Interactions among vegetation, soil physical and chemical conditions, and soil microbial
communities determine the functions, resilience and stability of ecosystems. However, these …

Reforestation has been widely adopted to restore soil fertility and ecosystem service in the
rocky-desertified Karst region of southwestern China. As a key indicator of ecosystem …

Karst ecosystems are fragile and are in many regions degraded by anthropogenic activities.
Current management of degraded karst areas focuses on aboveground vegetation …

Soil micro‐organisms play a key role in soil biogeochemical cycles, but their growth and
activities are often limited by resource availability. Understanding soil processes that are …

Extensive, progressive rock emergence causes localized variations in soil biogeochemical
and microbial properties that may influence the capacity for the regeneration of degraded …

Vegetation restoration affects belowground microbial diversity and trait-based life strategies,
as well as soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation. Despite the growing focus on microbial …

Bacterial communities play key roles in maintaining ecosystem multifunctionality. With
increasing land use intensity, soil biogeochemical and microbial characteristics change …

Understanding how patterns of recovery and geological conditions affect microbial
communities is important for determining the stability of karst ecosystems. Here, we …

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 …

Being different from the well-known and extensively researched counterparts in arid and
semi-arid regions, biological soil crusts (BSCs) in degraded karst ecosystems with …