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Effects of Nitrogen Addition on Soil Microbial Biomass: A Meta-Analysis

Agriculture
Most studies about the effects of N addition on soil microbial biomass evaluate soil microbial and physicochemical characteristics using single-test methods, and these studies have not been integrated and analyzed to comprehensively assess the impact of ...
Chen He, Yunze Ruan, Zhongjun Jia
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Unaltered soil microbial community composition, but decreased metabolic activity in a semiarid grassland after two years of passive experimental warming

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Soil microbial communities regulate soil carbon feedbacks to climate warming through microbial respiration (i.e., metabolic rate). A thorough understanding of the responses of composition, biomass, and metabolic rate of soil microbial community to ...
Chao Fang, Wenbin Ke, Matteo Campioli, Jiuying Pei, Ziqiang Yuan, Xin Song, Jian‐Sheng Ye, Fengmin Li, Ivan A. Janssens   +8 more
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A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais, S. Peng, J. Chang, F. Li, Q. Zhu, K. Yuan, G. Hugelius, H. Li, Y. Cai, F. Chevallier, K. Tibrewal, E. A. Kort, K. Arndt, J. Watts, B. Buma, N. Besic, P. I. Palmer, H. Cadillo‐Quiroz, E. Euskirchen, M. J. Gondwe, A. Hoyt, R. Jackson, S. Malone, D. Monteverde, S. Natali, M. Ramonet, C. Rey‐Sanchez, L. B. Sagang, E. A. G. Schuur, R. Vargas, R. Varner, Z. Zhang, B. Poulter   +32 more
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Microbial Biomass Responses to Soil Drying-Rewetting and Phosphorus Leaching

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019
Soil drying-rewetting is known to enhance soil phosphorus leaching, which in part is due to osmotic shock and lysis of microbial cells upon rewetting.
Sidra U. Khan, Peter S. Hooda, Martin S. A. Blackwell, Rosa Busquets   +3 more
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Soil bacterial taxonomic diversity is critical to maintaining the plant productivity

Environment International, 2020
Soil microbial communities play a central role in driving multiple ecosystem functions and ecological processes that are key to maintaining the plant productivity. However, we lack sound evidence for the linkage between soil microbial diversity and plant
Qing-Lin Chen, Jing Ding, Yong-Guan Zhu, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu   +4 more
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Tree species composition influences enzyme activities and microbial biomass in the rhizosphere: a rhizobox approach. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Monoculture causes nutrient losses and leads to declines in soil fertility and biomass production over successive cultivation. The rhizosphere, a zone of usually high microbial activities and clearly distinct from bulk soil, is defined as the volume of ...
Shengzuo Fang, Dong Liu, Ye Tian, Shiping Deng, Xulan Shang   +4 more
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A hitchhiker’s guide: estimates of microbial biomass and microbial gene abundance in soil

Biology and Fertility of Soils
AbstractInformation on microbial biomass carbon (MBC) is crucial to assess their stocks and role for plant nutrient release in soil. Next to fumigation-extraction, molecular methods are routinely used to estimate the contribution of fungi, bacteria, and archaea to the soil microbial community.
Rainer Georg Joergensen, Michael Hemkemeyer, Lukas Beule, Janyl Iskakova, Zhyldyz Oskonbaeva, Pauline Sophie Rummel, Sanja Annabell Schwalb, Florian Wichern   +7 more
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Revolutionising Agricultural Sustainability: New ‘Furrow Tillage’ can Mitigate Short‐Term Soil‐to‐Atmosphere CO2 Flux and Promote Soil‐Plant‐Microbe Health

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Furrow tillage resolves the conventional‐vs.‐no‐tillage trade‐off by simultaneously cutting CO2 efflux to 2.0–3.0 g C m−2 d−1 and unlocking high nutrient availability for the rice rhizosphere. This scalable agronomic solution strengthens soil health, enhances plant physiology, reshapes microbial metabolism, and shifts paddy systems toward a net ...
Arnab Majumdar, Munish Kumar Upadhyay, Argha Ghosh, Rakesh Biswas, Ioly Kotta Loizou, Martin Buck, Mark Tibbett, Biswajit Giri, Debojyoti Moulick, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Tarit Roychowdhury   +10 more
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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
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The Plant‐to‐Plant Circular Strategy: Coupling Photodegradation and Phytoremediation With Plant‐Based Nanomaterials for Plastic Degradation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Plant‐based nanomaterials derived from alfalfa serve as dual‐function catalysts, coupling photodegradation and phytoremediation to degrade polyethylene under UV‐A light and in soil. The nanomaterials work synergistically with alfalfa and soil microbes, achieving efficient plastic breakdown without trophic transfer.
Haoran Liu, Lena Ciric, Yuheng Wang, Ziru Pei, Manpreet Bhatti   +4 more
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