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Seasonal dynamics of soil nutrients and microbial activity due to colonization by bracken ferns (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) in a pine forest Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Manuel Aira; Andrea Tato; Jorge Domínguez
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) is an aggressive colonizer of disturbed and other successional habitats in temperate forests. However, little is known about how bracken colonization modifies soil microbial activity and nutrient cycling. We questioned whether bracken presence alters soil nutrient pools and soil microbial respiration throughout a growing season and whether this effect depends on the size
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Potential effect of nitrate applied during flood period on N2O emissions during subsequent drainage in a paddy soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Ling Wang; Kun Li; Yaqi Song; Qin Gong; Hongbing Chen; Zhaohua Li
Application of nitrate (NO3−) in flooded soil promotes denitrification activity and N2O emissions, accompanied by NO3− depletion. However, whether the stimulating effect of NO3− on flooded soil still affects the response of nitrifiers and denitrifiers to subsequent water drainage remains unclear, as does the N2O emission dynamics. We conducted a microcosm experiment using intact paddy soil columns
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Effect of land use and seasonality on nematode faunal structure and ecosystem functions in the Caatinga dry forest Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Juliane Vanessa Carneiro de Lima da Silva; Howard Ferris; Juvenil Enrique Cares; André Morgado Esteves
Seasonally dry tropical forests are strongly affected by anthropogenic disturbance and climate changes, which represent the main threats to soil biodiversity, affecting the activity and functional composition of soil communities that provide crucial ecosystem functions and services. However, the effects of these factors and their interactions on soil nematodes, which are bioindicators of soil quality
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Earthworm burrow number and vertical distribution are affected by the crop sequence of a grass-clover rotation system Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Paul Henning Krogh; Mathieu Lamandé; Martin Holmstrup; Jørgen Eriksen
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Soil enzymes activity: Effect of climate smart agriculture on rhizosphere and bulk soil under cereal based systems of north-west India Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 H.S. Jat; Ashim Datta; Madhu Choudhary; P.C. Sharma; Bharti Dixit; M.L. Jat
In agriculture production system, soil enzymes are important indicators of soil quality. Measurements of soil quality parameter changes are essential for assessing the impact of soil and crop management practices. Keeping this in view, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the enzyme activities namely dehydrogenase (DHA), β-glucosidase, acid and alkaline phosphatase (AcP & AlP), fluorescein diacetate
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Aggregate-related changes in living microbial biomass and microbial necromass associated with different fertilization patterns of greenhouse vegetable soils Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Haoan Luan; Shuo Yuan; Wei Gao; Jiwei Tang; Ruonan Li; Huaizhi Zhang; Shaowen Huang
Knowledge on soil aggregation and microbial-driven soil C dynamics at the aggregate scale is beneficial for long-term sequestration of C in greenhouse vegetable production (GVP) systems. Here, we used an eight-year fertilization experiment to compare the effects of organic vs. chemical fertilization on soil aggregate stability, as well as living microbial biomass, microbial necromass, and soil C dynamics
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Resuscitation of soil microbiota after > 70-years of desiccation Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Jun Zhao; Dongfeng Chen; Wei Gao; Zhiying Guo; Zhongjun Jia; Marcela Hernández
The response pattern of soil bacterial communities to drought events has been characterized from short-term laboratory desiccation and in naturally arid soils, but the resistance of soil bacteria to persistently long periods of desiccation remains largely unknown. This study assessed the abundance and composition of bacteria in 24 historical soils air-dried for more than 70 years, by quantification
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Impacts of simulated nitrogen deposition on soil enzyme activity in a northern temperate forest ecosystem depend on the form and level of added nitrogen Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Yun Li; Chunmei Wang; Shijie Gao; Peng Wang; Jingcong Qiu; Shuaishuai Shang
Extracellular enzymes in the soil are pivotal to nutrient cycling in the ecosystem. Simulated nitrogen (N) deposition has resulted in positive, negative, and neutral effects of added N on soil extracellular enzyme activity (EEA). A field experiment involving two levels (50 and 150 kg ha−1 yr−1) and three forms (NaNO3, NH4NO3, (NH4)2SO4) of added N was conducted in a northern temperate forest. Over
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Long-term mineral fertilizer substitution by organic fertilizer and the effect on the abundance and community structure of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in paddy soil of south China Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Xianglin Dai; Qiankun Guo; Dali Song; Wei Zhou; Guangrong Liu; Guoqing Liang; Ping He; Gang Sun; Fusheng Yuan; Zengbing Liu
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Occurrence of added nitrogen interaction affected by nitrogen stabilizer and glucose additions in an Alfisol Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Qiang Ma; Xinhui Zhang; Zhijie Wu; Shuailin Li; Zhiqiang Xu; Changrui Zhou; Zhuqing Xia; Mengmeng Zhu; Yun Gao; Wantai Yu
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Divergent effects of drought and nitrogen deposition on microbial and arthropod soil communities in a Mediterranean forest Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Guille Peguero; Estela Folch; Lei Liu; Romà Ogaya; Josep Peñuelas
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Responses of soil insect communities to alpine wetland degradation on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Xue Wei; Pengfei Wu
The wetlands on Earth are under different levels of degradation, and over half of them have even been lost during the 20th century. However, the response of soil insect communities to alpine wetland degradation is unknown, particularly in the Zoigê wetland, which spanning northern Sichuan, southern Gansu and Qinghai Provinces of China. Four habitats, including wet meadows, grassland meadows, moderately
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Effects of transgenic oilseed rape harboring the Cry1Ac gene on microbial communities in the rhizosphere soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Zheng-Jun Guan; Wei Wei; C. Neal Stewart; Zhi-Xi Tang
Soil microorganisms play important roles in the rhizosphere in various biological activities in natural and agricultural ecosystems. We performed a two-year field experiment that featured the cultivation of three Bt transgenic oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) plant lines to evaluate their effects on rhizosphere microorganisms using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiling. A total of 27 fatty acids
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Diversity of soil arthropods in sugarcane in the Brazilian Cerrado: Influence of tillage systems, extraction methods, and sampling time Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Charles Martins de Oliveira; Gabriela Tavares Afonso; Marcos Aurélio Carolino de Sá; Marina Regina Frizzas
No-till sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) systems is considered as an interesting option to reduce the cost of production and allow the conservation of both soil quality and biological activity. This study was conducted at a sugarcane mill in Goiatuba, in the state of Goiás, Brazil, which grows sugarcane variety SP 813250. An experiment based on a factorial design (2 × 2 × 2) was set up to compare the diversity
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Glomalin related protein and C16:1ω5 PLFA associated with AM fungi as potential signatures for assessing the soil C sequestration under contrasting soil management practices Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Richa Agnihotri; Abhishek Bharti; Aketi Ramesh; Anil Prakash; Mahaveer P. Sharma
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) contribute to the sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC) by glomalin production through their hyphal network which helps to bind soil aggregates and improve other physical and biological properties of soil. The current study was aimed to assess (i) AMF biomass, glomalin related protein (GRP), SOC stocks and soil quality parameters such as microbial biomass carbon
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Responses of soil organic carbon mineralization and its temperature sensitivity to re-vegetation in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Yufei Yao; Nannan Ge; Xiaorong Wei; Wei Fu; Mingan Shao; Xiaoning Zhao; Joachim Ingwersen
Re-vegetation of cropland is an important measure for carbon (C) sequestration, while the combined effects of land-use change, re-vegetation type and time on soil organic C (OC) turnover and temperature sensitivity have been less studied. Here, we investigated soil cumulative OC mineralization (Cmin), specific OC mineralization (Cmin/C0, normalized by initial OC) and temperature sensitivity (Q10) with
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Litter chemical quality and bacterial community structure influenced decomposition in acidic forest soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Andrea Buresova; Vaclav Tejnecky; Jan Kopecky; Ondrej Drabek; Pavla Madrova; Nada Rerichova; Marek Omelka; Petra Krizova; Karel Nemecek; Thomas B. Parr; Tsutomu Ohno; Marketa Sagova-Mareckova
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Effects of experimental warming, precipitation increase and their interaction on AM fungal community in an alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Xiaoting Wei; Yanan Shi; Fuwen Qin; Huakun Zhou; Xinqing Shao
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi coexist with most of terrestrial plants and participate in multiple ecosystem processes. Here we address AM fungal responses to experimental warming and a manipulation of precipitation as well as the interactions in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a hot spot region of climate change, and its associations with plant and soil characteristics. A complete randomized block
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Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen predict large-scale distribution of soil fungal communities in temperate and alpine shrub ecosystems Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Yongliang Chen; Tianle Xu; Wei Fu; Yajun Hu; Hangwei Hu; Luncheng You; Baodong Chen
Soil fungi play important roles in soil organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling processes and maintaining close associations with aboveground plant communities. However, the large-scale distribution patterns and drivers of soil fungal communities in shrub ecosystems remain largely unknown. In this study, we examined soil fungal communities among different shrub sites, and the relative importance
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Contribution of environmental factors on the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Fan Yang; Fengli Zhang; Hongping Li; Huiying Wu; Hongcheng Zhao; Xuemin Cheng; Yue Ba; Hui Huang; Shuaiyin Chen; Jingyuan Zhu
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Response of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea abundance and activity to land use changes in agricultural systems of the Central Andes Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Alejandro Coca-Salazar; Agnès Richaume; Alessandro Florio; Monique Carnol
Ammonia-oxidation is the first rate-limiting step of the nitrification process performed by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA). The response of ammonia oxidizers to agricultural management determines the forms of nitrogen available for plant nutrition and the potential for nitrate leaching, nitrous oxide emissions, and soil acidification. We investigated the potential nitrification
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Precipitation exerts a strong influence on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community and network complexity in a semiarid steppe ecosystem Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Jinlong Wang; Jinwei Zhang; Chunjuan Wang; Guoling Ren; Yurong Yang; Deli Wang
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about how AMF communities shift in response to key climatic changes. To test whether precipitation is a driving force in shaping AMF community structure, we conducted a 3-year field experiment to investigate the impacts of increased and decreased precipitation on the AMF
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Re-establishment of nematode communities in a rehabilitated surface mining area in Sibutad, southern Philippines Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Joey Genevieve Martinez; Kristian Angelo Balondo; Giovanni dos Santos; Eric Van Ranst; Tom Moens
Ore mineral extraction involves stripping of topsoils that can lead to eradication of soil biota, including nematodes. Hence, rehabilitation is needed to assist in the recovery of damaged soil ecosystems. In many developing countries, e.g., the Philippines, rehabilitation of soils is mostly carried out through addition of organic amendments and development of aboveground vegetation. Rehabilitation
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Responses of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea to short-term warming and nitrogen input in a semi-arid grassland on the Loess Plateau Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Fuwei Wang; Zhen Li; Yanan Wei; Fanglong Su; Hui Guo; Jiuxin Guo; Yi Wang; Yi Zhang; Shuijin Hu
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) predominantly control ammonia oxidation, the first and rate-limiting step of nitrification, and critically affect plant utilization and the fate of reactive nitrogen (N) input to soil. Both AOA and AOB are often sensitive to environmental changes, but their responses to the concurrent climate warming and N input remain poorly understood, particularly
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Changes in soil biochemical properties following application of bentonite as a soil amendment Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Junzhen Mi; Edward G. Gregorich; Shengtao Xu; Neil B. McLaughlin; Bin Ma; Jinghui Liu
Bentonite is a natural soil amendment that can reduce soil water loss and increase crop yield, but there are few studies about how bentonite influences soil biochemical properties. A field experiment was conducted with a millet [Setaria italic (L.) Beauv.] crop to evaluate the effect of bentonite amendments on soil biochemical properties including soil organic C, total N and total P, and soil microbial
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Importance of fungi in a 63 years old long-term field experiment with 20 years of maize growth Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Muhammad Shahbaz; Barry Thornton; Gunnar Börjesson
Microbial diversity and their activity in the rhizosphere and bulk soil areas were measured in a long-term field trial (started in 1956), where maize has been grown for the last 20 years with and without N fertilisation. Various microbial groups and their substrate feeding strategies (i.e. demonstrating activities) were identified through phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) analysis and their δ13C values
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The impact of cropping system, tillage and season on shaping soil fungal community in a long-term field trial Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Qian Wang; Aizhen Liang; Xuewen Chen; Shixiu Zhang; Yan Zhang; Neil B. McLaughlin; Yan Gao; Shuxia Jia
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Response of soil bacterial communities to the application of the herbicides imazethapyr and flumyzin Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Mariane Pertile; Regina Maria Silva Sousa; Lucas William Mendes; Jadson Emanuel Lopes Antunes; Louise Melo de Souza Oliveira; Fabio Fernando de Araujo; Vania Maria Maciel Melo; Ademir Sergio Ferreira Araujo
The herbicides imazethapyr and flumyzin have been recommended for controlling weeds, mainly in soybean fields. However, it is unclear the effect of these herbicides on soil microbial communities. In this study, we assessed the responses of bacterial community to the application of imazethapyr and flumyzin in soil. Soil samples were incubated with the application of the herbicides imazethapyr, flumyzin
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The compositions of rhizosphere microbiomes of wild and cultivated soybeans changed following the hybridization of their F1 and F2 generations Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Lei Tian; Shaohua Shi; Yu Sun; Lam-Son Phan Tran; Chunjie Tian
Soybean is considered as one of the most important food for both humans and animals; unfortunately, it faces soil-borne diseases caused by bacteria or fungi, leading to severe yield losses. Hybridization has helped the soybean to obtain beneficial genes from wild species that can resist some adverse conditions. However, the influences of hybridization on the rhizosphere microbiomes of wild and cultivated
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Effect of pulse precipitation on soil CO2 release in different grassland types on the Tibetan Plateau Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Min Xu; Shuangshuang Wu; zhaoxiao Jiang; Li Xu; Mingxu Li; Hongfeng Bian; Nianpeng He
Precipitation events may rapidly alter soil moisture, and potentially result in a large quantity of soil CO2 release in a short term. However, the effect of pulse precipitation on soil CO2 release among different grassland types on the Tibetan Plateau remains unclear. Here, we investigated soil CO2 release following pulse precipitation in the meadows, grasslands, and deserts of the Tibetan Plateau
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Alteration in enzymatic stoichiometry controls the response of soil organic carbon dynamic to nitrogen and water addition in temperate cultivated grassland Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Meng Xu; Lijun Xu; Huajun Fang; Shulan Cheng; Guangxia Yu; Yan Yang; Mingzhu Lu
Cultivated grassland can serve as one solution to the degradation of natural grassland. However, less is understood of the response of the microbial communities in cultivated grassland soils to global change factors such as nitrogen (N) deposition and precipitation change, and their linkages with the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC). In this study, field experimental plots that simulate different
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Effects of root exudate stoichiometry on CO2 emission from paddy soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Yuhuai Liu; Muhammad Shahbaz; Tida Ge; Zhenke Zhu; Shoulong Liu; Liang Chen; Xiaohong Wu; Yangwu Deng; Shunbao Lu; Jinshui Wu
Root exudates are a labile source of carbon (C) for microorganisms that can lead to increased CO2 emission. Root exudates can vary in C:N stoichiometric ratio and their impact on microbially driven soil organic matter (SOM) turnover in paddy soils still remains unclear. The objective was to explore the underlying mechanisms involved in SOM decomposition due to root exudate (artificial) addition with
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Effect of subtilisin, a protease from Bacillus sp., on soil biochemical parameters and microbial biodiversity Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Pablo Caballero; Sandra Macías-Benítez; Elisa Revilla; Manuel Tejada; Juan Parrado; Angélica Castaño
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Contrasting phylogeographic patterns of earthworms (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) on near-shore mediterranean islands Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Daniel F. Marchán; Mickaël Hedde; Emmanuel Lapied; Marie-Eugénie Maggia; Marta Novo; Jorge Domínguez; Thibaud Decaëns
Comparative phylogeography is a powerful methodological approach to understand the particular evolutionary phenomena that occur in islands. This method has been rarely applied to insular earthworm communities. These soil animals show a striking dichotomy in their phylogeographic patterns: deeply divergent, regionally structured linages and widely distributed, genetically homogeneous lineages. An intensive
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Effects of shrub revegetation on ground-active arthropod diversity and trophic structure in the Tengger desert Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Anning Zhang; Rentao Liu; Lei Huang
Shrub vegetation and plant species can enhance the abundance and richness of ground-active arthropods. Yet surprisingly little is known about how the distribution and diversity of ground-active arthropods are influenced by plant species used for shrub revegetation in desert ecosystems. In this study, ground-active arthropods were collected using the pitfall trapping method in Caragana korshinskii (CP)
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Application of spent mushroom substrate suppresses Fusarium wilt in cucumber and alters the composition of the microbial community of the cucumber rhizosphere Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Hong-Wei Wang; Man Xu; Xiao-Yu Cai; Tian Feng; Wei-Li Xu
One of the main cucumber (Cucumis sativus) diseases in China is Fusarium wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum (FOC). The aims of this study were to evaluate the suppressive capacity of different spent mushroom substrate (SMS) amendments against Fusarium wilt and to analyse their effects on soil microbiological properties. A greenhouse experiment was carried out with four
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Crust cover and prior soil moisture status affect the response of soil microbial community and function to extreme rain events in an arid area Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 E.M. Papatheodorou; A. Papapostolou; N. Monokrousos; D.-W. Jones; J. Scullion; G.P. Stamou
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A comparative study of the fauna associated with nest mounds of native and introduced populations of the red wood ant Formica paralugubris Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Filippo Frizzi; Alberto Masoni; Massimo Migliorini; Pietro Paolo Fanciulli; Fabio Cianferoni; Paride Balzani; Stefano Giannotti; Giovanna Davini; Clara Frasconi Wendt; Giacomo Santini
In the second half of the twentieth century, many red wood ant populations were transferred from the Alps to the Apennines as biological control agents. Since the introduction involved the relocation of entire nest mounds, it is presumable that the associated fauna was also relocated. While the introduction of these ants has raised several concerns about their ecological impact, there has been no attempt
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Runoff and soil loss from small plots of erosion-prone marl soil inoculated with bacteria and cyanobacteria under real conditions Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi; Mahya Sadeghi Satri; Hossein Kheirfam; Behrouz Zarei Darki
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Soil enzyme activities under the impact of long-term pollution from mining-metallurgical copper production Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Jelena S. Milosavljevic; Snezana M. Serbula; Djuro M. Cokesa; Dragan B. Milanovic; Ana A. Radojevic; Tanja S. Kalinovic; Jelena V. Kalinovic
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Effects of aflatoxin contaminated maize on Folsomia candida (Collembola) Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-09-26 Borbála Szabó; Benjamin Bálint; Miklós Mézes
The aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) producing mould, Aspergillus flavus, is spread to more northern regions with global warming. AFB1 can cause genotoxicity, oxidative stress, immunosuppression, and necrosis in the liver, kidney, and muscles in vertebrates, but the effect on invertebrates is not well known. Folsomia candida (Collembola) is a cosmopolitan species and could be easily bred in the laboratory because
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation improve essential oil and physiological parameters and nutritional values of Thymus daenensis Celak and Thymus vulgaris L. under normal and drought stress conditions Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Ali Abdollahi Arpanahi, Mohammad Feizian, Ghazaleh Mehdipourian, Davood Namdar Khojasteh
Purpose The objective of this study was (a) to investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and drought stress on Thymus daenensis Celak and Thymus vulgaris L., and (b) to examine the ability of AMF to improve drought stress tolerance in Thymus species. Methods The experiment was conducted as a factorial pattern in a randomized complete design with three replications in 2017. Factors
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Land use and mineral fertilization influence soil microbial biomass and residues: A case study of a Chinese Mollisol Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Xu Chen, Xiaozeng Han, Jun Yan, Xinchun Lu, Xiangxiang Hao, Wei Wang, Asim Biswas, Xia Zhu-Barker, Wenxiu Zou
The biology of soil is critical to its health; the available carbon and nitrogen from plant litter and mineral fertilizers in the soil determines the structure of microbial communities and thus the functioning of soil. We used amino sugars (ASs) and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) as microbial biomarkers to assist in identifying the effect of practices of agricultural management on the microbial community
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The formation of protected SOM facilitated by labile C input via artificial roots Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-16 Yuanshuang Yuan, Ziliang Zhang, Lijuan Chen, Cheng Yang
Plant root-derived labile carbon (C) delivered to soils can regulate the dynamics and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM); however, it remains largely unclear how inputs of individual labile components (e.g., glucose) affect the formation of physicochemical-protected SOM. In a firmly controlled rhizosphere system, we added a glucose solution through artificial roots to soils collected from two subalpine
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Composition, predicted functions, and co-occurrence networks of fungal and bacterial communities_ Links to soil organic carbon under long-term fertilization in a rice-wheat cropping system Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-15 Jie Chen, Qiankun Guo, Donghai Liu, Cheng Hu, Jingwen Sun, Xiubin Wang, Guoqing Liang, Wei Zhou
Soil microbial community compositions and soil labile organic carbon (LOC) fractions change rapidly in response to fertilizers and crop rotation, but our understanding of the associations between specific microbial taxa and C fractions is still limited. The objective of this study was to compare the composition and function of soil bacterial and fungal communities in response to fertilization and crop
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Contrasting effects of cover crops on earthworms: Results from field monitoring and laboratory experiments on growth, reproduction and food choice Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Pia Euteneuer, Helmut Wagentristl, Siegrid Steinkellner, Martin Fuchs, Johann G. Zaller, Hans-Peter Piepho, Kevin R. Butt
Cover crops are an essential element of sustainable agriculture and can affect earthworm populations. In a field trial, we investigated the effects of four cover crop treatments: radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus B.; at high and low seed density), black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.) and Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanese M.) on earthworms under two irrigation regimes. The two parallel field trials
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Prokaryotic community assembly after 40 years of soda solonetz restoration by natural grassland and reclaimed farmland Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Wei Gao, Jisheng Xu, Jun Zhao, Huimin Zhang, Yingying Ni, Bingzi Zhao, Christoph C. Tebbe, Jiabao Zhang, Zhongjun Jia
Solonetz soils are typically characterized with excessive saline-alkali content, and physiochemical methods are often employed for solonetz reclamation. However, increasing lines of evidences have suggested that microbiomes play a pivotal role in sustaining soil fertility than previously appreciated, and it remains poorly understood about the taxonomic identity of microbiomes in solonetz soils and
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Differences in the rhizosphere effects among trees, shrubs and herbs in three subtropical plantations and their seasonal variations Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Ye Yuan, Xiaoqin Dai, Xiaoli Fu, Liang Kou, Yiqi Luo, Lifen Jiang, Huimin Wang
Unique soil properties in rhizosphere can affect plant growth and biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems. While rhizosphere has been widely investigated, little is known about differences in the rhizosphere effect (RE) between co-existing overstory trees and understory shrubs and herbs in forest ecosystems. In this study, we investigated REs on soil chemical properties of overstory trees and understory
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Changes in soil bacterial community and enzyme activity under five years straw returning in paddy soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Lipeng Wu, Hui Ma, Qinglei Zhao, Shirong Zhang, Wenliang Wei, Xiaodong Ding
Soil biological properties are essential for sustainable agriculture development. A five-year field experiment was conducted to understand the effects of mineral fertilizers combined with straw returning on bacterial community composition and enzyme activities in paddy soil. Treatments included three fertilizer rates of unfertilized (F0), half and full of conventional mineral fertilization (F1: 138
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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics affected by litter and nitrogen addition in a grassland soil: Role of fungi Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Xing Yu, Feike A. Dijkstra
Fungi are critical for carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics in forest soils, but much less is known about their activity in grassland soils. Here we examined how fungal activity affected C and N cycling in a grassland soil with and without litter and N addition. Soil from a semi-natural grassland was amended with and without a fungicide (cycloheximide) to manipulate fungal activity, with and without
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Effect of land uses on soil microbial community structures among different soil depths in northeastern China Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Li Ji, Yuchun Yang, Lixue Yang, Depeng Zhang
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Unearthing the genetic divergence and gene flow of the earthworm Amynthas_YN2017 sp. (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) populations based on restriction site-associated DNA sequencing Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 Zhu Yuan, Jibao Jiang, Yan Dong, Qi Zhao, Jing Sun, Jiangping Qiu
Despite the ecological function of earthworms being of undeniable importance, little is known about their population genetic diversity, dispersal, and gene flow patterns. Here, we applied 769,957 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) gathered by restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) to unearth the genetic variability of populations of the earthworm Amynthas_YN2017 sp. collected from
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Combined biochar and nitrogen fertilizer change soil enzyme and microbial activities in a 2-year field trial Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 Dali Song, Lu Chen, Shuai Zhang, Qin Zheng, Sami Ullah, Wei Zhou, Xiubin Wang
Treating soil with a combination of nitrogen (N) and biochar (BC) has often been suggested as an approach to enhancing soil quality. In the present study, we therefore conducted a two -year randomized two-factorial field experiment in order to explore optimal N fertilizer management strategies in the context of BC application to calcareous soil, with a focus on both microbial activities and soil nutrient
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Level of soil moisture determines the ability of Eisenia fetida to re-incorporate carbon from decomposed rice straw into the soil Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Anastasia Yu. Gorbunova, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Natalia V. Kostina, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Andrey S. Zaitsev
Burning is the most common practice for rice straw disposal. Due to associated negative environmental and climatic effects, development of viable alternatives, preferably based on the natural functions of soil biota are needed. In the conditions of non-tropical rice-growing systems, where periods of flooding are very short, such an approach seems to be particularly promising. We carried out a mesocosm
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Springtail (Hexapoda: Collembola) functional group composition varies between different biotopes in Russian rice growing systems Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Rushan M. Sabirov, Andrey S. Zaitsev
Regular flooding during rice cultivation adversely affects soil animals in agroecosystems and may disrupt ecological functions that they deliver. Alternation of upland crops and flooded rice potentially has a positive effect on soil fauna. However, this aspect has not yet been studied outside the tropics. We focused on the influence of interannual crop rotation accompanied by long periods of paddy
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Tree-scale spatial responses of extracellular enzyme activities and stoichiometry to different types of fertilization and cover crop in an apple orchard Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Wei Zheng, Qingli Gong, Fenglian Lv, Yanan Yin, Ziyan Li, Bingnian Zhai
The effects of cover crops and fertilization on the soil properties of apple orchards have been studied widely, but our knowledge of the variations in the soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry remains limited, particularly the tree-scale spatial responses. In this study, field experiments were conducted in two main plots comprising cover crop (CC) and no cover crop (NC) treatments with four sub-plots
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Effect of different fertilization regimes on the vertical distribution of anaerobic ammonium oxidation in paddy soils Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-06-09 Li-dong Shen, Xin Liu, Hong-sheng Wu, Mao-hui Tian, Pei Ran, Jia-qi Liu, Yu-ling Yang, Wang-ting Yang, Hao-yu Wang
Fertilization is a necessary practice for paddy fields to achieve high crop yields, and this practice could have an important impact on soil nitrogen cycle. Anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) is an important process in the nitrogen cycle of paddy ecosystems. However, until now, the influence of nitrogen fertilization on anammox, is not well understood. Here, the vertical distribution of the activity
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Comparative performance of conservation agriculture vis-a-vis organic and conventional farming, in enhancing plant attributes and rhizospheric bacterial diversity in Cajanus cajan: A field study Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-05-31 Upma Singh, Anil K. Choudhary, Shilpi Sharma
The intensification of agriculture to meet the ever-increasing demand for food has exerted a negative impact on the ecosystem. Conservation agriculture has been highlighted as a comprehensive approach to sustainability. The present study aimed to assess the performance of conservation agriculture (CA) on plant growth, and its impact on bacterial community composition, specifically guilds involved in
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Different responses of soil hydrolases and oxidases to extreme drought in an alpine peatland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-05-30 Zhongqing Yan, Yong Li, Haidong Wu, Kerou Zhang, Yanbin Hao, Jinzhi Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Liang Yan, Xiaoming Kang
Extracellular enzyme activities (EEA) in soils play a pivotal role in ecosystem processes, such as organic carbon (C) decomposition or nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) mineralization. Thus, EEA measurements can provide insights into the rates of ecosystem-level processes in peatlands, which will experience more frequent extreme droughts in the future. In the present study, the activities of seven hydrolases
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Soil microbial community and enzymatic activity in soil particle-size fractions of spruce plantation and secondary birch forest Eur. J. Soil Biol. (IF 2.285) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Bing Yang, Kaibin Qi, Daya Ram Bhusal, Junsheng Huang, Wenjing Chen, Qiusheng Wu, Altaf Hussain, Xueyong Pang
Community composition and activity of soil microbes are responsive to changes in physiochemical and biological attributes during forest succession. However, whether soil microbial community structure and activity in soil particle-size fractions under different restoration approaches (regeneration through secondary succession and afforestation) during a chronosequence ranging from 20 to 70 years following
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