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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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Cover Cropping Increases Soil Fungal-Bacterial Community Diversity and Network Complexity in Apple Orchards on the Loess Plateau, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Soil microorganisms play a key role in soil fertility. Exploring the microbial community composition and diversity in response to cover crops is important for improving soil fertility in orchards.
Chong-Yi Liu, Ying-ying Wang, Xin-yi Chen, Hua Tan, Xu-mei Jin, Qi Lu, Shu-bin He, Ming-Xiu Long   +7 more
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Soil pH, total phosphorus, climate and distance are the major factors influencing microbial activity at a regional spatial scale [PDF]

, 2016
Considering the extensive functional redundancy in microbial communities and great difficulty in elucidating it based on taxonomic structure, studies on the biogeography of soil microbial activity at large spatial scale are as important as microbial ...
Cao, Haichuan, Chen, Ruirui, Jiang, Lanlan, Lin, Xiangui, Wang, Gejiao, Wang, Libing, Yang, Fen, Zheng, Shixue   +7 more
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Seasonality regulates the effects of acid rain on microbial community in a subtropical agricultural soil of Southern China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
Acid rain alters soil carbon (C) cycling by influencing the soil microbial community structure and functions. However, the response of soil microbial communities to acid rain with time and underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood.
Ziqiang Liu, Hui Wei, Jiaen Zhang, Muhammad Saleem, Yanan He, Jiawen Zhong, Rui Ma   +6 more
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Nematodes enhance plant growth and nutrient uptake under C and N-rich conditions [PDF]

, 2016
The role of soil fauna in crucial ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling remains poorly quantified, mainly because of the overly reductionistic approach adopted in most experimental studies.
Bert, Wim, Buchan, David, De Neve, Stefaan, Gebremikael, Mesfin Tsegaye, Steel, Hanne   +4 more
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Priority effects largely determine the consequences of soil microbial community coalescence

Geoderma
Priority effects play critical roles in microbial community assembly but remain underexplored in soil systems. Here, we investigated their influence on soil microbial community coalescence via microcosm experiments based on soils collected from six sites
Danhong Chen, Yi Duan, Dong Liu, Fang Wang, Xiaoyong Cui, Zhihong Xu, Rongxiao Che   +6 more
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Linking soil microbial community dynamics to straw-carbon distribution in soil organic carbon

Scientific Reports, 2020
Returning crop residues is a possible practice for balancing soil carbon (C) loss. The turnover rate of organic C from crop residues to soil C is dependent on soil microbial community dynamics.
Yao Su, Zhenchao He, Yanhua Yang, Shengqiang Jia, Man Yu, Xijing Chen, A. Shen   +6 more
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Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem

mSystems, 2019
Soil salinization is a growing environmental problem caused by both natural and human activities. Excessive salinity in soil suppresses growth, decreases species diversity, and alters the community composition of plants; however, the effect of salinity ...
Kaoping Zhang, Yu Shi, Xiaoqing Cui, Ping Yue, Kaihui Li, Xuejun Liu, Binu M. Tripathi, Haiyan Chu   +7 more
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Microbial community interactions determine the mineralization of soil organic phosphorus in subtropical forest ecosystems

Microbiology Spectrum
In subtropical forest ecosystems with few phosphorus (P) inputs, P availability and forest productivity depend on soil organic P (Po) mineralization.
Chang Pan, Chenchen Sun, Xinjing Qu, Wenruinan Yu, Jiahuan Guo, Yuanchun Yu, Xiaogang Li   +6 more
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Plant and soil microbe responses to light, warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate forest [PDF]

, 2018
1. Temperate forests across Europe and eastern North America have become denser since the 1950s due to less intensive forest management and global environmental changes such as nitrogen deposition and climate warming. Denser tree canopies result in lower
Boeckx, Pascal, Boon, Nico, De Frenne, Pieter, Ma, Shiyu, Props, Ruben, Vanhellemont, Margot, Verheyen, Kris, Wasof, Safaa   +7 more
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