoration projects on soil microbial carbon (C) cycling functions
have not been well recognized despite their wide implementation in the degraded karst …

Soil bacteria play an important role in regulating the process of vegetation restoration in
karst ecosystems. However, the effects of vegetation restoration for different cultivated …

Vegetation restoration has been widely used in karst rocky desertification (KRD) areas of
southwestern China, but the response of microbial community to revegetation has not been …

Ecological restoration is widespread in the karst region, southwest China, but the impacts of
different restoration strategies on soil fertility indices have rarely been compared. Here soil …

Vegetation restoration is an effective strategy for sequestering soil organic carbon (SOC)
and restoring degraded ecosystems. However, the effects of different restoration strategies …

Mountain closure, considered an effective and economic measure for natural restoration of
degraded forest ecosystems, has been widely carried out in the karst region of southwest …

Aims We explored the trends in soil fungal and bacterial patterns and their responses to
plant and soil characteristics with increasing site age in abandoned farmland in karst areas …