Soil and environmental issues in sandy soils

J Huang, AE Hartemink - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Sandy soils are widely distributed across the world. Due to the growing global population
and urbanization, these soils are increasingly used to provide food, feed, fiber, energy, and …

Soil organic carbon in sandy soils: A review

JL Yost, AE Hartemink - Advances in agronomy, 2019 - Elsevier
Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide particularly in arid and semi-arid
regions. There are extensive areas of sandy soils under cultivation, but the soil fertility is …

Characterization of bacterial communities in soil and sediment of a created riverine wetland complex using high-throughput 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

T Ligi, K Oopkaup, M Truu, JK Preem, H Nõlvak… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial communities play a key role in wetland biogeochemical cycles; understanding the
associations between the composition and diversity of microbial communities and the …

Marsh wetland degradation risk assessment and change analysis: A case study in the Zoige Plateau, China

W Jiang, J Lv, C Wang, Z Chen, Y Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Wetlands play an important role in regional development and environmental protection.
Under the impact of natural and artificial factors, the plateau wetlands have degenerated …

Change in soil bacterial community during secondary succession depend on plant and soil characteristics

FZ Zhao, L Bai, JY Wang, J Deng, CJ Ren, XH Han… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Secondary succession has great impact on plant and soil characteristics, however, the
trends of microbial patterns and the influencing factors during grassland succession without …

A meta‐analysis of the bacterial and archaeal diversity observed in wetland soils

X Lv, J Yu, Y Fu, B Ma, F Qu, K Ning… - The Scientific World …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the bacterial and archaeal diversity from a worldwide range of
wetlands soils and sediments using a meta‐analysis approach. All available 16S rRNA …

Wetland management using microbial indicators

H Urakawa, AE Bernhard - Ecological Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of biological indicators to monitor the health and functioning of wetlands has been
an ongoing goal of wetland scientists and managers, and has focused primarily on …

Restoration efficiency of short-term grazing exclusion is the highest at the stage shifting from light to moderate degradation at Zoige, Tibetan Plateau

M Liu, Z Zhang, J Sun, Y Li, Y Liu, ML Berihun, M Xu… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Grassland degradation has profound negative impacts on ecological functions, local
economic development, and social stability. Although there are many studies on the alpine …

Microbial diversity in hummock and hollow soils of three wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau revealed by 16S rRNA pyrosequencing

Y Deng, X Cui, M Hernandez, MG Dumont - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The wetlands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are believed to play an important role in global
nutrient cycling, but the composition and diversity of microorganisms in this ecosystem are …

Degradation shaped bacterial and archaeal communities with predictable taxa and their association patterns in Zoige wetland at Tibet plateau

Y Gu, Y Bai, Q Xiang, X Yu, K Zhao, X Zhang, C Li… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Soil microbes provide important ecosystem services. Zoige Plateau wetland, the largest
alpine peat wetland in the world, has suffered from serious degradation in the past 30 years …