Nitrogen (N) deficiency occurs in over 80% of karst soil of southwest China, which restricts regional agricultural production. To test whether N fixed by legumes becomes available to nonfixing companion species, N fluxes between soybean and maize under no, partial, and total restriction of root contact were measured on a karst site in southwest China. N content and its transfer between soybean ...

Springs are the important water resources, which thier study is necessary in terms of their management and exploitation. In northern Iran, the karst springs locate in the central Alborz highlands and alluvial springs on the Caspian southern coasts.The Karst and alluvial springs discharge is variable because of different conditions in terms of aquifer, topography and precipitation .This study ha...

Remote sensing has been used in karst studies to identify limestone terrain, describe exokarst features, analyze karst depressions, and detect geological structures important to karst development. The aim of this work is to investigate the use of ASTER-, SRTMand ALOS/PRISM-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) to detect and quantify natural karst depressions along the São Francisco River near...

Karst landscapes—regions characterized by sinkholes, caves, springs, underground rivers, and slowly dissolving bedrock— constitute about 25% of the world’s land surface (1). Although some karst landscapes are attractive and of aesthetic value, most of them are recognized as fragile zones unsuitable as human habitats— mainly due to extremely poor soil cover, or a complete lack of soil, and rapid...

Soil energy pathways of different ecosystems using nematode trophic group analysis: a meta analysis Jie ZHAO 1,2,3,∗ and Deborah A. NEHER 2 1 Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan 410125, P.R. China 2 Department of Plant & Soil Science, University of Vermont, 63 Carrigan Drive, Burlin...

Karst ecosystems are fragile and are in many regions degraded by anthropogenic activities. Current management of degraded karst areas focuses on aboveground vegetation succession or recovery and aims at establishing a forest ecosystem. Whether progressive succession of vegetation in karst areas is accompanied by establishment of soil biota is poorly understood. In the present study, soil microb...

The Swiss Jura is part of a larger region, the Jura, which stretches from Geneva to Germany, partly as a series of folds, partly as tablelands. The mountains were formed during the late phase of the Alpine folding during the Tertiary and are composed of Mesozoic rocks, mainly limestone and clay. The changing strata give way to a particular landscape, and the presence of limestone makes it a vas...

a Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA b Department of Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA c Key Laboratory for Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125 Hunan, China d Huanjiang Observations and Research Station fo...

Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78713, United States Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, United States Key Laboratory for Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical, Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Ch...