Jie Zheng, Muhammad Arif, Songlin Zhang, Zhongxun Yuan et al.
Many rivers across the globe are regulated by dams, resulting in a strong alteration of the plant community composition of the drawdown zone. But, how these changes happen along the drawdown zone is less understood. In this study, a multivariate analysis was used to explore plant composition and sim...
Muhammad Arif, Jie Zheng, Wokadala Charles, Zhang Songlin et al.
Riparian ecosystem services along higher-order streams and connected tributaries may change over time as disturbances continuously increase, resulting in diverse deterioration of buffer zones. How habitat, plant cover, regeneration, erosion, and exotic parameters (riparian health conditions) change ...
Jie Zheng, Muhammad Arif, Lijuan Li, Xinrui He et al.
Afforestation is an acknowledged method for rehabilitating deteriorated riparian ecosystems, presenting multiple functions to alleviate the repercussions of river damming and climate change. However, how ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) responds to inundation in riparian afforestation ecosystems r...
Jie Gao, Songlin Zhang, Yuanyuan Wu, Xinrui He et al.
Qianwen Geng, Muhammad Arif, Fan Yin, Yangyi Chen et al.
• Understory herbaceous communities accounted for 51.2% of the total community species richness. • USHC species composition, diversity, biomass, and nutrient characteristics varied widely. • USHC was significantly influenced by topography and soil factors. • USHC species diversity was largely determ...
Jie Zheng, Songlin Zhang, Dongdong Ding, Changxiao Li
Understanding the mechanisms underlying diversity-biomass relationships (DBRs) under hydrological stress is particularly valuable for predicting how increased flooding will impact biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, it remains unclear how dam-induced extreme flooding influences the biodiv...
Jiajia Li, Muhammad Arif, Changxiao Li
Abstract Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning. Uncovering the responses of rare and abundant taxa to environmental change is vital for understanding methanotrophic community assembly and ecosystem function. It is unclear what the proportions of the different taxa are in r...
Lijuan Li, Changxiao Li, Chunhua Chen, Zhihua Yang et al.
were collected from the vegetation restoration demonstration base of Ruxi River to explore the differences in nutrient contents and enzyme activities between the rhizosphere and bulk soils. At the same time, the diversity of the bacterial community in the rhizosphere and bulk soils was also investig...
Chaoying Wang, Changxiao Li, Ye Zhang
Three water treatments (control, CK; continuous flooding, CF; and periodic flooding, PF) were installed to simulate the soil moisture change of the riparian zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) region of China to study the physiological and ecological adaptation mechanisms of the native plant sp...
Jie Zheng, Changxiao Li
Xue Tan, Zhi Yong Dong, Limiao Zhang, Zhongxun Yuan et al.
; in the secondary functional layer, the metabolic pathways related to carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus mainly included amino acid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid compound metabolism, and energy metabolism, and the relative abundance of each metabolic function had a certain time differenc...
Hong Qin, Qingshui Ren, Wenhang Yang, Changxiao Li
<0.05). Thus, we concluded that the actinobacterial biodiversity of the urban hydro-fluctuation zone was significantly higher than that of the rural hydro-fluctuation zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir region, and such a result was attributed to the increased human disturbance and soil nutrients.
F Naz, Zhongxun Yuan, Hadi Erfani, Changxiao Li
ABSTRACT Flooding stress associated with climate variability requires a better understanding of adaptive plant responses and their regulation in flood‐prone systems. This study examines whether dose‐dependent modulation of Ca 2+ /ROS‐associated processes influences root porosity and biomass response...
Farkhanada Naz, Muhammad Arif, Tan Xue, Yangyi Chen et al.
Riparian zones maintain biodiversity, cyclic nutrients, and regulate water quality. However, anthropogenic disturbances such as dam construction and climate variability threaten their stability. This study explored the seasonal and vegetation-specific dynamics of soil properties and microbial commun...