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Effect of field warming on soil microbial carbon use efficiency——A meta-analysis Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Qiufang Zhang, Jiguang Feng, Xiaojie Li, Yuehmin Chen, Joshua P. Schimel, Biao Zhu
Soil organic carbon storage in soil carbon models is highly sensitive to microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE); thus, to reliably predict C storage requires quantifying the response of CUE to warming. By conducting a meta-analysis of 87 observations from field warming experiments worldwide, we found that field warming has no significant effect on CUE, which remains constant at 0.35 ± 0.19 (mean ± SD)
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Microbial metabolic traits drive the differential contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon between the rhizosphere of absorptive roots and transport roots Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Qitong Wang, Jipeng Wang, Ziliang Zhang, Min Li, Dungang Wang, Peipei Zhang, Na Li, Huajun Yin
The rhizosphere is a typical soil microbial hotspot, however, not a homogeneous entity. Due to root functional differentiation, different root functional modules (i.e., absorptive roots and transport roots) can play distinct roles in microbial necromass formation and subsequent soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration by influencing microbial metabolic activity in the surrounding soil. Yet, how microbial
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Iron mineral type controls organic matter stability and priming in paddy soil under anaerobic conditions Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Shuang Wang, Wei Gao, Zhi Ma, Zhenke Zhu, Yu Luo, Liang Wei, Hongzhao Yuan, Song Chen, Chaoyun Ying, Kyle Mason-Jones, Yakov Kuzyakov, Tida Ge
Associations of iron (hydr)oxides (FeOx) with organic carbon are vital in regulating the stability of soil organic carbon (SOC). Like SOC, FeOx is chemically dynamic in soils, particularly under anaerobic conditions. However, previous research has not clarified how the stability of FeOx (goethite versus ferrihydrite) and the formation pathway of FeOx-OC associations (adsorption versus coprecipitation)
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Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Hannah M. Anderson, Grace A. Cagle, Erica L.-W. Majumder, Erin Silva, Julie Dawson, Philipp Simon, Zachary B. Freedman
Root exudate composition can influence rhizosphere microbial recruitment and is tightly controlled by plant genetics. However, little research has profiled root exudate in vegetable crops or determined their role in rhizosphere microbial community and metabolite composition. It is also not well understood how root exudates and resulting rhizosphere dynamics shift across plant trait diversity and with
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Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Ximei Ji, Yang Xu, Hongyu Liu, Tijiu Cai, Fujuan Feng
Climate-induced changes in thinning snowpack can greatly impact soil freeze-thaw patterns and water supply. These effects may influence the soil microbial diversity and the key ecological functions mediated by microorganisms, thereby altering the cycling of nutrient in the ecosystem. A snow-exclusion experiment to explore the effects of snow removal on soil microbial diversity and functionality in
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Mitigating generative AI inaccuracies in soil biology Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Jared L. DeForest
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Stoichiometry regulates rice straw-induced priming effect: The microbial life strategies Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Yuqin Liang, Dan Cao, Zhi Ma, Ruiqiao Wu, Hongrui Zhang, Yunying Fang, Muhammad Shahbaz, Xiao Jun Allen Liu, Yakov Kuzyakov, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge, Zhenke Zhu
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Different regulatory mechanisms on carbon-degrading enzyme activities under short-term litter input manipulations in subalpine coniferous and broad-leaved forest soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Xiuxian Men, Yong Bao, Deping Zhai, Chang Liao, Yiyue Wang, Chi Wang, Xiaoli Cheng
Soil carbon (C)-degrading extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs) are important regulators in targeting litter and soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition in territorial ecosystems. However, the responses of enzymes involved in C-cycling to short-term litter input manipulations in different forest ecosystems remain unclear. Here, we examined oxidative C-degrading EEAs (Ox-EEAs), hydrolytic C-degrading
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Drought mediates the response of soil fungal communities post-wildfire in a Californian grassland and coastal sage scrubland Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Melanie T. Hacopian, Sarai S. Finks, Kathleen K. Treseder
There is a knowledge gap surrounding how drought and wildfire, two increasingly frequent disturbances, will alter soil fungal communities. Moreover, studies that directly compare ambient and drought-treated soil fungal communities in the context of wildfire are exceptionally scarce. We assessed the response and recovery of soil fungal communities and functional guilds in two sites – a grassland and
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Land use intensity is a major driver of soil microbial and carbon cycling across an agricultural landscape Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Alexa K. Byers, Leo Condron, Steve A. Wakelin, Amanda Black
Soil carbon (C) storage is a critical ecosystem function that underpins human health and well-being. The acceleration of human-driven land use change, such as agricultural intensification, is a major driver of soil C loss globally. Developing sustainable land use practices that enhance agricultural productivity whilst protecting essential ecosystem functions such as soil C storage is vital. The soil
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Assessing soil functioning: What is the added value of soil organic carbon quality measurements alongside total organic carbon content? Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Guusje J. Koorneef, Mirjam M. Pulleman, Rob NJ. Comans, Sophie Q. van Rijssel, Pierre Barré, François Baudin, Ron GM. de Goede
Soil organic carbon (SOC) content is the most widely used soil health indicator, but many soil functions are also influenced by the quality of SOC. Yet, standardized SOC quality parameters that can be used in soil health assessments in addition to SOC content are still in development. Here, we investigated the relationships between various SOC parameters (both quantity and quality) and soil functions
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Distribution of soil tardigrades as revealed by molecular identification across a large-scale area of Australia Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Zi-Yang He, Hang-Wei Hu, Bao-Anh Thi Nguyen, Qing-Lin Chen, Anthony Weatherley, Michael Nash, Li Bi, Keren Wu, Ji-Zheng He
Tardigrades, also known as ‘water bear’ or ‘moss piglet’, inhabit diverse environments ranging from marine to freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They occupy various trophic levels in the micro-food web attributed to their different feeding preferences and different predators, which also heralds the complexity of their ecological functions. Therefore, understanding the ecological preference of tardigrades
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Mechanisms behind high N2O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Xiantao Fang, Stephen J. Harris, Sonja Maria Leitner, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Rafaela Feola Conz, Lutz Merbold, Michael Dannenmann, Antony Oyugi, Shuwei Liu, Jianwen Zou, Johan Six, Matti Barthel
Livestock manure contributes to global warming due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially nitrous oxide (NO) and methane (CH). In the arid and semi-arid lands of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), extensive pastoral grazing systems are common, with cattle grazing in the savanna during the day and kept in enclosures (called in Kenya) during the night. Manure is usually not removed from bomas but left
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Living and decaying roots as regulators of soil aggregation and organic matter formation—from the rhizosphere to the detritusphere Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 K. Witzgall, F.A. Steiner, B.D. Hesse, N. Riveras-Muñoz, V. Rodríguez, P.P.C. Teixeira, M. Li, R. Oses, O. Seguel, S. Seitz, D. Wagner, T. Scholten, F. Buegger, G. Angst, C.W. Mueller
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Artificial electron snorkels reduce CH4 emissions in paddy soil: Regulation of the electron transfer pathway and microbial community ecology Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Xiaolin Zhang, Jintong Song, Ruixiang Li, Lean Zhou, Tian Li, Xin Wang, Qixing Zhou
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Soil nitrogen and phosphorus regulate decomposition of organic nitrogen compounds in the rothamsted experiment Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Sheng Tang, Wankun Pan, Jingjie Zhou, Qingxu Ma, Xiangde Yang, Wolfgang Wanek, Karina A. Marsden, Yakov Kuzyakov, David R. Chadwick, Lianghuan Wu, Andrew S. Gregory, Davey L. Jones
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Manipulating soil resource availability to alter microbial communities for weed management in agroecosystems Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Maria Gannett, Antonio DiTommaso, Yejin Son, Jed P. Sparks, Matthew C. Reid, Jenny Kao-Kniffin
The growing resistance of weeds to herbicides demands innovative strategies that harness soil biology for effective weed control. We examined the use of carbon amendments to stimulate microbial immobilization of soil nitrogen for weed control. We hypothesized that increased carbon availability will stimulate soil microbial growth, leading to greater nitrogen immobilization, which consequently decreases
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Response to Čapek and Šantrůčková’s comment to “Liming effects on microbial carbon use efficiency and its potential consequences for soil organic carbon stocks” [Soil Bio. Biochem. 194: 109437] Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Julia Schroeder, Claudia Dǎmǎtîrcǎ, Tobias Bölscher, Claire Chenu, Lars Elsgaard, Christoph C. Tebbe, Laura Skadell, Christopher Poeplau
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Non-native earthworms preferentially promote bacterial rather than fungal denitrification in northern temperate deciduous forests Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Clara Villeneuve, Pascale Beauregard, Robert L. Bradley
We undertook a study to determine if non-native earthworm populations occurring in sugar maple ( Marsh.) forests of eastern Canada could potentially alter denitrification rates driven by bacteria and fungi. We measured earthworm abundances and collected surface mineral soil samples from 38 sugar maple forests, 14 that were colonized by earthworms (EW+) and 24 that were earthworm-free (EW-). In each
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Minimal impact of nitrogen addition on bacterial and fungal communities during fungal necromass decomposition in a subalpine coniferous plantation Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Dungang Wang, Wentong Gao, Jipeng Wang, Huajun Yin
Fungal necromass is a vital source of stable carbon and available nitrogen in soils, especially in coniferous forests that are extensively colonized by ectomycorrhizal fungi. Here, we examined changes in the necromass microbial community during a 20-week incubation experiment in a subalpine coniferous plantation. We also explored how the necromass microbial community responded to simulated nitrogen
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Quantifying the negative effects of dissolved organic carbon of maize straw-derived biochar on its carbon sequestration potential in a paddy soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Lanfang Han, Beibei Liu, Yu Luo, Liying Chen, Chuanxin Ma, Chao Xu, Ke Sun, Baoshan Xing
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Unravelling CH4 and N2O dynamics in tidal wetlands using natural abundance isotopes and functional genes Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Long Ho, Kim Pham, Matti Barthel, Stephen Harris, Samuel Bodé, Jo De Vrieze, Pieter Vermeir, Johan Six, Pascal Boeckx, Peter Goethals
Tidal wetlands are one of the major sources of CH and NO in natural systems to the atmosphere; yet we still lack insights into the impact of their biogeochemical dynamics on the emissions of these greenhouse gases (GHGs). Here, we investigated the CH and NO sources in four tidal wetlands ranging from freshwater to polyhaline with a focus on their production pathways. By using natural abundance isotopes
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Belowground links between root properties of grassland species and N2O concentration across the topsoil profile Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Arlete S. Barneze, Søren O. Petersen, Jørgen Eriksen, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Diego Abalos
Plants can affect NO emissions by enhancing nitrogen (N) uptake and other below-ground interactions. However, the specific effect of the root systems of different plant species on the production and accumulation of NO within the soil profile remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate how plant species from different functional groups, their productivity and root traits affect
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Unveiling ammonium concentration ranges that determine competition for mineral nitrogen among soil nitrogen transformations under increased carbon availability Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Zhaoxiong Chen, Yu Liu, Liangping Wu, Jing Wang, Ahmed S. Elrys, Yves Uwiragiye, Quan Tang, Hang Jing, Zucong Cai, Christoph Müller, Yi Cheng
Globally, approximately 50% of nitrogen (N) fertilizer applied in agricultural practices escapes into the environment, resulting in water and air pollution and ozone depletion. Soil N transformation processes determine the chemical form of N and the amount of the various N forms, controlling where N fertilizer goes and how much of it is lost. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of soil N transformation
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Poly(L-lactide) mineralisation under environmental conditions is enhanced in earthworm guts Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Linda Hink, Stephan Rohrbach, Joey Rehkopf, Elmar Sehl, Seema Agarwal, Heike Feldhaar, Marcus A. Horn
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Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Alexander H. Krichels, Aral C. Greene, Elizah Z. Stephens, Sharon Zhao, Joshua P. Schimel, Emma L. Aronson, Erin J. Hanan, Peter M. Homyak
High rates of atmospheric N deposition can increase ecosystem N availability and stimulate N losses from soils via nitric oxide (NO; an air pollutant at high concentrations) and nitrous oxide (NO; a strong greenhouse gas) emissions as predicted by N saturation theory. However, it remains unclear whether theories developed in mesic ecosystems apply to drylands, where plant N uptake and N availability
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Phosphorus - A key element determining nitrous oxide emissions from boreal cultivated peat soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Marja Maljanen, Yu Zheng, Minna Pääkkönen, Carolina Voigt, Arja Louhisuo, Perttu Virkajärvi
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Root exudation is involved in regulation of nitrogen transformation under mowing in a temperate steppe Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Xiufeng Zhai, Yao Zheng, Fangling Ma, Lifei Ren, Wenming Bai, Qiuying Tian, Wen-Hao Zhang
Nitrogen (N) transformation in soil is an important process involved in regulation of functioning of grassland ecosystems by affecting soil N availability and nitrous oxide (NO) emission from soil. As a common grassland management practice worldwide, mowing has impacts on nutrient status in soil and nutrient cycling in grassland ecosystems. Root exudates including the organic carbon (C) and N substances
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The effects of straw return on soil bacterial diversity and functional profiles: A meta-analysis Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Miaomiao Zhang, Pengfei Dang, Bart Haegeman, Xiaoqing Han, Xiaofan Wang, Xuan Pu, Xiaoliang Qin, Kadambot H.M. Siddique
Returning straw directly to agricultural fields increases soil carbon sequestration and influences soil microbial activities. However, the precise impacts of straw return on soil bacterial diversity, composition, and function profiles remain unclear, necessitating a comprehensive synthesis and standardized analysis. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of 729 original bacterial sequencing samples
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Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Ke Meng, Paula Harkes, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Violette Geissen
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High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Guiping Ye, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiaodan Cui, Yang Jin, Hang-Wei Hu, Jia Liu, Zhiying Guo, Yongxin Lin
A growing body of evidence highlights the important role of both abundant and rare microorganisms in agroecosystem for their respective ecological functioning. However, the ecological processes that govern the assembly of abundant and rare taxa microbial communities in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale have not yet been elucidated. Here, we conducted a comprehensive investigation of bacterial
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The coupling of carbon and energy fluxes reveals anaerobiosis in an aerobic soil incubation with a Bacillota-dominated community Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Martin-Georg Endress, Ruirui Chen, Evgenia Blagodatskaya, Sergey Blagodatsky
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Earthworms enhance the performance of organic amendments in improving rice growth and nutrition in poor ferralsols Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 O. Ratsiatosika, J. Trap, V. Herinasandratra, T. Razafimbelo, L. Bernard, E. Blanchart
In the Highlands of Madagascar, providing organic amendments (OAs) is the main farmer fertilization practice in upland rainfed agrosystems dominated by nutrient-depleted Ferralsols. Therefore, enhancing the performance of OAs on plant functions is particularly important for improving both plant productivity and agrosystem sustainability. Earthworms are well-known ecosystem engineers involved in the
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Interaction of rice root Fe plaque with radial oxygen loss enhances paddy-soil N2O emission by increasing •OH production and subsequently inhibiting N2O reduction Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jinzhi Yao, Yingdong Fu, Zhuyun Yu, Ting Liu, Tim J. Clough, Chunsheng Hu, Shuping Qin
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The interplay between climate and bedrock type determines litter decomposition in temperate forest ecosystems Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Richard Michalet, Pierre Liancourt
At regional scale, it is dominantly considered in the European literature that litter decomposition is higher in soils from calcareous than siliceous bedrocks because of higher pH in the former forest ecosystems. We tested the alternative hypothesis that this should rather be due to differences in physical characteristics of the bedrock, with likely higher decomposition on calcareous than siliceous
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Litter decomposition rate response to multiple global change factors: A meta-analysis Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Yalan Liu, Ailin Zhang, Xiangyi Li, Wennong Kuang, Waqar Islam
Anthropogenic global change fundamentally impacts ecosystem biogeochemical cycling. Although litter decomposition is a crucial component of carbon (C) cycling, its response to diverse global change factors (GCFs) remains uncertain. In this research, we synthesized 1706 observations from 260 peer-reviewed publications to elucidate the effects of GCFs on litter decomposition rate () and the contribution
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Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Luigi Gentile, Dimitrios Floudas, Ulf Olsson, Per Persson, Anders Tunlid
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a central role in soil carbon (C) dynamics, serving as both a substrate for microbial decomposers and a source of material stabilised via physical protection in molecular aggregates and associations with mineral particles. It is well established that soil microorganisms play a key role in mineral-associated C aggregates; however, their impacts on molecular aggregates
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Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Christopher J. Gillespie, Tim L. Sit, Althea J. Loucanides, Jialin Hu, Brooke E. Matusko, Nicholas R. Terwilliger, Wei Shi, Samantha M. Steffen, Alex L. Woodley, Shuijin Hu
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Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Daniela Aguirre, Alejandro E. Benhumea, Jennie R. McLaren
Increasing abundance of tall deciduous shrubs has been shown to affect tundra soil properties, which may further affect carbon and nitrogen cycling in these soils, including through effects on litter decomposition. These tall deciduous shrubs produce a higher quantity of litter, and also a different quality of litter, than tundra species in non-shrub dominated tundra, both of which may affect community-wide
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Water and nitrogen availability define emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides from desert soil differently Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Martha Osei-Yeboah, Vasily I. Grabovsky, Nurit Agam, Ilya Gelfand
Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and water, together and individually, limit soil biological processes in dryland ecosystems and therefore, the availability of each nutrient is a key determinant of ecosystem processes and functions. To assess the importance of each limiting factor for microbial activity in desert soil, we manipulated water, N, and P availability separately and combined. N, P, and NP were
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Nitrogen addition alters the relative importance of roots and mycorrhizal hyphae in regulating soil organic carbon accumulation in a karst forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Yuanshuang Yuan, Yicong Yin, Bartosz Adamczyk, Di Liang, Dapeng Gu, Guowei Xia, Jianli Zhang, Ziliang Zhang
Plant belowground carbon (C) inputs from roots and associated mycorrhizal hyphae are increasingly recognized as critical drivers impacting soil organic C (SOC) pool. However, whether roots and mycorrhizal hyphae differentially regulate SOC formation and accumulation under elevated nitrogen (N) deposition remains to be addressed. Using an ingrowth-core technique, the relative contributions of roots
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Temperature sensitivity of aerobic and anaerobic organic carbon mineralization varies with climate and soil depth in riparian zones Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Mingzhu Lu, Gang He, Lei Fan, Guihua Liu, Junjun Wu, Wenzhi Liu, Lin Ma
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Microbial transformation mechanisms of particulate organic carbon to mineral-associated organic carbon at the chemical molecular level: Highlighting the effects of ambient temperature and soil moisture Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Yali Niu, Yue Li, Mingxuan Lou, Zhen Cheng, Renjie Ma, He Guo, Jian Zhou, Hongtao Jia, Lichao Fan, Tiecheng Wang
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Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Farzad Aslani, Mohammad Bahram, Stefan Geisen, Mari Pent, Eveli Otsing, Heidi Tamm, Arwyn Jones, Panos Panagos, Julia Köninger, Alberto Orgiazzi, Leho Tedersoo
Soil protists have vital roles as major microbiome predators in soil functioning and plant performance. Protists are also suggested to be the most responsive microbial group to external changes, such as anthropogenic land use types. While protists were long used as models for biogeography such as to investigate if ‘everything is everywhere’ among microbes, their biogeography at the taxonomic level
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Can heavy metal pollution stress reduce microbial carbon-use efficiencies? Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Margarida Soares, Sandra Rabow, Johannes Rousk
The fate of soil organic matter (OM) is determined by its microbial use for growth or respiration. Many environmental factors influence microbial OM use, including the presence of contaminants and toxins in the environment, such as heavy metals. We evaluated short- and long-term responses of microbial processes to metal contamination by estimating biomass concentrations and growth rates of bacteria
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Microbial metabolic capacity regulates the accrual of mineral-associated organic carbon in subtropical paddy soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Zhe Li, Xun Duan, Xiaobin Guo, Wei Gao, Yan Li, Ping Zhou, Qihong Zhu, Anthony G. O'Donnell, Ke Dai, Jinshui Wu
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Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Daniel Patko, Udara Bimendra Gunatilake, Belen Gonzalez-Gaya, Lionel X. Dupuy, Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, Fernando Benito-Lopez
Root exudates control critical processes in the rhizosphere, retaining water, selecting for beneficial microorganisms or solubilising nutrients prior to uptake by the plant. Analysing root exudation patterns however is challenging because existing methods are often destructive and unable to resolve spatial and temporal variations in the production of root exudates. Here, we present a paper-based microfluidic
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Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Yunqiao Ma, Yang Yu, Shuzhen Nan, Yu Chai, Wenyin Xu, Yan Qin, Xilai Li, Gernot Bodner
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) possess an underlying dynamic interrelationship driven by abiotic and microbial factors with important effects on soil structure and carbon sequestration. However, these dynamics remain poorly understood across different aggregate scales. This study investigated the spatial distribution of SOC, SIC, microbial biomass, enzymes, and community
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Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 2023 Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 David Powlson
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Pasture-crop rotations modulate the soil and rhizosphere microbiota and preserve soil structure supporting oat cultivation in the Pampa biome Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Victoria Cerecetto, Carolina Leoni, Stephanie D. Jurburg, Ioannis D. Kampouris, Kornelia Smalla, Doreen Babin
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Microbial communities overwhelm environmental controls in explaining nitrous oxide emission in acidic soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Shengwen Xu, Yongxiang Yu, Haoxin Fan, Nataliya Bilyera, Xiangtian Meng, Jiantao Xue, Zhong Lu, Zhihan Yang, Stephen J. Chapman, Fuyun Gao, Wenyan Han, Yaying Li, Ningguo Zheng, Huaiying Yao, Yakov Kuzyakov
Intensively fertilized acidic soils are global hotspots of nitrous oxide (NO) emissions, contributing to net agronomic greenhouse gas outcomes. Identifying the key drivers of soil NO emissions is hampered by the synergistic or antagonistic effects of multiple factors. Within a framework based on the predominant role of microbial communities producing NO, the NO emissions are affected either by proximal
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A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Sheng-Qi Fan, Shao-Lin Peng, Bao-Ming Chen
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Disentangling the effects of mineral fertiliser N, P and K on microbial biomass, necromass and ionome in soil from the Askov long-term field experiment Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Sanja A. Schwalb, Michael Hemkemeyer, Bent T. Christensen, Stefanie Heinze, Rebeca Leme Oliva, Rainer Georg Joergensen, Florian Wichern
Given the increasingly recognised importance of microbial biomass (MB) in soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, knowledge of the microbial ionome beyond carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) becomes crucial. The microbial ionome could indicate nutritional restrictions related to MB growth and microbial necromass C (MN-C) accumulation. In this study, soils receiving different combinations of
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Different phosphorus preferences among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in a subtropical forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Minxia Liang, Xinyi Zhang, Juanjuan Zhang, Xubing Liu
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Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Bing Ma, Xiongjie Sheng, Juan Zhou, Uffe N. Nielsen, Xiangtai Wang, Miaojun Ma
Nitrogen (N) inputs to terrestrial ecosystems are increasing faster than phosphorus (P) inputs, causing N:P imbalances and substantial changes in the diversity and structure of plant, soil microbial, and fauna communities. The responses of the soil micro-food web to N:P imbalances remain unclear but are crucial to understanding the impacts on ecosystem functioning. We investigated the effect of N and
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Number of global change factors alters plant-soil feedbacks via its effect on soil fungal communities Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Wei Xue, Lin Huang, James D. Bever, Cheng Du, Hao-Ming Yuan, Lin-Xuan He, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Fei-Hai Yu
Plants and soil microbes are often challenged by multiple global change factors (GCFs), and their responses to single GCFs may differ from those to multiple GCFs due to synergistic or antagonistic interactions. Therefore, changes in number of GCFs may alter plant-soil feedbacks. We conditioned a soil by growing a plant of in the soil for three months, and then grew a plant of the same species in a
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Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Guoming Qin, Zhe Lu, Shuchai Gan, Lulu Zhang, Jingtao Wu, Christian J. Sanders, Zhili He, Xiaoli Yu, Jingfan Zhang, Jinge Zhou, Ruyi Ding, Xingyun Huang, Han Chen, Hua He, Mengxiao Yu, Hui Li, Faming Wang
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Input of high-quality litter reduces soil carbon losses due to priming in a subtropical pine forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Shiting Li, Maokui Lyu, Cui Deng, Wei Deng, Xiaohong Wang, Anne Cao, Yongmeng Jiang, Jueling Liu, Yuming Lu, Jinsheng Xie
To date, it is unclear how differences in litter quality affect soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition through a phenomenon called 'priming effects' (PEs), especially for low-fertility forest soils under field conditions. Here, the effects of low- and high-quality leaf litter on PE and microbial metabolism of litter-derived carbon (C) were explored in a low-fertility pine () plantation. A 185-day
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On the error of respiration flux calculation along the pH gradient (comment to the study of Schroeder and co-authors (2024)) Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Petr Čapek, Hana Šantrůčková
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Shifts in soil C stabilization mechanisms are linked to reindeer-induced changes in plant communities and associated fungi in subarctic tundra Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Anne Tyvijärvi, Sari Stark, Henni Ylänne, Carles Castaño, Bartosz Adamczyk
Arctic tundra ecosystems store a significant proportion of the global soil organic carbon (C). However, warming-induced shrub encroachment and reindeer ( L.) grazing regimes promoting graminoid vegetation may strongly influence tundra soil C stability. Here, we studied how reindeer grazing intensity and experimental warming affect soil C stabilization in a tundra ecosystem. We hypothesized that under