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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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Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for Quantifying Membrane Fouling: Fouling Layer Structure and Chemical Interaction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (Nano SIMS) is established as a powerful analytical tool to visualize and quantify the membrane fouling layers. ABSTRACT Membrane technology has garnered considerable attention for applications in wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Nevertheless, membrane fouling remains a major barrier, yet the lack of
Mengfei Wu, Xinhua Wang, Pin Zhao, Weilong Song, Ming Xie   +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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Short-Term Uptake of 15N by a Grass and Soil Micro-Organisms after Long-Term Exposure to Elevated CO2 [PDF]

, 2018
This study examines the effect of elevated CO2 on short-term partitioning of inorganic N between a grass and soil micro-organisms. 15N-labelled NH4+ was injected in the soil of mesocosms of Holcus lanatus (L.) that had been grown for more than 15months ...
Barnard, Romain, Barthes, Laure, Leadley, Paul   +2 more
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Mycorrhizas and biomass crops: opportunities for future sustainable development [PDF]

, 2009
Central to soil health and plant productivity in natural ecosystems are in situ soil microbial communities, of which mycorrhizal fungi are an integral component, regulating nutrient transfer between plants and the surrounding soil via extensive mycelial ...
Angela Hodge, Aylott, Azcon-Aguilar, Bardgett, Baum, Baum, Baum, Bending, Boehmel, Bostrom, Castillo, Chen, De Schriver, Deirdre C. Rooney, Dillen, Ekblad, Elizabeth Baggs, Fang, Field, Gadgil, Garbaye, Gary D. Bending, Gehring, Godbold, Gosling, Grogan, Hashimoto, Helgason, Helgason, Hodge, Hodge, Hoffmann, Hooker, Högberg, Högberg, Jaderlund, Jansa, Johnson, Jones, Jones, Jordan, Kahle, Karp, Ken Killham, Khasa, Klass, Klironomos, Kuzovkina, Lal, Lal, Landeweert, Leake, Lehmann, Leigh, Liebig, Magnani, Martin Weih, Matamala, Moreno-Espandola, Olsson, Paterson, Püttsepp, Quoreshi, Read, Read, Rillig, Searchinger, Simon, Sims, Smith, Staddon, Tilman, Toljander, Toljander, Treseder, Trowbridge, van der Heijden, van der Heijden, van der Heijden, Vestergard, Wardle, Warnock, Weih, Zhu   +83 more
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Linking Plant Metabolomics with Fungal Functional Dynamics Reveals a Noncanonical S‐R‐C Adaptive Trajectory

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using field‐based holo‐omics, we demonstrate that developmental shifts in sorghum leaf metabolomes drive a noncanonical fungal succession from stress tolerators (S) through ruderals (R) to competitors (C). Antifungal metabolites in young leaves select for S strategists with expanded genomes, transient maltose pulses during flowering favor fast‐growing ...
Peilin Chen, John W. Taylor, Cheng Gao
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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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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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Increasing Cultivar Diversity of Processing Tomato under Large Scale Organic Production in California [PDF]

, 2008
At an organic farm in California, higher plant diversity was hypothesized to enhance ecosystem functions and services. Plant diversity was manipulated temporally and spatially: mustard cover crop vs.
Barrios Masias, Felipe, Jackson, Louise
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Chitosan‐Carbon Dot Composite Materials Form a Leaf Surface Barrier to Mitigate the Enrichment and Invasion of Nanoplastics: From Leaf Interface to Systemic Response

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Foliar spraying of CS‐CDs can form a film on the leaves of Brassica rapa, effectively reducing the enrichment and absorption of PS in the leaves, while increasing the biomass and nutrient content of the plants. In addition, CS‐CDs can also enrich the interfoliar microbial community and activate the plant's own defense metabolic pathways.
Beibei Zhao, Mei Li, Mengjiao Fan, Chuanhuan Liu, Jie Jiang, Jia Song, Yingzhu Liu   +6 more
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