Weixian Zeng

Weixian Zeng
Central South University of Forestry and Technology | CSUFT · Faculty of Life Science and Techonlogy

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Introduction
Weixian Zeng currently works at the Faculty of Life Science and Techonlogy, Central South University of Forestry and Technology. Weixian does research in Ecology. Currently job focuses on the the belowground biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship.

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Aims Although plant–microbial interactions are essential to sustain terrestrial ecosystem functions, root–microbial interactions remain poorly understood. Therefore, understanding how functional trait diversity of fine roots mediates soil microbial diversity and composition provides insightful information to maintain forest ecosystem functions. Me...
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Aims Although plant–microbial interactions are essential in sustaining terrestrial ecosystem functions, root–microbial interactions remain poorly understood. Therefore, effects of fine root species richness, composition and biomass, and functional traits on soil microbial community richness and composition were assessed in subtropical secondary for...
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The importance of species richness to ecosystem functioning and services is a central tenet of biological conservation. However, most of our theory and mechanistic understanding is based on diversity found aboveground. Our study sought to better understand the relationship between diversity and belowground function by studying root biomass across a...
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Rapid response of uni- and multicellular organisms to environmental changes and their own growth is achieved through a series of molecular mechanisms, often involving modification of macromolecules, including nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. The ADP-ribosylation process has ability to modify these different macromolecules in cells, and is closel...
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Fine root production accounts for a large proportion of net primary production (NPP) in forest ecosystems that is highly responsive to environmental and biotic changes. The underlying mechanisms of the relationship between tree species richness and fine root production have not been fully examined. Here we hypothesized that: (i) the relationship be...
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Aims There is evidence that different facets of biodiversity such as species richness (SR), phylogenetic diversity (PD) and functional diversity (FD) can modulate ecosystem functioning via niche-complementarity or mass-ratio effects, but the support for these hypotheses on fine root biomass remains unclear. Methods In a tree diversity gradient in...
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Background and aims Direct measurement of fine root diversity is very important to unveil belowground interaction, community dynamics and ecosystem functions in forests, but is limited by the effective method. This study attempted to develop specific primers for a quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) method to determine diversity of fine roots and tes...
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Understanding of belowground interactions among tree species and the fine root (≤2 mm in diameter) contribution of a species to forest ecosystem production are mostly restricted by experimental difficulties in the quantification of the species composition. The available approaches have various defects. By contrast, DNA-based methods can avoid these...

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