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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Sara Remelli, Emma Petrella, Alessandro Chelli, Federica Delia Conti, Carlos Lozano Fondón, Fulvio Celico, Roberto Francese and Cristina Menta
Landslides are common in the Northern Apennines (Italy) and their resulting changes in soil structure affect edaphic fauna biodiversity, whose activity has concurrent impacts on soil structural stability and water-holding capacity. The aim of this study ...
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Xiang Liu, Jin Zhang, Wenqing Shi, Min Wang, Kai Chen and Li Wang
Understanding the drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure is fundamental for adequately controlling pollutants and managing ecosystems under global change. In this study, the abundance and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates, as well as thei...
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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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Kaiyang Qiu, Zhigang Li, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu, Chen He and Richard Pott
Desertification reversal is globally significant for the sustainable development of land resources. However, the mechanisms of desertification reversal at the level of plant community are still unclear. We hypothesized that desertification reversal has c...
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Huaisheng Zhang, Yonggao Lv, Tao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xuemei Ma, Xuesong Liu and Sheng Lian
To explore the intricate interrelationship between groundwater microbial communities and hydrochemical characteristics in the Mancheng District, Baoding City, samples from karst groundwater and porous groundwater were collected. Hydrochemical analysis an...
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Xianying Zhang, Pengcheng Li, Mingyi Zhao, Shuqiang Wang, Baoyi Sun, Yulan Zhang, Yonghuan Wang, Zhenhua Chen, Hongtu Xie, Nan Jiang and Tingting Li
The breeding of laying hens and broilers in China has increased tremendously. Wet organic fertilizer prepared from hen manure using high-temperature container fermentation preserves high levels of nutrients and a diverse microbial community. We applied l...
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Biao Liu, Wei Chen, Zhen Wang, Zhaohui Guo, Yongmei Li, Lijuan Xu, Minxi Wu and Hongmei Yin
Nitrogen loss is an unavoidable problem during organic waste composting, while exogenous microbial inoculation is a promising strategy for reducing nitrogen loss and improving compost quality. This study was designed to probe available nitrogen levels, b...
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Alejandro Carmona-Rodríguez, Carlos Antón, Miguel-Ángel Climent, Pedro Garcés, Vicente Montiel and Alfonso A. Ramos-Esplá
The ecological succession has been widely studied by means of biofouling assemblages among different substrates, and mainly targeted in early stages on artificial ones. The present study focuses on biofouling that colonizes carbonated structures, a mater...
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Christine Matindu, Nimalka M. Weerasuriya, Francis N. Muyekho, Irena F. Creed, R. Greg Thorn and Anthony W. Sifuna
The metabarcoding of prokaryotic and fungal (Ascomycota only) ribosomal DNA was used to describe the microbial communities in soils of a remnant equatorial rainforest, maize?bean intercrop, and sugarcane in western Kenya. Cropping systems influenced the ...
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