Application of composted sewage sludge (CSS) as a soil amendment for turfgrass growth

H Cheng, W Xu, J Liu, Q Zhao, Y He, G Chen - Ecological engineering, 2007 - Elsevier
We studied the growth of perennial ryegrass in soils amended with 5–100% composted
sewage sludge (CSS), and the impacts of CSS amendment on soil physical and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying land use/land cover and landscape pattern changes and impacts on ecosystem services

Q Zhao, Z Wen, S Chen, S Ding, M Zhang - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Based on satellite remote sensing image, GIS and Fragstats, this study modeled and
calculated the dynamic changes of land use, land cover and landscape patterns in Guizhou …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature vegetation dryness index estimation of soil moisture under different tree species

S Chen, Z Wen, H Jiang, Q Zhao, X Zhang, Y Chen - Sustainability, 2015 - mdpi.com
The Laoshan forest is the largest forest in Nanjing, and it plays an important role in water
resource management in Nanjing. The objectives of this study are to determine if the …

[HTML][HTML] High seed diversity and availability increase rodent community stability under human disturbance and climate variation

X Yang, H Gu, Q Zhao, Y Zhu, Y Teng, Y Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The relationship between diversity and stability is a focus in community ecology, but the
relevant hypotheses have not been rigorously tested at trophic and network levels due to a lack …

Ecological succession drives the structural change of seed-rodent interaction networks in fragmented forests

X Yang, C Yan, Q Zhao, M Holyoak, MA Fortuna… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
While deforestation and fragmentation can cause massive species loss in forest ecosystems,
forest regeneration can also drive successional changes in species composition. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Energy flows and carbon footprint in the forestry-pulp and paper industry

Q Zhao, S Ding, Z Wen, A Toppinen - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the context of global climate change, energy conservation and greenhouse effect gases (GHG)
reduction are major challenges to mankind. The forestry-pulp and paper industry is a …

[HTML][HTML] Water ecosystem service quality evaluation and value assessment of Taihu Lake in China

Q Zhao, Q Wang - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China. Water ecosystems play an important
role in the survival and development of human society. The evaluation of water ecosystem …

Does scatter‐hoarding of seeds benefit cache owners or pilferers?

H Gu, Q Zhao, Z Zhang - Integrative Zoology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The scatter‐hoarding behavior of granivorous rodents plays an important role in seed
dispersal and seedling regeneration of trees, as well as the evolution of several well‐known …

[HTML][HTML] Research on the coordinated governance mechanism of cross-regional and cross-basin ecological compensation in the Yangtze River Delta

Z Yu, Q Zhao - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of a regionally integrated economy promotes the development of river basin
ecological compensation toward cross-regional coordinated governance. The ecological …

[HTML][HTML] RAFFIA: Short-term forest fire danger rating prediction via multiclass logistic regression

L Wang, Q Zhao, Z Wen, J Qu - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Forest fire prevention is important because of human communities near forests or in the
wildland-urban interfaces. Short-term forest fire danger rating prediction is an effective way to …