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Direct cell extraction from fresh and stored soil samples: Impact on microbial viability and community compositions Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Yang Ouyang; Danmei Chen; Ying Fu; Weiling Shi; Tony Provin; Arum Han; Erin van Shaik; James E. Samuel; Paul de Figueiredo; Aifen Zhou; Jizhong Zhou
The direct extraction of viable microbes from soil samples is critical for the application of many single-cell related technologies. However, there are many aspects of extraction technologies that can impact the viability and diversity of extractable cells from fresh or stored soil samples. In this study, physical dispersion method, chemical dispersion method, and Nycodenz density gradient medium concentration
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Tree species richness and water availability interact to affect soil microbial processes Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Manuella Strukelj; William Parker; Emmanuel Corcket; Laurent Augusto; Rim Khlifa; Hervé Jactel; Alison D. Munson
The objective of this study was to examine the interactive influence of tree diversity and water availability on microbial functioning in surface soil (0–10 cm). The study was conducted at two field experiments (ages 4.2 and 9.0 years, respectively) of the TreeDivNet platform that established plantations with a gradient of tree species richness exposed to high and low water availability treatments
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Spruce girdling decreases abundance of fungivorous soil nematodes in a boreal forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Alexey A. Kudrin; Andrey G. Zuev; Anastasia A. Taskaeva; Tatiana N. Konakova; Alla A. Kolesnikova; Ivan V. Gruzdev; Dmitriy N. Gabov; Evgenia V. Yakovleva; Alexei V. Tiunov
The relative importance of belowground and aboveground energy inputs for the decomposer communities in soil remains largely unknown. In particular, no research has been done on the significance of root-derived resources for nematode communities in boreal forests. In two spruce stands in the taiga zone, we set up a field experiment in which girdling of spruce trees and clipping of dwarf shrubs was performed
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Leveraging energy flows to quantify microbial traits in soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Arjun Chakrawal; Anke M. Herrmann; Stefano Manzoni
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Agricultural habitats are dominated by rapidly evolving nematodes revealed through phylogenetic comparative methods Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Xin Gong; Xiaoyun Chen; Stefan Geisen; Jingru Zhang; Huimin Zhu; Feng Hu; Manqiang Liu
Anthropogenic activities are supposed to reduce global biodiversity and negatively influence the development of diverse groups in the tree of life. Yet how agricultural management shapes the diversity of microscopic organisms and their evolution in the soil, especially at large spatial scale, remains unknown. Here, we investigated how agricultural land-use affected the biodiversity and the underlying
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Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Nicholas O.E. Ofiti; Cyrill U. Zosso; Jennifer L. Soong; Emily F. Solly; Margaret S. Torn; Guido L.B. Wiesenberg; Michael W.I. Schmidt
Increasing global temperatures have the potential to stimulate decomposition and alter the composition of soil organic matter (SOM). However, questions remain about the extent to which SOM quality and quantity along the soil profile may change under future warming. In this study we assessed how +4˚C whole-soil warming affected the quantity and quality of SOM down to 90 cm depth in a mixed-conifer temperate
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Fungal succession in decomposing woody debris across a tropical forest disturbance gradient Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa; Yun-Qiang Yang; Weiming Hu; Ekananda Paudel; Douglas Schaefer; Yong-Ping Yang; Kun-Fang Cao; Jian-Chu Xu; Kathryn E. Bushley; Rhett D. Harrison
Fungi decompose woody debris, an important carbon pool in forests. Fungal community structure is expected to vary according to the wood species, habitats and extent of abiotic disturbance, which have consequences for carbon cycling in tropical forests. Here we examined the effects of fungal diversity and composition on woody debris decomposition rates and sought potential mechanisms to explain an observed
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Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Weiwei Yang; Peng Cheng; Catharine A. Adams; Shuwu Zhang; Yuhuan Sun; Hongwei Yu; Fayuan Wang
Emerging contaminants such as microplastics and engineered nanoparticles (NPs) have become an environmental issue of global concern, but little is known about their joint effects in soil–plant systems. We studied the effects of two microplastics, conventional non-degradable high–density polyethylene (HDPE) and biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), on maize growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal
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Casing soil microbiome mediates suppression of bacterial blotch of mushrooms during consecutive cultivation cycles Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Tanvi Taparia; Ed Hendrix; Marc Hendriks; Els Nijhuis; Wietse de Boer; Jan van der Wolf
Shifts in the soil microbiome during continuous monoculture cropping coincide with increased suppressiveness against soil-borne diseases, as in the take-all decline of wheat. Here we report a similar phenomenon for bacterial blotch of mushrooms, caused by Pseudomonas ‘gingeri’, where ginger blotch incidence decreases during consecutive cycles of mushroom cultivation. We explored the infection dynamics
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Oak decaying wood harbors taxonomically and functionally different bacterial communities in sapwood and heartwood Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 S. Mieszkin; P. Richet; C. Bach; C. Lambrot; L. Augusto; M. Buée; S. Uroz
Wood decay is an important process in forest ecosystems, which relies on wood chemical properties and the action of a complex community of decomposers. While the important role of fungi in this process is recognized, our knowledge concerning the colonization of decaying wood by bacteria, their relative distribution as well as their potential functional roles remain under-investigated. In this context
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Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 P.M. Schleuss; M. Widdig; L.A. Biederman; E.T. Borer; M.J. Crawley; K.P. Kirkman; E.W. Seabloom; P.D. Wragg; M. Spohn
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Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Robert Starke; Rubén López Mondéjar; Zander Rainer Human; Diana Navrátilová; Martina Štursová; Tomáš Větrovský; Heather M. Olson; Daniel J. Orton; Stephen J. Callister; Mary S. Lipton; Adina Howe; Lee Ann McCue; Christa Pennacchio; Igor Grigoriev; Petr Baldrian
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Primings of soil organic matter and denitrification mediate the effects of moisture on nitrous oxide production Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Shakila K. Thilakarathna; Guillermo Hernandez-Ramirez
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Plants with an ammonium preference affect soil N transformations to optimize their N acquisition Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Xiaoxiang He; Qiaodong Chi; Chang Zhao; Yi Cheng; Xinqi Huang; Jun Zhao; Zucong Cai; Jinbo Zhang; Christoph Müller
Our understanding of how plants influence the gross rates of specific soil N transformations in plant-soil systems is still rudimentary, providing the incentive for our current study. A 15N tracing study was carried out with plants known for their NH4+-preference to quantify the gross soil N transformation and gross plant N uptake rates. Significant interactions between plants and gross rates of soil
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The ‘soil health’ metaphor: illuminating or illusory? Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 H. Henry Janzen; David W. Janzen; Edward G. Gregorich
‘Soil health’ has become a dominant, pervasive phrase in soil and environmental sciences. But despite its ubiquity, the concept remains elusively ambiguous, largely because ‘health’ here is a metaphor, not a literal scientific construct. So we ask: can this imagery nevertheless still advance research toward stewardship of soils globally? To address this question, we here define soil health as: ‘the
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Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment increased the efficiency of belowground biomass production in a boreal forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Benjamin Forsmark; Annika Nordin; Nicholas P. Rosenstock; Håkan Wallander; Michael J. Gundale
Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) enrichment in boreal forests has been shown to enhance aboveground net primary production and downregulate soil respiration, but it is not well understood if these effects are driven by reduced belowground C allocation or shifts between biomass production and respiration in fine-roots and ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF). We utilized an experiment in a Pinus sylvestris (L.) forest
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Influence of biological nitrification inhibition by forest tree species on soil denitrifiers and N2O emissions Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 A. Florio; M. Marechal; A. Legout; C. Creuse des Chatelliers; J. Gervaix; S. Didier; B. Zeller; X. Le Roux
Some forest tree species are able to carry out a process known as biological nitrification inhibition, BNI, i.e. they inhibit nitrifiers through the production of specific compounds. We tested the hypothesis that, by restricting N supply to NO2−- and N2O-reducers, BNI would decrease potential N2O production and consumption and in situ N2O emissions. as compared to soils under trees without BNI capacity
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Effects of ecosystem disturbance on nematode communities in calcareous and red soils: Comparison of taxonomic methods Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Dandan Gao; Benjamin Moreira-Grez; Kelin Wang; Wei Zhang; Shuangshuang Xiao; Wenlin Wang; Haisheng Chen; Jie Zhao
Soil nematode communities have been traditionally characterized through morphological examination, which is time-consuming and demands highly trained specialist in order to deliver reproducible results. In order to tackle these problems, molecular approaches have been developed for the characterization of soil nematode communities, and yet, their accuracy is controversial. In this study, we compared
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Bacterial community tolerance to Cu in soils with geochemical baseline concentrations (GBCs) of heavy metals: Importance for pollution induced community tolerance (PICT) determinations using the leucine incorporation method Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Claudia Campillo-Cora; Diego Soto-Gómez; Manuel Arias-Estévez; Erland Bååth; David Fernández-Calviño
PICT (Pollution Induced Community Tolerance) to Cu is a useful and sensitive tool to assess the effects of Cu pollution in soils under laboratory conditions. However, in field situations, the absence of reference values, i.e. bacterial community tolerance to Cu baseline from non-polluted soils, make the method uncertain when we want to know if a soil is or is not polluted from a microbiological point
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Long-term nitrogen and sulfur deposition increased root-associated pathogen diversity and changed mutualistic fungal diversity in a boreal forest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Yingtong Wu; Jin-Hyeob Kwak; Justine Karst; Ming Ni; Yifan Yan; Xiaofei Lv; Jianming Xu; Scott X. Chang
Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) deposition can change above- and belowground biodiversity, including root-associated fungi that are tightly linked to plant fitness. We investigated the effect of eleven years of N and S addition on the diversity of root-associated fungal pathogens and mutualists, including ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF), dark septate endophytes (DSEs), and ericoid mycorrhizal
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Soil carbon dynamics during drying vs. rewetting: importance of antecedent moisture conditions Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Kaizad F. Patel; Allison Myers-Pigg; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Sarah J. Fansler; Cooper G. Norris; Sophia A. McKever; Jianqiu Zheng; Kenton A. Rod; Vanessa L. Bailey
Soil moisture influences soil carbon dynamics, including microbial growth and respiration. The response of such ‘soil respiration’ to moisture changes is generally assumed to be linear and reversible, i.e. to depend only on the current moisture state. Current models thus do not account for antecedent soil moisture conditions when determining soil respiration or the available substrate pool. We conducted
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Response of soil microbial communities to mixed beech-conifer forests varies with site conditions Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Jing-Zhong Lu; Stefan Scheu
Tree - soil interactions depend on environmental conditions. Planting trees may affect soil microbial communities and compromise their functioning, particularly in unfavorable environments. To understand the effects of tree species composition on soil microbial communities, we quantified structural and functional responses of soil microorganisms to tree species planted in various environments using
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Drought-induced and seasonal variation in carbon use efficiency is associated with fungi:bacteria ratio and enzyme production in a grassland ecosystem Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Mohammad Rahmat Ullah; Yolima Carrillo; Feike A. Dijkstra
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Drought and rewetting events enhance nitrate leaching and seepage-mediated translocation of microbes from beech forest soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Markus Krüger; Karin Potthast; Beate Michalzik; Alexander Tischer; Kirsten Küsel; Florian F.K. Deckner; Martina Herrmann
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Seasonality of gross ammonification and nitrification altered by precipitation in a semi-arid grassland of Northern China Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Nannan Wang; Lei Li; Michael Dannenmann; Yukun Luo; Xiaohui Xu; Bingwei Zhang; Shiping Chen; Kuanhu Dong; Jianhui Huang; Xiaofeng Xu; Changhui Wang
Gross ammonification (GA) and gross nitrification (GN) are key regulators of the bioavailability of nitrogen (N) in terrestrial ecosystems. In arid and semi-arid grassland ecosystems, the impacts of precipitation change on in situ GA and GN and their seasonal variations are understudied. A manipulative experiment with five precipitation levels (−60%, −30%, unchanged ambient precipitation as control
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Effects of resource quality on the fitness of collembola fed single and mixed diets from the green and brown food chain Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Jakob Kühn; Liliane Ruess
The effect of food resources, varying in C/N ratio, lipid and ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (ω3-PUFA) content, on the fitness of three Collembola species (the euedaphic Protaphorura fimata, hemiedpahic Folsomia candida and epedaphic Lepidocyrtus violaceus) was investigated. Dietary routing of fatty acids served as an indicator for resource consumption and assimilation. Laboratory feeding experiments
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Phosphorus source and Epichloë coenophiala strain interact over time to modify tall fescue rhizosphere microbial community structure and function Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Na Ding; Haichao Guo; Joseph V. Kupper; David H. McNear
Symbiosis between the fungal endophyte Epichloë coenophiala naturally found in the cool season grass tall fescue (Lolium arundinacea (Schreb) Darbysh.) is thought to provide a competitive advantage over endophyte-free grasses when grown under nutrient-limited conditions. The mechanisms involved in the purported improvement in phosphorus (P) uptake due to endophyte infection are still not understood
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Temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration in soils with lower substrate availability is enhanced more by labile carbon input Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Yuan Liu; Li Xu; Shuai Zheng; Zhi Chen; Yingqiu Cao; Xuefa Wen; Nianpeng He
The temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil microbial respiration (Rs) is a critical parameter for predicting soil carbon (C) fluxes under changing climatic conditions, and labile C is continuously input into soil via root exudates or plant litter in field. However, how Q10 responds to labile C input remains uncertain, especially across large geographical regions. We collected eight soils from tropical
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Nodule-associated bacteria alter the mutualism between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and N2 fixing bacteria Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Silmar Primieri; Julio Cesar Pires Santos; Pedro Madeira Antunes
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Rhizosphere response to predicted vegetation shifts in boreal forest floors Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Sarah J. Thacker; Sylvie A. Quideau
The boreal forest is the single largest terrestrial store of carbon on Earth, and approximately 25% of these carbon stocks are in the forest floor. Climate change is expected to alter boreal vegetation, and aspen-dominated stands will replace conifers in Western Canada. We investigated how these vegetation shifts could affect the composition and function of soil microbial communities, using forest
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Manure-based biochar decreases heterotrophic respiration and increases gross nitrification rates in rhizosphere soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Prem Pokharel; Le Qi; Scott X. Chang
This study hypothesized that pyrolyzed manure pellet (biochar) reduces heterotrophic respiration and N2O emissions from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) rhizosphere soil by affecting net and gross nitrogen (N) transformation rates and the effects differ between rhizosphere and bulk soils. The biochar significantly decreased heterotrophic respiration but not N2O emissions, while unpyrolyzed manure pellets
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Shifts in root and soil chemistry drive the assembly of belowground fungal communities in tropical land-use systems Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Johannes Ballauff; Dominik Schneider; Nur Edy; Bambang Irawan; Rolf Daniel; Andrea Polle
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Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Shun Han; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Xuesong Luo; Yurong Liu; Joy D. Van Nostrand; Wenli Chen; Jizhong Zhou; Qiaoyun Huang
Soil stability and aggregates are important drivers of soil fertility and microbial diversity and are highly vulnerable to land degradation. However, the role of soil aggregates in driving the responses of microbial functional diversity and multiple ecosystem services and functions (multifunctionality) to further degradation (e.g., fertilization) remains largely unexplored and poorly understood. In
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Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Lan Liu; Kai Zhu; Sascha M.B. Krause; Shaopeng Li; Xin Wang; Zhaochen Zhang; Mengwei Shen; Qingsong Yang; Juyu Lian; Xihua Wang; Wanhui Ye; Jian Zhang
Soil microbes re-establish plant diversity and ecosystem functions after disturbance events. Deterministic and stochastic processes are expected to contribute to microbial community assembly during long-term ecosystem recovery. We characterized soil prokaryotic and fungal communities, to determine their assembly patterns, along two chronosequences with early to later successional subtropical forests
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What are the products of enzymatic cleavage of organic N? Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Charles Warren
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Energetic supply regulates heterotrophic nitrogen fixation along a glacial chronosequence Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Jipeng Wang; Yanhong Wu; Jingji Li; Qingqing He; He Zhu; Haijian Bing
Ice-free areas are expanding on the Tibetan Plateau and in its surroundings, and these recently exposed lands are typically deficient in nitrogen (N). Free-living N fixation (FLNF) represents a vital source of N input, especially when symbiotic N-fixing plants are absent. However, we know little about how FLNF changes with ecosystem succession after glacier retreat. In 2018, we measured the potential
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Long-term experimental warming and fertilization have opposing effects on ectomycorrhizal root enzyme activity and fungal community composition in Arctic tundra Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Haley R. Dunleavy; Michelle C. Mack
As the Arctic rapidly warms, deciduous ectomycorrhizal (EcM) shrubs are expanding across the tundra. While we know how EcM host plants respond to warming and the associated nutrient release predicted for a future Arctic, considerably less is known about how EcM function will respond, despite their important role in plant nutrient acquisition in the nutrient-limited tundra. To explore how EcM-associated
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Interacting effects of land use type, microbes and plant traits on soil aggregate stability Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Luis Merino-Martín; Alexia Stokes; Hyun S. Gweon; Lur Moragues-Saitua; Siobhan Staunton; Claude Plassard; Anna Oliver; Yves Le Bissonnais; Robert I. Griffiths
Soil aggregates are critical to soil functionality, but there remain many uncertainties with respect to the role of biotic factors in forming aggregates. Understanding the interacting effects of soil, land use type, vegetation and microbial communities is a major challenge that needs assessment in both field and controlled laboratory conditions, as well as in bulk and rhizosphere soils. To address
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Priming, stabilization and temperature sensitivity of native SOC is controlled by microbial responses and physicochemical properties of biochar Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Guanhong Chen; Yunying Fang; Lukas Van Zwieten; Yingxue Xuan; Ehsan Tavakkoli; Xiaojie Wang; Renduo Zhang
Biochars generally result in short-term positive priming of native soil organic carbon (SOC), but longer-term carbon (C) stabilization, and these effects can be altered by global warming. However, uncertainty remains about the mechanisms associated with these priming effects, temperature sensitivity of native SOC, and microbial responses to biochars of differing properties. To address these knowledge
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Short-term toxicity assessment of a triazine herbicide (terbutryn) underestimates the sensitivity of soil microorganisms Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 David Fernández-Calviño; Johannes Rousk; Erland Bååth; Ulla E. Bollmann; Kai Bester; Kristian K. Brandt
Little is known about the impacts of persistent triazine herbicides and biocides on soil microorganisms. Terbutryn toxicity in soil microorganisms was studied using bacterial and fungal growth, substrate induced respiration (SIR) and basal respiration as ecotoxicological end-points. In the short-term (0–7 days), increasing concentrations of terbutryn (0–800 mg kg−1) progressively inhibited bacterial
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Carbon stability in a Scottish lowland raised bog: potential legacy effects of historical land use and implications for global change Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Heike Schimmel; Melanie Braun; Jens-Arne Subke; Wulf Amelung; Roland Bol
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Microbial carbon use efficiency, biomass residence time and temperature sensitivity across ecosystems and soil depths Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Jinquan Li; Junmin Pei; Feike A. Dijkstra; Ming Nie; Elise Pendall
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Cyanobacteria in early soil development of deglaciated forefields: Dominance of non-heterocytous filamentous cyanobacteria and phosphorus limitation of N-fixing Nostocales Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Joseph E. Knelman; Steve K. Schmidt; Emily B. Graham
Cyanobacteria are integral to soil development in the earliest stages of primary succession by fixing carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) essential for organismal growth. In this study, we examined soil cyanobacterial communities at the earliest stage of succession (<5 years) at two disparate glacial forefields to reveal cyanobacterial patterns central to ecosystem development. Despite vast differences in
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Sulfate addition and rising temperature promote arsenic methylation and the formation of methylated thioarsenates in paddy soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Chuan Chen; Baoyun Yang; Yang Shen; Jun Dai; Zhu Tang; Peng Wang; Fang-Jie Zhao
Microbe-mediated arsenic (As) methylation is enhanced when paddy soils are flooded, producing primarily dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) that is phytotoxic and can induce rice straighthead disease. Thiolation of DMA produces methylated thioarsenate compounds such as di-methylated monothioarsenate (DMMTA) and di-methylated dithioarsenate (DMDTA), the former is highly toxic to humans. In the present study
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Gene analysis reveals that leaf litter from Epichloë endophyte-infected perennial ryegrass alters diversity and abundance of soil microbes involved in nitrification and denitrification Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Zhenjiang Chen; Yuanyuan Jin; Xiang Yao; Xuekai Wei; Xiuzhang Li; Chunjie Li; James F. White; Zhibiao Nan
Although Epichloë endophytes are present only in aboveground tissues of grasses they indirectly influence soil biological characteristics through increased litter incorporation and root exudation. Epichloë endophytes have been reported to affect the decomposition rates of litter by altering litter quality and microbial decomposers to affect soil characteristics. However, it is not well-studied that
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Iron-bound carbon increases along a freshwater−oligohaline gradient in a subtropical tidal wetland Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Jing Bai; Min Luo; Yang Yang; Shuyao Xiao; Zhifeng Zhai; Jiafang Huang
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Soil amendments change bacterial functional genes more than taxonomic structure in a cadmium-contaminated soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Min Xu; Xiuli Hao; Zhenqian Xiong; Hao Liao; Li Wang; Tianyuan Zhang; Xuesong Luo; Wenli Chen; Qiaoyun Huang
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Soil biota response to experimental rainfall reduction depends on the dominant tree species in mature northern Mediterranean forests Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Adriane Aupic-Samain; Mathieu Santonja; Mathilde Chomel; Susana Pereira; Elodie Quer; Caroline Lecareux; Jean-Marc Limousin; Jean-Marc Ourcival; Guillaume Simioni; Thierry Gauquelin; Catherine Fernandez; Virginie Baldy
Soil organisms play a major role on litter decomposition process and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. These organisms are extremely sensitive to environmental conditions such as soil temperature and moisture conditions which control their demographic parameters and activity. The ongoing climate change can therefore directly affect soil biota communities and the processes they drive. Besides,
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Increasing environmental filtering of diazotrophic communities with a decade of latitudinal soil transplantation Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Haoqi Tang; Na Zhang; Haowei Ni; Xiaofeng Xu; Xiaoyue Wang; Yueyu Sui; Bo Sun; Yuting Liang
Biological nitrogen fixation is an important process to reduce fertilizer application in agriculture ecosystem. However, with accelerated climate warming, it is still unknown how diazotrophs (nitrogen fixing microorganisms) succeed and assemble in long-term field-based experiment. By southward translocating arable Mollisols to a warm-temperate region for a decade to simulate changing climatic regimes
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Shrub encroachment affects tundra ecosystem properties through their living canopy rather than increased litter inputs Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Daniela Aguirre; Alejandro E. Benhumea; Jennie R. McLaren
Deciduous shrub encroachment in tundra ecosystems affects the soil microclimate and, in turn, could affect soil nutrients and microbial processes. Although numerous effects of shrubs on tundra ecosystem properties have been described, there has been little focus on the mechanisms through which they impact tundra functioning. In alpine tundra of northern Canada, we examined 1) the effects of the living
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Litter quality drives nitrogen release, and agricultural management (organic vs. conventional) drives carbon loss during litter decomposition in agro-ecosystems Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 L.B. Martínez-García; G.W. Korthals; L. Brussaard; G. Mainardi; G.B. De Deyn
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Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Jiguang Feng; Biao Zhu
Priming effect (PE) induced by inputs of fresh carbon plays crucial roles in soil organic matter decomposition and terrestrial carbon cycling. Priming effect is considered to be largely influenced by nutrient availability, but the global-scale patterns reflecting how nutrient addition affects PE and the controlling factors for such effects remain unclear. By conducting a meta-analysis of 355 observations
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Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Jiří Holátko; Martin Brtnický; Jiří Kučerík; Michala Kotianová; Jakub Elbl; Antonín Kintl; Jindřich Kynický; Oldřich Benada; Rahul Datta; Jan Jansa
The term “Glomalin” was originally used to describe a hypothetical gene product of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) that was assumed to be a nearly ubiquitous, thermostable and highly recalcitrant glycoprotein, deposited in soils in large amounts, and deemed to indicate soil health and quality. It was defined operationally as the fraction of soil organic matter (SOM) extractable by a hot citrate
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Succession of the composition and co-occurrence networks of rhizosphere microbiota is linked to Cd/Zn hyperaccumulation Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Jipeng Luo; Xinyu Guo; Qi Tao; Jinxing Li; Yuankun Liu; Yilin Du; Yuying Liu; Yongchao Liang; Tingqiang Li
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Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Raphaël Guttières; Naoise Nunan; Xavier Raynaud; Gérard Lacroix; Sébastien Barot; Pierre Barré; Cyril Girardin; Bertrand Guenet; Jean-Christophe Lata; Luc Abbadie
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Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Pengshuai Shao; Laurel Lynch; Hongtu Xie; Xuelian Bao; Chao Liang
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Calculation of fungal and bacterial inorganic nitrogen immobilization rates in soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Xiaobo Li; Hongbo He; Xudong Zhang; Caner Kazanci; Zhian Li; Magdalena Necpalova; Qianqian Ma
Microbial inorganic nitrogen (N) immobilization is an important mechanism in the retention of N in soils. However, as a result of the high diversity and complexity of soil microorganisms, there is still no effective approach to measuring the respective immobilization rates of inorganic N by fungi and bacteria, which are the two dominant microbial communities in soils. We propose a mathematical framework
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Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Anqi Sun; Xiao-Yan Jiao; Qinglin Chen; Ai-Lian Wu; Yong Zheng; Yong-Xin Lin; Ji-Zheng He; Hang-Wei Hu
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How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Noah Fierer; Stephen A. Wood; Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita
Healthy soils are critical to the health of ecosystems, economies, and human populations. Thus, it is widely acknowledged that soil health is important to quantify, both for assessment and as a tool to help guide management strategies. What is less clear is how soil health should actually be measured, especially considering that soil health is not exclusively a product of soil physical and chemical
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When the going gets tough: Emergence of a complex methane-driven interaction network during recovery from desiccation-rewetting Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 5.795) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Thomas Kaupper; Lucas W. Mendes; Hyo Jung Lee; Yongliang Mo; Anja Poehlein; Zhongjun Jia; Marcus A. Horn; Adrian Ho
Microorganisms interact in complex communities, affecting microbially-mediated processes in the environment. Particularly, aerobic methanotrophs showed significantly stimulated growth and activity in the presence of accompanying microorganisms in an interaction network (interactome). Yet, little is known of how the interactome responds to disturbances, and how community functioning is affected by the
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