Background and aims Planting artificial grassland has been widely implemented to restore
the extremely degraded alpine meadow. However, the restoration effect of different planting …

The negative environmental impacts of chemical fertilizers have been recognized for a long
time, and the returning of agricultural residues to the soil is considered a sustainable …

As an effective field management practice for better crop productivity, fertilization showed
profound impacts on soil health by altering soil chemical, physical, and biological processes …

The natural world is constantly changing, and planetary boundaries are issuing severe
warnings about biodiversity and cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. In other views …

Soil health indexes (SHIs) are widely used methods on a regional or national scale to
evaluate the status of soils. However, how to unbiasedly select appropriate indicators and …

Land abandonment is considered an effective strategy for ecological restoration on a global
scale. However, few studies have focused on how environmental heterogeneity associated …

Soil health is universally acknowledged to be an integrative tool in revealing soil
degradation and agro-ecosystem health, and it has been the focus of many national …

Agricultural intensification is known to impact the soil microbial diversity and community
structure, which are responsible for soil multifunctionality. Although the contributions of …

Soil protists represent a vastly diverse component of soil microbial communities and
significantly contribute to biogeochemical cycling. However, how different fertilization …

Hydrothermal carbonization aqueous phase (HAP) containing abundant organic matter
(OM) and nutrients (eg N and P) are significant in soil nutrients retention capacity and have …