Publications by authors named "Wenqian Chang"
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- Salinization poses a significant risk to soil quality and crop production, but applying organic amendments like sugarcane bagasse (SB) and its biochar (SBB) can help improve crop growth in saline conditions.
- A study tested SB and SBB at different percentages and salinity levels, finding that 2% SBB most effectively enhanced various growth metrics of maize, including shoot/root length, grain yield, and nutrient content while reducing sodium levels in the plants.
- Additionally, the application of 2% SBB significantly boosted soil enzymatic activity, with structural equation modeling showing that these amendments can explain substantial variability in maize yield across different salinity levels, indicating its potential for sustainable agriculture.
Soluble inorganic carbon is an important component of a soil carbon pool, and its fate in soils, sediments, and underground water environments has great effects on many physiochemical and geological processes. However, the dynamical processes, behaviors and mechanism of their adsorption by soil active components, such as quartz, are still unclear. The aim of this work is to systematically address the anchoring mechanism of CO and HCO on a quartz surface at different pH values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dermatophytes are the most common fungal pathogens causing superficial infections in humans with a high prevalence worldwide. The treatment of these infections is based on the use of topical and systemic antifungal agents. A convenient method with a high predictive value for testing the susceptibilities of dermatophytes is necessary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Effects of saline irrigation on CO emission and chemical properties of aeolian sandy soil under litter addition].
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
November 2020
is one of the dominant species in the Taklimakan Desert highway shelterbelt, the litter of which plays an important role in carbon cycling. After litter addition, we carried out a laboratory incubation experiment to investigate the dynamics of soil CO emission, soil organic carbon (SOC), soluble organic carbon (DOC), pH, and electrical conductivity (EC) under the condition of salt water (SW) and fresh water (FW) with field water holding capacity of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. The results showed that saline water irrigation had an inhibitory effect on soil CO emission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The loess-paleosol sequence on the Loess Plateau has been considered an important paleoclimatic archive to study global climatic and environmental changes in the Quaternary. So far, little attention has been paid to the characteristics of soil organic carbon fractions in loess-paleosol sequences, which may provide valuable information for exploring the evolution of climate and environment in the Quaternary on the Loess Plateau.
Methods: In order to explore the significance of mineral-associated organic carbon to total organic carbon (MOC/TOC) ratios in the loess-paleosol sequence for reconstructing paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution in the Quaternary on the Loess Plateau, we selected a typical loess-paleosol profile in Chunhua county, Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, as the research object.