Background Soil microbial biomass, an important nutrient pool for ecosystem nutrient cycling
is affected by several factors including climate, edaphic, and land-use change. Himalayan …

Research in warm-climate biomes has shown that invasion by symbiotic dinitrogen (N 2)-
fixing plants can transform ecosystems in ways analogous to the transformations observed …

Most of the C in terrestrial ecosystems is found in the soil. Although C calculations indicate
that soils are more important than plants as reservoirs of C, soil rarely receives the attention …

Nitrogen (N) availability influences carbon (C) storage in forest soils through effects on plant
growth, litter production, and soil C decomposition and stabilization. Soil C/N and net N …

Land-use changes can alter soil carbon (C) contents, and in particular deforestation has
been responsible for a large part of the cumulative human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Robinia pseudoacacia is the dominant tree species in opencast coal mine reclamation in the
Loess Plateau, China. Nevertheless, the long-term changes of reclaimed mine soils (RMSs) …

The effects of tree species, parent material (substrate), and faunal bioturbation on carbon
sequestration and chemical and microbial properties in soil were studied at three post …

Soil is a prominent component of terrestrial C and N budgets. Soil C and N pools are
influenced by, and may reciprocally influence, many environmental factors. Our objective …

The chemical and microbial properties of afforested mine soils are likely to depend on the
species composition of the introduced vegetation. This study compared the chemical and …

After 15 years, the effects of Alnus subcordata (AS), Populus deltoides (PD), Taxodium
distichum (TD) plantations and a mixed natural forest dominated by Quercus castaneifolia …