Soil carbon sequestration benefits of active versus natural restoration vary with initial carbon content and soil layer by Dashuan Tian, Yangzhou Xiang, Eric Seabloom, Jinsong Wang, Xiaoxu Jia, Tingting Li, Zhaolei Li, Jian Yang, Hongbo Guo, Shuli Niu

“…Active restoration of croplands more strongly enhances soil carbon relative to natural regeneration in carbon-poor soils and topsoil layers, while natural regeneration performs better in carbon-rich soils and subsoil layers, suggests a large-scale paired comparison of two restoration strategies.…”
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Global soil acidification impacts on belowground processes by Cheng Meng, Dashuan Tian, Hui Zeng, Zhaolei Li, Chuixiang Yi, Shuli Niu

“…These indicate that soil carbon processes are sensitive to soil acidification. …”
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Light and heavy fractions of soil organic matter in response to climate warming and increased precipitation in a temperate steppe. by Bing Song, Shuli Niu, Zhe Zhang, Haijun Yang, Linghao Li, Shiqiang Wan

“…Our results indicate that certain soil carbon fraction is sensitive to climate change in the temperate steppe, which may in turn impact ecosystem carbon fluxes in response and feedback to climate change.…”
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A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition by Dashuan Tian, Shuli Niu

“…Environmental factors such as initial soil pH, soil carbon and nitrogen content, precipitation, and temperature all influenced the responses of soil pH. …”
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Soil microbial respiration adapts to higher and longer warming experiments at the global scale by Lu Yang, Junxiao Pan, Jinsong Wang, Dashuan Tian, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Jian Hu, Wen Yang, Yingjie Yan, Fangfang Ma, Weinan Chen, Quan Quan, Peiyan Wang, Shuli Niu

“…These findings can advance our understanding of soil carbon losses and carbon-climate feedbacks in a warm world.…”
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Thermal acclimation of plant photosynthesis and autotrophic respiration in a northern peatland by Shuang Ma, Lifen Jiang, Rachel M Wilson, Jeff Chanton, Shuli Niu, Colleen M Iversen, Avni Malhotra, Jiang Jiang, Yuanyuan Huang, Xingjie Lu, Zheng Shi, Feng Tao, Junyi Liang, Daniel Ricciuto, Paul J Hanson, Yiqi Luo

“…Peatlands contain one-third of global soil carbon (C), but the responses of peatland ecosystems to long-term warming are not well understood. …”
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The stoichiometry of soil microbial biomass determines metabolic quotient of nitrogen mineralization by Zhaolei Li, Zhaoqi Zeng, Dashuan Tian, Jinsong Wang, Zheng Fu, Bingxue Wang, Ze Tang, Weinan Chen, Han Y H Chen, Changhui Wang, Chuixiang Yi, Shuli Niu

“…Soil Q _min correlated negatively with soil pH, total soil N, the ratio of soil carbon (C) to N, and soil microbial biomass C, and positively with mean annual temperature and C:N ratio of soil microbial biomass at a global scale. …”
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