Hang Wang

• PhD
• Associator Researcher at Southwest Forestry University

Natural restoration is an effective approach for restoring degraded ecosystems, yet the successional patterns and assembly mechanisms of aboveground (litter layer) and belowground (topsoil) microbial communities remain poorly understood. We applied the niche conservatism framework to investigate niche partitioning, successional patterns and communi...

Leaf biomechanical strength is important not only in plant defence strategies but also in “after‐life” effects—determining leaf‐litter decomposability. It is a composite metric that can be evaluated by fracturing a leaf using multiple methods. However, such after‐life effects have not been systematically evaluated. We assessed 40 leaf functional tr...

Microorganisms change the properties of microplastics, at the same time, microplastics can also affect the distribution of microorganisms. To investigate this issue, we chose to study Jianhu Lake, a plateau lake in southwestern China, by collecting data at three sampling locations. The microplastics and bacterial communities in the sediment columns...

Background The fall armyworm (FAW, Spodoptera frugiperda) threatens maize production worldwide, and benzoxazinoids (Bxs) are known as the main secondary metabolites produced by maize to defend against FAW. However, we do not yet know whether and in what ways certain endophytes in the digestive system of FAW can metabolize Bxs, thus enhancing the fi...

There is growing awareness of the need for regenerative practices in the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how microbial community composition and functioning are likely to change alongside transition from high-density tillage to large-scale vegetation restoration. Here, we investigated...

Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition and increased precipitation are known to alter soil microbial communities. However, the combined effects of elevated N deposition and increased precipitation on soil microbial community dynamics and co-occurrence networks in temperate forests remain elusive. In this study, we conducted a field manipulation expe...

The mechanical resistance of plant leaves to herbivores and physical disturbances have a lasting legacy impact on leaf-litter decomposition rates and nutrient leaching. However, in the past, leaf mechanics were seldom considered as key factors in regulating ecological processes related to leaf-litter decomposition. In this paper, we explored the ph...

Lake microbiomes are essential indicators of lake health and are strongly influenced by allochthonous microbial communities from various sources within the watershed. However, quantifying the contributions of multiple inputs to lake microbiomes is challenging because of the complex nature of river‒lake systems and the presence of many untraceable s...

Siderophores secreted by microorganisms can promote ecological efficiency and could be used to regulate the unbalanced microbial community structure. The influence of the siderophore activity of Trichoderma yunnanense strain 2-14F2 and Beauveria pseudobassiana strain (2-8F2) on the physiological/biochemical functions and community structure of soil...

Animal feces from livestock farming can be a major source of antibiotic resistance to the environment, but a clear gap exists on how the resistance reservoir in feces alters as farming activities intensify. Here, we sampled feces from eight Chinese farms, where yak, sheep, pig, and horse were reared under free-range to intensive conditions, and det...

Understory vegetation accounts for a large proportion of floral diversity. It provides various ecosystem functions and services, such as productivity, nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition and ecosystem self-regeneration. This review summarizes the available literature on the current status and progress of the ten most studied branches of...

The widespread use of antibiotics has led to a large number of antibiotics entering the environment, to which microorganisms have become resistant. In recent years, with the intensification of human activities in the plateau region, the occurrence and migration of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in plateau wetlands have attracted considerable at...

Microplastic accumulation in the lake aquatic environment has attracted worldwide attention, but the long-term deposition characteristics and influencing factors of microplastics are not clear. Hence, we attempted to analyze the factors that influence the accumulation of microplastics during the process of natural environmental change and social de...

With increasing pressure from anthropogenic activity in pristine environments, the comprehensive profiling of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to evaluate the potential risks from human-induced antibiotic resistance in these under-studied places. Here, we characterized the microbial resistome in relatively pristine soil samples colle...

The transformation of natural habitats into cropland is a major issue in ecological conservation. Of particular concern is the large-scale biotic homogenization (reduced β-diversity) of soil microbial communities. Paddy fields represent the largest anthropogenic ecosystem in the world; however, bacterial homogenization and reduced biodiversity in p...

Rice paddy soil-associated microbiota participate in biogeochemical processes that underpin rice yield and soil sustainability, yet continental-scale biogeographic patterns of paddy soil microbiota remain elusive. The soil bacteria of four typical Chinese rice-growing regions were characterized and compared to those of nonpaddy soils. The paddy soi...

The application of organic matter to agricultural land is an efficient way to maintain soil eco-sustainability through the mediation of the soil-dwelling microbiome. Despite their important role in soil health, trait-based changes within cross-kingdom microbial communities following organic fertilization in soils are still poorly characterized. Her...

Soil microorganism was the engine of the migration and transformation of biological elements in the soil-plant system of wetland ecosystems. Exploring the relationship between plant community, soil properties, and spatial structure with soil microorganisms is the key to maintain the health and stability of wetlands. In order to examine the effects...

Manipulative experiments and space-for-time substitutions are two main approaches used to infer the impacts of future climate change on ecological processes, such as litter decomposition. The potential limitations of these approaches are well-recognized. Here, we address the congruence between these two approaches by comparing decomposition rates o...

Nickel (Ni) in small plateau lake sediments plays an important role in influencing the quality of lake ecosystems with a high degree of endemism and toxicity. This paper focuses on the spatial distribution and ecological risks of nickel in the sediments of Jianhu Lake, a small plateau lake in China, and the influence of pH and total organic carbon...

Aims Carbon stocks in alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are being threatened by increases in livestock herding practices. However, the extent to which current fast-growing disturbance by Tibetan pig rooting alters carbon stocks in these meadows and the underlying processes are still unclear. Methods We conducted a 3-year study in meado...

Phyllospheric microbes play a crucial role in the biological decomposition of plant litter in wetland ecosystems. Previous studies have mainly focused on single stages of decomposition process, and to date there have been no reports on dynamic changes in the composition of phyllospheric microbes during the multiple stages of decomposition from livi...

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Empirical records of plant responses to climate warming increasingly rely on warming experiments which supposedly provide meaningful predictions of future scenarios. However, the accuracy of such predictions may be compromised by warming artifacts. In our study, we integrated two approaches, the use of in situ open-top chambers (OTCs), as well as t...

Endophytes mainly present in the tissues of the plants. The effects of endophytes on host physiology and ecology have been relatively well studied in many plants, while the functions of endophytes within invasive plants are few that have been reported. Endophytic bacteria considered mutualistic and mediate nutrients availability to facilitate the g...

Background: Rice paddy soil-associated microbiota participate in biogeochemical processes that underpin rice yield and soil sustainability, yet continental-scale biogeographic patterns of paddy soil microbiota remain elusive. Here, the soil bacteria of four typical Chinese rice-growing regions were characterized over large-scale space and compared...

The housefly larvae (Musca domestica) vermireactor is capable of highly efficient waste reduction for swine manure management; however, effectiveness of larvae-vermicompost land utilization and the associated impact on soil environment are poorly understood. This study, which integrated incubation pot experiments and field plot tests on a chrysanth...

The rhizosphere is an important hotspot of soil microbial activity, diversity, and functions. Despite being a microbial hotspot, studies have seldom addressed the differences in the response of the microbial community in bulk and rhizosphere soils to domestic animal disturbance. Here, we investigated grassland disturbance by physical uprooting beha...

Understanding the impact of temperature variations (i.e., maximum, minimum, and diurnal temperature ranges [DTRs]) on ecosystems is now recognized as being of paramount importance in global change ecology; the roles of different aspects of these temperature variations in influencing plant photosynthesis remain under‐studied. Here, we investigated t...

Understanding the effects of simulated warming on photosynthetic performance of aquatic plants may provide strong supports for predicting future dynamics of wetland ecosystems in the context of climate change. The plateau wetlands located in Yunnan province are highly sensitive to climate warming due to their high altitude and cold temperature. Her...

Background Paddy soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) represents a major hotspot for soil biogeochemistry, yet we know little about its chemodiversity let alone the microbial community that shapes it. Here, we leveraged ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry, amplicon, and metagenomic sequencing to characterize the molecular distribution of DOM and...

Pig disturbances are recognized as key factors influencing the structure of ecosystems. Cage-free domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica) searching for food by uprooting vegetation is emerging as a threat to wetlands located in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As a unique and fragile ecosystem, the ecological impacts of pig uprooting (PR) here remain unclear. He...

Anthropic activities lead to a high risk of peatland degradation in the alpine regions. Along with the declined plant productivity and the impaired functioning of the soil carbon sink, the diversity and structure of soil microbial communities are also affected in a degraded peatland ecosystem. Tibetan pig herding is a unique peatland management str...

基于IPCC对未来大气增温的预测,采用开顶式生长室(OTC)增温技术,以不增温为对照,研究滇西北高原典型湿地纳帕海湖滨带优势植物水葱和黑三棱在大气增温2.0和3.5 ℃处理下种子的繁殖特征.结果表明: 大气增温对植物结实率影响显著,但存在种间差异.其中,增温对水葱的结实率有促进作用;黑三棱结实率在增温2.0 ℃处理下显著下降,但在增温3.5 ℃处理下又恢复到对照水平.增温促进了2种植物穗的生长,在增温2.0、3.5 ℃处理下水葱的穗长分别增加82.9%、89.0%,小穗数分别增加133.3%、150.0%,每株穗生物量分别增加了10.1%、89.6%,每株穗生物量占总生物量的比例分别增加79.5%、409.3%;在增温2.0、3.5 ℃处理下,黑三棱穗长分别增加66.1%、95.2%,每株穗...

With litter bag methods, we examined mass loss rates and different chemical fractions of litters from two wetland plant species, Zizania caduciflora and Hippuris vulgaris. Those two species examined here varied significantly in their initial litter chemical traits. Experiment was performed under simulated rising temperature (1.5-2.0 ℃), and under t...

Improved understanding of climate-growth relationships of multiple species is fundamental to understanding and predicting the response of forest growth to future climate change. Forests are mainly composed of conifers in Northwestern Yunnan Plateau, but variations of growth response to climate conditions among the species are not well understood. T...

Improved understanding of climate-growth relationships of multi-species is fundamental to understand and predict response of forest growth to future climate change. Forests are mainly composed of conifers in Northwestern Yunnan Plateau, but variations of growth response to climates among the species are not well understood. To detect growth respons...

Based on dendrochronological methods, we established residual chronologies of Larix potaninii var. macrocarpa by using its radial growth records at upper distributional limits of three mountains (Yulong, Haba and Potatso), in order to study the growth response variation to climate change among three sites and to identity the key climatic factors th...

The decomposition of plant litter is a key process in the flows of energy and nutrients in ecosystems. However, the response of litter decomposition to global climate warming in plateau wetlands remains largely unknown. In this study, we conducted a one-year litter decomposition experiment along an elevation gradient from 1891 m to 3260 m on the Yu...

Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis for accurate quantification of targeted microbial genes is compromised by the presence of co-extracted inhibitors from soil samples. Dilution of DNA extracts is a commonly-used method to reduce levels of inhibition. However, the applications of dilution method are mostly empirical, and need to be further e...

Aims Wetlands store a substantial amount of soil organic carbon (SOC), and their response to climate warming is critical for predicating global carbon (C) cycling in future climate change. Methods To understand whether warming causes substantial C loss in wetland soils, a 6-year microcosm experiment was carried out to examine the impact of rising t...

The overuse of antibiotics as veterinary feed additives is potentially contributing to a significant reservoir of antibiotic resistance in agricultural farmlands via the application of antibiotic-contaminated manure. Vermicomposting of swine manure using housefly larvae is a promising biotechnology for waste reduction and control of antibiotic poll...

Housefly larvae (Musca domestica) composting has been increasingly adopted as an efficient practice to achieve value-added swine manure bioconversion, but few researches have evaluated the features of compost maturity by examining the biochemical compositions of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in compost. Here, we adopted spectrum fingerprint techno...

Manure from swine treated with antimicrobials as feed additives is a major source for the expansion of the antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) reservoir in the environment. Vermicomposting via housefly larvae (Musca domestica) can be efficiently used to treat manure and regenerate bio-fertilizer but few studies have investigated its effect on ARG at...

Ecological stoichiometry provides a powerful tool for integrating microbial biomass stoichiometry with ecosystem processes, opening far-reaching possibilities for linking microbial dynamics to soil carbon (C) metabolism in response to agricultural nutrient management. Despite its importance to crop yield, the role of phosphorus (P) with respect to...

Microbial-driven biogeochemical cycles in wetlands impacted by global warming pose a potential downstream eutrophication risk. However, the consequences of ongoing warming on the functional and metabolic potential of sediment microbial communities are largely unknown. We incubated sediment samples under both ambient temperature conditions (control)...

Animal waste from concentrated swine farms is widely considered to be a source of environmental pollution, and the introduction of veterinary antibiotics in animal manure to ecosystems is rapidly becoming a major public health concern. A housefly larvae (Musca domestica) vermireactor has been increasingly adopted for swine manure value-added biocon...

Hydrothermal liquefaction of Nannochloropsis salina (N. salina) and larvae-vermicompost were conducted under both non-hydrogenating and hydrogenating subcritical conditions using H2 and Ni-Mo/Al2O3. Hydrogenation raised biocrude yields from 33.2% to 43.5% (vermicompost) and 55.6% to 78.5% (N. salina), whereas high heat values increased from 32.89 t...

Soil biogeochemical processes and the ecological stability of wetland ecosystems under global warming scenarios have gained increasing attention worldwide. Changes in the capacity of microorganisms to maintain stoichiometric homeostasis, or relatively stable internal concentrations of elements, may serve as an indicator of alterations to soil bioge...

Agricultural fertilization may change processes of elemental biogeochemical cycles and alter the ecological function. Ecoenzymatic stoichiometric feature plays a critical role in global soil carbon (C) metabolism, driving element cycles, and mediating atmospheric composition in response to agricultural nutrient management. Despite the importance on...

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the most bioavailable soil organic pool. Understanding how DOM responds to elevated temperature is important for forecasting soil carbon (C) dynamics under climate warming. Here a 4.5-year field microcosm experiment was carried out to examine temporal DOM concentration dynamics in soil pore-water from six different...

High-strengthened farmland fertilization leads to mass inputs of nutrients and elements to agricultural riparian wetlands. The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of such wetland sediments is an important intermediate in global carbon (C) cycling due to its role in connecting soil C pools with atmospheric CO2. But the impact of phosphorus (P) on sedimen...

This study was designed to characterize the dynamic formation of zeolite synthesized from fly ash (ZFA) and to identify the zeolitization mechanisms during a 160-h-long hydrothermal alkaline conversion at 95°C by using fly ash (FA) samples collected from four typical thermoelectric power plants in China, with the purpose of improving ZFA quality. T...

Global warming is increasingly challenging for wetland ecological function. A temperature controlled microcosm system was developed to simulate climate change scenarios of an ambient temperature (control) and an elevated temperature (+5 °C). The effects and associated mechanisms of warming on phosphorus (P) fluxes at the sediment–water interface of...

Manure produced from confined animal farms can threaten public and environmental health if not managed properly. Herein, a full-scale commercial bioconversion operation in DeQing County, China for value-added swine manure reduction using house fly, Musca domestica L., larvae is reported. The greenhouse-assisted larvae bioreactor had a maximum daily...

Rising climate temperatures in the future are predicted to accelerate the microbial decomposition of soil organic matter. A field microcosm experiment was carried out to examine the impact of soil warming in freshwater wetlands on different organic carbon (C) pools and associated microbial functional responses. GeoChip 4.0, a functional gene microa...

Global warming poses a great threat to wetland ecological stability and water quality improvement. In this paper, we sampled six types of wetlands representing different kinds of land utilisation around the TaiHu Lake Basin in southeast China. An outdoor computerized microcosm was set up in May 2008 to simulate climate scenarios of ambient temperat...

Excessive nutrient loading and changing hydrological regimes can significantly impact the ecological function of wetland ecosystems. Three wetland sediment samples collected from West Lake, Xiazhuhu Wetland and Baoyang River in the Taihu Lake Watershed, China, were compared to understand the P retention properties responding to hydrological regimes...

Municipal wastewater discharge is threatening the ecological security of the local water environment. This study investigated the field process performance and microorganism characteristics of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in China. The results showed that three WWTPs met the required...