Effects of grazing exclusion on soil microbial diversity and its functionality in grasslands: a meta-analysis.

Grazing exclusion (GE) is considered an effective strategy for restoring the degradation of overgrazed grasslands on the global scale. Soil microbial diversity plays a crucial role in supporting multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) in grassland ecosystems. However, the impact of grazing exclusion on soil microbial diversity remains uncertain.

Responses of Crop Yield, Soil Fertility, and Heavy Metals to Spent Mushroom Residues Application.

Waste mushroom residues are often returned to fields as organic amendments. Here, we estimated the effects of the continuous applications of different spent mushroom substrates for 2 years on crop yields, soil nutrients, and heavy metals in paddy fields. The study comprised seven treatments: no fertilization (CK) and mineral NPK fertilizer (CF), as well as NPK fertilizer combined with Enoki mushroom residue (EMR50), Oyster mushroom residue (OMR50), mushroom residue (APR50), Shiitake mushroom residue (SMR50), and residue (ABR50).

Meta-Analysis of Organic Fertilization Effects on Soil Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in Agroecosystems.

Application of organic fertilizers or their combination with chemical fertilizers is a feasible practice for improving soil fertility and reducing soil degradation in agroecosystems, and these regulations are mainly mediated though soil microbial communities. Despite bacteria ranking among the most abundant and diverse groups of soil microorganisms, the effects of long-term organic fertilization (OF) and chemical-organic fertilization (COF) on soil bacterial diversity and community composition remain unclear. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis and demonstrated that OF had no significant effect on bacterial alpha diversity.

Positive Effects of Organic Amendments on Soil Microbes and Their Functionality in Agro-Ecosystems.

Soil microbial characteristics are considered to be an index for soil quality evaluation. It is generally believed that organic amendments replacing chemical fertilizers have positive effects on changing microbial activity and community structure. However, their effects on different agro-ecosystems on a global scale and their differences in different environmental conditions and experimental durations are unclear.

Construction and analysis of a nomogram prediction model for post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans in children with adenovirus pneumonia after invasive mechanical ventilation.

Background: Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (PIBO) is the most common sequelae in children with adenovirus pneumonia (ADVP). However, there are few studies on the risk factors for PIBO occurrence. This study aims to investigate the risk factors for PIBO in pediatric patients with severe ADVP, especially after invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), as well as to build a nomogram prediction model.

Predictive Value of Adenoviral Load for Bronchial Mucus Plugs Formation in Children with Adenovirus Pneumonia.

Background: The study aimed to explore risk factors for bronchial mucus plugs (BMP) formation in children with adenovirus (AdV) pneumonia.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on children with AdV pneumonia who underwent bronchoscopy from January 2019 to December 2019. Children were divided into the BMP group and the control group, depending on whether BMP was formed or not.

Short-term responses of soil nutrients, heavy metals and microbial community to partial substitution of chemical fertilizer with spent mushroom substrates (SMS).

Currently, many spent mushroom substrates (SMS) are produced each year, which have the great potential to replace partial chemical fertilizer in agricultural production due to the high content of organic matter in SMS. However, how the replacement of chemical fertilizer by different SMS affected soil nutrients and contamination was less reported. Therefore, this study applied Enoki mushroom substrates (EMR), Agaricus bisporus substrates (ABR), or Auricularia auricula substrates (AAR) to replace 25 % chemical fertilizers (based on N fertilizer) with understanding the role of SMS replacement in affecting soil nutrients, heavy metals, and microbial community via the short-term field study, respectively.

["Massive hemoptysis" and shock after fever and cough].

A boy, aged 11 years, was admitted due to intermittent fever for 15 days, cough for 10 days, and "hemoptysis" for 7 days. The boy had fever and cough with left neck pain 15 days ago, and antibiotic treatment was effective. During the course of disease, the boy developed massive "hemoptysis" which caused shock.

Combined Microbial Consortium Inoculation and Black Locust Planting Is Effective in the Bioremediation of Waste Drill Cuttings.

Waste drill cuttings (WDCs), produced during gas and oil drilling consisting of 80% rock cuttings and 20% drilling muds, are an increasingly potent source of environmental pollution. We studied the efficiency of bioaugmentation and phytoremediation to remediate WDCs in an experiment where WDCs were incubated in a greenhouse for 120 days with and without black locust () plant and with or without bacterial and fungal consortium inoculant. The pollutant removal rates were highest in inoculated and planted treatment, followed by inoculated treatment and planted treatment.

Emission of CO and CH from a multi-ditches system in rice cultivation region: Flux, temporal-spatial variation and effect factors.

Man-made multi-level ditches system is designed to irrigate, drain and collect runoff from surrounding fields. It is not only the conduit of water and field carbon, but also the linear-like wetland with complex carbon cycling. However, the contribution of ditches system to CO and CH emission has rarely been assessed.

Emission of nitrous oxide from plain multi-ditch system and its impact factors.

Multi-level ditch area is a major component of the hydrographic net of plain area, China. Given the high concentration of nitrogen (N) in the surface water and vigorous biogeochemical interactions, ditch is likely to be the hot spots of NO emission. However, NO emission flux and emission factor (EF) of multi-level ditches have not been determined.

[Flux Characteristics of CO, CH, and N O and their Influencing Factors in Different Types of Ditches on the Chengdu Plain].

In order to study the flux characteristics of CH, CO and NO in different ditches and their influencing factors, three types of ditches (an agricultural ditch, agricultural-living compound ditch, and living ditch) were monitored once a month from March 2014 to February 2015 using static floating chambers in the Chengdu Plain. The results showed that:① Affected by human activities, CO, CH, and NO fluxes were high in ditches and ranged from -2.26-1504.

Wet nitrogen deposition across the urban-intensive agricultural-rural transect of a small urban area in southwest China.

Understanding of the spatial and temporal variation of the flux of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is essential for assessment of its impact on ecosystems. However, little attention has been paid to the variability of N deposition across urban-intensive agricultural-rural transects. A continuous 2-year observational study (from January 2015 to December 2016) was conducted to determine wet N deposition across the urban-intensive agricultural-rural transect of a small urban area in southwest China.

The complete mitochondrial genome of Kaloula rugifera (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae).

We determined the complete mitochondrial genome of Kaloula rugifera in this work. The mitogenome was 17,073 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes and a control region (D-loop). The base composition of the light strand was 29.

Tolerance and accumulation characteristics of cadmium in Amaranthus hybridus L.

Because of its toxicity to animals and humans, cadmium (Cd) is an environmentally important heavy metal. Consequently, researchers are interested in using hyperaccumulator and accumulator plants to decontaminate Cd polluted soils. To investigate Cd tolerance, uptake and accumulation by Amaranthus hybridus L.

A newly found cadmium accumulator--Malva sinensis Cavan.

Screening hyperaccumulators and accumulators is a key step in the phytoremediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals. A pot experiment was conducted involving a soil Cd concentration gradient (0, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 mg kg(-1)) to determine if Malva sinensis Cavan. from two lead-zinc mines in Kangding and Yajiang in western Sichuan, China, is a Cd-hyperaccumulator.