Natural coastlines are vital for ecological security and sustainable development. To mitigate their decline, China has implemented requisition-compensation balance policy (RCBP) for coastlines, adapted from the management of cultivated land. This study systematically reviews the policy’s institutional evolution and highlights fundamental distinctions between coastlines and cultivated land in functional services, spatial hetero...

Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a key parameter of initial microbial utilization of organic matter in soil. The responses of CUE to global change factors (GCFs) remain unclear due to their multiple effects and interactions. Here, this study generalized 385 observations obtained using various methods, including 13 C‐/ 14 C‐labeled substrates, 18 O‐labeled water, stoichiometric modeling, and others. The effects of clima...