Hongbin Liu

TL;DR: It is concluded that inherently low maximal growth rates of picophytoplankton, not ambient nutrient effects, play the major role in determining the positive relationships over the size range where phytoplANKton size is below the modal size.

TL;DR: A selective metabolic inhibitor method has been developed to estimate growth rates and mortalities due to protozoan grazing of the photoautotrophic prokaryotic picoplankton Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The dynamics between growth and grazing mortality in the different size fractions of the phytoplankton community, combined with varying growth rates associated with declining nutrient concentrations, and superimposed on a background of dilution derived from mixing of plume waters with oligotrophic oceanic water, makes interface regions between large rivers and the ocean complex.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the long-term effects of various fertilization regimes on crop yield and soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) in the topsoil (0-20 cm) of a fluvo-aquic soil in a wheat-maize (Zea mays L.) cropping system in the North China Plain.

TL;DR: Quantifying the variation of N application rates when targeting constraints on yield, economic performance, N uptake and N utilization on the North China Plain showed that the optimal N application rate was highest when targeting N uptake, followed by crop yield and economic income.