For China to achieve carbon neutrality, the intersectoral transfers and drivers of net CO 2
emissions (NCE) must be thoroughly and accurately investigated. However, it appears that …

There are vast but uncharacterized microbial taxa and chemical metabolites (that is, dark
matter) across the Earth's ecosystems. A lack of knowledge about dark matter hinders a …

Semi-natural habitats (SNHs) are essential to biodiversity and agroecological conservation.
The impact of agricultural policies on the development of SNHs is a matter of substantial …

Understanding the spatial scales at which organisms can adapt to strong natural and human-
induced environmental gradients is important. Salinization is a key threat to biodiversity …

Agriculture contributes to a decline in local species diversity and to above-and below-
ground biotic homogenization. Here, we conduct a continental survey using 1185 soil …

Plant trait network analysis can calculate the topology of trait correlations and clarify the
complex relationships among traits, providing new insights into ecological topics, including …

There is increasing research interest in the application of the ecosystem services (ES)
concept in the environmental risk assessment of chemicals to support formulating and …

Sustainable land use should balance the competing needs for development and protection.
Land-use intensification facilitates material benefits from ecosystem, while potentially …

Soil microbial communities are vital for multiple ecosystem processes and services. In
particular, soil microbial food webs are key determinants of soil biodiversity, functioning and …

Research on successions and community assembly both address the same processes such
as dispersal, species sorting, and biotic interactions but lack unifying concepts. Recent …