Despite the crucial role of human impacts on biodiversity loss, many assessments of this loss focus on single metrics, such as species richness, and overlook the multidimensional effects of human activities. Because of its importance to ecosystem functioning, we investigated the functional diversity of medium‐ and large‐sized mammal assemblages in protected and unprotected mountain forests in the Hengduan Mountains of southwes...

The littoral zone of lakes is recognized as hotspots of biogeochemical cycles. While the coupling of Fe(III) reduction and ammonium oxidation is acknowledged as an important nitrogen loss pathway, the role of anaerobic ammonium oxidation mediated by Mn oxides (Mnammox) remains uncertain. In this study, we conducted a 15 NH 4 + isotopic incubation experiment and applied Mn oxides amended treatment to investigate the role of Mna...

The routine generation of species distribution data at scale remains a challenge. We used aquatic environmental DNA metabarcoding to sample vertebrate species across the 30,000 km 2 Gaoligongshan region along the China–Myanmar border. In just 56 calendar days (33 researcher‐field‐days + 69 researcher‐lab‐days), we detected 389 vertebrate species, of which 35 are Red‐Listed. We introduce the ‘eDNA‐aware’ OccPlus occupancy model...