Zhijie Yang

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of land-use changes on soil respiration (RS) is assessed to understand the interactions between belowground metabolism and regional carbon budgets, and the results suggest that substrate availability and soil carbon input through plant productivity may drive the RS both in natural and managed ecosystems following strong disturbance events.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated changes of C stocks in Chinese fir plantations converted from a natural broadleaved forest, based on a typical chronosequence in mountainland of subtropical China, which includes six first-generation Chinese fir stands at different development stages: 2- (recently regenerated), 7- (sapling), 16- (middle-aged), 21- (pre-mature), 40- (mature) and 88-year-old (overmature).

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of modified Michaelis-Menten kinetics, substrate-induced respiration, soil C decomposition, soil basal respiration measurements, and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis was used.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of converting native forest into plantations, secondary forest, orchard and arable land on stores and quality of soil organic carbon (SOC) was investigated in mid-subtropical mountainous area of southern China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between carbon allocation above- vs. belowground and how the belowground carbon is allocated for respiration and production of roots and their microbial associations was examined, indicating that factors favouring carbon allocation belowground over aboveground will increase the autotrophic contribution to total soil respiration.