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A Novel Assay for On‐Site Detection of Soil Microbial Activity

Soil Use and Management, Volume 42, Issue 2, April‐June 2026.
ABSTRACT Soil degradation and the loss of organic carbon threaten agricultural productivity and climate resilience worldwide. Yet, practical on‐farm tools for assessing soil microbial activity, an essential indicator of soil health, remain scarce. Most available methods require laboratory infrastructure or scientific field equipment, thus limiting ...
Franziska Weinrich, Christoph Rosinger, Luca Giuliano Bernardini, Katharina Keiblinger, Gernot Bodner   +4 more
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Gene expression in the deep biosphere [PDF]

, 2013
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Nature Publishing Group for personal use, not for redistribution.
Biddle, Jennifer F., Christman, Glenn D., Edgcomb, Virginia P., Orsi, William D.   +3 more
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Integrating glycerol and straw into digestate applications: Microbial biomass and crop responses under field conditions

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract Global food production relies on inorganic nitrogen to meet population consumption demands. However, synthetic fertilizer production currently relies heavily on fossil fuels. Anaerobic digestate offers an alternative source of nutrients because it is produced from organic matter.
Christina van Midden, Tom Sizmur, Jim Harris, Liz Shaw, Hayden Morgan, Mark Pawlett   +5 more
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Bacterial functional traits: a key driver of soil organic carbon dynamics during reductive soil disinfestation

Frontiers in Microbiology
Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) significantly enhanced SOC content. However, its microbial mechanisms mediated through changes in microbial necromass carbon, particularly under different organic amendments, remain poorly understood.
Risheng Xu, Haijiao Liu, Juan Liu, Yafei Chen, Ruiwei Ran, Lina Gao, Weizhen Zhao, Xing Chen, Tengfei Ma   +8 more
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Microbial necromass carbon enhances arsenic methylation in paddy soils

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) constitutes a critical component of soil organic carbon. Yet, how MNC regulates microbial arsenic (As) methylation processes in soil remains unclear. Across major Chinese rice-growing regions, bacterial and fungal necromass carbon showed significant positive correlations ( P
Jie Li, Zi-Yu Gao, Chuan Chen, Yurong Liu, Si-Yu Zhang, Jianming Xu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Xianjin Tang   +7 more
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Recurrent drought amplifies drought impacts and increases seasonal synchrony in mountain grassland communities

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 3, March 2026.
Climate change increases the recurrence of drought events with strong repercussions on grassland ecosystems. While the effects of single drought events on ecosystem structure and functioning are well understood, it is largely unknown whether and how recurrent drought events modify ecosystem responses to subsequent drought.
Lena M. Müller, Michael Bahn, Maximillian Weidle, Georg Leitinger, Dina in 't Zandt   +4 more
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Contribution of soil microbial necromass carbon to soil organic carbon fractions and its influencing factors in different grassland types [PDF]

SOIL
Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) is a significant source of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the contribution of microbial necromass to different organic carbon fractions and their influencing factors in various soil layers under different grassland ...
S. Chen, S. Chen, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Ma, J. Ma, M. Bai, M. Bai, J. Long, J. Long, M. Liu, M. Liu, Y. Chen, J. Guo, J. Guo, L. Chen, L. Chen   +16 more
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Soil wettability can be explained by the chemical composition of particle interfaces-An XPS study [PDF]

, 2017
Soil wettability (quantified in terms of contact angle, CA) is crucial for physical, chemical, and biological soil functioning. As the CA is determined by components present within the outmost nanometer of particles, this study applied X-ray ...
Bachmann, Jörg, Goebel, Marc-Oliver, Guggenberger, Georg, Kaestner, Matthias, Mikutta, Robert, Schurig, Christian, Woche, Susanne K.   +6 more
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Changes in plant lignin components and microbial necromass matter with subtropical forest restoration

Geoderma
Soil organic carbon (SOC) represents the largest carbon reservoir in terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, understanding how to enhance SOC is crucial for the global carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2 removal. While there has been reported on SOC accumulation
Xiaolin Chen, Xiangyin Ni, Gaochao Zheng, Mingyan Hu, Han Y.H. Chen   +4 more
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D:L-Amino Acid Modeling Reveals Fast Microbial Turnover of Days to Months in the Subsurface Hydrothermal Sediment of Guaymas Basin

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
We investigated the impact of temperature on the microbial turnover of organic matter (OM) in a hydrothermal vent system in Guaymas Basin, by calculating microbial bio- and necromass turnover times based on the culture-independent D:L-amino acid model ...
Mikkel H. Møller, Mikkel H. Møller, Clemens Glombitza, Clemens Glombitza, Mark A. Lever, Longhui Deng, Yuki Morono, Fumio Inagaki, Mechthild Doll, Chin-chia Su, Bente A. Lomstein, Bente A. Lomstein   +11 more
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