Min Liu

TL;DR: It is concluded that tree species in both temperate and tropical forests preferred to take up NH4+, with organic N as the second most important N source.

TL;DR: Testing whether high water availability, nitrogen (N) enrichment and their interaction promote performance of three invasive alien plants when competing with a native Chinese grassland species indicates that future changes in water availability and N enrichment may affect the invasion success of different alien species differently.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an in situ approach using stable isotopes (15N and 13C) to quantify plant-microbial N and C flows, which allows to investigate the chemical (N forms), spatial (labeling depths) and temporal (seasons) parameters for better understanding ecological functions of belowground systems.

TL;DR: Intercropping in the same hole is a useful practice in agricultural systems because it can increase total biomass and N uptake by Z. mays and G. max and influence N preference but altered uptake rates of both N forms.

TL;DR: In situ 13CO2 pulse labeling was conducted in temperate grasslands, managed by no grazing, rotational, or continuous overgrazing, to trace the allocation pattern and the dynamics of newly assimilated C into the plant-soil system as mentioned in this paper.