OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pedobiologia is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Response of soil fauna to simulated global change factors depends on ambient climate conditions	24
Climate and soil properties regulate soil fungal communities on the Loess Plateau	16
Functional shifts of soil microbial communities associated with Alliaria petiolata invasion	15
Significant effects on soil microbial communities were not detected after strategic tillage following 44 years of conventional or no-tillage management	15
Simulated nitrogen deposition decreases soil microbial diversity in a semiarid grassland, with little mediation of this effect by mowing	14
Responses of oribatid mites to warming in boreal peatlands depend on fen type	14
The magnitude and direction of priming were driven by soil moisture and temperature in a temperate forest soil of China	13
Composition and interaction frequencies in soil bacterial communities change in association with urban park age in Beijing	13
Impact of soil nitrogen availability and pH on tropical heath forest organic matter decomposition and decomposer activity	13
Ecological restoration methods influence the structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in degraded drylands	13
Validation and extension of the Tea Bag Index to collect decomposition data from termite-rich ecosystems	13
Benefits of dual inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia on Phaseolus vulgaris planted in a low-fertility tropical soil	12
Stability of soil organic carbon during forest conversion is more sensitive in deep soil than in topsoil in subtropical forests	12
Increases in substrate availability and decreases in soil pH drive the positive effects of nitrogen addition on soil net nitrogen mineralization in a temperate meadow steppe	12
Variability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities within the root systems of individual plants is high and influenced by host species and root phosphorus	11
Decreased burrowing activity of endogeic earthworms and effects on water infiltration in response to an increase in soil bulk density	11
Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi respond to rehabilitation in iron ore mining areas from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	11
Spatial and temporal patterns in soil organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity under different land-use types in a long-term soil-monitoring network	11
Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere	10
Salinity changes root occupancy by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species	10
Winter cover crops and no till management enhance enzyme activities in soybean field soils	9
Tuber pseudohimalayense ascomata-compartments strongly select their associated bacterial microbiome from nearby pine forest soils independently of their maturation stage	9
Topography is more important than forest type as a determinant for functional trait composition of Collembola community	9
Evolutionary terrestrialization scenarios for soil invertebrates	9
Shifting prokaryotic communities along a soil formation chronosequence and across soil horizons in a South Taiga ecosystem	8

Crop residues in corn-wheat rotation in a semi-arid region increase CO2 efflux under conventional tillage but not in a no-tillage system	8
Metabarcoding mites: Three years of elevated CO2 has no effect on oribatid assemblages in a Eucalyptus woodland	8
Land management drives dynamic changes to microbial function through edaphic factors and soil biota	8
Irrigation and fertilization effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi depend on growing season in a dryland maize agroecosystem	8
Using X-ray microtomography to characterize the burrowing behaviour of earthworms in heterogeneously polluted soils	8
Soil properties and climate affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil microbial communities in Mediterranean rainfed cereal cropping systems	8
Nitrogen enrichment affects soil enzymatic stoichiometry via soil acidification in arid and hot land	8
Litter inputs drive increases in topsoil organic carbon after scrub encroachment in an alpine grassland	7
Soil environment influences plant growth-promotion traits of isolated rhizobacteria	7
Tools for monitoring and study of peregrine pheretimoid earthworms (Megascolecidae)	7
Nematode contributions to the soil food web trophic structure of two contrasting boreal peatlands in Canada	7
Amazonian deforestation and its influence on soil biotic factors and abiotic properties	7
Soil and microbial nutrient status are heterogeneous within an elevational belt on a neotropical mountain	6
Metaproteomes reveal increased capacity for stress tolerance of soil microbes in ferruginous tropical rocky outcrops	6
Soil-dwelling arthropods as indicators of erosion in a South African grassland habitat	6
Earthworms did not increase long-term nitrous oxide fluxes in perennial forage and riparian buffer ecosystems	6
Soil fauna groups respond differentially to changes in crop rotation cycles in rice production systems	5
Bar-HRM for identification of cryptic earthworm species	5
Dynamics of soil microarthropod populations affected by a combination of extreme climatic events in tropical home gardens of Kerala, India	5
Trophic groups of soil fauna in semiarid: Impacts of land use change, climatic seasonality and environmental variables	5
Forest plantations reduce soil functioning in terrestrial ecosystems from South Africa	5
Response of soil biodiversity to global change	5
Invasive earthworms Amynthas tokioensis and Amynthas agrestis alter macronutrients (Ca, Mg, K, P) in field and laboratory forest soils	5
Tuber aestivum is associated with changes in soil chemistry and reduced biological quality in a Quercus pubescens stand in Northern Italy	5
Belowground plant-plant signaling of root infection by nematodes	5
Influence of understory vegetation on soil bacterial communities and nitrogen cycling gene abundance in cool-temperate and sub-alpine forests along an elevational gradient	5