SynthesisScience China. Life sciences2023
Dynamic carbon-nitrogen coupling under global change.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of global change factors on the functional genes of soil nitrogen and methane cycles in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis.Oecologia · 2024Pooled it
- Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improves plant biomass and nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients: a meta-analysis.BMC plant biology · 2024Pooled it
- Global variation of plant nitrogen acquisition strategies and their responses to decreasing nitrogen availability.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Spatiotemporal dynamics and associations of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the Qilian Mountain Grasslands.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- Nitrogen addition reduces alpine grassland stability via enhanced temporal synchrony and population variability.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Dynamic Changes in Carbon and Nitrogen Storage and Sequestration of Alfalfa Pastureland in Different Planting Years Under Temperate Continental Arid Climate Conditions.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comprehensive soil greenhouse gas flux dataset from a temperate old-growth forest: Effects of decade-long nitrogen addition and biological factor manipulation.Data in brief · 2025Article
- Protozoa-driven micro-food webs shaping carbon and nitrogen cycling in reservoir ecosystems.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Cereal-legume intercropping stimulates straw decomposition and promotes soil organic carbon stability.Science China. Life sciences · 2025Article
- Mapping surface soil organic carbon density of cultivated land using machine learning in Zhengzhou.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2024Article
- Permafrost carbon cycle and its dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Review
- Global convergence in terrestrial gross primary production response to atmospheric vapor pressure deficit.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Metagenomic Insight into the Effect of Probiotics on Nitrogen Cycle in theMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Assessment of the potential for carbon sink enhancement in the overlapping ecological project areas of China.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Carbon-nitrogen coupling is a fundamental principle in ecosystem ecology. However, how the coupling responds to global change has not yet been examined. Through a comprehensive and systematic literature review, we assessed how the dynamics of carbon processes change with increasing nitrogen input and how nitrogen processes change with increasing carbon input under global change. Our review shows that nitrogen input to the ecosystem mostly stimulates plant primary productivity but inconsistently decreases microbial activities or increases soil carbon sequestration, with nitrogen leaching and nitrogenous gas emission rapidly increasing. Nitrogen fixation increases and nitrogen leaching decreases to improve soil nitrogen availability and support plant growth and ecosystem carbon sequestration under elevated CO
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