1. The International context 1.1. Potential and Actual Carbon Storage Densities of the Drylands 1.2. Rationale for Sequestering Carbon in Drylands 1.3. Dryland Soils as a Carbon Sink 1.4. Creating an Economic Linkage between Dryland Restoration and Carbon Sequestration 1.5. Carbon Offsets: What are They and How do They Help? 1.6. Validation and Verification of Carbon Stores 2. Increasing Carbon...

Plants respond to a saline environment by metabolic and morphological changes (16, 17, 20). Most of the information on salt effects stems from work on plants adapted to saline conditions, the halophytes, or from mesophytes which were grown under conditions of increased salinity for prolonged periods. In the present work some short-term effects of saline conditions on greening leaves of an unada...

Soil microorganisms play the important role in driving biogeochemical cycles. However, it is still unclear on soil microbial community characteristics and mechanism rhizosphere bulk soils of different halophyte species. In this study, we analyzed bacterial communities three typical halophytes Yellow River Delta, i.e., Phragmites communis , Suaeda salsa Aeluropus sinensis by high-throughput sequ...