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Soil bacterial community structure and co‐occurrence networks in response to the succession of secondary forests in subtropical regions Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Zhuangzhuang Qian, Luozhong Tang, Yaping Hu, Xu Zhou, Xiao Zheng, Hui Ding, Xiaomin Ge
A large amount of secondary successional vegetation (subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests) has formed after the extensive deforestation and cultivation of coniferous forests in Wuyi Mountain, Southeast China. However, we lack a detailed understanding of the dynamic changes in microbial community structure and its co‐occurrence network during succession. The features that are responsible for alterations
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Rare‐earth element phytoextraction efficiency in southern Chinese mines under different clipping intensities using a co‐cropping system (Dicranopteris pedata and Pinus massoniana) Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Zhiqiang Chen, Liujun Feng, Yu Lin, Haiyan Wang, Zhibiao Chen, Zuliang Chen
Our understanding of how varying clipping intensities affect the efficiency of phytoextraction remains limited, particularly with co‐cropping systems. This study focuses on assessing the effects of different clipping intensities on phytoextraction efficiency within co‐cropping systems dominated by the key species Dicranopteris pedata and Pinus massoniana in rare‐earth mines of southern China. Our results
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Spatial variation of soil organic carbon under major rubber planting regions in China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xinwei Guo, Linlin Zhao, Zhixiang Wu, Rui Sun, Chuan Yang, Qingmao Fu, Zhenghong Tan
Understanding the dynamic relationships between soil organic carbon (SOC) and stand age are essential to quantify and predict the terrestrial carbon sequestration potential. However, the spatial patterns in the response of rubber plantation SOC to stand age and their driving factors remain unclear. Based on SOC and its components measurement at different soil depths (0–40 cm) in rubber plantations
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Temporal and depth‐dependent variations in soil aggregate‐associated organic carbon in reclaimed coastal poplar plantations Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Jiangwei Liu, Xiangrong Cheng, Haidong Xu, Shuoxin Zhang
Coastal reclamation alters the ecological environment of wetlands and influences global carbon cycles. However, variations in soil organic carbon fractions and stability in the soil profile during reclamation, particularly in the subsoil, remain unclear. In this study, soil aggregate‐associated organic carbon and its stability were investigated in soil profiles (0–100 cm) at different reclamation times
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Mechanical terracing regulates soil physicochemical properties and infiltration processes in the Loess Hilly Region of China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Zhuoxiao Wang, Daming Yang, Xin Peng, Heng Chang, Wei Dai, Yi Zeng, Lingshan Ni, Lei Deng, Nufang Fang
The widespread adoption of large‐scale machines has led to a significant shift in terrace construction methods, transitioning from manual labor to mechanical processes. Mechanical terracing, by deeply disturbing the surface and compaction of the soil, has resulted in significant variations in both the soil physicochemical properties (SPCs) and soil infiltration properties (SIPs). However, few studies
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Comparison of nonlinear trends and influencing factors of carbon sinks in four ecological restoration projects in China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Xiaojuan Xu, Jing Liu, Jie Qiu, Kun Zhang, Fusheng Jiao, Dayi Lin, Yue Yang, Naifeng Lin, Changxin Zou
China's ecological restoration projects aim to safeguard natural forests, improve the ecological environment, and achieve carbon neutrality. Previous studies at multiple scales have reported that the ecological projects contributed to enhancing carbon sinks. However, the effect of these projects on the carbon sinks has remained uncertain. Thus, we conducted a comparative analysis of nonlinear trends
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Impacts of environmental and socioeconomic factors on gross ecosystem product of the Three Gorges reservoir area, China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jing Cheng, Shuangshuang Liu, Chunbo Huang, Lunche Wang, Zelin Liu, Changhui Peng
Environmental and socioeconomic drivers would alter landscapes, bringing various effects with different directions and magnitudes. Demonstrating these driving effects is key to relieving the conflicts between territorial vegetation restoration and regional economic growth. However, the relationship between ecological protection and economic development due to landscape dynamics has not been systematically
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Effect of coal gasification coarse slag on soil water and nutrition at an arid opencast coal mine site in Northwest China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Xiaonan Li, Kai Zhang, Kaikai Bao, Jiangang Zhao, Xiaoyuan Wang, Yuwei Tang
Though amendment using coal gasification coarse slag (CGCS) has garnered attention, the intrinsic mechanism of how CGCS, a glassy material, works to amend physicochemical properties in the soil is not yet clear. This study aimed to analyze the effects of different CGCS particle sizes on soil water infiltration and nutrient retention, and to identify the relationship between the physicochemical properties
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Grazing increases the positive feedback of legumes while decreasing the negative feedback of grass Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jiechao Chang, Jiayao Xie, Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva, Honghui Wu, Haiyan Ren
Herbivore grazing affects plant growth and community structure in grasslands. This effect could be directly through foraging and dung/urine return or indirectly through plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs). Addressing the grazing effect on the feedback of plants can explicate the causes of community changes in the grazing system. However, how grazing and PSF interact to affect plant growth remains unclear.
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Investigation on structure, evaporation, and desiccation cracking of soil with straw biochar Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Binbin Yang, Yang Chen, Shichong Yuan
To investigate the cracking behavior in the evaporation process of the soil surface with biochar as an additive, five experimental groups were established in the natural environment with 0, 12, 60, 120, and 170 g·kg−1 biochar. The results of an investigation on organic matter and aggregations indicate that a high content of biochar can significantly improve the content of organic matter and the amount
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Feedback of litter decay to temporal stability of biomass under N‐inputs Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Preeti Verma, R. Sagar, Aakansha Pandey
Nitrogen (N) input affects litter decay and ecosystem functioning. However, the mechanism of litter decay under temporal N‐inputs has rarely been observed. Here we show that three‐year experimental N‐inputs significantly stimulated the rate of litter decay to some extent and then inhibited it with increasing N‐inputs. The N‐inputs affected the litter's mass loss by directly influencing the temporal
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Migration and remediation of typical contaminants in soil and groundwater: A state of art review Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Ying Zhao, Jian Song, Kui Cheng, Zhuqing Liu, Fan Yang
Soil and groundwater contamination has always been a global concern. Contaminants are migrated and transformed in the soil and groundwater environments, which in turn pose potential environmental risks to humans. This paper describes four typical contaminants, including heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, microplastics, and perfluorinated and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Based on a systematic
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Influence of groundwater table depth on the evolution of saline‐alkali land in a coastal area Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Hui Gao, Tonggang Fu, Feng Wang, Mei Zhang, Fei Qi, Jintong Liu
The groundwater table depth, which is typically shallow in coastal areas, is one of the decisive conditions impacting soil salinization. The influence mechanism of shaollow groundwater table depth change on the evolution of saline‐alkali land is still unclear. In this study, Huanghua City, a coastal city of the Bohai Sea in China, was selected as the research area, and four wells with groundwater table
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A non‐grain production on cropland spatiotemporal change detection method based on Landsat time‐series data Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Tingting He, Suqin Jiang, Wu Xiao, Maoxin Zhang, Tie Tang, Heyu Zhang
Global food security is being threatened by the reduction of high‐quality cropland, extreme weather events, and the uncertainty of food supply chains. The globalization of agricultural trade has elevated the diversification of non‐grain production (NGP) on cultivated land to a prominent strategy for poverty alleviation in numerous developing nations. Its rapid expansion has engendered a multitude of
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Assessing and mapping cropland abandonment risk in China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Jie Zeng, Ting Luo, Wanxu Chen, Tianci Gu
Cropland abandonment (CA) in China worsens the human‐land conflict and endangers national food sustainability. Scientifically assessing cropland abandonment risk (CAR) can provide valuable information for early warning and prevention of CA. Despite the extensive literature on the identification, determinants, and consequences of CA, the research on CAR still needs to be improved, especially on a grid
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Dynamic interactions and mechanisms between high‐quality urbanization and ecosystem service value in Shandong Province: Trends, coordination, and implications for sustainable development Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Dandan Liu, Qiran Ren
An extensive and profound investigation into the dynamic interactions between High‐Quality Urbanization (HQU) and Ecosystem Service Value are of utmost importance for the coordinated development of the region. Diverging from traditional macro‐level analysis, this study is grounded on county‐scale data, measuring HQU and ecosystem service value from a multidimensional perspective. On the basis of the
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Micro and nanoplastics pollution: A review on global concern and its impacts on ecosystems Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sonkeshwar Sharma, Tanay Barman, Gaurav Mishra, Amit Kumar
In recent decades, the ubiquity of micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) pollution has emerged as a global concern due to its potential risks to both ecological and human health. The detrimental effects of MNPs have resulted in significant changes in the physicochemical and biological properties of terrestrial soil and benthic sediment. These alterations have led to a disrupted nutrient cycle, potential future
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Complementing seedling planting with nucleation techniques increases forest restoration potential in areas around bauxite mining Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Wesley da Silva Fonseca, Sebastião Venâncio Martins, Enzo Mauro Fioresi, Pedro Manuel Villa
The soil seed bank is one of the most important ecological indicators to evaluate and monitor the ecological restoration process of plant communities. We aimed to analyze the influence of two different ecological restoration techniques on the diversity and floristic composition of the soil seed bank and of standing vegetation, in two 4‐year‐old areas under forest restoration around bauxite mining,
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Exploring the relationship between soil erosion and hydraulic parameters on slopes with clipped herbaceous vegetation through Bayesian network modeling Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Qilin He, Binbin Li, Fengbao Zhang, Nan Shen, Mingyi Yang
Clipping management, which alters vegetation conditions by removing aboveground vegetation while preserving the underground root system, directly impacts hydrological processes and flow dynamics, ultimately affecting soil erosion processes. This study conducted field experiments (2 × 6 m) encompassing four clipping intensities (with vegetation coverage of 70%, 50%, 25%, and 0%), three rainfall intensities
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Divergent changes of carbon and nitrogen in the density fractions of soil organic matter after revegetation in the Tengger Desert, north China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Xiaojun Li, Haotian Yang, Rong Yang
Revegetation is an effective measure to enhance soil organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen (N) storage in drylands, but the underlying processes remain poorly understood. Based on density fractionation, the free light fraction (fLF), the occluded light fraction (oLF), and a heavy fraction (HF) were extracted from a chronosequence of revegetated sites aged 10, 22, 34, 48, and 65 years. A mobile sand dune
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The dilemma of water, food, and greener energy nexus: A novel context of COP27 for G20 economies Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Kang He, Irum Shahzadi, Salahuddin Khan, Grzegorz Mentel, Waldemar Tarczyński
In the contemporary world, achieving sustainable food production has become an urgent task for the international community and policymakers due to the rapidly growing social challenges of mankind. Sustainable food production practices aid countries in adapting to the challenges posed by climate change, thereby ensuring a better and more sustainable future for all. This study examines the impact of
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Comprehensive exploration on transfer and human health risk of potential toxic element in soil‐rice system from the Pearl River Delta Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Changchen Huang, Qingye Hou, Zhongfang Yang, Tao Yu, Yuanhang You, Zhiliang Wu
The transfers of potential toxic elements (PTEs) from root soil to rice grains and its driving factors are of major worldwide concern. And it is still not clear whether the parent material has influence on the transfers of PTEs in soil. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the transfers of PTEs in soil‐rice system from different parent materials area, identify its driving factors and evaluate
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Impacts of the attributes of patches and the surrounding matrix on the phylogenetic diversity of tree species in urban remnant forests Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Jingyi Yang, Feng Wu
Urbanization is a major cause of biotic homogenization and evolutionary poverty. Urban remnant forests are biodiversity hotspots in cities but are prone to phylogenetic homogenization. However, how urbanization-driven changes in patch attributes and landscape heterogeneity levels of the surrounding matrix affect plant phylogenetic diversity in urban remnant forests remains unclear. We quantified tree
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Research on the coupled mechanism of landscape connectivity simulation by integrating multi‐level ecological security patterns and multi‐scenario simulation: A case study of the main urban area of Hangzhou Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Tao Xu, Wenbin Nie, Zhenguo Wang, Guofu Yang, Yapin Zhang, Bin Xu
In the context of rapid urbanization, protecting landscape connectivity has become an effective measure to mitigate habitat fragmentation and curb biodiversity decline. However, in the current research on simulating optimization processes, the ecological constraints often set are dispersed, isolated, and fixed. They fail to form a comprehensive protective spatial framework and struggle to align with
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Organic fermentative‐humic soil subhorizon (Ofh) as a ‘natural sponge’ of selected trace elements: Does this feature make it a potential geoindicator of temperate soil quality? Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Sabina Dołęgowska, Agnieszka Sołtys, Karina Krzciuk
In a temperate climate zone, the outermost part of forest soil forms the organic‐O horizon. It consists of subhorizons of varying thickness, including the organic fermentative‐humic subhorizon (Ofh), which resembles a tobacco tangled mat. The scientific novelty of this project is to evaluate whether the specific structure of the subhorizon‐Ofh makes it a ‘natural sponge’ for trace elements such as
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Above‐ground biomass retrieval with multi‐source data: Prediction and applicability analysis in Eastern Mongolia Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Shuxin Ji, Batnyambuu Dashpurev, Thanh Noi Phan, Munkhtsetseg Dorj, Yun Jäschke, Lukas Lehnert
Grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key variable to measure grassland productivity, and accurate assessment of AGB is important for optimizing grassland resource management and understanding carbon, water, and energy fluxes. Current approaches on large scales such as the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem often combine field measurements with optical and/or synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Meanwhile
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Effects of groundwater level decline on soil-vegetation system in semiarid grassland influenced by coal mining Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Haibo Feng, Ying Duan, Jianwei Zhou, Danhui Su, Ran Li, Ruimin Xiong
Although it is well known that groundwater significantly influences the plant communities, there have been few studies on how the soil and plant communities respond to a rapid decline of groundwater in a short time affected by coal mining. This paper focuses on the examination of changes in groundwater depth before and after coal mining and the soil-vegetation response in a typical semi-arid grassland
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Monitoring soil organic carbon under coastal restoration using time series Sentinel-1 Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ren-Min Yang, Lai-Ming Huang
Salt marsh soils are key reservoirs of organic carbon. Although the potential for using Sentinel-1 data to estimate organic carbon in marsh soils has been recognized, there is still a need to find suitable proxies and effective algorithms that enhance predictions. In this study, we assessed the effectiveness of Sentinel-1 data for predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in salt marshes located
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Reproductive toxicities of dimethyl phthalates on Caenorhabditis elegans with alteration in responses over life stages Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jing Zhang, Yuheng Huang, Zhenyang Yu, Lingyun Mo
Phthalate esters (PAEs) raised serious concerns on their health risk due to their toxicities. However, toxicities of low-molecular-weight PAEs, for example, dimethyl phthalates (DMPs), remained poorly investigated. In the present study, the reproductive toxicities of dimethyl (o-)phthalate (DMOP), dimethyl (p-)phthalate (DMPP), and dimethyl (m-)phthalate (DMMP) were measured on Caenorhabditis elegans
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Changes in built-up land along slope gradients and their effects on vegetation in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Haozhe Zhang, Qingyuan Yang, Qiang Tang, Xiubin He
Built-up land changes along slope gradients (BCSG) are widespread globally, driven by natural environmental and socio-economic variations. This process has profound effects on vegetation cover and is closely related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, the mechanisms involved in the BCSG remain to be elucidated, and the impacts of BCSG on vegetation cover need to be quantified
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Afforestation alters soil microbial community composition and reduces microbial network complexity in a karst region of Southwest China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Pujia Yu, Hanya Tang, Xizao Sun, Weiyu Shi, Jinjiang Pan, Shiwei Liu, Hongtao Jia, Zhi Ding, Xuguang Tang, Mo Chen
Soil microbial community plays important roles in altering ecological processes and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems. However, little is known about how afforestation influences the diversity, composition, and ecological network of soil microbial community in karst regions. In this study, soil samples were collected from one farmland (FL) and three afforestation lands including one bamboo forest
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The life state of smooth vetch regulates the seasonal dynamics of microbial nutrient limitations in citrus orchards Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jiajia Zhang, Wenfa Xiao, Lixiong Zeng, Ruimei Cheng, Xin Yang, Meng Zhang, Lei Lei
Cover crops improve soil fertility in orchard ecosystems, however, the response of soil microbial metabolism to fruit tree interactions with cover legumes at different stages of the life cycle remains uncertain, thereby limiting our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate nutrient cycling in orchards with cover crop management. Here, the characteristics of microbial energy (carbon, C) and nutrient
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Agri-mat and grass mulch effect on crop biomass yield in sandy loam and loam soils Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sibongiseni Mgolozeli, Adornis D. Nciizah, Isaiah I. C. Wakindiki, Siaw Onwona-Agyeman
The role of agri-mat mulch as a soil and water conservation technology for improved and sustainable plant production has not been explored. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of agri-mats and grass mulch on crop biomass yield of maize and spinach under sandy loam and loam soils. The following five mulch treatments were established in two sites (Durban with loam soil and Pretoria with
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Characteristics and driving mechanism of wetland landscape pattern change in karst region of southwest China over past 35 years: A case study of Caohai wetland in Guizhou Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Guiting Mu, Ximei Wen, Zhenming Zhang
To uncover the process of land use change and its driving mechanism of typical wetland ecosystems in the karst region, this thesis conducts a case study on Caohai National Nature Reserve (hereafter referred to as Caohai). With the support of geo-information technology and the landscape index analysis method, it quantitatively analyzes the magnitudes, speed, and landscape patterns of land use changes
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Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Kripal Singh, Meghna Agrawala, Shalini Dhyani, Nivedita Mishra, Kuldeep Bauddh, Chaeho Byun
This article reviews and synthesizes the articles published in a virtual special issue (VSI) “Land Degradation and Development in India: Status quo, challenges, and opportunities.” A total of 31 studies (28 research papers and three reviews) are published in this VSI covering various agroclimatic zones of India. These articles provide insights on how different natural and anthropogenic disturbances
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Mixed plantation forest litter improves microbial nitrogen transformation by increasing nitrogen metabolism related genes and key bacterial taxa in northern China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Di Wu, Changwei Yin, Zhili Liu, Guangze Jin
Nitrogen (N) metabolism is a key metabolic pathway of nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. However, the mechanisms by which mixed plantation forest litter improves microbial N transformation are poorly understood. Thus, we investigated the N characteristics, N metabolism‐related genes, and key microbial modules of litter and soil in three types of forests: coniferous (CP forest), broadleaf (BP forest)
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Divergent responses in microbial metabolic limitations and carbon use efficiency to variably sized polystyrene microplastics in soil Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Guanlin Li, Yi Tang, Yowhan Son, Xiaoxun Zhao, Babar Iqbal, Kiran Yasmin Khan, Ruoyu Guo, Weiqing Yin, Xin Zhao, Daolin Du
Microplastics, considered emerging contaminants, have been accumulating excessively within soil ecosystems, conferring potentially detrimental effects with respect to soil carbon turnover and pools. As a major participant in soil carbon processes, microplastics affecting microorganisms may be one of the main agents affecting soil carbon dynamics. However, the microbial metabolism processes through
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Characteristics and hotspots of forest litter decomposition research: A bibliometric analysis Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Qi Liu, Jianxing Li, Shaoming Ye, Yili Guo, Shengqiang Wang
The decomposition of forest litter is essential for maintaining forest ecosystem productivity and improving soil fertility. Interdisciplinary collaboration plays a pivotal role in the study of litter decomposition. Nevertheless, existing literature reviews often concentrate on specific hot topics, lacking a more comprehensive and systematic overview of this field. This study was based on the Web of
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Impacts of land cover changes on dust emissions in northern China (2000–2020) Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hongquan Song, Ruiqi Min, Genxin Song, Shiyan Zhai, Dong Wang, Yaobin Wang, Tianqi Bai
Land cover is a key factor affecting dust emissions. Substantial changes in land cover have occurred due to human activities and climate change in northern China. However, the extent to which these changes influence dust emissions is still controversial. Here, we explored the specific impact of land use type transformation on dust emissions between 2000 and 2020 by using the Weather Research and Forecasting
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Soil organic carbon enrichment in the particulate matter emitted by rural soils: A laboratory assessment Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nancy B. Ramirez Haberkon, Mariano J. Mendez
The aim of this study was to assess the organic carbon (OC) content in the PM10 emitted by agricultural soils and rural roads under controlled conditions. Samples were collected from agricultural soils and rural roads. The PM10 was generated and collected using an electrostatic precipitator coupled with the Easy Dust Generator (EDG). This procedure ensures that the PM10 collected come specifically
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The interlinkage between land resources, food, water, income, and sustainable environment: Evidence from China's economy with COP27 perspective Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jun Tian, Weizheng Wang, Zhen Wang, Wei Fan
China, the most populous country across the globe, has emerged as one of the biggest economies; however, regarding food production, water, uplifting the income level, and attaining environmental sustainability, the policymakers are still concerned. China's government has worked immensely on eradicating poverty through increasing food production, ensuring access to clean water, and using land resources
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Ecosystem function associated with soil organic carbon declines with tropical dry forest degradation Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Laura L. de Sosa, Inmaculada Carmona, Marco Panettieri, Daniel M. Griffith, Carlos I. Espinosa, Andrea Jara-Guerrero, César Plaza, Engracia Madejón
Forest degradation is increasingly recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity and the multiple ecosystem services forests provide. This study examined the impacts of forest degradation on soil quality and function in a seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) of Ecuador. Previous studies of SDTFs have focused on the impacts of land-use conversion on soils, while this study assessed the less visible
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Leaf stoichiometry of potassium, calcium, and magnesium in tropical plants: Responses to climatic and geographical variations—A case study from Hainan Island Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Zixuan Wang, Zixun Chen, Bingsun Wu, Yongyi Liang, Guoan Wang, Xiaoyan Lin, Jun Yang, Qiwen Cheng, Jingjing Wang
Grasping how climate change will affect the tropical region's leaf potassium, calcium, and magnesium content is pivotal for enhancing our comprehension of plant stoichiometry. Currently, there is limited research on leaf potassium, calcium, and magnesium in tropical plants, which is particularly evident with the increasing importance of tropical rainforest biodiversity studies. This study investigated
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Does road construction have beneficial effects on vegetation biodiversity and tree regeneration in arid woodlands? Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Soodabeh Behmanesh, Mostafa Moradi, Javad Pourrezaei, Reza Basiri
The regeneration, plant diversity, and change of soil properties are the determining factors affecting the stability of natural forests. Road construction activities are considered among the most important contributing factors. This study was conducted to see if road construction has positive or negative effects on plant diversity, soil physicochemical properties, and tree regeneration in arid woodlands
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Evaluation of the impact of wastewater irrigation on the soil's dielectric parameters Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Prachi Palta, Ankur Kumar, Prabhdeep Kaur
This study investigates the impact of wastewater irrigation on soil dielectric parameters, focusing on the often-overlooked aspect of dielectric properties in contaminated soil. Wastewater, a significant contributor to soil and groundwater degradation, has long-term effects on soil physical, chemical, and dielectric characteristics. Experimental measurements conducted overtime at 2.45 and 5.8 GHz frequencies
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Land use data can improve the accuracy of carbon emission spatial inversion model Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Chao Wang, Yanjing Yang, Yuping Bai, Yanmin Teng, Jinyan Zhan
Investigating the spatial distribution and correlation characteristics of carbon emissions would be conducive to the policy formulation for precise carbon emission spatial reduction. Firstly, a new carbon emission spatial inversion model was developed, incorporating nighttime light data and land use data. After verifying the validity and accuracy of the inversion results, the continuous carbon emission
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Assessment of land degradation risks in the Loess Plateau Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ziyue Yu, Xiangzheng Deng, Ping Fu, Stephen Grebby, Eugenio Mangi
Human activity and climate change are degrading the environmentally fragile Loess Plateau in dry and semiarid regions. Land deterioration threatens human and ecological existence. To prevent additional land degradation and ensure the ecological development and quality of arable land in the region, China launched “Grain for Green” in the late 1990s. This effort greatly boosted Loess Plateau vegetation
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Effect of stand age on soil microbial metabolic limitation and enzyme activities in Robinia pseudoacacia L. plantations in the loess hilly‐gully region, China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Min Zhao, Yarong Sun, Shaohua Liu, Yichun Li, Yunming Chen
Soil heterotrophic microorganisms play crucial roles in soil biogeochemical cycles by secreting extracellular enzymes, but their metabolism is often limited by resource availability. Identifying major resources that limit soil microbial metabolism could help to create reasonable management practices for the maintenance of ecosystem function. Robinia pseudoacacia plantations perform crucial functions
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Toward an operational tool to integrate land degradation neutrality into land use planning: LUP4LDN Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Claudio Zucca, Quang Bao Le, Pythagoras Karampiperis, Tatenda Lemann, Richard Thomas, Boundia A. Thiombiano, Taoufik Hermassi, Enrico Bonaiuti, Panagiotis Zervas
Land use planning (LUP) to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) needs methods and tools that support the identification of best LUP solutions in terms of transitions from current degradative land use (LU) and land management (LM) practices to better LU and LM options. A crucial need is the identification of context specific sustainable land management (SLM) options. Addressing this need must aim
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Agroforestry system construction in eastern coastal China: Insights from soil–plant interactions Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Yuanyuan Feng, Jiajia Liu, Haibo Hu, Xiaopeng Xu, Danyan Chen, Xia Wang, Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern, Zhong-Tao Jiang, Derek Fawcett, Yonghong Wu, Haiying Lu
Agroforestry, as a phytoremediation measure, shows great potential for mitigating land degradation by constructing multidimensional and efficient agroforestry composite systems through regulating the microenvironment of agroforestry sites and improving soil properties. However, the effects of different agroforestry composite management modes on saline soils and the interactions between soil–plant systems
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Long-term conservation practice in litchi (Litchi chinensis L.) cultivation improves the crop productivity and soil health of degraded lands Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Avinash Chandra Rathore, Charan Singh, Sadikul Islam, Anand Kumar Gupta, Sridhar Patra, Vibha Singhal, Dinesh Jinger, Gulshan Kumar Sharma, Darshan Kadam, Saswat Kumar Kar, S. B. Chavan, M. Madhu
A long-term experiment (1995–2021) was conducted on litchi (Litchi chinensis L.) with and without conservation practices, that is, litchi under clean cultivation (LCC) (recommended doses of fertilizers without intercrops and mulch) and litchi with conservation practice (LCP) (micro-site improvement, intercrops, and organic mulching) on degraded lands. The study aimed to evaluate the long-term impact
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New approach to soil fertility management: Biogeosystem Technique methodology (critical review) Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Valery P. Kalinitchenko, Alexander V. Swidsinski, Alexey P. Glinushkin, Michael R. Overcash, Valery P. Meshalkin, Tatiana M. Minkina, Vishnu D. Rajput, Vladimir V. Chernenko, Saglara S. Mandzhieva, Svetlana N. Sushkova, Artyom E. Rykhlik, Georgiy S. Larin, Sergey V. Gudkov, Mikhail G. Baryshev, Mikhail A. Sevostyanov, Dmitry A. Makarenkov
A standard management soil priming effect is short term. A current soil plowing, irrigation and waste utilization soil priming action shortcomings elimination is needed. The Biogeosystem Technique (BGT*) priming action system was developed for soil management to provide a higher-level priming effect. The BGT* is focused on a soil biogeochemical cycle activation similar to the biodegradation in a colon
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Natural resources, food, energy and water: Structural shocks, food production and clean energy for USA in the view of COP27 Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Xiaoli Zhang, Xinling Wang, Dingwen Si, Hong Zhang, Mohammed Moosa Ageli, Grzegorz Mentel
There is a notable scarcity of literature addressing the complex affiliation amidst natural resources, water productivity (WPROD), and the food production index (FPI). Existing research focuses on emerging and developing countries, primarily centering on the initial objectives of sustainable development. To bridge this literature gap, our research delves into the nexus of WPROD, FPI, and total land
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Microbial community shifts indicate recovery of soil physical properties in a post-tin-mining area on Belitung Island, Indonesia Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Hirmas Fuady Putra, Long Thanh Bui, Yasushi Mori
Mineral mining often results in changes to the soil environment, reducing the sustainability of the surrounding environment. Restoring the physical and chemical properties of soil in post-tin-mining areas on the tropical island of Belitung, Indonesia, has been a laborious process after more than 10 decades of land reclamation. We aimed to determine which parameter of the soil properties was responsible
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Temperature stress (cold and heat) strongly affect the phytotoxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (phenanthrene) to wheat Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Beata Suszek-Łopatka, Barbara Maliszewska-Kordybach, Agnieszka Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Bożena Smreczak
Anthropogenic activity could create different threats leading to irreversible changes in the global environment and, as a consequence, posing varied stressful conditions acting together (combined stress) on organisms. Our research concerned the combined stress of two of the main threats to soil health and plant health: temperature stress and pollution. The aim of this research was the quantitative
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Microbial diversity drives soil multifunctionality along reclamation chronosequence in an opencast coal mine Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Caicai Xu, Hong Zhang, Junjian Li, Yong Liu, Chao Su
Plantation reclamation can improve soil microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality in the reclaimed coal mine. However, with the reclamation years, how restoration of microbial communities promotes restoration of soil multifunctionality is not clear. Here, we investigated the microbial diversity and soil physicochemical properties and soil enzyme activities of different reclamation years in the
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Assessment of loess terraced slope erosion using unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry: Topographic and hydrological effects Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Pinglang Kou, Qiang Xu, Zhao Jin, Ali P. Yunus, Yuxiang Tao, Ying Xia, Chuanhao Pu, Shuang Yuan, Guofan Cao
Terraced slopes are widely used in the Loess Plateau to control gully erosion, yet their potential to induce new erosion patterns remains overlooked. Here we used unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry to obtain centimeter-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) and derived hydrological networks, slopes, aspects, and curvatures of the terraced slopes. Our analysis reveals terraces disrupted