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Haodong Jiang, Nairui Yang, Hongyu Qian, Gang Chen, Wei Wang, Jiankai Lu, Yaocen Li and Yufu Hu
Ecological restoration can improve soil fertility and have a significant impact on the soil nitrogen cycle. Nitrogen (N) is an essential nutrient element for plant growth and development, and also an important factor limiting soil productivity. As an imp...
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Zhiyuan Yang, Jiayi Xu, Junlin Li, Lirong He, Hongwei Xu, Xinrong Guo, Sha Xue and Yang Cao
The ecological niche gradient is an important determinant of microbial community structure. In this paper, we studied variation in rhizosphere bacterial diversity and community composition along an ecological niche gradient. We used the high-throughput s...
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Davide Farruggia, Noemi Tortorici, Nicolò Iacuzzi, Federica Alaimo, Claudio Leto and Teresa Tuttolomondo
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) is an evergreen and a xerophytic shrub that is frequently employed in culinary, decorative, and industrial applications. It shows significant variations in biomass and essential oil (EO) yield due to effects of biotic...
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Ermindo Barrientos-Pérez, Felipe S. Carevic-Vergara, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Jorge Arenas-Charlín and José Delatorre-Herrera
The abandonment of ancestral techniques and the incorporation of new technologies in the production systems for the cultivation of quinoa has resulted in overexploitation of soils, a loss of fertility, water imbalance, a loss of native vegetation cover i...
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Jianbo Liu, Weiliang Chen, Weiwei Fang and Bing Zhang
Soil water shortage has become a severe issue in ecological restoration and sustainable development in the Loess Plateau, facing the challenges of climate change and vegetation restoration. This study monitored the soil water content in surface soil (0?4...
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Xinlong Zhou, Dashun Fu, Juan Wan, Henglin Xiao, Xinyue He, Zhengxuan Li and Qixiang Deng
Vegetation slope protection plays an important role in improving the slope stability and protecting the environment. In this study, the mechanical properties of root?soil composites in different growth periods and their effects on slope stability were in...
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Elias Pipinis, Athanasios Stampoulidis, Aikaterini Angeliki Kotoula, Elias Milios, Stefanos Kostas, Stefanos Hatzilazarou, Evgenia Papaioannou, Alexandros Papaeirinaios, Kyriaki Kitikidou and Kalliopi Radoglou
Arbutus andrachne, the Greek strawberry tree, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae native to the Mediterranean basin, and is a valuable phytogenetic resource. In the context of sustainable exploitation of A. andrachne, four Greek n...
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Hosia T. Pule, Julius T. Tjelele and Michelle J. Tedder
Seriphium plumosum L. is an indigenous unpalatable shrub that occurs in fire-prone semi-arid South African grassland areas, yet research proposes the use of fire to control its encroachment of rangelands. This study investigated the interaction effects o...
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Paulina Baczek, Aleksandra Halarewicz, Daniel Pruchniewicz, Magda Podlaska and Dorota Kawalko
The extensive spread of the invasive black cherry, Padus serotina, has been observed on abandoned agricultural land in Central and Eastern Europe. However, the impact of this species on invaded agroecosystems is still unknown, including the possibility o...
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Linyuan Duan, Bo Zhang, Guoli Dai, Xinru He, Xuan Zhou, Ting Huang, Xiaojie Liang, Jianhua Zhao and Ken Qin
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum L.) is a small Solanaceae shrub with medicinal and edible homology, and widely used as ethnobotanical medicine and nutraceutical food. The wolfberry fruits mainly have red, purple, and yellow phenotypes. Wolfberries are rich in...
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