OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pedobiologia is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Occurrence of plant suppression gradients through common mycorrhizal networks across ecological groups during successional dynamics	38
Editorial Board	20
A field mesocosm method for manipulation of soil mesofauna communities and repeated measurement of their ecological functions over months to years	19
Importance of traditional knowledge to understanding Plebeina armata (Apidae, Meliponini) ecology in the savanna woodland in northeast of Burundi	18
Microclimatic, climatic, and anthropogenic factors strongly affect cultivable soil microfungal communities at a canyon in the Mediterranean region	16
Contradiction with enzymatic stoichiometry theory: Persistent low ratios of β-glucosidase to phosphomonoesterase following 10-year continuous phosphorus fertilization in three subtropical forests	15
Assessment of soil feeding activity using different bait materials for the bait-lamina test: A small-scale study in Eucalyptus blocks	15
Functional significance of the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes (Formicidae) in coffee plantations: An enemy or an ally?	14
Termite mound as nutrient hot-spots in savannah with emphasis in P cycling and the potential use of mounds as soil amendment	13
Hidden collembolan forest habitat: Specificity and species diversity of Collembola communities on fallen branches	12
Global synthesis reveals that climate and soil substrate shape microbial necromass carbon in forest soils	12
Clay differentially influence phosphatase activities in soil	12
Editorial Board	11
Nematode community structure in sugarcane fields under continuous vinasse fertigation	11
Soil nematode communities vary among populations of the iconic desert plant, Welwitschia mirabilis	11
Taking sides? Aspect has limited influence on soil environment or litter decomposition in pan-European study of roadside verges	11
Communicating about soil biodiversity: Insights from science editorials and future recommendations	10
Impact of litter quality on soil nematode communities with the intensifies of grassland degradation: Shifting from resource input to environmental stress	10
First record of Enchytraeidae in a no-tillage system in Southern Brazil	9
The influence of mulch on seasonal fluctuations in Collembola diversity in apple orchards	9
Lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor L.) invasion alters the composition of soil invertebrate communities in two mixed deciduous forests	9
Greater influence of eukaryotes on carbon degradation potentials than prokaryotes along an elevation gradient	9
Responses of bacterial and archaeal communities to nitrogen fertilization in a compost-amended soil	9
Effects of experimental warming on soil enzyme activities in an alpine swamp meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	8
Effects of multispecies management on the soil protist community in Pinus massoniana plantations in subtropical China	8

Soil macrofauna and water-related functions in patches of regenerating Atlantic Forest in Brazil	8
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal tree dominance and soil depth on microbial biomass and soil organic carbon fractions in a subtropical forest across the wet and dry seasons	8
Editorial Board	8
Corrigendum to “Microplastics lead to behavioral disorders in soil nematode movement, foraging and food choice” [Pedobiol. - J. Soil Ecol. 111 (2025) 151054]	7
Heterotrophic and autotrophic soil respiration under different land use types and soil depths: Insights from the Northwestern highlands of Ethiopia	7
Organic matter content rather than farming practices modulates microbial activities in vineyard soils	7
Effects of multi-level warming on soil nematodes and microarthropods in tundra heath mesocosms	7
Below-ground pitfall traps for standardised monitoring of soil mesofauna: Design and comparison to Berlese/Tullgren funnels	7
Diversity, abundance and stable isotope composition of winged Diptera (Insecta) emerging from temperate forest soil	7
Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of Diplopoda and Chilopoda in land use systems	7
Fast improvement of macrofauna communities and soil quality in plantain crops converted to agroecological practices	7
Reintroduction of threatened digging mammals influences soil microbial communities differently along a rainfall gradient	6
Forest conversion alters taxonomic and functional diversity of oribatid mite communities through shifts in environmental conditions in Taita Hills, Kenya	6
The effects of sample storage duration on tardigrade density and community composition in moss samples	6
Greater impacts of phosphorus fertilization on soil phosphatase activity in tropical forests than in non-tropical natural terrestrial ecosystems: A meta-analysis	6
Editorial Board	6
The effects of straw returning and nitrogen fertilizer application on soil labile organic carbon fractions and carbon pool management index in a rice–wheat rotation system	5
Soil properties are affected by vegetation types in a semi-arid mountain landscape	5
Bacterial communities in the potato tuberosphere share similarities with bulk soil and rhizosphere communities, yet possess distinct features	5
Control strategies for the invasive plant kudzu (Pueraria montana) only minimally impacts soil activity, chemistry, and bacterial and fungal communities	5
Food choice and pharyngeal pumping activity of bacterial-feeding nematodes are driven by different functional traits	5
Microbial, physical and chemical indicators together reveal soil health changes related to land cover types in the southern European sites under desertification risk	5
Climate change in edaphic systems – Impact of salinity intrusions in terrestrial invertebrates	5
Responses of bulk and rhizosphere soil microbiomes to different cover crop inputs and their connection and contribution to soil fertility and plant growth	4
Rehabilitation promotes rapid recovery of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in iron mining areas	4
Comparison of isopod assemblages (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) among four different habitats—Evergreen forest, exotic bamboo plantation, grass and urban habitat	4
Earthworm and soil microarthropod abundances affected by agricultural land use and soil properties	4
Mycorrhizal ecology would benefit from region-specific hypotheses	4
Asian knotweed’s impacts on soil chemistry and enzyme activities are higher in soils with low-nutrient status	4
Long life at low temperatures – The life-history of Folsomia candida at ecological relevant temperatures	4
Carbon and nutrient cycling responses to repeated application of biochar and NPK fertilizers depend on microenvironmental differences among hierarchical aggregate fractions	4
Editorial Board	4
Collembola community contains larger species in frequently flooded soil	4
Editorial Board	4
Microannelids (Enchytraeidae, Naididae, Parergodrilidae) along a 4000 m Afrotropical elevational gradient on Mount Cameroon	4
Attraction of pitfall trap preservation fluids complicates the estimation of Collembola density	4
Microplastics lead to behavioral disorders in soil nematode movement, foraging and food choice	3
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria-mediated remediation of glyphosate-contaminated tea plantation soils through restoration of nutrient cycling and microbial diversity	3
Divergent responses between lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil phosphorus and nitrogen availability	3
Soil carbon and fungal functional group dynamics in forest-savanna transitions	3
Forest type and pH affecting the occurrence and life status of land snails in South American temperate forest	3
Dynamic response of root-associated fungal community structure to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a subtropical forest	3
Evergreen gymnosperm tree abundance drives ground beetle density and community composition in eastern US temperate forests	3
Finding the optimal strategy for quantitative sampling of springtails community (Hexapoda: Collembola) in glacial lithosols	3
Tree species richness and identity influence the abundance of excysted soil ciliates in young forest plantations	3
Differential responses of soil microorganisms to precipitation changes in austral semiarid grasslands	3
Soil depth mediates contrasting effects of nitrogen and phosphorus inputs on microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest	3
Apple root channels continue to shape subsoil microarthropod communities more than a decade after orchard removal	3
Elevation-dependent vulnerability of soil carbon pools to warming in a subtropical forest: Insights from a translocation experiment	3
Legacy effects of nematodes: Experimental evidence on live individuals and their residues in shaping plant nutrient acquisition	3

Soil microbial activity improved while intensifying vegetable production by use of plant-based fertilisers, cover crops and reduced tillage	2
A simple dynamic equilibrium model shows that high phosphatase activity in tropical forest soils could be explained by rapid microbial turnover	2
Responses of N2O production and associated functional genes to increasing temperature and moisture in surface and subsurface soils of a temperate forest	2
Investigating the response of soil nitrogen cycling to grass invasion	2
Microhabitat and seasonal dynamics of soil fauna communities in upper Andean successional forests	2
Putting the “Ped” into Pedobiologia –– A call to a new generation of soil ecologists	2
Editorial Board	2
Conservation agriculture enhances soil biodiversity and fertility: Evidence from contrasting soil textures in Cambodia	2
From ice to forest: Pioneer complex, turnover, and site specificity in springtail communities across a 164-year glacial foreland	2
Collembola (Isotomidae) and mowing management practices control distinct aspects of thatch decomposition in a lawn mesocosm experiment	2
Introducing tree species of Schima superba and Liquidambar formosana enhances soil carbon sequestration by alleviating microbial phosphorus limitation and modulating microbial metabolism in degraded p	2
Metabarcoding of a mock community of soil invertebrates: DNA extraction, false positives, and data filtration	2
Mapping the effects of Melinis minutiflora invasion on soil nitrogen dynamics in the Brazilian savanna: A dual-isotope approach	2
Characterization of the thermal death time landscape for Enchytraeus albidus	2
Editorial Board	2
Bioturbation by dung beetles and termites. Do they similarly impact soil and hydraulic properties?	2
Effects of non-native black locust afforestation on soil biota and their activities in the Loess Plateau, China	2
“Best food” does not apply to all: Quality of nematode diet for development and fitness of their predator Parasitus sp. (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)	2
Editorial Board	2
Corrigendum to “Variations in soil fungal communities: Comparative insights from coniferous and mixed broadleaf-conifer forests” [Pedobiol. - J. Soil Ecol. 107 (2024) 151007]	2
Effects of agricultural practices and crops on soil fauna and soil properties in tropical agroecosystems	1
Modelling litter decomposition rates along a geographic, climatic, and land-use gradient in Southern Amazonia and Pará	1
Within-field flower strips effect on Collembola assemblages over time	1
Fire effects on biochemical properties of a semiarid pine forest topsoil at cm-scale	1
Editorial Board	1
Short-term effects of microplastics and earthworms on greenhouse gases emissions from a sandy-loam soil	1
Additional nitrogen and phosphorus inputs suppress, and straw return fails to enhance, organic and microbial necromass carbon in a tobacco-rice rotation soil	1
Nutrient limitations revealed by enzyme stoichiometry in soil microbial metabolism across elevational gradients of a subtropical montane ecosystem	1
Dark septate endophytes enhance the drought tolerance of Haloxylon ammodendron in sterilized and nonsterilized soil	1
Impacts of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) invasion on oribatid mites in urban forest soils vary with the size of the invaded patch	1
Conventional agricultural management negatively affects soil fauna abundance, soil physicochemical quality and multifunctionality	1
Subtropical EM- surpass AM-dominated forests in increasing soil inorganic nitrogen availability: Evidence from a controlled field experiment	1
Mineral fertilization impacts microbial activity and endophytic fungi but not microbial biomass in semiarid grasslands	1
Extracellular enzyme activities under adaptive multi-paddock and conventional grazing in grassland soils of western Canada	1
Mesofauna community influences litter chemical trajectories during early-stage litter decay	1
Biological control of damping-off by Fusarium oxysporum and F. verticillioides on pine and oak seedlings using edible ectomycorrhizal fungi	1
Editorial Board	1
Long-term weed control alters arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community and increases wheat yield in a rice-wheat cropping system of East China	1
Minimizing salinity-induced Pb toxicity to microbial N cycling processes in saline Pb-polluted soils amended with biochar	1
Unveiling the hidden world beneath: A showcase of soil microorganisms at MikroMondo	1
Temporal monitoring of free-living nematode communities for evaluation of soil health in an arable crop rotation	1
Soil food webs in sugarcane fields: Sweet dreams for soil organisms in subtropical Africa	1
Exploring the influence of ground-dwelling ant bioturbation activity on physico-chemical, biological properties and heavy metal pollution in coal mine spoil	1
Forest types matter for the community and co-occurrence network patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and nematodes	1
Bacterial assemblies in acidic dryland vs. paddy soils across depth profiles in southern China's red soil region	1