Drip by drip: Research provides first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature's most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...

Study reveals global patterns and drivers of soil microbial succession

Ecologists have long studied how biological communities assemble following disturbances, a process known as ecological succession. Understanding the dynamics of soil microbes, Earth's most abundant ...
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Transpiration Reduction Factor and Soybean Yield in Low Land Soil with Ridge and Chiseling

Water and oxygen deficiencies in the soybean crop cultivated on lowland soils are an important topic of research. The objective of this study was to investigate changes in water and oxygen supply and ...
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Model Intercomparisons of MEGAN and BEIS: Synergistic Impacts of Biogenic VOCs and Soil NO Emissions on Summer Ozone and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in China

State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China Key Laboratory of Wetland ...
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Divergent responses of plant lignin and microbial necromass to the contribution of soil organic carbon under organic and chemical fertilization

Introduction: Long-term fertilization strongly influences the formation, turnover and stabilization of soil organic carbon (SOC) in croplands. The underlying mechanism by which chemical fertilizer (CF ...
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Corn straw return effectively improves the stability and increases the carbon and nitrogen contents of waterstable aggregates in northeastern China black soil

Aggregate is the basic unit of soil structure and nutrient storage, and its stability is one of the main indexes used to evaluate soil antierodibility and soil fertility (Mikha and Rice 2004). Natural ...
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Effects of Zinc Thiazole and Oxytetracycline on the Microbial Metabolism, Antibiotic Resistance, and Virulence Factor Genes of Soil, Earthworm Gut, and Phyllosphere

College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions (Henan University), ...
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Factors controlling the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon in the Chinese medicine producing area of NW China

1 Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Soil organic carbon is an important ...