The widespread conversion of wetlands into paddy fields has raised concerns, and its impacts

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the conclusions and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 41 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Functional composition of initial soil fungi explains the difference in mass loss of Phragmites australis litter in different habitat conditions across multiple coastal wetlands (2024) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi

  These results might improve our understanding about nutrient cycling within coastal wetlands, and provide a potential mechanism via different functional groups of soil fungi to explain the inconsistent results about the difference in mass loss across different types of ecosystems.

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  Keywords: different improve understanding nutrient cycling within coastal wetlands provide potential mechanism functional groups soil fungi
• Divergence of microbial carbon use efficiency and soil organic carbon along a tidal flooding gradient in a subtropical coastal wetland (2025) · Water Research · cited 41× · doi

  However, this relationship remains poorly understood in coastal wetlands, where tidal flooding creates unique environmental conditions, facilitates lateral transfer and SOC loss, and mediates organic matter exchange between terrestrial and marine systems.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: relationship remains poorly understood coastal wetlands tidal flooding creates unique environmental conditions facilitates lateral transfer
• Appropriate Nitrogen Addition Boosts Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration: Kandelia obovata Optimizes Microbial Carbon Use Strategies (2026) · Plants · doi

  Mangrove ecosystems in coastal wetland restoration areas are experiencing escalating nitrogen stress, yet the microbial metabolic mechanisms underlying soil carbon sequestration in Kandelia obovata systems under exogenous nitrogen input remain unclear.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: nitrogen mangrove ecosystems coastal wetland restoration areas experiencing escalating stress microbial metabolic mechanisms underlying soil
• The conversion of natural wetlands to paddy fields affects net ecosystem carbon fluxes by restructuring the coupling between soil microbial communities and physicochemical properties (2026) · Ecological Processes · doi

  However, the widespread conversion of wetlands into paddy fields has raised concerns, and its impacts on ecosystem net carbon fluxes, as well as the associated soil environmental and microbial regulatory mechanisms, remain insufficiently understood.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: widespread conversion wetlands paddy fields raised concerns impacts ecosystem carbon fluxes well associated soil environmental

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