Coastal saline-alkaline soils in China's Yellow River Delta represent vital yet underutilized arable reserves, where crop productivity is severely constrained by dynamic salinity-alkalinity stress, compounded by the scarcity of native stress-adapted biological resources for sustainable remediation. This study addressed this critical gap through in situ isolation of a novel halo-alkaliphilic microalga from saline waters, identi...

Aim Conflicting distribution patterns of soil microbes along the elevation gradient in alpine ecosystems have been suggested based on observations from individual mountains. There remains a lack of biogeographical studies spanning multiple latitudes and climate zones, a scale appropriate to reveal general ecological patterns of soil microbial biomass (SMB) for alpine ecosystems. We conducted a large‐scale sampling campaign alo...