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Zhuxin Mao, Ming Yue, Yuchao Wang, Lijuan Li and Yang Li
Covering about 30% of the global total land area, desert ecosystems have been influenced by warming and nitrogen deposition. However, it remains unclear how desert ecosystems respond to warming and nitrogen deposition. Therefore, we conducted a greenhous...
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Weidan Lu, Zhiqiang Hao, Xiaolong Ma, Jianglong Gao, Xiaoqin Fan, Jianfu Guo, Jianqiang Li, Ming Lin and Yuanhang Zhou
Organic fertilizer can improve soil management and alleviate soil nutrient loss caused by excessive fertilization. This study determines a fertilization scheme that can achieve high and stable crop yield and effective soil fertilization by exploring the ...
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Haimei Yang, Hongbang Liang, Xingshuang Liu and Mingsi Li
Desert vegetation in the outer transition zone of an arid oasis serves as a protective barrier against wind and sand, safeguarding the oasis ecosystem. However, intensive agricultural water usage within the oasis has led to water depletion, posing a thre...
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Jing Wang, Zhen Wang, Jianqing Yang, Zhongwu Wang, Zhiguo Li and Mengli Zhao
To examine the effect of litter on ANPP and species composition (using ground cover) in a Desert Steppe community by removing or adding litter, during plant dormancy, in a single event in either fall or spring. Litter was removed or added in three intens...
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Afia Shahid, Kashif ur Rehman Khan, Huma Rao, Hanan Y. Aati, Asmaa E. Sherif, Duraiz Ahmed Khan, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Umair, Abdul Mueed, Tuba Esatbeyoglu and Sameh A. Korma
Zaleya pentandra L. jaffery is the only species of the genus Zaleya that grows in the Cholistan desert, Pakistan. It is a Xero-halophyte plant with high phenolic and flavonoid content. The present research was designed to investigate the phytochemical co...
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Mostafa Nafaa, Samah Mohamed Rizk, Tahany Abdel-Ghafar Ahmed Aly, Mohamed Abdel-Salam Rashed, Diaa Abd El-Moneim, Abir Ben Bacha, Mona Alonazi and Mahmoud Magdy
Soil fungi are a wide range of microorganisms that play an essential role in enhancing the available nutrients in the soil for plants. In the current study, to study the fungal association with newly reclaimed land in Egypt, 22 composite soil samples wer...
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Keshav Bhattarai and Ambika P. Adhikari
This paper responds to the research question, ?can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?? Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable. Urb...
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Hong Zhang, Chao Han, Tom D. Breeze, Mengdan Li, Shibonage K. Mashilingi, Jun Hua, Wenbin Zhang, Xuebin Zhang, Shiwen Zhang and Jiandong An
Bumblebee pollination is crucial to the production of tomato in protected cultivation. Both tomato yield and flavor play important roles in attracting attentions from growers and consumers. Compared with yield, much less work has been conducted to invest...
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Dashuai Zhang, Yao Dai, Lingli Wang and Liang Chen
During rapid urbanization, it is necessary to increase soil permeability and soil porosity for reducing urban runoff and waterlogging risk. Woody plants are known to increase soil porosity and preferential flow in soil via living roots growth and dead ro...
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Yesmine Trigui, Daniel Wolf, Lilit Sahakyan, Hayk Hovakimyan, Kristina Sahakyan, Roland Zech, Markus Fuchs, Tilmann Wolpert, Michael Zech and Dominik Faust
Interpreting paleoenvironmental conditions by means of n-alkane biomarker analyses is challenging because results depend on different influencing factors. Thus, regional calibration of n-alkane patterns is needed because of different plant chemo-taxonomi...
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